Human Geography category: 3213 books
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,...
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...
Planning in Europe
Urban and Regional Planning in the EEC
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Originally published in 1984 Planning Urban Europe is a volume of essays reviewing the systems of town and country planning that operate within the member-states of the European Economic Community. The book looks at how the community’s institutions and policies relate to the activity of planning...
Housing, Individuals and the State
The Morality of Government Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Can the state solve housing problems or does it create them? This book explores the question by combining a detailed critique of contemporary housing policy with a philisophical analysis of the role of the state and individuals. Examining the state's role as controller and funder of housing, the author...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The idea that the heritage of nature is fundamentally cultural is provocative to many, but it is becoming increasingly accepted in the context of heritage preservation. It is argued here that a person’s perspective on natural vs. cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed...
The New Urban Frontier
Gentrification and the Revanchist City
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can...
by Michael Hough
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Cities and Natural Process is a book for all concerned with the future of our cities, their design and sustainability, and our quality of life within them. Michael Hough describes how economic and technological values have squeezed any real sense of nature out of the modern city, the ways in which...
Unsettling the City
Urban Land and the Politics of Property
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.
Gender and Landscape
Renegotiating the Moral Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Gender and Landscape is a feminist inquiry into a long-ignored area of study: the landscape. Although there has been an exhaustive investigation into issues of gender as they intersect with space and place, very little has been written about the gendering of the landscape. This volume provides a bridge...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
In Europe, the emerging discipline of geodesign was earmarked by the first Geodesign Summit held in 2013 at the GeoFort, the Netherlands. Here researchers and practitioners from 28 different countries gathered to exchange ideas on how to merge the spatial sciences and design worlds. This book brings...
Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Asia
Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.