Urban Regional category: 846 books
Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded
Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1992
Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy experiences in battling "the system," whether that system is the machinery...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The main object of this book is to explain some of the mechanisms of integration and secession among regions from the point of view of game theory. To attain this goal, the incentives of regions in a country to unite or to secede and the conditions in the way for the member countries of a federation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The new EU Cohesion Policy is one of the largest integrated development policies in the Western world, and one of the largest of such programmes anywhere in the world. The reforms to the EU Cohesion Policy contain many different elements each of which interlink in order to provide a cohesive overall...
Famines in European Economic History
The Last Great European Famines Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór ) of 1845–1850, the Finnish Famine (Suuret Nälkävuodet) of the 1860s and the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor)...
by Canfei He, Shengjun Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The book provides the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics restructuring China’s manufacturing industries from the evolutionary economic geography perspective. These geographical and industrial shifts have enormous implications in and beyond China for what is possible in the...
European Cities in Dynamic Competition
Theory and Case Studies on Urban Governance, Strategy, Cooperation and Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
World population and the number of city dwellers are steadily growing. Globalization and digitalization lead to an increased competition for skilled and creative labor and other economic resources. This is true not only for firms, but increasingly also for cities. The book elaborates on resulting...
The Good Food Revolution
Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities.
The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball...
Water 4.0
The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot...
by Henri L.F. L.F. de Groot, Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
After a long period of suburbanisation, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city than on a large house in the countryside and why doesn't this apply to all cities? This book shows that the appeal of the city in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In a world where half of the population lives in cities and more than 90 percent of urban growth is occurring in the developing world, cities struggle to modernize without completely losing their unique character, which is embodied by their historic cores and cultural heritage assets. As countries develop,...
Who me, Poor?
How India's youth are living in urban poverty to make it big
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The characteristics and reasons for urban poverty are manifold and seem to repeat across class structures: migration, culture shock, real estate costs and unrealistic expectations of city life, a lack of financial education, corporate cultures that perpetuate stereotypical workforces, a glamourised...
Financing Africa's Cities
The Imperative of Local Investment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent -- which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet -- in the next decades. Considerable investment will be needed to sustain this level of growth and to clear up accumulated backlogs. At the same time, decentralization...
Global Cities
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?
From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century,...
Cities and the Super-Rich
Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically. This collection critically engages with and advances existing debates on the super-rich and their roles in these transformations. An interdisciplinary range of contributions from international experts including sociologists,...