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  • COVID-19 and informal workers in Asian cities

    Impact, response, and implications for urban recovery

    Edited by Redento B. Recio, Kazi Nazrul Fattah, Nausheen H. Anwar, Noman Ahmed, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, Michele Acuto, Ian Jayson Hecita, Shiva Nouri ...
    Series series Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
    As COVID-19 took hold across local and international borders in 2020 and 2021, over 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated to have been adversely impacted by mobility restrictions and other 'lockdown' measures to tackle the coronavirus crisis. In the Global South, the pandemic has severely affected the sprawling megacities in Southeast and South Asia that have been driving urbanisation, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • How to Build a Global City

    Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

    by Michele Acuto ...
    In How to Build a Global City**, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global cities—Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai—and the power that this concept had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice.**The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Managing Cities at Night

    A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy

    by Michele Acuto, Andreina Seijas, Jenny McArthur, Enora Robin ...
    This accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike.Drawing on a wide range of case studies of after dark activity in cities around the world, it reviews labour, environmental services, healthcare, the role of leaders including night mayors, managers and commissioners, and the influence of both public and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

    The Urban Link

    by Michele Acuto ...
    Series series Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
    This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance.While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorisation has taken into account the key metropolises of our time as elements of these revolutions. The volume seeks to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Technologies of International Relations

    Continuity and Change

    Edited by Carolin Kaltofen, Madeline Carr, Michele Acuto ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the role of technology in the core voices for International Relations theory and how this has shaped the contemporary thinking of ‘IR’ across some of the discipline’s major texts. Through an interview format between different generations of IR scholars, the conversations of the book analyse the relationship between technology and concepts like power, security and global order. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

    Edited by Michael E. Leary, John McCarthy ...
    In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cultures and Globalization

    Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance

    Edited by Helmut K Anheier, Yudhishthir Raj Isar ...
    Series series The Cultures and Globalization Series
    Today is a new metropolitan age and for the first time ever more people live in cities than they do anywhere else. As cities strengthen their international and cultural influence, the global world is acted out most articulately in the world′s urban hubs - through its diverse cultures, broad networks and innovative styles of governance. Looking at the city through its internal dynamics, the book ... Read more

    $126.89 USD

  • Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability

    International Frameworks, National and Local Governance

    Edited by Sophia Labadi, William Logan ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    More than half of the world’s population now live in urban areas, and cities provide the setting for contemporary challenges such as population growth, mass tourism and unequal access to socio-economic opportunities. Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability examines the impact of these issues on urban heritage, considering innovative approaches to managing developmental pressures and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Carol Azungi Dralega, Angella Napakol ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as ... Read more

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  • The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex

    Edited by Crystal A. Ennis, Nicolas Blarel ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of this migration corridor.Going beyond state-centric analysis, the contributors present a multi-layered account of the ... Read more

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  • Worlding Cities

    Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

    Edited by Ananya Roy, Aihwa Ong ...
    Series Book 42 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study.Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

    by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till ...
    This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice.At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future ... Read more

    $70.99 USD