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  • The Citizens at Risk

    From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities

    by Pedro Jacobi, Marianne Kjellen, Gordon McGranahan, Charles Surjadi, Jacob Songsor ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The Citizens at Risk takes up this emerging agenda and analyses the key issues in a refreshingly simple yet sophisticated style.Taking a comparative look at cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the book examines: the changing nature of urban ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    by Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

    $53.58 CAD

  • 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

    $192.19 CAD

  • Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960

    by Emmanuel V. Marmaras ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects. Originating from a PhD Thesis, the book recreates the atmosphere following step by step arguments ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • 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

    $64.09 CAD

  • Citizen’s Right to the Digital City

    Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking

    Edited by Marcus Foth, Martin Brynskov, Timo Ojala ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together case studies and examples from around the world to discuss the role that urban interfaces, citizen action, and city making play in the quest to create and maintain not only secure and resilient, but productive, sustainable and viable urban environments. The book debates the impact ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Ecosystem Geography

    From Ecoregions to Sites

    by Robert G. Bailey ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    and management is presently undergoing enormous change: away L from managing single resources to managing ecosystems. From f- est to tundra, to desert, to steppe, the world’s ecosystems vary vastly. To manage them effectively we need to understand their geographic d- tribution better. We need to do this at various levels of detail because ecosystems exist at multiple scales in a hierarchy, from ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Analytical Decision-Making Methods for Evaluating Sustainable Transport in European Corridors

    Edited by Isabella M. Lami ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Eurocorridors are characterized by intensive transport flows and dynamic patterns of establishment and household locations. They are also considered the backbones of powerful spatial and economic forces in the areas that connect urban regions. One of the main difficulties in the spatial planning of eurocorridors has been the need to engage in different types of collective action. Such an approach ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Polycentric Metropolis

    Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe

    by Kathy Pain, Peter Hall ...
    A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour. This book describes and analyses eight such regions in North West Europe.For the first time, this work shows how ... Read more

    $261.08 CAD

  • Changes in Production Efficiency in China

    Identification and Measuring

    by Bing Xu, Juying Zeng, Junzo Watada ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Evaluating Production Efficiency in China examines production from engineering and statistics perspectives rather than from economics and mathematics perspectives. The authors present an observable benchmark as the criterion of the production efficiency to replace the unobservable production frontier surface. This book discusses several different computing technologies, controllable variable as a ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Smart Growth and Sustainable Development

    Selected Papers from the 9th International Association for China Planning Conference, Chongqing, China, June 19 - 21, 2015

    Edited by Qisheng Pan, Weifeng Li ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies. As readers will discover, smart growth offers an approach to urbanization with the aim to: improve the efficiency of land use, protect the natural and cultural environment, promote economic prosperity and improve the quality of life. Authors address ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Building Resilient Cities in China: The Nexus between Planning and Science

    Selected Papers from the 7th International Association for China Planning Conference, Shanghai, China, June 29 – July 1, 2013

    Edited by Xueming Chen, Qisheng Pan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency. It covers such topics as urban, environmental, and transportation planning, historical preservation, emergency relief and management, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications. The book includes case studies of several cities and districts in China, including Shanghai ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD