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Cover Predatory Urbanism
Predatory Urbanism
The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia
Agatino Rizzo and Anindita Mandal
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 re-developments carried out by the state or state-linked agencies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
15 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800881075
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies
Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies
Paradigm Shifts
Editors: Jan Fransen, Meine P. van Dijk, and Jurian Edelenbos
Exploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban management are shifting, indicating that urban governance is becoming increasingly important in dealing with wicked issues, like climate change and social and economic inequalities in cities.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
11 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883840
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover A Research Agenda for Place Branding
A Research Agenda for Place Branding
Editors: Dominic Medway, Gary Warnaby, and John Byrom
This cutting-edge Research Agenda for Place Branding explores ideas and debates that inform a refreshing take on the future of place branding and marketing. It argues that we are at a juncture where the logical and sensible step is to push the ‘reset button’ on such activity and fully reconsider its purpose and goals.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
22 Apr 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102851
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Handbook on City and Regional Leadership
Handbook on City and Regional Leadership
Editors: Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer
In this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements within systems, but as deliberative actors with ambitions, desires, strategies and objectives.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
22 Feb 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979689
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Teaching Urban and Regional Planning
Teaching Urban and Regional Planning
Innovative Pedagogies in Practice
Editors: Andrea I. Frank and Artur da Rosa Pires
This innovative book makes the case for training future planners in new and creative ways as coordinators, enablers and facilitators. An international range of teaching case studies offer distinctive ideas for the future of planning education along with practical tips to assist in adapting pedagogical approaches to various institutional settings. Unique contributions from educational scholars contextualise the emergent planning education approaches in contemporary pedagogical debates.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
16 Feb 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973632
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City
Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City
Editor: Peter K. Kresl
This original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness. Featuring a wide-ranging set of contributions from top researchers, this book discusses and analyzes the issues that different cities face, such as social cohesion, tolerance and cultural diversity, and how this will determine their developmental trajectories through the coming decade. Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City will be an invaluable read for scholars and professors in urban economics and urban studies more broadly, particularly those who are focusing on the importance of sustainability in both areas
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
20 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107481
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Economics 2020
Cover Densifying the City?
Densifying the City?
Global Cases and Johannesburg
Editors: Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, Philip Harrison, and Alexandra Appelbaum
Providing an in-depth exploration of the complexities of densification policy and processes, this book brings the important experiences of densification in Johannesburg into conversation with a range of cities in Africa, the BRICS countries and the Global North. It moves beyond the divisive debate over whether densification is good or bad, adding nuance and complexity to the calls from multilateral organisations for densification as a key urban strategy.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
10 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904949
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions
Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions
Editors: Danielle Labbé and André Sorensen
Exploring the importance of megacities and megacity-regions as one of the defining features of the 21st century, this Handbook provides a clear and comprehensive overview of current thinking and debates from leading scholars in the field. Highlighting major current challenges and dimensions of megaurbanization, chapters form a thematic focus on governance, planning, history, and environmental and social issues, supported by case studies from every continent.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
04 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972703
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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
Publication Date:
07 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973793
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Social and Political Science 2020
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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