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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “phil allmendinger”
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  • Neoliberal Spatial Governance

    by Phil Allmendinger ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly transformed. Once a system for regulating and balancing change in the built and natural environments in the public interest, planning now finds itself facilitating development and economic growth for narrow, sectional interests.Whilst there is a lip service towards traditional ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Forgotten City

    Rethinking Digital Living for Our People and the Planet

    by Phil Allmendinger ...
    We all want cities, where more than half of the world’s population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy and affordable. Will ‘smart cities’ help achieve these aspirations or undermine them in the time of COVID-19?Phil Allmendinger, a world expert on cities, development, and urban governance, takes a critical approach to the role of ‘smart’ in ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • New Labour and Planning

    From New Right to New Left

    by Phil Allmendinger ...
    Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour. After a slow start in which Labour’s view of planning owed more to a neo-liberal, rolled back state model reminiscent of the New Right the Government began to appreciate that many of its wider objectives including economic development, climate change, democratic renewal, social justice ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Soft Spaces in Europe

    Re-negotiating governance, boundaries and borders

    Edited by Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton, Jörg Knieling, Frank Othengrafen ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author describes how current trends will create an era when anything and everything is available for almost nothing.In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times–bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has propelled it to greatness but is now taking it to its death—the inherent entrepreneurial dynamism of competitive ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • English 101 Series: 101 Model Answers for IELTS Writing Task 2

    by Mark Griffiths ...
    The model answers provide candidates with ideas that they can use in their own essays, as well as a variety of topic-specific vocabulary and appropriate grammatical structures. The 101 model answers are divided into 10 broad topic areas, such as education and technology. ... Read more

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  • Corporate Social Responsibility

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jeremy Moon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Corporate social responsibility has been defined as 'the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society'. Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) just window dressing or is it a contradiction in terms? In this Very Short Introduction, Jeremy Moon shows that CSR holds much more value than it first appears, and shows how it has come of age in recent years. Illustrating the sorts of CSR ... Read more

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  • Understanding Media Economics

    by Gillian Doyle ...
    "Expertly synthesizes economic theory and contemporary cases to both explain the structure of the contemporary media industry and shed insight on the significant challenges and controversies confronting the sector."- Lucy Küng, Oxford University and Jonkoping University"A wide-ranging, accessible introduction to media economics and their application to a broad range of media topics from ... Read more

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  • Human Resource Management in Context

    Insights, Strategy and Solutions

    by David Farnham ...
    HR functions within both internal and external contexts. The understanding of both contexts is crucial for comprehending how and why they drive HR strategies and practices in organizations, as well as the rules and structures within which they work. Built around five major themes which impact upon the HR function, and mapping to the CIPD Level 7 Advanced module of the same name, Human Resource ... Read more

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  • We-Think

    Mass innovation, not mass production

    by Charles Leadbeater ...
    Society is no longer based on mass consumption but on mass participation. New forms of collaboration - such as Wikipedia and YouTube - are paving the way for an age in which people want to be players, rather than mere spectators, in the production process. In the 1980s, Charles Leadbeater's prescient book, In Search of Work, anticipated the growth of flexible employment. Now We-think explains how ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Platform Socialism

    How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

    by James Muldoon ...
    'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom.Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these ... Read more

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  • Why Women Mean Business

    Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution

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    WOMEN MEAN BUSINESS“...gives example after example of the price that we all pay for a situation in which ‘women may hold the keys but men still control the locks’.”The Times“What’s especially valuable is the authors’ analysis of where companies go wrong in managing women...that’s how it will help women in the workplace.”Harvard Business Review“Lays out the importance of retaining ... ... Read more

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