Geography category: 5793 books
Unruly Cities?
Order/Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example,...
Cities for People, Not for Profit
Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and...
China on the Move
Migration, the State, and the Household
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to...
Geopolitics
Re-Visioning World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Geopolitics identifies and scrutinizes the central features of geopolitics from the sixteenth century to the present. The book focuses on five key concepts of the modern geopolitical imagination:
* Visualising the world as a whole
* The definition of geographical areas as 'advanced' or 'primitive'
*...
The Practice of Freedom
Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The last two decades have seen a re-birth of practices and principles that connect with the ‘soul’ of left-libertarianism, although they may not explicitly engage with the anarchist tradition. From practices of mapping and land-use planning to local protests and transnational social movements,...
A History of Spaces
Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live.
Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography,...
by Gastone Ave
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Originally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system, and the interconnections between the property sector, the national economy, and recent historical developments, including the new challenges facing Italy after the early 1990s...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space. This revealing book explores the work of a wide range of prolific social theorists. Included contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Looking across different international experiences – from Europe, North America and Australasia to the transition and emerging...
by Cliff Ollier, Colin Pain
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The Origins of Mountains approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. The book illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers and glaciers,...
by Michael A. Summerfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The plate tectonics revolution in the earth sciences has provided a valuable new framework for understanding long-term landform development.
This innovative text provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of global geomorphology, with the emphasis placed on large-scale processes and...
Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Volume 1: Contexts and analyses Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns...
by Chris Philo, Chris Wilbert
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans...