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Cover Ageing in Place
Ageing in Place
Design, Planning and Policy Response in the Western Asia-Pacific
Editors: Bruce Judd, Kenichi Tanoue, and Edgar Liu
This insightful book showcases a range of design, planning and policy responses to ageing populations and the built environment from across the rapidly changing and dynamic Western Asia-Pacific region. Its chapters demonstrate a clear and increasingly convergent preference for and promotion of ageing in place and the need for collaborative efforts to facilitate this at various scales through policy and practice.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
06 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976091
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Being a Planner in Society
Being a Planner in Society
For People, Planet, Place
Nicholas Low
This timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalue public planning, sensitive to the social context in which it takes place.
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Monograph Book
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07 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973793
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Sharing Knowledge for Land Use Management
Sharing Knowledge for Land Use Management
Decision-Making and Expertise in Europe’s Northern Periphery
Editors: John McDonagh and Seija Tuulentie
Emphasizing the conflicts surrounding natural resource decision-making processes, this timely book presents practices that have been developed together with key stakeholders to improve the collection and utilization of locally relevant knowledge in land use planning. Chapters illustrate how indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) can be made spatially explicit by using, for example, participatory GIS.
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10 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789901894
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Cover Communities, Land and Social Innovation
Communities, Land and Social Innovation
Land Taking and Land Making in an Urbanising World
Editors: Pieter Van den Broeck, Asiya Sadiq, Ide Hiergens, Monica Quintana Molina, Han Verschure, and Frank Moulaert
This timely and thought-provoking book examines the contemporary struggle of communities over land ownership and use rights in rapidly urbanising areas, analysing 12 key case studies from across four continents. Contributions from an international team of researchers, policy analysts and experts explore both neoliberal urban development policies and socially innovative initiatives, providing a state-of-the-art reflection of the field and contributing to an agenda for future research, policy and practice.
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Monograph Book
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21 May 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973779
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Research Handbook on Community Development
Research Handbook on Community Development
Editors: Rhonda Phillips, Eric Trevan, and Patsy Kraeger
This timely Research Handbook offers new ways in which to navigate the diverse terrain of community development research. Chapters unpack the foundations and history of community development research and also look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. Comprehensive and unequivocally progressive, this is key reading for social and public policy researchers in need of an understanding of the current trends in community development research, as well as practitioners and policymakers working on urban, rural and regional development.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
20 Apr 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118477
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Cover A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
Editors: Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Moshe Givoni, and Karst Geurs
With social inequity in urban spaces becoming an increasing concern in our modern world, The Elgar Companion to Transport, Space and Equity explores the relationships between transport and social equity. Transport systems and infrastructure investment can lead to inequitable travel behaviours, with certain socio-demographic groups using particular parts of the transport system and accessing particular activities and opportunities.
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Reference & Dictionaries
Publication Date:
25 Oct 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119825
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover A Research Agenda for Housing
A Research Agenda for Housing
Editor: Markus Moos
Housing is one of the most pertinent issues of our time. Shaped by rapid urbanization, financialization, and various changes in demography, technology, political ideology and public policy, the provision of affordable, adequate, and suitable housing has become an increasingly challenging feat. From high-rise apartment towers constructed in global cities around the world to informal settlements rapidly expanding across the global south, this volume focuses on how political, economic, and societal changes are shaping housing in a variety of contexts.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Jul 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116510
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
Hazel Easthope
The majority of people now live in cities and for many that means apartment living. Apartments are where we spend our time, make our homes, raise our families and invest our money. Apartment living requires that we try to get along with our neighbours and make decisions collectively about the management of our buildings. This book examines how different housing markets, development practices, planning regimes, legal structures and social and cultural norms affect people’s everyday experiences of apartment living.
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Monograph Book
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31 May 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438089
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Rethinking Third Places
Rethinking Third Places
Informal Public Spaces and Community Building
Editors: Joanne Dolley and Caryl Bosman
Ray Oldenburg’s concept of third place is re-visited in this book through contemporary approaches and new examples of third places. Third place is not your home (first place), not your work (second place), but those informal public places in which we interact with the people. Readers will come to understand the importance of third places and how they can be incorporated into urban design to offer places of interaction – promoting togetherness in an urbanised world of mobility and rapid change.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
31 May 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433916
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
How People Who ‘Give’ Make Better Communities
Lorna Zischka
‘Giving’ time and money to the community indicates the existence of relationships that draw people together, and ‘who people give to’ indicates how inclusive these relational networks are. Using UK data for the analysis, Zischka argues that a person’s willingness to ‘give' is not only influenced by social cohesion; it also helps to generate social cohesion. For thriving communities, we therefore need to consider our ‘giving’ as well as our ‘getting’.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Mar 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114202
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Social and Political Science 2019