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31 produkter
Melbourne
Häftad, 2020
261 kr
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Melbourne’s a city you get to know from the inside out — you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That’s when you capture glimpses of people — eating, laughing, talking, arguing, watching TV and reading — through halfopen terrace house doors and windows. That’s when …
Impact of COVID on Cities and Regions
Policy Responses of Local Leaders
Av Peter Karl Kresl, Mattia Bertin
Inbunden, 2023
1758 kr
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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has arguably caused some of the most noticeable and influential societal and economic changes since World War Two. This path-breaking book investigates these changes and the subsequent responses of urban policy makers. Chapters offer keen insights into the methods …
Institutions, Culture and the Chinese City
The Unique Urban Development Trajectories of Modern China
Av Sun S. Han, Ning Yan
Inbunden, 2025
1896 kr
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This informative book explores China’s culture and institutions to discuss their impact on Chinese urbanisation in the post-1949 period. It reflects on the evolution of cities and highlights the role of party leaders and government ideology in shaping modern China.Sun Sheng Han and Ning Yan explore …
How Great Cities Happen
Integrating People, Land Use and Transport: Second Edition
Av John Stanley, Janet Stanley m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
577 kr
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Urban planners in developed countries are increasingly recognizing the need for closer integration of land use and transport. However, this updated second edition of How Great Cities Happen explains how crises like climate change and the lack of affordable housing demonstrate the urgent need for a …
Hot Cities
A Transdisciplinary Agenda
Av Wendy Steele, John Handmer m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
457 kr
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Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban …
Urban Competitiveness and the Post-COVID City
Inbunden, 2025
1295 kr
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Exploring the impacts of the severe disruption caused by COVID-19 on major cities, Peter Karl Kresl expertly expands upon the nature of the challenges this has posed. He examines the policies that local leaders can adopt to limit long-lasting negative impacts and renew cities’ vitality and …
Perth
Häftad, 2020
259 kr
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… we rarely travel far to swim. We occasionally cross the river to Leighton or Cottesloe, where the white sand squeaks underfoot and the champagne foam in the shallows tingles the legs and fizzes over the shoreline and makes children giddy with delight. Mid-morning, before the sun passes overhead …
Darwin
Av Tess Lea
Häftad, 2020
261 kr
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Darwin is a survivor, you have to give it that. Razed to the ground four times in its short history, it has picked itself up out of the debris to not only rebuild but grow. Darwin has known catastrophes and resurrections; it has endured misconceived projects and birthed visionaries. To know Darwin, …
Sydney
Häftad, 2020
259 kr
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As I set out from the city’s southern end, the sandstone walls beneath the Central railway line still held the day’s heat … I passed a row of old terraces where feral banana trees had colonised the tiny courtyards behind them, and walked on, past the smell of Thai food, up dirty William Street … …
Hobart
Av Peter Timms
Häftad, 2020
261 kr
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MONA has done a lot more than just rescue a flagging tourism economy. It has changed the city’s body language, teaching it to stand up straight and look others squarely in the eye, even putting on a swagger in its step. From Hobart’s convict legacy, its spectacular natural setting, heritage …
Brisbane
Häftad, 2020
261 kr
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I keep coming back to the light of Brisbane. If you are born into it, this palette of gentle pinks and oranges at dawn and dusk, the blast white of midday in summer, the lemon luminescence of mid-morning and mid-afternoon, you keep it with you, and measure all other light by it. If you live away …
Water-Sustainable City
Science, Policy and Practice
Inbunden, 2017
1724 kr
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Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting …
Water-Sustainable City
Science, Policy and Practice
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting …
Cities as Political Objects
Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation
Av Alistair Cole, Renaud Payre
Inbunden, 2016
2119 kr
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Focusing on the city's role as the nexus for new forms of relationships between politics, economics and society, this fascinating book views the city as a political phenomena. Its chapters unravel the city's plural histories, contested political, legal and administrative boundaries, and its …
Hot Cities
A Transdisciplinary Agenda
Av Wendy Steele, John Handmer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1518 kr
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Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban …
Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
Inbunden, 2019
1518 kr
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'This is arguably one of the best books ever written about condominiums. Easthope has researched all aspects of the life-cycle of condominiums, from development to termination, covering multiple jurisdictions across the world. She draws out differences in structures and management, but more …
Governing Compact Cities
