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Branding Cities
Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change
Av Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
798 kr
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Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new …
China's New Retail Economy
A Geographic Perspective
Inbunden, 2014
2759 kr
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Retail is the essential link between production and consumption. The dynamics of a nation’s economy cannot be fully understood without a good understanding of its retail sector. This book is written to achieve three broad objectives. First, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the changes in …
For Creative Geographies
Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds
Inbunden, 2013
2842 kr
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This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form …
Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course
Adventures in the Interval
Inbunden, 2014
2759 kr
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By thinking in terms of the geographies of mobilities, we are better able to understand the central importance of movements, rhythms and shifting emplacements over the life-course. This innovative book represents research from a new and flourishing multidisciplinary field that includes, among other …
Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods
The Rise of Neighborhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption
Av Volkan Aytar, Jan Rath
Häftad, 2013
827 kr
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While ethnic neighborhoods are usually associated with poverty, crime and social problems, they have also emerged as places of leisure and consumption, providing opportunities for numerous entrepreneurs and employees. Local and national governments and other regulatory actors, as well as the media, …
Rethinking Global Urbanism
Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities
Av Xiangming Chen, Ahmed Kanna
Häftad, 2013
915 kr
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Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group …
Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home
Av Iris Levin
Inbunden, 2015
2525 kr
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How do migrants feel "at home" in their houses? Literature on the migrant house and its role in the migrant experience of home-building is inadequate. This book offers a theoretical framework based on the notion of home-building and the concepts of home and house embedded within it. It presents …
Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City
Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York
Av Laam Hae
Häftad, 2014
915 kr
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In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone the gentrification of its space and the post-industrialization of its …
Shrinking Cities
International Perspectives and Policy Implications
Av Karina Pallagst, Thorsten Wiechmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack …
Transforming Urban Waterfronts
Fixity and Flow
Av Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1005 kr
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In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of …
Spatial Regulation in New York City
From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance
Häftad, 2013
915 kr
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This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance …
Eurasian Corridors of Interconnection
From the South China to the Caspian Sea
Av Susan M. Walcott, Corey Johnson
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Connectivity, as well as conflict, characterizes Eurasia. This edited volume explores dynamic geopolitical and geo-economic links reconfiguring spaces from the eastern edge of Europe through the western edge of Asia, seeking explanation beyond description. The ancient Silk Road tied together space, …
Transforming Urban Waterfronts
Fixity and Flow
Av Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2759 kr
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In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of …
Other Global City
Häftad, 2010
821 kr
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What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other global" cities of …
Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City
Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York
Av Laam Hae
Inbunden, 2012
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone the gentrification of its space and the post-industrialization of its …
Spatial Regulation in New York City
From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance
Inbunden, 2011
2759 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance …
Rethinking Global Urbanism
Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities
Av Xiangming Chen, Ahmed Kanna
Inbunden, 2012
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group …
Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods
The Rise of Neighborhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption
Av Volkan Aytar, Jan Rath
Inbunden, 2011
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
While ethnic neighborhoods are usually associated with poverty, crime and social problems, they have also emerged as places of leisure and consumption, providing opportunities for numerous entrepreneurs and employees. Local and national governments and other regulatory actors, as well as the media, …
Branding Cities
Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change
Av Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2759 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new …
Other Global City
Inbunden, 2008
2600 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other global" cities of …
China's New Retail Economy
A Geographic Perspective
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Retail is the essential link between production and consumption. The dynamics of a nation’s economy cannot be fully understood without a good understanding of its retail sector. This book is written to achieve three broad objectives. First, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the changes in …
Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course
Adventures in the Interval
Häftad, 2018
798 kr
Lägg i varukorg
By thinking in terms of the geographies of mobilities, we are better able to understand the central importance of movements, rhythms and shifting emplacements over the life-course. This innovative book represents research from a new and flourishing multidisciplinary field that includes, among other …
Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home
Av Iris Levin
Häftad, 2018
827 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How do migrants feel "at home" in their houses? Literature on the migrant house and its role in the migrant experience of home-building is inadequate. This book offers a theoretical framework based on the notion of home-building and the concepts of home and house embedded within it. It presents …
Global Port Cities in North America
Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks
Häftad, 2018
798 kr
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As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. …
Global Port Cities in North America
Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. …
Shrinking Cities
International Perspectives and Policy Implications
Av Karina Pallagst, Thorsten Wiechmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
754 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack …
For Creative Geographies
Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds
Häftad, 2015
776 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form …
