Human Geography category: 3213 books
by Gabriel Lipshitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Country on the Move presents original research and a comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of the spatial aspects of migration. It considers the spatial results of two diametrically opposed policies: planning from above to settle the North African and Asian newcomers in the 1950s, and planning...
Dams, Displacement and Development
Perspectives from Río Negro, Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Using the case of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala, constructed between 1978 and 1983, this book examines the effects of displacement on the former residents of Río Negro, a community forcibly evicted and nearly eliminated by the military and paramilitary. Using open-ended interview discussions...
Urban Theory
New critical perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary...
by Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, 1867
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Excerpt from Book:
The only true and right way of learning geography (which in its widest sense comprehends almost everything connected with the earth) is to become acquainted with the geography—or, strictly speaking, the topography—and history of the district in which we live. Modern England...
Images of the Street
Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street. Using examples from the U.K, India, Australia and North America the contributors draw on research in cultural geography, sociolgy, cultural studies and planning to explore the making and meaning of urban space.
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Cultural Planning
An Urban Renaissance?
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Using an historic and contemporary analysis, Cultural Planning examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent to which cultural amenities have been considered in town planning. From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantium empires, to the European...
by Chris Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The rural landscape of the Third World is generally seen as one worked by the impoverished. Chris Dixon shows that this is an increasingly inaccurate picture. Wealth does exist, with the landed often maintaining lifestyles comparable to their richest urban neighbours. And while land remains the basis...
by Dr. Emma Waterton, Steve Watson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This book is a fast-paced and thorough re-evaluation of what heritage tourism means to the people who experience it. It draws on contemporary thinking in human geography and heritage studies, and applies it to a sector of tourism that is both pervasive yet poorly researched in terms of the perspective...
Making Value and Career Building in the Creative Economy
Evidence from Contemporary Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient...
Urban Social Listening
Potential and Pitfalls for Using Microblogging Data in Studying Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book analyses new software tools and social media data that can be used to explore the attitudes of people in urban places. It reports on the findings of several research projects that have have experimented with using microblogging data in conjunction with diverse quantitative and qualitative...
South Asia in a Globalising World
A Reconstructed Regional Geography
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this extremely popular region. South Asia provides one of the world's most challenging development contexts and The authors take a different approach to most traditional development texts,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Asian countries are not homogenous. They are in different stages of social and economic development, with cultural conditions and institutional and legal frameworks varying from one country to another. Therefore, how water can be successfully managed differs from one country to another. The book provides...
Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship
Bridging the Territorial and Functional Rationales
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In present digital times the focus is on globalization and the dynamics and complexities that it creates. However, in spite of being dominated by technology the world remains populated by human beings practising a localized everyday life. This contrast should challenge every researcher who is concerned...
Services and Metropolitan Development
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The dynamics of national and international urban systems, as well as individual metropolitan areas, are closely connected with the decisions and actions of firms and institutions in the service sector. Services and Metropolitan Development explores the processes guiding both the development and the...