Human Geography category: 3213 books
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...
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...
Vacationscape
Developing Tourist Areas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The third edition of this classic volume integrates the idea of balancing tourism with protection of the resources upon which it depends. The text stresses the role of the community, identifies potential pitfalls, and raises issues of developmental ethics. It includes topics such as environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday...
Unsettling Cities
Movement/Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
This text examines the global nature of cities - cities whose openness has shaped their dynamism and character.
It explores cities as sites of movement, migration and settlement where different peoples, cultures and environments combine. Unsettling Cities explores the mix of proximity and difference...
Spaces of Contention
Spatialities and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying the spatial dynamics of collective resistance and sociologists and political scientists increasingly analyzing the role of space, place and scale in contentious political activity. Occupying a position at the intersection...
Globalization and Social Change
People and Places in a Divided World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and widening social and spatial inequalities. Diane Perrons draws on ideas about the new economy, risk society, welfare regimes and political economy to explain the growing social and spatial divisions characteristic...