Human geography Books

Book SynopsisAddressing 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.Engaging with positivist rhetoric on climate change, this timely book investigates the dramatic transformation of rural and urban land in Asia, discussing the main ecological deficits affecting Asian cities. Chapters analyse some of the most paradigmatic megaprojects in the global South and their socio-environmental predatory characteristics. Through exposing the limitations of today’s predatory urbanism in the global South, the book argues for the importance of rethinking the resource-urbanization nexus towards socially and environmentally just urbanism.An invigorating read for urban studies and planning scholars, this will particularly benefit those researching globalization in the global South. It will also aid urban planners reflecting on their practice and looking to improve developments in city making.Trade Review‘A powerful reminder that many urban megaprojects exacerbate social and environmental issues that they pretend to solve or alleviate, inducing unnecessary resource consumption and stimulating segregated developments and displacements. The studies in the book make a powerful case for the need to critically reexamine the neo-liberal urban policies and agendas, suggesting a restraint in the usage of such played-out and abused concepts as smart-, eco-, intelligent and sustainable cities. This thought-provoking book not only presents a critique of the neo-liberal patterns of urban development, but also offers new insights on urban metabolism, the implications of “green planning”, the nature of “instant urbanism”, and the development of solidaristic communities.’Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Alessandro Melis PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Rapid urbanization and greenwashing in Asia PART II THE PROBLEMATIC METABOLISM OF MEGAPROJECTS 2. The rise of megaprojects in Asia 3. The sustainable development rhetoric in Asia 4. From resource consumption to urban metabolism PART III PREDATORY MEGAPROJECTS AND CONCLUSIONS 5. Two cases in Doha: The Pearl and Education City 6. The Straits Megacity Region 7. Mumbai and Bhendi Bazaar urban renewal proposal 8. Conclusion to Predatory Urbanism References Index

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Book Synopsis'This book is a remarkable and often inspirational tour de force. Martin Jones confidently moves between theories of political economy and stories of regional and urban policy, using each to inform the other. He brings the uneven geographies of England to life, showing how they are reproduced in practice, while also offering the prospect of alternative futures.'- Allan Cochrane, The Open University, UKOffering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer intervention solutions in different cities and regions.Drawing on different approaches to state intervention, neoliberalism, crisis and contradiction theories, and notions of depoliticisation, this book explains policy failure and how it is impacted by flux surrounding economic development. With constant changes to legislation, institutional initiatives, and ministerial responsibility, local and regional economic development is shown to be at a critical crossroads.Theoretically innovative and empirically focused, this timely book is a must-read for researchers and policy-makers of urban geography, regional development, political economy and public policy.Trade Review‘Cities and Regions in Crisis presents a rich and insightful analysis of urban and regional governance in England. Jones has rather successfully curated a body of work that not only documents, but also questions the notion of crises in the context of uneven development and, more specifically, in left behind places. It manages to be both comprehensive and inclusive, thoroughly researched and accessible, and highly theorized and policy relevant. It should be recognized as an important contribution to the fields of critical economic and political geographies, at what is ostensibly a defining moment for subnational economic development.’ -- Margaret Cowell, Spatial Research and Planning‘Jones provides us with a range and depth of theoretical foundations, arguments and empirics that gives the reader a variety of insights into the critiques of the economic policy in neoliberalism. The book memorably shows us that 'the need for new spatial frameworks and ways of coupling governance with regulation to hold down the global and ensure some level of social cohesion via applying the brakes on combined and uneven development has never been so urgent'. It provides not only with several highly relevant critical perspectives on the praxis within academia and in the public sphere in framing and managing the local, but it also offers a foundation of critique of neoliberal economic policy, discourses and place-making. Its application of theory in research and able linkage between theory and practical, concrete, ideas about government at the local level gives the reader not only the critical perspective but an idea of what can be done. This is a relevant book for any researcher or policymaker that grapples the linkage between institutional arrangements, governance, the changing contours of the economy, and the consequent effect on uneven development, resentment, and inequalities.’ -- Andreas Erlström, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The book is a contribution to inter-disciplinary geographical political economy of cities and regions. Though based on England’s experience, the book is of general relevance and applicability across countries including India. It is a useful reference book for students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers who deal with multi-dimensional and comparative urban and regional economic governance and development issues in different countries and institutional set ups. The long list of references compressed in 48 pages at the end of the book is a fine source of comprehensive literature for both early and senior researchers in urban and regional development studies.’ -- M.R. Narayana, Aarthika Charche‘As Jones’ excellent study demonstrates, the last 30 odd years does not bode well, and without a challenge to the so-called ‘common sense’ of economic development, we will remain ensnared in the political and economy contradictions of neoliberalism. Exposing and challenging these contradictions, Cities and Regions in Crisis is essential reading for all scholars of the local state.’ -- Steven Griggs, Local Government Studies‘In Cities and Regions in Crisis, Jones achieves a synthesis of the literature critiquing neoliberal economic policy and space, and consolidates accounts of institutional changes and policy responses addressing the local effects of uneven development in the UK. His theoretical contributions are noteworthy, having been amongst the core group of scholars to challenge the neoliberal paradigm of development and carry associated ideas into the mainstream. His cases provide clear examples for applying theory in research. It is important for researchers and policy-makers to build upon the body of case research and to provide evidence that can be used to prevent the same failed policy responses from being repeated. For that, this book serves as a useful resource.’ -- Bradley Loewen, Regional Studies‘This book is a remarkable and often inspirational tour de force. Martin Jones confidently moves between theories of political economy and stories of regional and urban policy, using each to inform the other. He brings the uneven geographies of England to life, showing how they are reproduced in practice, while also offering the prospect of alternative futures.’ -- Allan Cochrane, The Open University, UK'Martin Jones is a critical economic and political geographer. This well-integrated monograph presents his radical, theoretically-informed, spatio-temporally nuanced, evidence-based research on cities and regions. While policy-relevant, it explains the many reasons why urban and regional policy-makers more often fail than succeed in delivering their changing projects. It deserves serious study.' --Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK'They say that crises are never really solved, only moved around. No one knows this better than Martin Jones, who for two decades has been one of the most astute, creative, and determined chroniclers of the churning ''system'' of urban and regional governance in England.' --Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, Canada'In Cities and Regions in Crisis, Martin Jones has crafted a rich and grounded geographical political economy. Consolidating and integrating a deep and important body of work, he provides insightful analysis of urban and regional governance in England and extends this to reflect upon more progressive future directions. It offers much to inspire and inform research on the rolling predicament of governing uneven geographical development beyond its empirical focus.' --Andy Pike, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Geographical Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis Space Impedimenta State PART I THE NEW LOCALISM 1. Government and Governance 2. Urban Crisis and Contradiction 3. Zones of Welfare and Workfare PART II THE NEW REGIONALISM 4. Regional Development Agencies 5. Spaces of Regionalism 6. City Region Building PART III THE NEW NEW LOCALISM 7. Locality Making 8. Devolution Dynamics 9. Devolution Depoliticisation PART IV ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM 10. Developing Inclusive Growth 11. Beyond Withered Local States Postscript: The Stoke Road to Brexit References Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook brings together conceptual contributions from leading international scholars concerning the reciprocal relations between globalisation and tourism. Contributors deconstruct the global forces, processes and challenges that face the tourism industry, analysing the effects of neoliberalism and multinational capitalism on global tourist activity, as well as the consequences of colonialism, terrorism, warfare, climate change, modern technological advances and the rapidly changing dynamics of global mobility. International in scope and empirically evocative, this Handbook outlines and dissects the social, cultural, economic and political effects of globalisation on tourism in the 21st century. This Handbook is critical to human geography and tourism studies scholars and researchers at all levels, particularly those interested in the relations between globalisation and tourism in an increasingly interconnected world. Contributors include: A. Amore, Y. Apostolopoulos, P. Arvanitis, S. Beeton, N. Cavlek, J. Connell, D.T. Duval, L. Dwyer, A. Gelbman, C.M. Hall, D.-I.D. Han, K. Hannam, J. Henry, J. Higham, Y. Jiang, H. Lemelin, J.W. Macilree, J.E. Mbaiwa, T. Mbaiwa, M. McDonald, P. Mogomotsi, M. Mostafanezhad, D.H. Olsen, M. Peters, B. Prideaux, B.W. Ritchie, C.M. Rogerson, T. Ronen, R. Sharpley, M. Sigala, G. Siphambe, S. Sonmez, J. Stephenson, W. Stovall, W. Suntikul, G. Taylor, D.J. Timothy, M.C. tom Dieck, H. Tucker, F. Vellas, S. Wearing, P. Whipp, J. Wiitala, A. WilliamsTrade Review'Written by a veritable ''who's who'' of tourism scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Globalisation and Tourism covers a stunning range of critical themes, spanning from geopolitics to the exhausted earth, from cultural issues to innovation. This book cries out ''read me'', imploring us to deepen our understanding of the multitude of ways in which tourism acts as a force of globalisation and has wide ranging impacts on people and planet.' --Regina Scheyvens, Massey University, New Zealand'The globalisation of humanity on our planet has always been driven by movements from one place to another. In this way, tourism has come to be a dominant globalising force today. This timely book provides insights from leading scholars on how tourism both produces globalisation and is shaped by a rapidly shrinking world.' --Alan A. Lew, Northern Arizona University, US'Professor Dallen J. Timothy has compiled a very seminal set of papers on the intersection between tourism and globalisation, a theme often overlooked in many scholarly articles and books. The contributors to this volume have produced a landmark study that will become the key reference book on the subject for many years to come and should be a key work for anyone who is interested in tourism as a globalised activity.' --Stephen Page, University of Hertfordshire, UKTable of ContentsContents: SECTION I GLOBALISATION: MEANINGS AND PROCESSES 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Globalisation and Tourism 2 Dallen J. Timothy 2 Economic globalisation and tourism 12 Larry Dwyer and Nevenka Čavlek 3 Neoliberalism and global tourism 27 Stephen Wearing, Matthew McDonald, Greig Taylor, and Tzach Ronen 4 Globalisation, place-based development, and tourism 44 Christian M. Rogerson SECTION 2 HUMAN MOBILITY 5 The globalising force of human mobilities 55 C. Michael Hall, Alberto Amore, and Pavlos Arvanitis 6 Migration, tourism, and globalisation 66 Allan M. Williams 7 How complex travel, tourism, and transportation networks influence 76 infectious disease movement in a borderless world Sevil S.nmez, Jessica Wiitala, and Yorghos Apostolopoulos SECTION 3 GEOPOLITICS, SECURITY, AND CONFLICT 8 Colonialism and its tourism legacies 90 Hazel Tucker 9 Supranationalism and tourism: free trade, customs unions, and single 100 markets in an era of geopolitical change Dallen J. Timothy 10 Biological invasion, biosecurity, tourism, and globalisation 114 C. Michael Hall 11 Terrorism and the new security agenda 126 Bruce Prideaux 12 Tourism and war: global perspectives 139 Wantanee Suntikul 13 Tourism, peace, and global stability 149 Alon Gelbman SECTION 4 THE EXHAUSTED