How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport
Av Philipp Rode
Inbunden, 2018
1913 kr
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Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence …
Varieties of Capital Cities
The Competitiveness Challenge for Secondary Capitals
Inbunden, 2018
1793 kr
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The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. …
How Great Cities Happen
Integrating People, Land Use and Transport
Av John Stanley, Janet Stanley m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
562 kr
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Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of the city, rather than how it functions as a place to live and …
Smart Cities in Asia
Governing Development in the Era of Hyper-Connectivity
Inbunden, 2020
1810 kr
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At a time when Asia is rapidly growing in global influence, this much-needed and insightful book bridges two major current policy topics in order to offer a unique study of the latest smart city archetypes emerging throughout Asia. Highlighting the smart city aspirations of Asian countries and …
Internet City
People, Companies, Systems and Vehicles
Inbunden, 2019
1707 kr
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As the Internet develops, on top of earlier urban communications, facilities and media, it is becoming the site of urban communications on an unprecedented scale. Exploring the history of the Internet, from pre-conception to the possibilities of an internet-based future, The Internet City explores …
Fragmenting Cities
The State, Territorial Stigmatization and Urban Marginality
Av Troels S. Larsen, Kristian N. Delica
Inbunden, 2024
1793 kr
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Fragmenting Cities offers a conceptionally innovative and empirically detailed analysis of the surprising acceptance and normalization of state-based stigmatization and discrimination based on place. It does this by drawing on the example of the first state-sanctioned definition of “ghetto”, the …
Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era
Integrating Technologies, Platforms and Governance
Av Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi
Inbunden, 2019
2119 kr
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Examining the changing nature of cities in the face of smart technology, this book studies key new challenges and capabilities defined by the Internet of Things, data science, blockchain and artificial intelligence. It argues that using algorithmic logic alone for automation and optimisation in …
Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies
People, Place and Space
Av John R. Bryson, Ronald V. Kalafsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1827 kr
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This insightful book explores smaller towns and cities, places in which the majority of people live, highlighting that these more ordinary places have extraordinary geographies. It focuses on the development of an alternative approach to urban studies and theory that foregrounds smaller cities and …
City and Quality of Life
Inbunden, 2021
1346 kr
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This unique and insightful work examines the importance of 'quality of life' for the city which has become a key component of urban competitiveness over the past 30 years. It argues that having a high or low 'quality of life' will have important consequences for the vitality and status of any …
Predatory Urbanism
The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia
Inbunden, 2021
1432 kr
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Addressing the complex interrelationships between city making and the resources needed for its production, Predatory Urbanism explores the link between urbanization and resources in the global South. It particularly focuses on urban megaprojects, highlighting these planned developments and …
Role of Cities in International Relations
The Third-generation of Multi-level Governance?
Av Agnieszka Szpak, Robert Gawłowski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1649 kr
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Concerns about the position and function of nation-states in the international arena have led to a growing interest in the role of cities in international relations. This timely book advances the argument that cities are becoming active and informal actors in international law-making, indicating …
Vertical Cities
Micro-segregation, Social Mix and Urban Housing Markets
Av Thomas Maloutas, Nikos Karadimitriou
Inbunden, 2022
2288 kr
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Exploring the social implications of dense and compact cities, this enlightening book looks at micro-scale segregation through several lenses. These include the ways that the housing market constantly reconfigures social mix, how the structure of the housing stock shapes it, and the ways that …
Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities
Inbunden, 2023
1879 kr
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Providing a succinct overview of historical, present and future perspectives of cities and urbanism, this discerning book examines how the 21st century, regarded as the age of cities, is associated with the current crisis of democracy.The book explores the tension between non-democratic liberalism …
How Great Cities Happen
Integrating People, Land Use and Transport: Second Edition
Av John Stanley, Janet Stanley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2067 kr
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Urban planners in developed countries are increasingly recognizing the need for closer integration of land use and transport. However, this updated second edition of How Great Cities Happen explains how crises like climate change and the lack of affordable housing demonstrate the urgent need for a …
