Geography category: 5793 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Health and Development presents a broad and detailed description of the multifaceted aspects of health and development across the globe. People are living longer, their lifestyles are changing and so too are the diseases from which they suffer. Recession in the North and debt servicing in the South...
Spatial Cognition
Geographic Environments
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
10.2 Summary of Ideas ..................................................... 256 10.2.1 Spatial Behavior As Rules For Decision Making ................................... 258 10.2.2. Cognitive Mapping ......................................................................... 258 10.2.3. Storing Information...
The Right to the City
Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications, yet demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the...
by Paul Balchin, Ludek Sykora, Gregory Bull
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Regional Policy and Planning in Europe explores the ways regional policy and planning systems across Europe have been influenced by:
* economic and monetary union
* the impending enlargement of the European Union
* the devolution of administrative power from central government to regional authorities
*...
In Their Place
The Imagined Geographies of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by these stories. The alleged behavioural failings of ‘poor people’ have attracted a great...
Land Use and Urban Form
The Consumption Theory of Land Rent
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Originally published in 1987. The Consumption Theory of Land Rent or CTLR is a comprehensive model of the urban landscape developed by Grant Ian Thrall. Working from the basic idea that the same underlying processes account for the spatial structure of all places, Thrall shows how CTLR can be used...
Traffic Planning in China - Need for and possibility of integrated traffic planning in the People's Republic of China
Need for and possibility of integrated traffic planning in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, Technical University of Berlin, 45 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Due to the constantly high rate at which the economy of the People's Republic...
Not So Golden State
Sustainability vs. the California Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In Not So Golden State, leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of California's ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums. In this necessary work, Miller asks tough questions as we stand at the edge of a human-induced natural disaster in the region...
Geopolitics
The Geography of International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, sociocultural and demographic changes unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen considers these forces in the context of their...
The Middle East and North Africa
World Boundaries Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Middle East and North Africa brings together some of today's most influential analysts of a region which from colonial times to the present has seen great territorial change.
Searching for the Just City
Debates in Urban Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and principles...
by S. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The book, which took three years to complete, represents the culmination of a two year study that was highlighted by a conference held in toronto in 1967.
In the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.