EARTH: POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES 14 Global population dynamics: implications for tourism and development 162 Richard Sharpley 15 Prepared for take-off? Anthropogenic climate change and the global 174 challenge of twenty-first-century tourism Will Stovall, James Higham, and Janet Stephenson 16 Tourism, globalisation, and natural disasters 188 Brent W. Ritchie and Yawei Jiang 17 Globalisation, tourism, and ecosystems management 198 Joseph E. Mbaiwa, Patricia K. Mogomotsi, Tsholofelo Mbaiwa, and Gladys B. Siphambe SECTION 5 INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY 18 Globalisation, innovation, and tourism 214 Mike Peters and Fran.ois Vellas 19 Globalisation and transportation innovation 225 David Timothy Duval and John Macilree 20 Tourism and augmented reality: trends, implications, and future directions 235 M. Claudia tom Dieck and Dai-In (Danny) Han 21 The bright and the dark sides of social media in tourism experiences, 247 tourists’ behavior, and well-being Marianna Sigala 22 Smart cities, smart tourism, and smart mobilities 260 Kevin Hannam SECTION 6 CULTURAL ISSUES AND CONTEMPORARY MOBILITY TRENDS 23 Religion, spirituality, and pilgrimage in a globalising world 270 Daniel H. Olsen 24 Globalisation, tourism, and pop culture 284 Sue Beeton 25 The geopolitics of volunteer tourism 295 Jacob Henry and Mary Mostafanezhad 26 Medical mobility and tourism 305 John Connell 27 Last chance tourism: a decade in review 316 Harvey Lemelin and Paul Whipp 28 Globalisation: the shrinking world of tourism 323 Dallen J. Timothy Index 333

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Housing issues have become a defining feature of our time. The capacity to affordably, securely, and sustainably house a growing, urbanizing population has become a pressing issue for policy makers worldwide. A Research Agenda for Housing sets the tone for debates relating to housing, featuring cutting-edge research from leading and emerging scholars. This impressive work seeks to understand the complexity of housing through the lens of its most pertinent debates. Using examples and case studies from around the world, the contributors tackle housing rights, financialization, mortgage markets, public housing, sustainability, and affordability policies, considering housing in its larger societal and historical contexts. With a strong focus on the practical implications of housing research, this diverse book takes a critical approach to housing research, seeking to dissect and understand the nuances of homeownership, renting, liveability and vulnerability in the 21st century. Featuring a broad summary of the state of knowledge of housing, this book is vital reading for both established scholars and graduates of urban studies and planning in need of an overview of the current state of housing research. Public policy makers from across the world will also benefit from the policy implications and recommendations provided by the contributors.Trade Review‘This work clearly illustrates the interconnectedness between global market forces and local housing conditions and is essential reading for housing and planning students and academics wanting a contemporary overview of housing research.’ -- Ruth Lucas, Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal‘This is a deceptively small volume packed with a lot of ideas. While I am eager to agree that housing touches all aspects of human societies the challenge of tackling such a broad number of issues over such a variety of geographic regions is formidable. One of Moos’s stated goals is to leave the reader “with a sense of the complexity of housing as a fruitful area for future research” and I think the collection of essays certainly achieves that goal. Public policymakers could benefit from his recommendations on housing rights, financialization and mortgage markets, social or public housing, sustainability, and affordability.’ -- Stephanie Sweeney, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In A Research Agenda for Housing, editor Markus Moos bring together contributors to illustrate and examine the major theoretical, analytical and empirical developments in the housing field, showing housing to be a complex area and an essential priority for public policy. Offering useful analytical tools and evidence-based, interdisciplinary research, this collection will be a key resource for housing researchers.’ -- Valesca Lima, LSE Review'The housing question has come back as a major issue in our so-called advanced economies. High-income households have a vast choice while the traditional middle classes have been losing options at a rapidly growing pace. In A Research Agenda for Housing, Markus Moos brings together a strong group of experts who engage the subject and shows us options that we must pursue if we are to ensure a reasonable housing market for a majority of households. A must read!' --Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, US, author of Expulsions'The contributors to this volume provide an extremely important interdisciplinary perspective to one of the most important social, economic, and public policy questions of our time - how to provide decent shelter to the masses of people who cannot purchase it in the private market. They look at the question through the lens of international comparisons, identifying causes and some approaches to addressing it, bearing in mind that housing is inseparable from general issues of the capitalist political economy.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, author of The Just City'This collection of essays offers a very welcome, creative and novel take on the contemporary housing question. The editor correctly identifies housing as being pivotal to the shaping of the political events and economic vicissitudes of the early 21st-century. A provocative and engaging read with a good mix of established and new scholars.' --Ray Forrest, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Housing Today Markus Moos PART II HOUSING IN THE 21ST CENTURY 2. The Right to Housing Jessie Hohmann 3. Housing and Financialization Manuel B. Aalbers 4. Affordability and Housing Policy in the World’s Cities: Excavating the Global Housing Bubble Alan Walks 5. Affordable Homeownership and Mortgage Markets in an International Context Piyush Tiwari 6. How Urban Regimes Produce and Manage Informality: Insights from Three Different Cases of Informal Housing Pietro Calogero, Jennifer Day, and Neeraj Dangol PART III HOUSING TRENDS AND POLICIES 7. One Policy, Two Paths: The Development of a Chinese National Housing Policy and its Implementation in Chongqing and Shenzhen Ka Ling Cheung, Jennifer Day, Hao Wu, and Richard Tomlinson 8. Social Mix and the Death of Public Housing Martine August 9. Housing Vulnerable Populations in Australia and Beyond Debbie Faulkner, Selina Tually, and Victoria Cornell 10. Sustainable Housing Sarah Godfrey, Jennifer Dean, and Kristen Regier 11. The Regional and Local Dynamics of Life Course and Housing Rik Damhuis, Wouter van Gent, Cody Hochstenbach, and Sako Musterd PART IV HOUSING FUTURES 12. What’s Livable? Comparing Concepts and Metrics for Housing and Livability Nathanael Lauster 13. Sharing Housing: Is There an App for That? Jake Wegmann 14. Innovations in Affordability Policies Nicole Gurran Index

