Urban and Regional Studies
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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$40.00
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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$40.00
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Handbook on Place Branding and Marketing
Edited by Adriana Campelo
Place branding as an academic field is both challenging and under explored. In the face of an ever-expanding urban population, this Handbook addresses this knowledge deficit in order to illustrate how place branding can contribute to tra...eBook:Find out more$50.36
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A Research Agenda for Shrinking Cities
Justin B. Hollander
This prescient book presents the intellectual terrain of shrinking cities while exploring the key research questions in each of the field’s sub-domains and reviewing the range of methodologies within these topics.eBook:Find out more$32.76
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Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities
Edited by Kris Bezdecny, Kevin Archer
The majority of the world''s population now live in cities, nearly a quarter of which boast populations of one million or more. The rise of globalisation has granted cities unprecedented significance, both politically and economically, ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Decision-Making for Sustainable Transport and Mobility
Edited by Cathy Macharis, Gino Baudry
Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA) developed by Professor Cathy Macharis enables decision-makers within the sectors of transport, mobility and logistics to account for conflicting stakeholder interests. This book draws on 15 yea...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global City Makers
Edited by Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter, Allan Watson
Global City Makers provides an in-depth account of the role of powerful economic actors in making and un-making global cities. Engaging critically and constructively with global urban studies from a relational economic geography perspect...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Protecting Migrant Children
Edited by Mary Crock, Lenni B. Benson
Unprecedented numbers of children are crossing international borders seeking safety. Framed around compelling case studies explaining why children are on the move in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania, this b...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regional Infrastructure Systems
Colin Turner
As the international economy globalises, there is a need for national infrastructure systems to adapt to form a global infrastructure system. This network of networks aids mobility between national systems as a means of supporting their ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Making Hong Kong
Pui-yin Ho
Pui-yin Ho surveys how the social, economic and political environments of different eras have influenced the evolution of urban planning in Hong Kong. Evaluating the relationship between town planning and social change over time, this bo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Child Migration
Edited by Jacqueline Bhabha, Jyothi Kanics, Daniel Senovilla Hernández
The scope and complexity of child migration have only recently emerged as a critical factors in global migration. This volume assembles for the first time a richly interdisciplinary body of work, drawing on contributions from renowned sc...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Air Transport Security
Edited by Joseph S. Szyliowicz, Luca Zamparini
The growing number of terrorist attacks throughout the world continues to turn the interest of scholars and governments towards security issues. As part of the Comparative Perspectives on Transportation Security series, this book provide...eBook:Find out more$40.00