Geography category: 5793 books
Design Economies and the Changing World Economy
Innovation, Production and Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Design is central to every service or good produced, sold and consumed. Manufacturing and service companies located in high cost locations increasingly find it difficult to compete with producers located in countries such as India and China. Companies in high-cost locations either have to shift production...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider...
Digital Places
Living with Geographic Information Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
By offering an understanding of Geographic Information Systems within the social, economic, legal, political and ethical contexts within which they exist, the author shows that there are substantial limits to their ability to represent the very objects and relationships, people and places, that many...
Urban Cosmopolitics
Agencements, assemblies, atmospheres
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Invoking the notion of ‘cosmopolitics’ from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of common worlds of cohabitation. A cosmopolitical approach to the city focuses on the multiple assemblages...
Tourism, Performance, and Place
A Geographic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographically informed theory of tourism. Such a theory integrates the ways in which places are co-produced, circulated, interpreted, experienced, and performed...
by Helen Walasek, contributions by Richard Carlton, Amra Hadžimuhamedović
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The massive intentional destruction of cultural heritage during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War targeting a historically diverse identity provoked global condemnation and became a seminal marker in the discourse on cultural heritage. It prompted an urgent reassessment of how cultural property could be protected...
by A.E.J. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops...
Urban Futures
Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings...
Urban Avant-Gardes
Art, Architecture and Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences that are seldom juxtaposed, it questions many assumptions and accepted positions.
This...
Creative Industries and Urban Development
Creative Cities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century. There has been a connection identified between the rise of creative industries and the urbanisation of the world’s population, particularly in relation to the significance of cities as...
by Philip Lowe, Terry Marsden and, Jonathan Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil. Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and, unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by conflicts between groups, such as farmers, environmentalists,...
British Environmental Policy and Europe
Politics and Policy in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
This book explores the effectiveness of the response of environmental groups and organisations in Britain in to the challenges of European integration. Examining the relative European orientation of British environmental policy, and the impact of British concerns on European environmental policy,...
Rural Second Homes in Europe
Examining Housing Supply and Planning Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This title was first published in 2000: Improved communication links between urban and rural areas and an increase in property prices in urban regions have made commuting an attractive option for European town and city dwellers eager to 'escape' urban living. This has lead to a proliferation of...
by Richard H. Williams, Barry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Originally published in 1994, Urban Land and Property Markets in the United Kingdom, adopts a perspective that encompasses the distinctive nature of the legal framework, land law, property market and procedures of Scotland, England and Wales. The book provides detailed accounts of the structure of...