Regional Planning category: 486 books
Carving Out the Commons
Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations...
City of Gold
An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life.
Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when ‘doing research’. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific...
Farmland Preservation
Land for Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited. Farmland preservation speaks to the need to preserve the agricultural land base for future generations. The need for protection is driven by uncertainty...
by Chris Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Cash Flow, Social Good, No Guilt, No B.S. Just a guide that works!Is it possible to:•Make $100,000 per month on a $30,000 investment?•Build business and community at the same time?•Legally get into the sweepstakes cafe industry?Of course. Not just another business book, The Urban...
Dubai
Gilded Cage
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.
In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism,...
The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market
Building Toward 2020 After the Global Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The Rebirth of the Greek Labor Market provides evidence of the macroeconomic evolution of the Greek economy, as well as current conditions in the labor market, to suggest potential areas of growth following the crisis. The contributors of this collection focus on three main issues that make the overall...
Growing Income Inequalities
Economic Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This book explores the widening gap between the wage packets of skilled and unskilled workers that has become a pressing issue for all states in the globalized world economy. Comparing the experiences of more and less developed economies, chapters analyse the underlying causes and key social changes that accompany income inequality.
Development Economics
The Role of Agriculture in Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
The papers in this book study economic development from the perspective of social justice and economic efficiency; exploring the role of land tenure and productivity in Indian agriculture. Junankar discusses the efficiency of small farms versus large farms, and the role of share-cropping tenancy.
New Cities and Community Extensions in Egypt and the Middle East
Visions and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book seeks to push forward the boundaries of current practices and knowledge to embrace innovative solutions, novel approaches, and grounded technologies within realistic comprehension of economic risks and environmental implications. It investigates different scales and situations, various urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth. An important element of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community, the GMS is expected to catch up with the rest of Asia by...
Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)
Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism.
Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that:
Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of...
Unemployment in China
Economy, Human Resources and Labour Markets
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking.
Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence from leading scholars in the field, this book shows how...
Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries
Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together a group of contributors who boast substantial field experience researching rural wage employment in various developing countries....