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China’s Urbanization and the World Economy
Fan Zhang
This innovative book places China’s urbanization within a broader global context, including a detailed estimate of China’s total domestic market and its impact on the world economy.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Urban Competitiveness and Innovation
Edited by Pengfei Ni, Zheng Qiongjie
Against the backdrop of today’s climate of economic globalization and the rapid development of information, this timely book explores the complex concept of competitiveness between cities. The expert contributors illustrate that innova...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Creative Cities
Edited by David Emanuel Andersson, Åke E. Andersson, Charlotta Mellander
With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the ‘creative city’ became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories ...eBook:Find out more$71.16
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Studies in Applied Geography and Spatial Analysis
Edited by Robert Stimson, Kingsley E. Haynes
This timely and fascinating book illustrates how applied geography can contribute in a multitude of ways to assist policy processes, evaluate public programs, enhance business decisions, and contribute to formulating solutions for commun...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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European Cities and Global Competitiveness
Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Daniele Ietri
The volume begins with an Introduction, followed by a set of three papers in Part Two examining European urban competitiveness from the standpoints of measurement and policy. This section also provides a case study of the cities of one c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2011
Pengfei Ni
the competitiveness of 500 cities around the world. This one-of-a-kind annual resource draws on a wealth of data sources, all of which are described and assessed. Using a sophisticated methodology and a team of 100 researchers from the C...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Cities
Edited by Maddy Janssens, Dino Pinelli, Dafne C. Reymen, Sandra Wallmann
This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often er...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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New Directions in Economic Geography
Edited by Bernard Fingleton
This important book explores original and alternative directions for economic geography following the revolution precipitated by the advent of so-called ‘new economic geography’ (NEG). Whilst, to some extent, the volume could be regar...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Land Use Planning
Edited by Hugo Priemus, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
This is an authoritative collection of papers that are generally regarded as landmarks in the history of land use planning in the western world. A wide variety of leading articles have been selected for this comprehensive volume, which c... -
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Planning History and Methodology
Edited by Michael Wegener, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
Planning as deliberate preparation for future action is as old as human history. Agricultural land allocation and cities were always planned, as were military warfare and defence. With the growing complexity of society in the 19th centur... -
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Planning Cities for the Future
Peter Karl Kresl
Planning Cities for the Future links the study of urban economic competitiveness with urban planning and is able to ascertain the crucial factors for success in this area of public policy. These factors include effective governance, lead...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Clusters and Globalisation
Edited by Christos Pitelis, Roger Sugden, James R. Wilson
Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key c...eBook:Find out more$40.00