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  • New Urban Geographies of the Creative and Knowledge Economies

    Foregrounding Innovative Productions, Workplaces and Public Policies in Contemporary Cities

    Edited by Simonetta Armondi, Stefano Di Vita ...
    The temporal and spatial intersection of information and telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies, and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial configurations and public policies. Specifically, the post-crisis emergence of innovative workplaces to accommodate these changes, is creating socioeconomic and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Cities Learning from a Pandemic

    Towards Preparedness

    Edited by Simonetta Armondi, Alessandro Balducci, Martina Bovo, Beatrice Galimberti ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons.Firstly, it builds a critical theoretical framework around ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Foregrounding Urban Agendas

    The New Urban Issue in European Experiences of Policy-Making

    Edited by Simonetta Armondi, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights the discontinuities and the ongoing development of the urban question in policy-making in the context of the controversial current issues of global reversal and regional revival. It critically examines contemporary public policies and practices at the urban, regional and national scales in order to offer a timely contribution to the debate on the significance of the urban ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Milan: Productions, Spatial Patterns and Urban Change

    Edited by Simonetta Armondi, Stefano Di Vita ...
    Series series Built Environment City Studies
    As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions, Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of innovations and contemporary productions – old and new manufacturing, tertiary and consumptive sectors, creative and cultural economy – and investigate their influence both on spatial patterns and urban policy agenda.Accordingly, this book explores the contentious ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Critical Spatial Thinking and Extreme Events

    Tools for Multiple Disciplines

    by Simonetta Armondi, Gloria Pessina ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book explores the complexity of socio-environmental extreme events and the possible ways to cope with them by mobilising critical and spatial thinking. Being set in “critical disaster studies”, it proposes a critique of dominant intellectual traditions and practices. However, unlike other works based exclusively on critical deconstruction, the book stirs an anticipatory, ... Read more

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

    Edited by Janez Nared, David Bole ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the implementation of participatory processes in fields such as transport planning, cultural heritage management, environmental planning and post ... Read more

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  • The Creative City

    Cultural policies and urban regeneration between conservation and development

    by Alessia Usai ...
    Series Book 2 - Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education
    This book focuses on the relationships between the creative city principles and the planning approach introduced by the European Landscape Convention in order to identify best practices for the development of innovative cultural policies and new urban regeneration tools.The research is characterized by a cross-cutting approach to cultural heritage. It proposes a new model for the design of ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Co-Cities

    Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities

    by Sheila R. Foster, Christian Iaione ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development

    Exploring the nexus of private and public interests

    Edited by Lez Rayman-Bacchus, Philip Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business
    Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies.This book explores the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations

    The Cooperative Difference

    Edited by Sonja Novković, Karen Miner, Cian McMahon ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access edited book brings together a number of theories under the umbrella of humanistic governance to develop a persuasive alternative perspective on governance, particularly for democratic organisations such as co-operatives. It examines how we can move beyond a profit-first approach to governance, into a framework that prioritises human dignity in all aspects of an operation. This ... Read more

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