Geography category: 5793 books
Beyond the Map
Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
New islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day—and Alastair Bonnett observes and captures...
Smart Cities
Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Smart city development has emerged a major issue over the past 5 years. Since the launch of IBM’s Smart Planet and CISCO’s Smart Cities and Communities programmes, their potential to deliver on global sustainable development targets have captured the public’s attention. However, despite this...
Maphead
Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, “a literary gem” (The Atlantic).
Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library...
Understanding Development
Theory And Practice In The Third World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Patrick Geddes
Social Evolutionist and City Planner
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning, providing a scholarly yet accessible account for those...
The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World
Geography for the Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Gary Fuller’s entertaining and engaging guide enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun, using trivia to open up new worlds of knowledge for all readers. Often dismissed as unimportant, trivia here highlights issues that are far from trivial, pondering, for example, what peaceful...
A Practical Guide to the Rules of the Road
For OOW, Chief Mate and Master Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
A self-teaching aid that covers International regulations for preventing collision at sea 1972 (Colregs) or Rules of the Road, including navigation lights and related situations that could be asked within the Maritime and Coastguard Agency oral examinations for the deck certificate of competency.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium. Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and environmental policy in Britain and explain...
Urban Planning in Europe
International Competition, National Systems and Planning Projects
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Urban planning is undergoing a period of transformation across Europe, with a major trend towards increased urban competition, national deregulation and greater private sector influence.
Urban Planning in Europe is the first comprehensive analysis of the influence of countries is developed, presenting...
Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space
Lasting Legacies?
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann...
Where the Waters Divide
Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada’s contemporary “Indian” problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies,...
Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice
Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Land is a significant and controversial topic in South Africa. Addressing the land claims of those dispossessed in the past has proved to be a demanding, multidimensional process. In many respects the land restitution program that was launched as part of the county’s transition to democracy in 1994...
Writes of Passage
Reading Travel Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 34
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two physical geographers (a Frenchman and an Englishman, both geomorphologists), a British historical geographer,...