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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- -
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- 307.76 Far r
The Hidden Side of the Creative City
This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain. It deals critically with a variety of sociological questions related to cultural production in the city, including geographical segregation as culturally defined in the city; misogyny …
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- 978-3-030-81249-2
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- XXI, 214p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 The
Smoking Environments in China
This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China. In recent decades, few studies have explored the significance of geographical factors and the role they have played either in affecting the prevalence of smoking or in tobacco control responses to the smoking epidemic in China. In light of this, the book investigates the importance of national, regional and local…
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- 978-3-030-76143-1
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- x, 353p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Smo
Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace in the Day the World Stopped
This book covers the nexus between urban health, sustainability, and peace. 'Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace' is the first book that attempts to put these three critical areas together. This novelty approaches the subject matter by delving into evaluating what works, what does not work, and what should be done to achieve healthy cities. We believe this book will be beneficial to a wi…
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- 978-981-16-4888-5
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- xxiv, 196p.:ill.
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- -
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- 307.76 Che u
South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid
This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The …
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- 978-3-030-73073-4
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- xvii247p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Sou
Why Place Matters
This book is based on the author’s 33 years of intensive fieldwork. It chronicles a major movement that shaped the preservation policy in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, providing “thick descriptions” of preservationists that are not available anywhere else in English. It also provides clear answers to a series of pressing questions about preservationists: are they building-huggers, are the…
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- 978-3-030-71600-4
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- xxvi, 416p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Hor w
Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume II
This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China. It argues that sustainable urban design and mobility should be “people-centered” and concerned about “place-making” in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Successful urban design and placemaking should adopt interdisciplinary approaches to planning and de…
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- 978-3-030-83860-7
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- xii, 358p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Hum
Skateboard Video
This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here ‘below’ has a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, capture, and consu…
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- 978-981-16-5699-6
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- xi, 157p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Mcd s
Understanding Emergent Urbanism
The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning. Considering self-organization as the starting point at the base of complex systems, this book tries to understand how specific qualities emerge and evolve from this behavior. For this, the boo…
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- 978-3-030-82731-1
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- IX, 262p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Dha u
Territories, Environments, Politics :Explorations in Territoriology
This collection seeks to illustrate the state of the art in territoriological research, both empirical and theoretical. The volume gathers together a series of original, previously unpublished essays exploring the newly emerging territorial formations in culture, politics and society. While the globalisation debate of the 1990s largely pivoted around a ‘general deterritorialisation’ hypo…
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- 1st
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- 978-1-003-19636-5
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- 242 p
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- -
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- 621.36 TER
Transformation of Transportation
This book features original scientific manuscripts submitted for publication at the International Conference – The Science and Development of Transport (ZIRP 2020), organized by University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Zagreb, and held in Šibenik, Croatia, from 29th to 30th September 2020. The conference brought together scientists and practitioners to share innovativ…
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- 978-3-030-66464-0
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- x, 226p.:ill
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- -
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- 388.46 Tra
Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture
At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind. Therefore this book, on the one hand, considers the importance of utopia as a tool and how it offers an economic and social resource to improve cities’ wealth, future and livability. On the oth…
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- 978-3-030-50765-7
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- xvii, 368p.:ill
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- Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
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- 577.56 Adv
Urban Regionalisation Processes
This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to describe appropriately. So far, scholars have adopted a widespread dominant perspective that proved unable to grasp the essence of post-modern complexities that urban spaces imply. The book provides a taxonomy, in order to describe the rule…
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- 978-3-030-64469-7
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- xi, 233p.:ill
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- UNIPA Springer Series
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- 577.56 Urb
Social Movements and Public Policies in Southern European Cities
The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities. The essays show how the impact of the movements is increasing and has effects both in the orientation of the policies, as in their form of management and its effects. The authors are leading scholars from universi…
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- 978-3-030-52754-9
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- vi, 179p.:ill
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- Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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- 577.56 Soc
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