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  • The Urban Planning Imagination

    A Critical International Introduction

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done.This critical introduction uncovers and celebrates this imagination and its creative ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Sequel to Suburbia

    Glimpses of America's Post-Suburban Future

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The expansive rings of outer suburbs that formed around major cities were decentralized and automobile oriented, an embodiment of America's postwar mass-production, mass-consumption economy. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Interplaces

    An Economic Geography of the Inter-urban and International Economies

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Much of the world's economic activity takes place in between cities and nations - the geographical containers that we have taken for granted for hundreds of years now. In this book Nicholas Phelps provides a guide to this uncharted territory within urban and economic geography. He highlights the importance of intermediary actors and processes in shaping this economy in between. From the airports, ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • An Anatomy of Sprawl

    Planning and Politics in Britain

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the ‘Solent City’ stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl – muted, and slow to emerge – yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation and restraint.This unique and valuable case study, while focusing on the planning and development of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Multinationals and European Integration

    Trade, Investment and Regional Development

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    This book examines the role of the multinational firms in processes of European integration. It is primarily concerned with the implications of market integration and industrial restructuring for peripheral European regions. Nicholas Phelps argues that, because of the complex relationship between competition and economies of scale, the persistence of market segmentation, and because of the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Peripheral Centralities

    The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs

    Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil, Paul Maginn ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The term ‘peripheral centralities’ may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated. To better understand the nature of peripheral centrality, Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs brings together a wide variety of examples of lost and forgotten peripheral ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy

    Corporate and Institutional Dynamics of Global-Localisation

    Edited by Jeremy Alden, Nicholas F. Phelps ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    With the emergence of a truly global marketplace, regions now face far greater competition in attracting outside investment, and multinational companies have to consider local conditions on many levels before choosing to invest. Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy looks at the pattern of FDI and its impacts on the global, regional (trade block), national and sub-national scales. The ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Planning in an Uncanny World

    Australian Urban Planning in an International Context

    Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Judy Bush, Anna Hurlimann ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    This book places Australian conditions and urban planning centrally within comparative analysis of planning systems and cultures around the world to address issues including urban governance, climate change, transportation planning, regional development and migration planning.Australian urban conditions and their associated planning responses can and often have been seen as unique or exceptional. ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes

    Technopoles of the world revisited

    Edited by Paul Benneworth, Nicholas A. Phelps, Julie Miao ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The world has changed profoundly since the publication of the influential book Technopoles of the World. As policy-makers and practitioners attempt to harness science, technology and innovation to create dynamic and vibrant cities many wonder how relevant Manuel Castells and Peter Hall's messages are today. Twenty years later, this book returns to their concepts and practices to update their ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Old Europe, New Suburbanization?

    Governance, Land, and Infrastructure in European Suburbanization

    Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Series series Global Suburbanisms
    The youthful vigour of urbanization in North America has promulgated a dominant perspective on urban theory, specifically on suburbs, that establishes the United States as the norm against which all other contexts are measured. However, much of the vocabulary surrounding the American experience isn’t applicable to the wider world.Old Europe, New Suburbanization? takes us on a journey of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Planning Imagination

    Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning

    Edited by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Nicholas Phelps, Robert Freestone ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Knighted in 1998 ‘for services to the Town and Country Planning Association’, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a ‘Pioneer in the Life of the Nation’, Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies and writings on urban and regional planning. For the last 50 years, he has captured and helped to create the ‘planning imagination’.Here the editors ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD