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Emergent Spaces
This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be …
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- 978-3-030-84379-3
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- xiv, 282p.:ill
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- 307.76 Eme
A Theory and History of Rural–urban Governance in China
This book divides the history of China's rural-urban relations into three stages: antagonism, integration and re-antagonism, and demonstrates that the two coupled variables i.e., policy-culture and coast-trade are the most crucial to urbanization and rural-urban governance in China from ancient times till now. From the perspective of a combination of history and geography, this book puts forwar…
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- 978-981-16-1201-5
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- xix, 220p.:ill
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- 307.76 Cha a
Urban Inequalities
This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein. The contributors eschew conceptual confusion between equality — of opportunity, of access, of the right to compete for whatever goal one chooses to pursue — and levelling. The discussions develop in the belief that old and emerging forms of inequality in urban settings need to be under…
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- 978-3-030-51724-3
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- xiii, 311p.:ill
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- 307.76 Urb
Property Price Impacts of Environment-Friendly Transport Accessibility in Chi…
This book seeks to shed light on the role of environment-friendly transport accessibility in determining property prices in Chinese cities. Many environment-friendly transport modes, including walking, metro, bus rapid transit (BRT), and bus are examined. Spatial econometric models, quantile regression models, and machine learning techniques are used. This book contributes to people's understan…
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- 978-981-16-8833-1
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- xii, 182p.:ill
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- 307.76 Yan p
Electronic Cities
This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. It focuses on the historical development of these scenes, with an emphasis on the post-2000 context, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching effects. Expert contributors highlight the influence of geographical contexts, as well as cultural a…
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- 978-981-33-4741-0
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- xx, 303p.:ill
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- 307.76 Ele
Digital Social Innovation
This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are redesigning the urban space and challenging the consolidated urban governance processes. By adopting a critical geography perspecti…
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- 978-3-030-80451-0
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- xiii, 169p.:ill
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- 307.76 Cer d
Spatial Tensions in Urban Design
This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary both social and spatial urban changes catalyst. Through a collection of essays from various disciplines focusing on inter…
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- 978-3-030-84083-9
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- vi, 229p.:ill
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- 307.76 Spa
Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century
This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will the coming urban century truly succeed. Cities are quintessentially human, the perfect forum for interaction, and we are entering what could justly be called the urban century, the fastest period of urban growth in hu…
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- 978-3-030-51665-9
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- xi, 124p.:ill
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- 307.76 Mcd b
Urban Growth and Environmental Issues in India
This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India. The contributors, who are coming from diverse disciplines, examine socioeconomic, administrative, and environmental threats emanating from urbanization (e.g. climate change, health governance, energy issues, pollution, and e-waste management) and suggest various measures for dealing with the challenges …
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- 978-981-16-4273-9
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- xxii, 337p.:ill
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- 307.76 Urb
Housing, Urban Commons and the Right to the City in Post-Crisis Rome
This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housing Rights Movement Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, and progressively reconverted into the house and museum spaces that form the Città Meticcia (the mestizo city). Through a vivid activist-ethnographic …
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- 978-3-030-70849-8
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- XIV, 166p.:ill
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- 307.76 Gra h
African Cities Through Local Eyes
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning ex…
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- 978-3-030-84906-1
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- xix, 320p.:ill
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- 307.76 Afr
Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities
This volume demonstrates how urban climate science can provide valuable information for planning healthy cities. The book illustrates the idea of "Science in Time, Science in Place" by providing worldwide case-based urban climatic planning applications for a variety of regions and countries, utilizing relevant climatic-spatial planning experiences to address local climatic and environmental hea…
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- 978-3-030-87598-5
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- LIV, 406p.:ill
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- 307.76 Urb
Theory in Planning Research
Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes. While most texts on such research emphasise methodologies, this book is unique in addressing how theoretical frameworks and perspectives can inform research activity. Providing both a concise…
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- 978-981-33-6568-1
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- XI, 216p.:ill
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- 307.76 Ryd t
Hillsong Church
This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities. Ethnographic research in Amsterdam and New York City shows that global cities harbor nodes in transnational religious networks in which media play a crucial role. By taking a lived religion approach, media is regarded as integral part of everyday pract…
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- 978-3-030-74299-7
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- ix, 236p.:ill
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- 307.76 Kla h
Contesting the Olympics in American Cities
This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the Olympics in the current context of the International Olympic Committee’s changing bid requirements and from the social justice perspectives of Olympics opponents. Using detailed case studies of the …
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- 978-981-16-5094-9
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- IX, 113p.:ill
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- 307.76 And c
The Private Rental Sector in Australia
This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period. It explains why over one in four Australian households are now private renters and investigates the contemporary legal and regulatory frameworks governing the sector.…
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- 978-981-33-6672-5
