Urban and Regional Studies
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The Water-Sustainable City
David L. Feldman
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water fr...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Governing Compact Cities
Philipp Rode
Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriente...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Evolution of Social Innovation
Edited by Frances Westley, Katherine McGowan, Ola Tjörnbo
At a time when governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. E...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Creating Cities/Building Cities
Peter K. Kresl, Daniele Ietri
For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized ar...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement
Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis
There is widespread acceptance of the importance of infrastructure, but less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. While most public infrastructure is still provided in-house or by traditional procurement methods – with ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Global Infrastructure Networks
Colin Turner, Debra Johnson
Infrastructure represents the core underpinning architecture of the global economic system. Adopting an approach informed by realism, this insightful book looks at the forces for the integration and fragmentation of the global infrastruc...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law
Edited by Benoît Mayer, François Crépeau
This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the debates on how the law does, and could, relate to migration exacerbated by climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on the relationship between climate change, migra...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries
Edited by Alexandra Tsvetkova, Jana Schmutzler, Marcela Suarez, Alessandra Faggian
This edited work offers a multidisciplinary perspective on innovation challenges and innovative practices in the context of developing and transition countries. The contributions mostly embrace a national innovation system approach in an...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Megaregions
Edited by John Harrison, Michael Hoyler
By critically assessing the opportunities and challenges posed by planning and governing at the megaregional scale, this innovative book examines the latest conceptualizations of trans-metropolitan landscapes. In doing so, it seeks to un...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods
Edited by Maarten van Ham, Darja Reuschke, Reinout Kleinhans, Colin Mason, Stephen Syrett
Despite the growing evidence on the importance of the neighbourhood, entrepreneurship studies have largely neglected the role of neighbourhoods. This book addresses the nexus between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods and communities, conf...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Time, Space and Capital
Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson
In this challenging book, the authors demonstrate that economists tend to misunderstand capital. Frank Knight was an exception, as he argued that because all resources are more or less durable and have uncertain future uses they can cons...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Understanding Collective Decision Making
Lasse Gerrits, Peter Marks
One of the main challenges facing contemporary society is to understand how people can make decisions together. Understanding Collective Decision Making builds on evolutionary theories and presents an analytical tool to analyse and visua...eBook:Find out more£25.00