Urban Regional category: 846 books
Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)
Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism.
Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that:
Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of...
Enabling participatory planning
Planning aid and advocacy in neoliberal times
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support...
Report on Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province (2013)
Measurement of Carrying Capacity and Countermeasures
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book mainly focuses on the status, trends and countermeasures of carrying capacity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region. It presents the results a comprehensive survey and systematic research on the carrying capacity of this region and its mega-cities, conducted in the hope of providing...
Policy Innovations for Affordable Housing In Singapore
From Colony to Global City
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Global cities today are facing fundamental challenges in relation to unaffordable housing and growing economic inequality. Singapore’s success in making homeownership possible for 90% of its population has attracted much attention internationally. This book represents a culmination of research by...
The Competitiveness of West African Economies in the Chinese Market
West African Economies in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, Xiamen University, language: English, abstract: West Africa is one of the regions on the African continent with abundant natural resources ranging from vast forest and arable land to mineral deposits. According...
Sudan at the Crossroads - Between Consolidation and a Failing State
Between Consolidation and a Failing State
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,0, Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften), course: Staatszerfall und Konfliktökonomien in Afrika, language:...
Transitions Towards Sustainable Mobility
New Solutions and Approaches for Sustainable Transport Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Delivering a sustainable transport system is not just a matter of adopting a number of technological innovations to improve performance in terms of people, planet, and profits. A broader structural and societal transition is needed in technology, as well as in institutions, behavioural patterns, and...
Globalization and Development
Why East Asia Surged Ahead and Latin America Fell Behind
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which have allowed East Asia to take advantage of the trade, financial, and technological impact of a more globalized economy to support its development, while Latin America has not.
Post-Conflict Syrian State and Nation Building
Economic and Political Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Based on extensive field work involving the leading figures of the diverse Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella initiative of opposition groups fighting against the Assad regime, this study critically evaluates the challenges ahead as well as the inherent opportunities for the post-conflict era in Syria.
by Joseph Bossip
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, , language: English, abstract: This paper discusses some of the major impediments that are affecting the development of this country, Papua New Guinea and off course the general picture of the world. These impediments are...
by Felix Merz
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida (Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: Betriebswirtschaftliche Fallstudien des Internationalen Managements, language: English, abstract: The following report deals with generating...
Comparative Hong Kong Politics
A Guidebook for Students and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This guidebook for students offers a survey of comparative politics intended for use in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is one of the world's great cities, but its political future has never been hazier. Mass protests, contested elections, a 2047 transition causing uncertainty in financial and business elites-...
Creating Economic Growth
Lessons for Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
As national leaders struggle to revive their economies, the people of Europe face a stark reality, which has created an opportunity for local leaders and citizen movers and shakers to rise to the occasion to spur revitalization from the bottom up. The author offers a six-point plan to prosperity.
Citizen’s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America
From Cash Transfers to Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups. In the context of widespread informal and precarious work, social insurance institutions could only provide limited coverage. In this context, progress...