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Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Eminently readible, current, and comprhensive, this acclaimed text sets the standard for instruction in
Globalization, Agriculture and Food in the Caribbean
Climate Change, Gender and Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
The last decade has seen a growing body of research about globalization and climate change in the Caribbean. This collection is a significant addition to the literature on a topic that is of critical importance to the region. It explores research from a number of Caribbean islands dealing with a range...
Metropolitan Governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim
Borders, Challenges, Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This edited collection examines seminal changes and major policy challenges in metropolitan governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim that are being faced by governments (national and sub-national) and their polities. The book builds upon the work of the largest stream at the Urban Affairs Association’s...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Located on the southern coast of China, Guangdong is the country’s most populous and rich province. It has 95.4 million inhabitants and provides one-eighth of the national GDP. A key development feature of Guangdong has been “processing trade”, which has allowed companies to profit from importing...
The Government Next Door
Neighborhood Politics in Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese...
Old Europe, New Suburbanization?
Governance, Land, and Infrastructure in European Suburbanization
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The youthful vigour of urbanization in North America has promulgated a dominant perspective on urban theory, specifically on suburbs, that establishes the United States as the norm against which all other contexts are measured. However, much of the vocabulary surrounding the American experience isn’t...
What's in a Name?
Talking about Urban Peripheries
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘périurbain’, and ‘suburb’ are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres.
In What’s in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered...
The World’s Urban Forests
History, Composition, Design, Function and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world. It will ask questions about the history, composition, structure, and management of trees in urban areas. Data for this book was collected in 33 cities across broad geographical areas known as biomes. Constraints and opportunities...
Alerta Barcelona
Adiós a la ciudad autocomplaciente
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Las grandes ciudades son las verdaderas propulsoras del crecimiento económico y de la creatividad en el mundo, por encima de estados y fronteras. Barcelona no ha parado de escalar posiciones y de afianzar su prestigio, hasta que cierta autocomplacencia colectiva ha erosionado su éxito.
El...
Steering Sustainability in an Urbanising World
Policy, Practice and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Sustainability has become the key challenge for urban planners, housing and infrastructure policy makers. Citizens are increasingly encouraged to live more compactly; in denser urban developments, to use less water and other natural resources and to choose public transport. While councils, government...
Learning Landscape Ecology
A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Filled with numerous exercises this practical guide provides a real hands-on approach to learning the essential concepts and techniques of landscape ecology. The knowledge gained enables students to usefully address landscape- level ecological and management issues. A variety of approaches are presented,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
"Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas" provides instructors with a text reference that has a logical and easy-to-follow flow of topics around which they can structure the syllabi of their urban remote sensing courses. Topics have been chosen to bridge the gap between remote sensing...
Evolution of Dam Policies
Evidence from the Big Hydropower States
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report (2000) “Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making” set a landmark in the ongoing controversy over large dams. Now that more than ten years have passed, one has to realize that the WCD norms matter. However, their real chance of becoming...
The Geometry of Urban Layouts
A Global Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries—all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geometrical,...