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge book explores and advances contemporary geographical understandings of resistance. Calling for geographers to focus on the emergence of resistance and to avoid making assumptions on the forms it takes, chapters critically interrogate concepts of resistance and illustrate the political potential of re-thinking them.Engaging with anarchist, feminist and postcolonial scholarship, this book traces existing debates on resistance in geography and suggests how they can be productively reanimated. Contributors explore multiple and everyday spaces, subjects, and temporalities of resistance, reconsidering the study of resistance in light of recent ontological developments, including in non-representational theory, the non-human, post-politics and more-than-human geographies. Using detailed case studies, the book examines what critical geographies of resistance might look like in practice, providing insight on how geography can respond to and engage with the contemporary world.Featuring a Foreword by Professor Cindi Katz, this book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of human, social and cultural geography, geopolitics, sociology, and those studying resistance across the social sciences. It will also be of interest to activists looking to formulate alternative resistant claims and practices.Trade Review‘Sarah Hughes and contributors challenge geographers to think of resistance as emergent, often quotidian, and diffuse. Arguing against intentionality as necessary for resistance, Hughes et al. offer a thought-provoking argument and range of cases to illustrate that geographical attention to resistance may identify nascent political claims and alternative spaces.’ -- Deborah G Martin, Clark University, US‘Critical Geographies of Resistance revisits the discipline’s engagement with resistance from the perspective of contemporary feminist materialism. Addressing many pressing political issues through practices of cross-species friendship, solidarity and posthumanism, the book offers timely reinterpretations of which acts, and which agents, create resistance.’ -- Jo Sharp, University of St Andrews, UK‘Critical Geographies of Resistance reanimates and rethinks the problematic of resistance that has gone fallow in geography for the last twenty years. It collects together new voices who passionately engage with a wide variety of different situations of inequality and injustice, using new approaches to unsettle familiar domination/resistance binaries. The authors take us beyond a purely oppositional imagination, offering instead emergent, relational and always-in-process accounts of resistance. They attend to bodies and places often seen as “outside” the political or simply targets of the political. New maps of resistance are offered, creating expanded possibilities for political paths not yet taken.’ -- Steve Pile, The Open University, UK‘In a turbulent world, how is it possible to recognise the plural politics of resistance? Critical Geographies of Resistance is a landmark collection for the human geography of our times. Tracing the pathways of resistances across multiple spaces and forms, the authors refigure what resistance could mean in human geography.’ -- Louise Amoore, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv 1 Introduction to Critical Geographies of Resistance 1 Sarah M. Hughes PART I RETHINKING RESISTANCE, REFRAMING DEBATES 2 Feminism, resistance and the archive 26 Maria Fannin and Julie MacLeavy 3 Resisting beyond the human: animals and their advocates 41 Catherine Oliver 4 Resistance without subjects: friction and the non-representational geography of everyday resistance 59 Sage Brice 5 Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance: reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition 76 Carlotta Molfese 6 Activism and resistance: activist dispositions and the hidden hierarchies of action 92 Charlotte Lee 7 Making space: relational ethnography and emergent resistance 107 Sarah Zell and Amelia Curran PART II EMERGENT RESISTANCE: REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIELD 8 ‘My existence is resistance’: an analysis of disabled people’s everyday lives as an enduring form of resistance 124 Angharad Butler-Rees 9 ‘Bollocks to Brexit’: the geographies of Brexit protest stickers, 2015‒21 138 Hannah Awcock 10 Struggles around housing: La Plaza De La Hoja in Colombia 153 Karen Schouw Iversen 11 ‘What size is the room?’: using the law to resist the UK’s bedroom tax 168 Mel Nowicki 12 Bearing witness at a Home Office reporting centre 182 Amanda Schmid-Scott 13 ‘Unleashing the beast’: emergent resistance in White charity 199 Kahina Meziant 14 Around, despite, and without reference to domination: crafting oppositional human geographies in migrant detention 217 Leah Montange Index

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Book SynopsisWith 78 specially commissioned entries written by a diverse range of contributors, this essential reference book covers the breadth and depth of human geography to provide a lively and accessible state of the art of the discipline for students, instructors and researchers.Carefully curated by two internationally recognised scholars in the field, entries are written by both distinguished and up and coming researchers and encompass the key ideas, concepts, and theories in human geography. The Encyclopedia examines both long standing subdisciplinary fields in human geography like economic geography and urban geography, but also more recent ones such as emotional geographies and indigenous geographies, making a point about the move to plural geographies. The selection of entries reflects both the influence of established developments, such as the ‘cultural turn’, and new advances including the growing interest in Big Data, the more committed focus on decolonization of the discipline, and interest in research on the Anthropocene.This will be fundamental reading for human geography students, particularly undergraduates looking for a succinct and accessible resource for current thinking in the field.Key Features: 78 concise entries from diverse international contributors Encapsulates the state of the art of research in the field Highlights new trends Explores the ways in which human geography is starting to decolonize Trade Review‘Challenging the norm of multi-volume, door-stopper encyclopedias and expensive domain-specific handbooks, this Concise Encyclopedia provides a welcome, reasonably priced and student-accessible introduction to human geography. Diverse in seniority and gender, the authors’ compact, engaging and informed essays cover key concepts and sub-fields, equipping newcomers with the background to engage with contemporary human geography scholarship.’ -- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, US‘This state-of-the-art Encyclopedia provides a collection of fresh, illuminating and inspirational clarification of fundamental concepts in human geography. It sets the new standard for the study of human geography as a spatial science embracing engaged pluralism and committed to impactful knowledge production. An essential reference highly recommended to all of those interested in human-environment interaction and its dynamic changes over time and across space.’ -- George C.S. Lin, University of Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: 00 Introduction Loretta Lees and David Demeritt 01 Activism Elise Lecomte 02 Actor Network Theory Kristian Ruming 03 Affect Ben Anderson 04 Animal Geographies Guillem Rubio-Ramon and Krithika Srinivasan 05 Anthropocene Noel Castree 06 Art Friederike Landau-Donnelly 07 Artificial Intelligence Di Zhu and Yingjie Hu 08 Assemblages Pooya Ghoddousi 09 Big Data Francisco Rowe 10 Bodies Carl Bonner-Thompson 11 Bordering Matthew Tillotson 12 Class Julie MacLeavy 13 Colonialism Satish Kumar 14 Comparative Geographies Julie Ren 15 Crime Elizabeth Brown 16 Critical Geographies Lawrence Berg 17 Cultural Geographies Andrew Lapworth 18 Development geographies Andrew McGregor 19 Diaspora Michael Rios 20 Digital Geographies Andrew Dwyer 21 Disabilities Rob Imrie 22 Displacement Emil Pull 23 Economic geographies Felicia Liu 24 Education Ellen Bishop 25 Emotional Katy Bennett and Jay Emery 26 Energy James Angel 27 Environmental geographies Mohammed Rafi Arefin 28 Ethics Mara Ferreri 29 Ethnography Sharda Rozena 30 Feminist geographies Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Miriam Gay-Antaki 31 Food geographies Benjamin Coles 32 Gender Anahid Shirkhodaee and Margaret Walton-Roberts 33 Geographic informations systems Victoria Houlden 34 Geopolitics Gavin Brown 35 Health geographies Niamh Shortt 36 Historical geographies Carry van Lieshout and Benjamin Newman 37 Humanistic geographies Casey D. Allen 38 Identity Christabel Devadoss and Doug Allen 39 Indigenous geographies Christine Añonuevo et al. 40 Infrastructure Kathryn Furlong 41 Labour geographies Debolina Majumder 42 Landscape Martin Phillips 43 Legal geographies Caroline Griffith, Sarah Klosterkamp, Alida Cantor and Austin Kocher 44 Marxist geographies Jamie Gough 45 Migration geographies Joris Schapendonk 46 Military geographies Rachel Woodward and Alice Cree 47 Mobilities Cristina Temenos 48 Music Michelle Duffy 49 Nation-state Máiréad Dunne and Barbara Crossouard 50 Nature Franklin Ginn 51 Neoliberalism Arnaud Brennetot 52 Place Tone Huse 53 Political ecology Elia Apostolopoulou 54 Politics Rhys Jones 55 Population geographies Elin Charles-Edwards 56 Post-colonial geographies Eduardo Ascensão 57 Poverty Mark Fransham 58 Power Liza Griffin 59 Psychoanalytical geographies Lucas Pohl 60 Public space Jason Luger 61 Race Archie Davies and Nadia Mosquera Muriel 62 Radical geographies Joe Penny 63 Realism (critical) Andy Pratt 64 Relational geographies Martin Jones 65 Religion Justin Tse and Lily Kong 66 Representation/al Amy Barron and Joe Blakey 67 Risk George Warren 68 Rural geographies Niamh McHugh 69 Scale Andrew Kythreotis and Andrew E.G. Jonas 70 Segregation Tia Ndu 71 Sexualities Mel Jones 72 Social geographies Michele Lobo 73 Space Peter Merriman 74Time Clara Rivas-Alonso 75 Transport geographies Debbie Hopkins and Anna Plyushteva 76 Uneven development Hamish Kallin 77 Urban geograpghies Mark Davidson 78 Young people Lorraine van Blerk

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Book SynopsisBill Pritchard provides an important update on how current trade methodologies are implemented as China becomes one of the world’s largest fresh fruit importers from countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The book also looks at their distinctive trade aspects and what can be learnt from alternative practices carried out in other countries through the use of global production networks. An in-depth analysis provides the reader with a welcome insight into existing processes from production through to export, often through informal routes, with a marketing structure providing more power to the distributors and brokers and mixed effects on the farmers. Using empirical evidence from four countries, this book explores what could, and should, be implemented in this under-researched topic to aid rural development.This will be an invaluable resource for researchers of human geography, international trade and Asian studies, particularly those with a focus on Southeast Asia and China.Trade Review‘The book opens up a rich field for research, presents valuable empirical insights, and provides inspiration for further inquiry.’ -- Niels Fold, The Developing Economies‘This edited volume brings together a set of timely and much needed research contributions on the pattern, nature and dynamics of the exports of fresh fruit from Southeast Asian countries to China. A palette of detailed case studies jointly develop our understanding of the emerging regional organization of agricultural trade flows directed to the food market in China by revealing new and different forms of inter-firm relationships and regulatory measures compared to similar but well-researched production networks that connect the Global South to the Global North.’ -- Niels Fold, University of Copenhagan, Denmark‘This book addresses a variety of case studies of South Asian regions, which are still under researched in comparison to their economic importance. The Australian economic geographer Bill Pritchard and his eleven Asian co-authors combine existing theories with their own regional perspectives on the fast emerging fruit value chains between South Asia and China. This is also very interesting from a general analytical perspective as it broadens the view on otherwise often overlooked dynamics and challenges which help our understanding of current value chain dynamics.’ -- Peter Dannenberg, University of Cologne, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Fresh fruit exports from mainland Southeast Asian countries to China: background context and key questions for research and policy 1 Bill Pritchard 2 Laotian borderland fruit production for the Chinese market: a case study on watermelon in Luangnamtha Province 26 Khammerng Bannalath and Vanthana Nolintha 3 Myanmar’s mango export to China and Singapore: implications for export destination diversification 42 Koji Kubo and Wah Wah Htun 4 Myanmar’s watermelon exports to China: impacts of unofficial investment by Chinese on the diffusion of a horticultural crop 62 Koji Kubo 5 Thai exports of durian to China: the expanding role of Chinese entrepreneurs 81 Nattapon Tantrakoonsab and Wannarat Tantrakoonsab 6 Thai exports of longan to China: implications of Chinese investment on Thai stakeholders 105 Aungkana Kmonpetch and Waranya Jitpong 7 The interlinkage of the Vietnamese horticultural sector with the Chinese market: the case of watermelons 120 Fumie Takanashi 8 The changing dragon fruit value chain in Vietnam: the increased presence of the Chinese in the chain 138 Shozo Sakata 9 The distribution of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia in China 154 Chun Yang Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book defines the concept of immured spaces across time, space and culture and investigates various categories of restricted places such as divided, segregated and protected spaces. Drawing on examples from across the world, this book analyses not only what separates and divides space, but also the wide variety of impacts that the imposition of new barriers and boundaries or the opening of existing ones has on places, people and surrounding areas. Contributors integrate case studies with theoretical analysis to draw conclusions and advance an analytical framework of immured spaces. The chapters present a point of reference to highlight areas of significance and also to encourage further detailed work in this important area.The book has a strong research dimension and will therefore be of interest to academic communities in planning, cultural heritage, psychology, architecture and urban studies. In addition, the use of case studies to develop a common framework will appeal to practitioners and policy makers.Trade Review‘In Boundaries and Restricted Places, Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis present a sometimes disquieting, sometimes inspiring collection of case studies on immured spaces. From the Old Jewish cemetery in Wrocław, gated communities in Brazil, or the forbidden part of Piraeus, the journey continues to borders in Ireland or Beirut, Nicosia or Indian slums. Scholars of border studies, geography, or spatial planning and architecture will cherish this rich contribution to a better understanding of enclosure and exclusion.’ -- Ben Davy, Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa‘Sometimes a testament to nationalism, racism, exclusivity, insecurity, or xenophobia, immured spaces and their material representations – walls, borders, gates, and boundaries – have always been an attribute of the urban. This collection of essays expands our notion of immured spaces and pushes us to rethink them through its rich account of material and immaterial, real and perceived spaces for the living and for the dead from different cities around the globe.’ -- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Boundaries and Restricted Places: The Immured Space 1 Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis PART I DIVIDED SPACES 2 The immured against the divided: the case of the walled city Nicosia 12 Balkiz Yapicioglu and Kenan Güven. 3 Navigating through invisible barriers: the evolution of immured Beirut 23 Christine Mady 4 How a long-lasting political crisis and political ambitions create damage to society – the case of the Vistula Spit area 37 Anna Brzezińska-Rawa 5 Borders in Ireland 2021: from immured places to integration to divergence? 49 Brendan Williams 6 Divided architectures: hidden infrastructures of separation and cohesion 64 David Coyles and Clare Mulholland PART II SEGREGATED SPACES 7 The ‘gate’ in Pomakochoria, Greece: memories of underdevelopment? 80 Konstantinos Lalenis 8 The present in the future: segregation and boundaries in the urban science fiction film 96 Marko Kiessel and Jonathan Stubbs 9 Unpacking immured spaces from statutory property rights in Australian strata and Indian slum land rights 111 Rebecca Leshinsky, Pranab R. Choudhury and Serene Ho 10 Investigating how abandoned and derelict cultural heritage can evolve into informal public space 126 Aliye Menteş and Cem Yardımcı 11 Poetic prostitution or female bondage? Troumpa quarter in Piraeus and Tabakika in the city of Larissa 140 Konstantinos Moraitis and Maria Markatou PART III PROTECTED SPACES 12 The gated communities and their socio-spatial configurations in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, Brazil 154 Eliana do Pilar Rocha and Carlos Smaniotto Costa 13 The Leviathan of the South: awakening the public-use of green areas in private condominiums? Emerging practices in São Paulo, Brazil 168 Safira De La Sala and Everaldo Augusto Cambler 14 Immured spaces: narratives of policy instruments. Coastal spaces along the southern part of the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran 184 Maedeh Hedayatifard 15 Opening up of gated communities: a reality of a mirage? 198 Yung Yau PART IV SPACES BEYOND 16 Boundaries in the city between the living and the dead 211 Yannis Polymenidis 17 Hidden space 224 Rena Karanouh 18 Spaces beyond borders: art on and within the walls of the immured neighbourhood of Surlariçi in Nicosia 239 Alev Adil 19 Nobody’s or everybody’s place? The Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw – the story of destruction and protection 250 Magdalena Belof 20 Opening the barrier of military immured spaces in Italy: is their regeneration going beyond the threshold of boundaries? 263 Federico Camerin PART V CONNECTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE IMMURED SPACE 21 Conclusion: connecting the diversity of the immured space 278 Konstantinos Lalenis and Balkiz Yapicioglu Index

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Book SynopsisInformed by the latest theoretical developments in studies of the social impacts of digital technology, Smart-Tech Society provides an empirically grounded and conceptually informed analysis of the impacts and paradoxes of smart-technology.While making life more convenient, smart-tech has also been associated with a loss of privacy and control over decision-making autonomy. Mark Whitehead and William Collier provide a critical analysis of the lived experience of smart-technology, presenting stories of varied social engagements with digital platforms and devices. Chapters explore the myriad contexts in and through which smart-tech insinuates itself within everyday life, the benefits it brings, and the processes through which it is being resisted. Detailed case studies explore the impacts of smart-technology across a broad range of fields including personal health, work, social life, urban management, and politics.Presenting new empirical evidence and analytical perspectives on the relationships between humans and smart-tech, this book will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of sociology, political science, human geography, and technology studies.Trade Review‘The pages of this book take the reader on a perceptive and revealing journey through the smart-tech society. Bringing clarity to these disorientating and far-reaching transformations, it offers guidance, understanding and an irresistible call to engage with how the future might yet be shaped.’ -- David Beer, University of York, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Smart-Tech Revolution 2. Analysing the smart-tech society 3. Prediction, personalisation, and the data self 4. Behaviour and freedom 5. The smart body—from cyborgs to the quantified self 6. Smart working and the corporation 7. Smart-tech states 8. Dumbing down—recalibrating our relations with smart technology 9. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book examines advances in teaching and learning at undergraduate level from the disciplines of geography education, neuroscience and learning science. Connecting these disciplines, the chapters integrate research on how students learn and explain how to teach students to think geographically and develop a deeper understanding of their world.Questioning what it means to think geographically, the editors identify ten elements that characterize thinking geographically including the weaving of various perspectives, making connections, creating meaning through spatial thinking, relational thinking and multi-scalar thinking. The book offers a collection of turnkey exercises designed by geography educators for use in human geography courses. These insightful exercises are designed to assist with promoting geographic thinking and learning, The editors provide a matrix that serves as an outstanding resource.Teaching Human Geographymakes a unique and significant contribution to geography education as an excellent resource for instructors looking to improve their practice and facilitate learning. Addressing how geography teaching can be transformed, it will also improve undergraduates' ability to think geographically by integrating research in learning science and geography education.Trade Review‘This extremely readable book shows geography to be the world subject. More than this, it argues that “students who learn to think geographically … discover a new way of seeing the world”. In the context of Anthropocene, the educational potential of geography is therefore vast – but is not guaranteed. This book expertly melds theoretical perspectives about ‘learning’ with some brilliant examples of structured teaching and thus makes a fine contribution to the development of geography education in practice.’ -- David Lambert, UCL Institute of Education, UK‘There has arguably never been a more urgent need for young people to learn how to think geographically at a high level of proficiency. This book demonstrates the significance of geography’s powerful knowledge for understanding human systems with many practical applications to support high quality geography instruction.’ -- Michael Solem, Texas State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Donald Zeigler xv PART I THEORIES AND PRACTICE IN THINKING GEOGRAPHICALLY 1 Introduction to theories and practice in thinking geographically 2 Erin Hogan Fouberg and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith 2 Thinking geographically 11 Janet Stuhrenberg Smith 3 Learning geographic concepts 39 Erin Hogan Fouberg 4 Learning, visualizing, and thinking through maps 58 Janet Stuhrenberg Smith 5 Personalizing geographic knowledge through fieldwork 86 Erin Hogan Fouberg 6 Plasticity and change: lifelong geographic learning 100 Erin Hogan Fouberg PART II EXERCISES IN GEOGRAPHIC THINKING 7 Introduction to exercises to promote geographic thinking and learning 112 Janet Stuhrenberg Smith and Erin Hogan Fouberg 8 Engaging group-based exercises 116 Larianne Collins, Erin Hogan Fouberg, Jody Smothers-Marcello, Jamie L. Strickland, Caitlin Finlayson, Sunita George, Amanda Rees, and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith 9 Powerful field-based and place-based exercises 178 Raymond Greene, Jacqueline L. Waite, William G. Moseley, Matthew R. Cook, and Alex Oberle 10 Integrative project-based exercises 209 Thomas R. Craig, Leslie McLees, and Ronald V. Kalafsky Index 229

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Forward-looking and innovative, Elgar Research Agendas are an essential resource for PhD students, scholars and anybody who wants to be at the forefront of research.Exploring current debates on the topic, this book maps out an agenda for theory, research and practice about the role and function of small and medium-sized towns in various contexts and at different territorial scales. Chapters highlight new insights and approaches to studying small and medium-sized towns, moving beyond the ‘urban bias’ to provide nuanced thought on these spaces both in terms of their relation to larger cities, and in terms of implications related to their size.Contributions from top scholars in the field across a number of disciplines cover a broad range of relevant areas of study, including: socio-spatial identities, urbanization, suburbanization, resilience, innovation, entrepreneurship, industrial and tourism development and digitalization. The book concludes with an outline of the road ahead and a call for further theorizing.Urban planning and human geography scholars will find this to be an invigorating read with contributions from scholars across urban planning, economic geography, tourism and public policy providing a holistic understanding of the topic.Trade Review‘I’m so excited about this book! Small towns have long been an understudied topic in geography, sociology, economics and other disciplines. This book is an important step forward as it moves beyond the case-study approach to consider broader implications of technology, culture, and sustainability in these places.’ -- Jennifer Mapes, Kent State University, US‘There is considerable life, dynamism, opportunities and much potential to be tapped beyond the big city. But academic scholars have mostly overlooked this potential and ignored the role of towns. Mayer and Lazzeroni redress this wrong and provide the ultimate agenda for researching small and medium-sized towns.’ -- Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UK‘This volume shows that while big cities often steal the limelight – either because of their national economic importance or the intensity of their social, economic and environmental problems – small and medium-sized towns are an important dimension of urbanization, with significant implications for economic development, quality of life, sustainability, and environmental quality.’ -- Paul Knox, Virginia Tech, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Small and Medium-Sized Towns 1 Heike Mayer and Michela Lazzeroni 2 Between urban and rural: socio-spatial identities in small and medium-sized towns 9 Annett Steinführer 3 Small and medium-sized towns: out of the dark agglomeration shadows and into the bright city lights? 23 Evert Meijers and Martijn Burger 4 Urbanisation, suburbanisation and territorial development: research issues for small and medium-sized towns 39 Christophe Demazière 5 The resilience of small and medium-sized towns in times of crisis and recovery 57 Michela Lazzeroni 6 Innovation and entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized towns 73 Heike Mayer 7 (Re)discovering the small and medium-sized industrial town and its development potential 87 David Bole 8 Cultural tourism as a tool for transformation in small and medium-sized towns 105 Chiara Rabbiosi and Dimitri Ioannides 9 Digital and smart places: ensuring a rural fit in times of urban-biased technological push 125 Koen Salemink 10 The important role of nature in planning for small cities 141 Timothy Beatley 11 Public policy and small and medium-sized towns 161 David Kaufmann and Stefan Wittwer 12 Agents of change in small and medium-sized towns 177 Arnault Morisson 13 The road ahead: advancing our research agenda for small and medium-sized towns in a world of uneven development 193 Heike Mayer and Michela Lazzeroni Index

