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  • As Borders Bend

    Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim

    de Xiangming Chen ...
    Series series Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
    As do other mighty forces such as wars, nationalist aspirations, and the shifting courses of great rivers, globalization changes the world's borders by bending them out of shape and creating new transnational spaces. State political boundaries no longer draw the definitive line in people's lives they once did. Borders continue to contain self-described national populations and national activities, ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Introduction to Cities

    How Place and Space Shape Human Experience

    de Krista E. Paulsen, Xiangming Chen, Anthony M. Orum ...
    Understanding how cities shape human life through space and placeCities function as dynamic systems where physical space, social forces, and human experience intersect. Introduction to Cities: How Place and Space Shape Human Experience, Third Edition, provides a robust analytical framework for understanding these relationships. Written by three distinguished urban scholars, this updated edition ... Leer más

    $38.00 USD

  • The Belt and Road Initiative as Epochal Regionalisation

    de Xiangming Chen, Julie Tian Miao, Xue Li ...
    Series series Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
    The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, carries and projects powerful regional dimensions and transformations, with short- and long-term global, national and local consequences. The BRI’s regional significance lies in its designation and creation of several cross-border corridors that originate from inside China and extend out into its neighbouring countries, and those ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Introduction to Cities

    How Place and Space Shape Human Experience

    de Xiangming Chen, Anthony M. Orum, Krista E. Paulsen ...
    The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Citiesexplores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience and how they shape our everyday lives. Written in engaging and accessible terms, Introduction to Citiesexamines the study of cities through two central concepts: that cities are places, where people live, form communities, and establish their own identities, and that ... Leer más

    $57.00 USD

  • What Is in a Rim?

    Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea

    de Glenn Alcalay, Gary Gereffi, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Donald M. Nonini, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar, Rob Wilson, Meredith Woo-Cumings, Alexander Woodside, Arif Dirlik, Xiangming Chen, Bruce Cumings ...
    Series series Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
    This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including the human costs and consequences_that underlie the much-celebrated economic ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Global Cities, Local Streets

    Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai

    de Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz, Xiangming Chen ...
    Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai, a cutting-edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing of six teams of urban researchers from around the world. The authors present shopping streets from each city – New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Berlin, Toronto, and Tokyo – how they have changed over the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • A House Divided

    Catholics, Socialists, and Flemish Nationalists in Nineteenth-Century Belgium

    de Carl Strikwerda, Xiangming Chen, Bruce Cumings, Gary Gereffi, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Donald M. Nonini, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar, Rob Wilson, Meredith Woo-Cumings, Alexander Woodside ...
    The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I. ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Confronting Urban Legacy

    Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

    de James R. Gomes, Ezra Moser, Michael Sacks, Jack Dougherty, Lyle Wray, Louise Simmons, Tom Condon, John Shemo, Andrew Walsh, Janet Bauer, Clyde McKee, Llana Barber, Jason Rojas ...
    Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Rethinking Global Urbanism

    Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities

    Edición de Xiangming Chen, Ahmed Kanna ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Geography
    Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    de Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Leer más

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  • Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora

    Edición de Chee-Beng Tan ...
    With around 40 million people worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China which began in the late 1970s marked a huge phase of migration from China, and the new migrants, many of whom were well educated, have had a major impact on the local societies and on China.This is the first interdisciplinary Handbook to ... Leer más

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  • Demystifying Your Business Strategy

    de 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 ... Leer más

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