City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Subnational Public-Private Partnerships
Meeting Infrastructure Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
This report focuses on the challenges of governing infrastructure investment and public-private partnerships (PPPs) at the subnational level. Subnational governments – cities and regions – play a vital role in the infrastructure landscape. Infrastructure needs in energy, transport, water and telecommunications...
Politics of the Event
Time, Movement, Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Despite occupying a central role and frequently being used in the study of international politics, the concept of the "event" remains in many ways unchallenged and unexplored. By combining the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and his concept of the event with the example of 9/11 as an historical...
by Scott G Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order, justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major political theorists of the modern epoch.
Nelson...
International Migration and Crisis
Transition Toward a New Migratory Phase
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book presents an analysis of the various transformation processes at work in the international migratory dynamic of Mexicans as a consequence of the 2008 international economic crisis and the implementation of an increasingly strict American migration policy. Employing a methodology that combines...
Security Without Weapons
Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Few questions of global politics are more pressing than how to respond to widespread violence against civilians. Despite the efforts of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) proponents to draw attention away from exclusively military responses, debates on humanitarian intervention and R2P’s “Third Pillar”...
Intersecting Interregionalism
Regions, Global Governance and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
This book has two mutually reinforcing aims/parts. The first aim is to contribute to a more productive debate between different theoretical standpoints. There is surprisingly little theoretical and conceptual debate in this burgeoning field, which is one major reason for the failure to fully grasp...
International Intervention in a Secular Age
Re-Enchanting Humanity?
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
International intervention is not just about ‘saving’ human lives: it is also an attempt to secure humanity’s place in the universe.
This book explores the Western secular beliefs that underpin contemporary practices of intervention—most importantly, beliefs about life, death and the...
by Kyung Sik Woo, Young Kwan Sohn, Ung San Ahn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book will deal with geological as well as cultural, historical, archaeological and biological aspects in Jeju Global Geopark. It will start with introduction of Jeju Global Geopark, geographic setting, habitats, history, economy and tourism, management, general geology and geosites, future geosites,...
Evidence-Based Public Management: Practices, Issues and Prospects
Practices, Issues and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management.
Generation Rent
Rethinking New Zealand’s Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
House prices may boom or bust but the long-term trend is clear: for more New Zealanders than ever, home ownership is out of reach. Incomes simply have not kept pace with skyrocketing property prices. ‘Generation Rent’ calls into question priorities at the heart of New Zealand’s identity.In this...
The Social Roots of Risk
Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable....
by F. Teles
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Territory and scale have been some of the most relevant topics in recent political science, but do we know enough about cooperation between local governments? How we think about local government has changed significantly and requires us to be equipped with new epistemological gear, considering more...
by Derek Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design. This less explored aspect of architecture is discussed and explains the enduring qualities of ten specific buildings from architectural history to present day due to their structural aesthetics. Based...
Insuring Security
Biopolitics, security and risk
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through...