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  • Chinese Village, Global Market

    New Collectives and Rural Development

    by T. Saich, B. Hu ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects

    Building Resilient Regions, Volume IV

    Edited by Margaret Weir, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial ...
    The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Economics of Urban Externalities

    Analysis of Squatter Settlements in Kathmandu and Quito

    by Shiva Raj Adhikari ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in the urbanization process. Meeting the challenges that come hand-in-hand with the contemporary age of rapid urbanization demands more extensive empirical knowledge. While most urbanization research focuses on positive externalities, this book is designed to offer insights into possible sources of negative externalities and the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science

    Second Edition

    by Jay D. Gatrell, Gregory D. Bierly, Ryan R. Jensen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when ‘doing research’. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific issues of space, place, and scale as they propose and perform research in the spatial sciences. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

    Edited by Ayda Eraydin, Tuna Taşan-Kok ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rethinking Place Branding

    Comprehensive Brand Development for Cities and Regions

    Edited by Mihalis Kavaratzis, Gary Warnaby, Gregory J. Ashworth ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    As Place Branding has become a widely established but contested practice, there is a dire need to rethink its theoretical foundations and its contribution to development and to re-assert its future. This important new book advances understanding of place branding through its holistic, critical and evidence-based approach. Contributions by world-leading specialists explore a series of crucially ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Global Cities

    A Short History

    by Greg Clark ...
    Series series The Short Histories
    Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century, the number of truly global cities is greater than ever before, reflecting the globalization of both economic ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Resilience and Opportunity

    Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita

    Edited by Amy Liu, Richard M. Mizelle, Roland Vanglin ...
    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. This forward-looking book, however, presents a more cautiously optimistic view about the region's ability to bounce back after multiple disasters.Catastrophes come in different forms-hurricanes, recessions, and oil spills, to name a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • New Issues in Polar Tourism

    Communities, Environments, Politics

    Edited by Dieter K. Müller, Linda Lundmark, Raynald H. Lemelin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    New Issues in Polar Tourism traces and analyzes a decade of growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places. The book arises from the recently-formed International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN), and documents the outcomes of its 2010 conference, held at Sweden’s Abisko ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Creative Industry Districts

    An Analysis of Dynamics, Networks and Implications on Creative Clusters in Shanghai

    by Jinliao He ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently striving to transform its economy from “made in China” towards “created in China”. This book ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Local Cosmopolitanism

    Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places

    by Kristof Van Assche, Petruța Teampău ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Fear, Space and Urban Planning

    A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe

    by Simone Tulumello ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations. By focusing especially on the southern European cities of Palermo and Lisbon, the book also ... Read more

    $49.49 USD