Urban and Regional Studies
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A Research Agenda for Migration and Health
Edited by K. Bruce Newbold, Kathi Wilson
Evidenced by Europe’s refugee crisis and the movement of undocumented workers into the US, international migration has emerged as one of the most pressing issues faced by national and regional governments. The health impacts of migration...eBook:Find out more£20.76
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Densifying the City?
Edited by Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, Philip Harrison, Alexandra Appelbaum
Providing an in-depth exploration of the complexities of densification policy and processes, this book brings the important experiences of densification in Johannesburg into conversation with a range of cities in Africa, the BRICS countr...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Ageing in Place
Edited by Bruce Judd, Kenichi Tanoue, Edgar Liu
This insightful book showcases a range of design, planning and policy responses to ageing populations and the built environment from across the rapidly changing and dynamic Western Asia-Pacific region. Its chapters demonstrate a clear an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Public–Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development
Edited by Raymond E. Levitt, W. R. Scott, Michael J. Garvin
Large infrastructure projects often face significant cost overruns and stakeholder fragmentation. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) allow governments to procure long-term infrastructure services from private providers, rather than devel...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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A Research Agenda for New Urbanism
Edited by Emily Talen
New Urbanism, a movement devoted to building walkable, socially diversity cities, has garnered some successes and some failures over the past several decades. A Research Agenda for New Urbanism is a forward-looking book composed of chapt...eBook:Find out more£20.76
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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the so...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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Being a Planner in Society
Nicholas Low
This timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalu...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Quantitative Methods for Place-Based Innovation Policy
Edited by Roberta Capello, Alexander Kleibrink, Monika Matusiak
Place-based innovation policy design requires an in-depth understanding of territories and their complexity. Traditional statistics, with a lack of publicly available data at the disaggregated (sub-sectoral and regional) level, often do ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Meet Innovation Systems
Edited by Alexandra Tsvetkova, Jana Schmutzler, Rhiannon Pugh
This book presents multidisciplinary research that expands our understanding of the innovation system (IS) and the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) perspectives on regional economic development. It critically reviews the two concepts and e...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Politics and Economics of Brexit
Edited by Annette Bongardt, Leila S. Talani, Francisco Torres
This interdisciplinary book examines Brexit from a political economy perspective, enriched by insights from scholars of political science, history and law. Shedding light on the key motivations for Brexit, this incisive book seeks to bet...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization
Edited by Robert C. Kloosterman, Virginie Mamadouh, Pieter Terhorst
Processes of globalization have changed the world in many, often fundamental, ways. Increasingly these processes are being debated and contested. This Handbook offers a timely, rich as well as critical panorama of these multifaceted proc...eBook:Find out more£41.56
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Social Innovation and Urban Governance
Edited by Marc Pradel-Miquel, Ana B. Cano-Hila, Marisol García Cabeza
Presenting social innovation initiatives that emerged from organized citizenry in Southern European cities, this book explores the response to austerity policies implemented after the 2008 economic crisis. Chapters look at the common aim...eBook:Find out more£25.00