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  • Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China

    by Ya Ping Wang ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Economic reform in China has resulted in a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and urban poverty has emerged as a key factor which may affect future development. This new book examines the poverty problem in relation to housing and social changes in large inland cities, and assesses the effectiveness of recent government anti-poverty policies. The book also puts the Chinese experience in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

    by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang ...
    Series series Housing, Planning and Design Series
    Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China

    Towards a New Dialogue

    Edited by Gwilym Pryce, Ya Ping Wang, Yu Chen, Jingjing Shan, Houkai Wei ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team of international researchers to shed light on the entwined processes of inequality and segregation, and the implications for urban development. Through a rich collection of ... Read more

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  • New Drivers of Division

    Urbanisation and Spatial Inequality in Africa and Asia

    Edited by Ya Ping Wang, Keith Kintrea, David Everatt, Debolina Kundu ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Goals Series
    This open access book provides recent trends of urbanization and inequality in Africa and Asia. It addresses the inequality challenges of urbanization and large-scale rural-to-urban migration. It answers questions around socio-economic and spatial inequalities and how serious those are in cities in Africa and Asia under 21st-century urbanization. Chapters demonstrate how the old neighborhood ... Read more

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    Reflections and Alternative Perspectives

    by Edwin Buitelaar, Anet Weterings, Roderik Ponds ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance
    Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries. While the overall living standards have increased in the last century, the focus has now shifted from poverty to economic differences, with a particular focus on the gap between the very poor and the (ultra-)rich.The authors ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States

    Dynamics of Choice, Duties and Participation In a Changing Europe

    by Bjørn Hvinden, Håkan Johansson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization.Written by interdisciplinary contributors from politics, sociology, law and philosophy, it examines the transformation of social citizenship through a series of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective

    Making Sense of Contextual Diversity

    by Kuniko Fujita ...
    Series series Cities and Society
    We know very little about variations in urban class and ethnic segregation among nations and even less about differences among cities in different regions of the world. Spatial organization (places and neighbourhoods) matters significantly in some cities in reproducing class relations and ethno-racial hierarchies, but may be much less important in others. The degree and the impact of segregation ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Internal Migration in the Developed World

    Are we becoming less mobile?

    Edited by Tony Champion, Thomas Cooke, Ian Shuttleworth ...
    Series series International Population Studies
    The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration theory posits that the world is becoming more mobile, leading to the recent ‘mobilities turn’ within the social sciences. Yet, there is mounting evidence to suggest that this may not be true of all types of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution

    Edited by Michael J. White ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical perspectives offered by several social science disciplines, while also examining the crucial ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • Revising the Integration-Citizenship Nexus in Europe

    Sites, Policies, and Bureaucracies of Belonging

    Edited by Roxana Barbulescu, Sara Wallace Goodman, Luicy Pedroza ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book critically re-examines the theoretical and empirical interconnections between integration and citizenship, specifically, naturalisation. With new, empirical-grounded analyses of what we term 'citizenship-integration nexus' the central, shared contribution is showcasing how membership is informally achieved through everyday integration —usually around, but sometimes in spite ... Read more

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  • New Frontiers in Interregional Migration Research

    Edited by Bianca Biagi, Alessandra Faggian, Isha Rajbhandari, Viktor A. Venhorst ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book focuses on the latest advances and challenges in interregional migration research. Given the increase in the availability of "big data" at a finer spatial scale, the book discusses the resulting new challenges for researchers in interregional migration, especially for regional scientists, and the theoretical and empirical advances that have been made possible. In presenting these ... Read more

    $80.99 USD