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  • Future Challenges of Cities in Asia

    Series series Asian Cities
    The ten essays in Future Challenges of Cities in Asia engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia. These comprise socio-economic and cultural transitions as a result of urbanization; environmental challenges, especially questions of climate change, natural disasters, and environmental justice; and the challenges of urban infrastructure, built form, and new ... Leer más

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    Smart City, Smart State

    How Singapore’s solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies.Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique citystate of some 5.5 million residents also serve as a model for other advanced economies as well as for the emerging world? Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder ... Leer más

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  • Planning Singapore

    The Experimental City

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    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore with the intent of seeing it become ‘a great commercial emporium and fulcrum’. But by the time independence was achieved in 1965, the city faced daunting problems of housing shortage, slums and high unemployment. Since then, Singapore has become one of the richest countries on earth, providing, in Sir Peter ... Leer más

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  • Singapore-china Relations: 50 Years

    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore-China relationship, this book examines the political, economic, socio-cultural, people-to-people and even military exchanges between the two countries. It also highlights flagship projects and other key private sector-led projects that have become hallmarks of bilateral cooperation.The book argues that the current level of cooperation is built ... Leer más

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  • Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development

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    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a variety of categories of tourism considered more environmentally friendly: green, eco-tourism, and sustainable tourism. Much of the literature that has addressed these developments has been orientated to the destination locale or specific to a ... Leer más

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  • Cities in Asia by and for the People

    Series series Asian Cities
    This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re ... Leer más

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  • Building on Borrowed Time

    Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang

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    A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disasterIce caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north coast of Java, are dealing ... Leer más

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  • Asian Tourism: Growth and Change

    Edición de Janet Cochrane ...
    Tourism in Asia is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, driven by the increasing wealth of countries like Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia, and by the huge populations of China, India and Indonesia -the first second and fourth biggest countries in the works. Despite the significance of the tourism industry in this area it is still under researched. Asian Tourism is a unique book and the ... Leer más

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  • Conflict Resolution in Asia

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    Series series Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia
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    Published on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this thematic collection of case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage sites and their Outstanding Universal Value in the context of sustainable development. The case studies describe twenty-six thematically, typologically and regionally diverse World Heritage sites illustrating their benefits to local ... Leer más

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  • The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative

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    EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US$8 trillion and impact more than 65% of the world’s population.This book explores the unequal ways this ... Leer más

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