Geography category: 5793 books
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 2: Geography
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The location of "the South" is hardly a settled or static geographic concept. Culturally speaking, are Florida and Arkansas really part of the same region? Is Texas considered part of the South or the West? This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture grapples with the contestable issue...
Creating the American West
Boundaries and Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Boundaries—lines imposed on the landscape—shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines...
by Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
This is the fourth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning, throughout the entiretwentieth century.
This extensively revised edition follows the successful format...
Urban Revitalization
Remaking cities in a changing world
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Following decades of neglect and decline, many US cities have undergone a dramatic renaissance. From New York to Nashville and Pittsburgh to Portland governments have implemented innovative redevelopment strategies to adapt to a globally integrated, post-industrial economy and cope with declining...
Tourism Mobilities
Places to Play, Places in Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption.This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres...
Routledge Revivals: Solar Energy (1979)
The Awakening Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Originally published in 1979, Solar Energy provides a tour of the world of solar energy and asks two key questions: is solar energy the key to the future of our energy needs, and what are the facts and potential of this source of renewable power. The book examines solar energy from the past, to modern...
Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future
Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world...
Urban Theory
A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains:
Relations between urban theory and modernity...
by Peter Burns
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2003
This introductory text explains how anthropology is integral to the study of tourism dynamics. Starting with an overview of the development of anthropology as a social science, the author uses a wealth of international examples, including the UK, USA and Australia, to bring practical relevance to...
Cities of Culture
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Culture now has a prominent place on the urban policy and re-profiling agendas of cities around the world. City-based cultural planning emphasising creativity in all its guises has emerged as a significant local policy initiative, while the notion of the ‘creative city’ has become an urban imaging...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2003
This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility. Chapters draw from a range of disciplinary sources, and from a diversity of regions and nation-states. Within nations, mobility is the key determinant of local population...
Geographic Information Systems
Socioeconomic Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This second edition of Geographic Information Systems builds on the strengths of the first, and incorporates important recent advances in GIS development and major new socioeconomic datasets including new census data. Martin presents an accessible introduction to the history, principles and techniques...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful discourses toemerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is
astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until...