Geography category: 5793 books
Rural Change and Planning
England and Wales in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War. The book describes the changes from an agriculturally-dominated countryside to one which has had to increasingly adapt to...
Environmental Rights
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Environmental Rights offers new perspectives on contemporary debates over rights and environmental issues. It draws on key theories of contemporary philosophers and jurists and case reports from decisions in English, European and US courts. It also examines recent developments within environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences of Nanjing, China. Digital soil mapping is advancing on different fronts at different paces throughout the world. The researches...
by Ball Michael
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Urban Change in Iran
Stories of Rooted Histories and Ever-accelerating Developments
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book, based on conference excerpts, investigates various aspects of contemporary Iranian urbanism. The topics covered range from the impacts of political developments on the cities’ rapid socio-economic developments, to the cities’ troubled relationship with the country’s built-environment...
Revitalizing City Districts
Transformation Partnership for Urban Design and Architecture in Historic City Districts
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and on the processes leading to planning and design. Urban form and its fabric result from a multitude of individual interests, ideas and decisions which in turn result in specific and locally...
Livelihood Pathways of Indigenous People in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Exploring Land-Use Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This study focuses on impacts of the environmental and socio-economic transformation on the indigenous people's livelihoods in Vietnam's Central Highlands recent decades since the country's reunification in 1975.
The first empirical section sheds light on multiple external conditions (policy...
Whose Urban Renaissance?
An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully attracting investment and middle-class populations to their inner areas. Regeneration - or...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
In fewer than three hundred years tourism has become a global service industry of great economic, cultural and political importance. Published to critical acclaim, the Encyclopedia of Tourism - now available as a Routledge World Reference title - is the definitive one-volume reference source to this...
Global Metropolitan
Globalizing Cities in a Capitalist World
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities.
The book explores the...
by John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention. Cities are an integral part of the network of globalization and important sites of modernization.
Globalization,...
Consuming the Entrepreneurial City
Image, Memory, Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. Increasingly, forms of spectacle have come to shape how cities are imagined and to influence their character and the practices...
by Gregory J. Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Cities have evolved from small urban systems designed to withstand attack from without. The demands of the modern city have shifted the focus to the dangers of internal violence. War and the City analyses the role of cities in war and the effects of war on cities.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
This book traces the recent growth in NGO advocacy. Barbara Rugendyke presents empirical findings about the impacts of NGO advocacy activity on the policies and practices of global and regional institutions. The research reveals the mixed successes of advocacy as a strategy for addressing the ongoing...