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  • Grandi eventi e politiche urbane. Governare "routine eccezionali". Un confronto internazionale

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    I grandi eventi sono divenuti, per le città che aspirano a ricoprire posizioni di rilievo nello scenario politico ed economico globale, uno strumento routinario di politica urbana.Pur simili – quanto a razionalità ed esiti spaziali e socio-economici – ad altre grandi operazioni di trasformazione urbana, il loro processo di pianificazione si differenzia in parte per alcuni elementi distintivi. Le ... Leer más

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  • Identifying Models of National Urban Agendas

    A View to the Global Transition

    Edición de Francesca Gelli, Matteo Basso ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book utilises comparative diachronic and synchronic analyses to investigate models of national urban agendas. Encompassing cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, it examines the changing global geography of national urban agendas since the second post-war period. The book demonstrates that whilst some discontinuities and differences exist between countries, they each ... Leer más

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  • Democratizing Global Climate Governance

    Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated and experienced internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action depends crucially ... Leer más

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