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- xvii, 169p.:ill
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- 307.76 Mor t
Street-Level Bureaucrats' Impact on the Emergence of Local Governance Networks
This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats during this process. It aims to identify whether some organizations are favored as state partners, whereas others have a lower chance of becoming part of such networks. Four different potential logics explaining such divergencies are developed. To find out how street-level bureaucr…
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- 978-3-658-36153-2
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- xiii, 146p.:ill
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- 307.76 Fis s
The Role of the State in China’s Urban System Development
This book investigates how the state intervenes in the urban system in China in the post-reform period. To do so, it constructs a conceptual framework based on the perspective of political hierarchy, suggesting that the state power is hierarchically organized in China’s urban system, leading to variations in urban government capacities among cities. The book reveals that the state has la…
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- 978-981-33-6362-5
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- xvi, 213p.:ill
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- 307.76 Wan t
Settlement Spaces: Urban Survival Prospects of China’s Special Communities
This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology. Using the framework of integration response, it theoretically and empirically explores the approaches these communities adopt to survive and evolve. Empirically, this discussion centers on four particular …
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- 978-981-16-4892-2
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- xxiii, 677p.:ill
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- 307.76 Xia s
Building a traditional Kurdish City
This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran. It discusses the nature of Kurdish settlements and the interaction between the social and spatial forces that have conditioned the processes and patterns of city formation and development over tim…
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- 978-981-16-3634-9
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- xviii, 218p.:ill
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- 307.76 Ali b
New Workplaces—Location Patterns, Urban Effects and Development Trajectories
This book explores the innovative workplaces, namely coworking spaces and makerspaces, that are emerging as a consequence of digital innovations and the related development of the knowledge economy and society in the wake of deindustrialization. Drawing on international and multidisciplinary research projects, fresh insights are provided into current trends, research methodologies, actors, loca…
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- 978-3-030-63443-8
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- XI, 304p.:ill
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- 307.76 New
Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa
This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It argues that the SADC’s pursuit of a rationalist and state-centric form of integration for Southern Africa is limited, as it overlooks the contributory role and efficacy of non-state actors, who are relegated to the periphery. The book demonstrates that civil soci…
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- 978-981-15-9388-8
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- xxi, 263p.:ill
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- 307.76 Tsh r
Theorising Urban Development From the Global South
This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers ‘fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: Why and what does theory from the South mean? The chapters de…
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- 978-3-030-82475-4
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- xxi, 287p.:ill
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- 307.76 The
Cities, Health and Wellbeing
On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 70/1, “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Also known as 2030 Agenda, the document lays out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the realm of ecology, society and economy. The current book focuses on three of these goals: SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institut…
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- 978-3-030-89348-4
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- xv, 181p.:ill
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- 307.76 Soe c
Urban-Rural Transformation Geography
This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural transformation. Focusing on the systematic diagnosis of new-type urbanization, urban-rural land use, industrial structure transfo…
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- 978-981-16-4835-9
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- xxxiv, 376p.:ill
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- 307.76 Liu u
Audiovisual Tourism Promotion
This book deploys the concept of ‘audiovisual tourism promotion’ to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials. From this point of view, this volume fills a major gap in the literature by providing the first comprehensive critica…
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- 978-981-16-6410-6
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- xvii, 270p.:ill
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- 307.76 Aud
Feng Shui and the City
Feng Shui and the City analyses the past and contemporary influences of traditional geomancy on Chinese built environments across three domains: domestic spaces, spaces of commercial development and the public realm. Using Lefebvre’s notion of absolute and abstract space—spaces of ‘symbolic existence’ and ‘everyday life’ versus spaces of domination and control, it tracks evolving at…
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- 978-981-16-0847-6
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- xv, 158p.:ill
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- 307.76 Mad f
Learning Country in Landscape Architecture
This book strategically focuses upon the feasibility of positioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary built environment education and research in Australia. Australian tertiary education has little engaged with Indigenous peoples and their Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and the respectful translation of their Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary education learning. In contrast, wh…
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- 978-981-15-8876-1
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- xxvi, 122p.:ill
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- 307.76 Lea
Ecoscenography
This ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice. Ecoscenography weaves environmental philosophies and practices across genres and fields to provide a captivating vision for the future of sustainable theatre production. The book forefronts leading designers that are driving this emerging field into the mai…
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- 978-981-16-7178-4
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- xxxvi, 210p.:ill
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- 307.76 Bee e
Restless Cities on the Edge
Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews—often occurring during times of protest or even violent action—this book studies a variety of urban realities: grassroots movements, anti-migrant district riots, and the daily lives of the fluid and fluctuating multi-ethnic groups in the city. Ultimately, this book gives voice to some of th…
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- 978-3-030-91323-6
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- xv, 252p.:ill
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- 307.76 Far r
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