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Cover Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
A Governmentality Perspective
Le-Yin Zhang
Utilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an explanation for China’s decarbonization performance in the early 21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious governing projects in history, analyzing the political rationalities of Chinese leaders for decarbonization and the governing techniques and technologies at multiple levels of governance.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
19 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977395
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
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
Publication Date:
07 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973793
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Social Innovation and Urban Governance
Social Innovation and Urban Governance
Citizenship, Civil Society and Social Movements
Editors: Marc Pradel-Miquel, Ana B. Cano-Hila, and Marisol García Cabeza
Presenting social innovation initiatives that emerged from organized citizenry in Southern European cities, this book explores the response to austerity policies implemented after the 2008 economic crisis. Chapters look at the common aim of these initiatives in responding to social needs and challenging social exclusion.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
19 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102325
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Handbook of Urban Segregation
Handbook of Urban Segregation
Editor: Sako Musterd
The Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field of education. In addition it tackles crucial group-dimensions across race, class and culture as well as age groups, the urban rich, middle class, and gentrified households. This timely Handbook provides a key contribution to understanding what urban segregation is about, why it has developed, what its consequences are and how it is measured, conceptualised and framed.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Mar 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788115605
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Social and Political Science 2020
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 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 Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Editor: Loretta Lees with Martin Phillips
It is now over 50 years since the term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Apr 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785361746
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Interculturalism in Cities
Interculturalism in Cities
Concept, Policy and Implementation
Editor: Ricard Zapata-Barrero
Cities are increasingly recognized as new players in diversity studies, and many of them are showing evidence of an intercultural shift. As an emerging concept and policy, interculturalism is becoming the most pragmatic answer to concrete concerns in cities. Within this framework, this book covers two major concerns: how to conceptualize and how to implement intercultural policies. Through the use of theoretical and comparative case studies, the current most prominent contributors in the field examine an area that multicultural policies have missed in the past: interaction between people from different cultures and national backgrounds. By compiling the recent research in Europe and elsewhere this book concludes that interculturalism is becoming both an attractive and efficient new paradigm for diversity management.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
24 Apr 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784715328
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Social And Political Science 2015
Cover Healthy Cities
Healthy Cities
Public Health through Urban Planning
Chinmoy Sarkar, Chris Webster, and John Gallacher
Mounting scientific evidence generated over the past decade highlights the significant role of our cities’ built environments in shaping our health and well-being. In this book, the authors conceptualize the ‘urban health niche’ as a novel approach to public health and healthy-city planning that integrates the diverse and multi-level health determinants present in a city system.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
25 Apr 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781955727
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Social And Political Science 2014