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  • The Land Development Game in China

    de Jianbo Ma ...
    The book describes how land plays a central role in the rapid economic growth of a Chinese region (with the fictitious name of “Dragon County”). Concerned with grain self-sufficiency, the national government of China employs a central planning approach to control the amount of farmland to be converted to urban uses each year. However, the scarcity of land development rights creates high incentives ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Resilience Dividend

    Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

    de Judith Rodin ...
    Building resilience -- the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively -- is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Fields of Authority

    Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015

    de Jack Lucas ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and many others – provide vital public services, spend large sums of public money, and raise important questions ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • The Creative City

    Cultural policies and urban regeneration between conservation and development

    de Alessia Usai ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

  • Smart City

    How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

    Edición de Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions in this book are a result of an increasing interest for this topic, supported by both national ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • The Brooklyn Wars

    The Stories Behind the Remaking of New York's Most Celebrated Borough

    de Neil deMause ...
    Across the globe, the word “Brooklyn” has come to represent cutting-edge cuisine, a vibrant music and literary culture, and the epitome of hip. But most of the world doesn’t see the price that local residents pay as their neighborhoods are swallowed by change. In The Brooklyn Wars, masterful storyteller and award-winning journalist Neil deMause turns a spotlight on the borough’s transformation. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Infrastructure in Africa

    Lessons for Future Development

    de Oliver Chinganya, Qingli Meng, Duncan Lishman, Mergen Chetty, Conor Teljeur, Tito Yepes, Ebong Saidi, George Kararach ...
    Good infrastructure is essential for socio-economic growth and sustainable development. Safe and accessible water supplies, reliable energy, good transport networks and communications technology are all vital to a region’s development agenda.This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the state of infrastructure in Africa and provides an integrated analysis of the challenges the sector faces ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Resilience and Opportunity

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

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Governance Report 2015

    de The Hertie School of Governance ...
    Series series Hertie Governance Report
    The promise of an ever-closer union that has guided Europe from the Treaty of Rome to the present time rests on the evolution of democratic governance to meet the many challenges that European communities face. Now after years of managing the financial and fiscal crises, the European Union has to take stock and focus on the issues that will fundamentally shape its long-term prospects. The ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Democracy Deferred

    Civic Leadership after 9/11

    de D. Woods ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, civic leaders began to organize four coalitions that aimed to give ordinary citizens a chance to meet, to heal, and to be heard in rebuilding decisions. This book tells the inside story of the civic renewal movement they founded. ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Paradoxes of Modernization

    Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform

    Edición de Helen Margetts, Christopher Hood, Perri 6 ...
    This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail? Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is meant by 'modernization' and 'unintended consequences', placing public policy reform within more ... Leer más

    $66.59 USD

  • Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia

    Edición de Michelle Ann Miller, Mike Douglass ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia’s urban populations from a governance perspective. It adopts a multi-sector and multi-disciplinary approach to disaster governance that emphasises the importance of multiple stakeholders in preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters and their cascading impacts in Asia’s cities. The contributors to ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD