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Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies
Edited by Jan Fransen, Meine P. van Dijk, Jurian Edelenbos
Exploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban manage...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Edited by Paresha Sinha, Jenny Gibb, Michèle Akoorie, Jonathan M. Scott
This Research Handbook offers contextualized perspectives on entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Emphasizing how national context profoundly shapes incentives for entrepreneurial efforts, chapters dissect the opportunities emerging f...eBook:Find out more£35.16
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A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe
Edited by Karsten Zimmermann, Valeria Fedeli
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Written in a clear and concise style, this Modern Guide provide a timely overview and compar... -
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Advanced Introduction to Cities
Peter J. Taylor
This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relati...eBook:Find out more£14.36
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Cities and Regions in Crisis
Martin Jones
Offering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer interventi...eBook:Find out more£26.36
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Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City
Edited by Peter K. Kresl
This original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness. Featuring a wide-ranging set of contributions from top researchers, thi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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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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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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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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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
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Handbook on Planning and Complexity
Edited by Gert de Roo, Claudia Yamu, Christian Zuidema
This Handbook shows the enormous impetus given to the scientific debate by linking planning as a science of purposeful interventions and complexity as a science of spontaneous change and non-linear development. Emphasising the importance...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies
Edited by John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Rachel Mulhall
This Research Agenda provides both a state-of-the-art review of existing research on city-regions, and expands on new research approaches. Expert contributors from across the globe explore key areas for reading city-regions, including: t...eBook:Find out more£23.16