Urban and Regional Studies
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Transit Oriented Development and Sustainable Cities
Edited by Richard D. Knowles, Fiona Ferbrache
This book provides new dimensions and a contemporary focus on sustainable transport, urban regeneration and development in eight countries spanning four continents at different stages of development. It examines the role of transit orien...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Rethinking Third Places
Edited by Joanne Dolley, Caryl Bosman
Ray Oldenburg’s concept of third place is re-visited in this book through contemporary approaches and new examples of third places. Third place is not your home (first place), not your work (second place), but those informal public place...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
Hazel Easthope
The majority of people now live in cities and for many that means apartment living. Apartments are where we spend our time, make our homes, raise our families and invest our money. Apartment living requires that we try to get along with ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Daniel Silander, Brigitte Pircher
This study explores the Europe 2020 strategy and the role of European political entrepreneurship in debating, shaping and implementing this strategy within the EU. The book sets out to explore the content, conditions and consequences of ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Economic Development
Silvia Cerisola
The book explores the relationship between cultural heritage and local economic development by introducing the original idea that one possible mediator between the two can be identified as creativity. The book econometrically verifies th...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
Lorna Zischka
‘Giving’ time and money to the community indicates the existence of relationships that draw people together, and ‘who people give to’ indicates how inclusive these relational networks are. Using UK data for the analysis, Zischka argues t...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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High Speed Rail and China’s New Economic Geography
Zhenhua Chen, Kingsley E. Haynes, Yulong Zhou, Zhaoxin Dai
Presenting an analytical approach to assessing the socioeconomic impact of high speed rail in China, and using a multilevel spatial analysis approach at both the national and the regional level, this book emphasizes capturing the spatial...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness
Edited by Robert Huggins, Piers Thompson
The aim of this Handbook is to take stock of regional competitiveness and complementary concepts as a means of presenting a state-of-the-art discussion of the contemporary theories, perspectives and empirical explanations that help make ...eBook:Find out more£41.56
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The Internet City
Aharon Kellerman
Exploring the history of the Internet, from pre-conception, to the possibilities of an Internet-based future, The Internet City presents ways in which the Internet and urban life intersect. The book interprets how the contemporary city i...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook on Urban Development in China
Edited by Ray Yep, June Wang, Thomas Johnson
The trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and local state and social actors of different class status and endowment. This u...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China
Jia Gao, Yuanyuan Su
In recent years China has experienced intense economic development. Previously a rapidly urbanising industrial economy, the country has become a post-industrial economy with a service sector that accounts for almost half the nation’s GDP...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Developing Bus Rapid Transit
Edited by Fiona Ferbrache
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a popular mode of sustainable public urban transit given dedicated focus in this timely collection. The effects of BRT are examined in-depth through a range of case studies from cities across six continents, in...eBook:Find out more£25.00
