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  • Capitalism in the Platform Age

    Emerging Assemblages of Labour and Welfare in Urban Spaces

    Edited by Sandro Mezzadra, Niccoló Cuppini, Mattia Frapporti, Maurilio Pirone ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of urban digital platforms such as Airbnb and Deliveroo, which, along with Amazon, Google, Facebook, and other IT companies, constitute by now the infrastructures for other businesses to operate on and for our social life to go on. These platforms serve as standards-based techno-economic systems that simultaneously capture cooperation through remote ... Read more

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  • Urban Health

    Edited by Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, David Vlahov ...
    An essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health More than half the world's population lives in cities -- a figure that will grow to two-thirds by 2030. As global populations rapidly consolidate around urban centers, the scientific understanding of what this means for human health faces a new and greater urgency. Urban Health connects urban exposures -- ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Volume 4: Policy and Planning

    by Richard Shearmur, Maurilio Pirone, Mattia Frapporti, Sandro Mezzadra, Rebecca Mayers, Manuel Garcia Ruiz, Rosa Danenberg, Oleg Golubchikov, Geoff Deverteuil, Christiane Stephan, Mario Schmidt, Eric Kioko, Mohamed Munas, Lothar Smith, Dilshani N. Ranawaka, Maxwell Hartt, Samantha J. Norberg, Julie Kearns, Maliha Majeed, Barry Pendergast, Özgür Sayın, Savaş Zafer Şahin, Claudia González-Muzzio, Vicente Sandoval, Carmen Paz Castro, Carlos Cadena-Gaitán, Alejandro Álvarez-Vanegas, María Flórez-Munoz, Jagath Munasinghe, Michael Martin, Julie Rudner, G.R. Ratnayake, Shauna Brail, Kerstin Stark, Julia Schuppan, Ariane Kehlbacher, Laura Gebhardt, Julia Jarass, Wojciech Kębłowski, Louise Sträuli, Tonio Weicker, Peter Timko, Wladimir Sgibnev, Marcus Finbom, Tauri Tuvikene, Jonathan Gross, Tamsyn Dent, Roberta Comunian, Per Gunnar Røe, Lars Böcker, Elling Oftedal, Paola Pucci, Giovanni Lanza, Bruna Vendemmia, Roger Keil, Samantha Biglieri, Lorenzo De Vidovich, Julian Iacobelli ...
    Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
    Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Social Innovations in the Urban Context

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers, Annette Zimmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has ... Read more

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  • Fair Shared Cities

    The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe

    by Marion Roberts ...
    Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and, although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the decade that ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Sharing Economy in Europe

    Developments, Practices, and Contradictions

    Edited by Vida Česnuitytė, Andrzej Klimczuk, Cristina Miguel, Gabriela Avram ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific case studies. It looks at the roles the sharing economy plays in sharing and redistribution of goods and services across the population in order to maximise their functionality, monetary exchange, and other aspects important to ... Read more

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  • Growing Urban Economies

    Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions

    Edited by David A. Wolfe, Meric S. Gertler ...
    Series series Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
    Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions series is a focused analysis of how developments at the local and regional ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Co-Cities

    Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities

    by Sheila R. Foster, Christian Iaione ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Cultures and Globalization

    Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance

    Edited by Helmut K Anheier, Yudhishthir Raj Isar ...
    Series series The Cultures and Globalization Series
    Today is a new metropolitan age and for the first time ever more people live in cities than they do anywhere else. As cities strengthen their international and cultural influence, the global world is acted out most articulately in the world′s urban hubs - through its diverse cultures, broad networks and innovative styles of governance. Looking at the city through its internal dynamics, the book ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Cities in Transition

    Social Innovation for Europe’s Urban Sustainability

    Edited by Thomas Sauer, Susanne Elsen, Cristina Garzillo ...
    Cities in Transition focuses on the sustainability transitions initiated in 40 European cities. The book presents the incredible wealth of insights gathered through hundreds of interviews and questionnaires. Four key domains—local energy systems, local green spaces, local water systems and local labour markets—have been the focus of the field research investigating local potentials for social ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

    Edited by Michael E. Leary, John McCarthy ...
    In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Local Economies and Global Competitiveness

    Edited by B. Dallago, C. Guglielmetti ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The globalized economy depends on local and context-specific factors. This edited volume addresses local-global nexuses via case studies of global interactions in developed and developing areas, and of particular firms' approaches to these issues. The chapters build up a prospectus on how best to create globally capable localities. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD