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  • Aging Playfully

    Reimagining the Possibilities of Age-Friendly Community Planning

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    Play isn’t just for children. It encourages physical activity, sparks creativity, builds community cohesion, combats loneliness, and even fights ageism. So why don’t we design communities that facilitate play for all age groups and that support the health and well-being of rapidly aging populations?Aging Playfully pursues an entirely new direction in community planning, policy, and research to ... Leer más

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  • Volume 4: Policy and Planning

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Quietly Shrinking Cities

    Canadian Urban Population Loss in an Age of Growth

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    At 5 percent, Canada’s population growth was the highest of all G7 countries when the most recent census was taken. But only a handful of large cities drove that growth, attracting human and monetary capital from across the country and leaving myriad social, economic, and environmental challenges behind.Quietly Shrinking Cities investigates a trend that has been largely overlooked: over 20 percent ... Leer más

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  • Aging People, Aging Places

    Experiences, Opportunities, and Challenges of Growing Older in Canada

    How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults?The Canadian population is growing older and is reshaping the nation’s economic, social and cultural future. However, the built and social environments of many communities, neighbourhoods and cities have not been designed to help Canadians age well.Bringing together academic research, practitioner reflections and personal ... Leer más

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    Series series Urban Futures
    This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets, such as land, infrastructure, and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking International Skilled Migration

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    In today’s global knowledge economy, competition for the best and brightest workers has intensified. Highly skilled workers are an asset to companies, knowledge institutions, cities, and regions as they contribute to knowledge creation, innovation, and economic growth and development. Skilled migrants cross, and many times straddle, international borders to pursue professional opportunities. These ... Leer más

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

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    Edición de Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Leer más

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

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    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Leer más

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  • At Risk

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    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Leer más

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