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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “yonn dierwechter”
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  • Climate Change and the Future of Seattle

    by Yonn Dierwechter ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    Seattle is one of the most politically progressive and economically dynamic cities in the contemporary United States. This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings. While practitioners and academics have lauded Seattle’s urban sustainability and climate action efforts for many ... Read more

    $22.69 USD

  • Secondary Cities

    Exploring Uneven Development in Dynamic Urban Regions of the Global North

    by Evert J. Meijers, Rodrigo O.V. Cardoso, Heike Mayer, Rahe Meili, David Kaufmann, Louise Johnson, Gary Hytrek, Yonn Dierwechter ...
    This book explores cities and the intra-regional relational dynamics often overlooked by urban scholars, and it challenges common representations of urban development successes and failures.Gathering leading international scholars from Europe, Australia and North America, it explores the secondary city concept in urban development theory and practice and advances a research agenda that highlights ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Smart Transitions in City Regionalism

    Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

    by Tassilo Herrschel, Yonn Dierwechter ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    In recent years "smartness" has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this, debates around what "smart" actually means, both theoretically and empirically, have emerged within the interdisciplinary arenas of urban and regional studies. This book explores the changes in discourse, rationality and selected responses of smartness through the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Urbanization of Green Internationalism

    by Yonn Dierwechter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The recent rise of cities in global environmental politics has stimulated remarkable debates about sustainable urban development and the geopolitics of a changing world order no longer defined by tightly bordered national regimes. This book explores this major theme by drawing on approaches that document the diverse histories and emergent geographies of “internationalism.” It is no longer possible ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth

    Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle

    by Yonn Dierwechter ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book investigates the new urban geographies of “smart” metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility. The book specifically explores Seattle within the wider space-economy and multi-scaled policy regime of the Puget Sound region as a whole, ‘jumping up’ from questions of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    by David Lei, John Slocum ...
    While scores of strategic management books have been written, many books fail to take into consideration the influences that shape and constrain managers’ ability to formulate and execute well-thought out strategies. Demystifying Your Business Strategy acknowledges and harnesses those influences, providing practitioners with a helpful new approach to developing and maintaining a competitive ... Read more

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  • City-Regions in Prospect?

    Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice

    by Alex Lord, Rob Shields, Kevin Jones ...
    Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing area of planning practice.Contributors raise critical questions about the ways in which ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics

    Edited by Kevin Ward, Andrew E. G. Jonas, Byron Miller, David Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the interdisciplinary field of urban politics, drawing upon a range of examples from within and across the Global North ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • True Wealth

    How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

    by Juliet B. Schor ...
    A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously enhance our lives and protect the planet. Schor shares examples of urban farmers, DIY renovators, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Economics of Cultural Policy

    by David Throsby ...
    Cultural policy is changing. Traditionally, cultural policies have been concerned with providing financial support for the arts, for cultural heritage and for institutions such as museums and galleries. In recent years, around the world, interest has grown in the creative industries as a source of innovation and economic dynamism. This book argues that an understanding of the nature of both the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Readings in Planning Theory

    Edited by Susan S. Fainstein, James DeFilippis ...
    Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory.Represents the newest edition of the leading text in planning theory that brings together the essential classic and cutting-edge readingsFeatures 20 completely ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Urban Sociology

    A Global Introduction

    by Mark Abrahamson ...
    This concise yet comprehensive overview of the political and economic development of the world's cities offers a unique emphasis on its cultural impacts. The book emphasizes the transition from modern (industrial) to post-modern (post-industrial) eras and its effect on established and developing global cities, and arguments are supported with case studies for each of the main concepts of urban ... Read more

    $47.59 USD