Critical Concepts in Urban Studies – serie
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Urban Regeneration and Renewal
2010
19476 kr
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The pursuit of regeneration and renewal has played an important role in the history and development of the world’s cities, and the theoretical and applied issues around these critical concepts are of increasing importance to governments and local populations, as well as to urban professionals and …
Making of Olympic Cities
Av John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
2012
14175 kr
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In the first forty or so years following its revival at the end of the nineteenth century, the burdens placed on cities hosting a modern Olympic Games were relatively modest. However, as the Games have grown in size and stature, morphing from a small-scale summer festival into an intensively …
Cities and Sustainability
Av Joan Fitzgerald, Michael Motta Jr.
2012
24500 kr
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‘Sustainability’ is widely recognized as a key objective of urban development in the twenty-first century. But how is it realized in practice? What are its historical origins and its theoretical underpinnings? How does it connect to, or inform, related movements which seek to create more liveable …
Global Cities
Av Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock m. fl.
2012
22862 kr
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A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first …
Urban Modelling
Av Alan Wilson
2012
33019 kr
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The study of cities is one of the grand challenges of twenty-first-century science, and mathematical modelling—in this case, urban modelling—provides a crucial contribution to scholarly and practical projects fully to comprehend their workings, evolution, and associated planning problems. There …
Urbanization in China
Av Margaret Crawford, Marco Cenzatti
2017
20957 kr
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Since the "Opening Up" period of 1978-80, China has urbanized with unprecedented speed. The construction of completely new cities and the dramatic redevelopment of existing urban centers have completely transformed the Chinese landscape. This urban revolution has generated an astonishing number and …