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community. Covering both classic and novel planning theories, this Encyclopedia adopts an evolutionary perspective, reflecting on the changing meanings of terms over time. Featuring over 140 contributions drawn from diverse fields, it highlights the cross-disciplinary nature of planning and design. Contributors give practical insight into the field, and advance scientific knowledge and public conversation on planning and design.The Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design will be an essential resource for students and scholars of planning, design, urban studies and governance. It will also be highly useful for practitioners and civil servants seeking to deepen their understanding of public works, planning and environmental policy.Key Features: Critical perspectives on core concepts and debates Reflection on how to avoid reproducing current power/knowledge relations Explores connections between fields and disciplines in planning and design Extensive cross-referencing between entries Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Elgar encyclopedia in urban and regional planning and design: the productive fiction of unity in diversity 1 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 1 Adaptive planning 5 Gert de Roo 2 Adaptive reuse 8 Bie Plevoets and Francesca Lanz 3 Advocacy planning 11 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 4 Affordable housing 13 Alan Mallach 5 Agonism 16 John Erik Pløger 6 Area-based management tools 19 Froukje Maria Platjouw 7 Art: public art and planning 21 Tony Matthews 8 Assemblage 23 Gareth Abrahams 9 Asset and asset-based development 27 Ivis García 10 Autopoietic social systems and planning thought 31 Angelique Chettiparamb 11 Big data and machine learning 35 Lasse Gerrits and Sofia Pagliarin 12 Big Other 38 Elham Bahmanteymouri 13 Biophilic urbanism 40 Timothy Beatley 14 Biopolitics 44 Claudio Minca 15 Blueprint planning 47 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 16 Boundary organisation 49 Daan Boezeman 17 Boundary spanning 52 Daan Boezeman 18 Brownfield development 53 Luís Carlos Loures 19 Central planning, its geographies and scales 56 Barbara Czarniawska 20 Citizen science in spatial and environmental problems 59 Lasse Gerrits, Alexander Los and Sofia Pagliarin 21 Climate change adaptation planning and resilience 63 S. Jeff Birchall and Danielle Koleyak 22 Colonial legacies in planning and design 67 Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld and Raoul Beunen 23 Commons 69 Stefano Moroni 24 Communicative planning theory and its critiques 71 Raine Mäntysalo 25 Complexity and planning 74 Gert de Roo 26 Conflict and shock 78 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 27 Conservation subdivision design 80 Randall Arendt 28 Corruption 87 Stefano Moroni 29 Creativity 89 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 30 Critical planning 91 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 31 Culture and planning culture 92 Frank Othengrafen 32 Density 96 Jill L. Grant 33 Dependencies in planning and governance 100 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 34 Design: public–private divides in the urban realm 102 Ali Madanipour 35 Design: tensions and ambiguities 104 Ali Madanipour 36 Desire, drive, disavowal 106 Elham Bahmanteymouri 37 Digitalization in planning 111 Anna M. Hersperger, Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits 38 Disability and urban planning 115 Lisa Stafford and Matt Novacevski 39 Dispositif 118 John Erik Pløger 40 Downtown development and revitalization 122 Dagney Faulk 41 Earthly attachments in the Anthropocene 125 Edward H. Huijbens 42 Ecosystems-based governance 129 Froukje Maria Platjouw 43 Ecosystems services 132 Davide Geneletti and Chiara Cortinovis 44 Energy and strategic energy planning 134 Martijn Gerritsen 45 Environmental justice 137 Stijn Neuteleers 46 European spatial planning 142 Andreas Faludi 47 Experiment 146 Torill Nyseth 48 Expertise and local knowledge 148 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 49 Foresight and visioning 150 Timothy J. Dixon 50 Fragility, resilience and design 153 Esther Charlesworth and John Fien 51 Garden City and Garden City ideas 157 Christine Garnaut 52 Genius loci and design 160 Randall S. Lindstrom 53 Green activism 165 Michael Hardman 54 Heritage planning 167 Karim van Knippenberg 55 History: learning from urban and environmental history 169 Jill L. Grant 56 Homelessness policy and planning 175 Joshua Evans 57 Identity 179 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 58 Ideology 181 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 59 Inclusion/exclusion 183 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 60 Indigenous planning 185 Theodore Jojola 61 Informal settlements 189 Debadutta Parida 62 Informality 193 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 63 Infrastructure and planning 195 Tim Busscher and Marijn van Geet 64 Innovation 199 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 65 Institutions and institutionalism 201 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 66 Insurgent planning 203 Efadul Huq 67 International and transnational planning 205 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 68 Lacan’s four discourses in planning 207 Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 69 Lacanian approaches to planning 212 Elham Bahmanteymouri 70 Land consolidation 215 Terry van Dijk 71 Legibility 217 Derk Jan Stobbelaar 72 Line of flight 220 Gareth Abrahams 73 Livelihoods, planning for 222 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 74 Long-term perspectives and futures 224 Peter Pelzer and Wieke Pot 75 Master signifiers 228 Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 76 Memory, legacy, history 231 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 77 Methods 233 Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld and Raoul Beunen 78 Milieu 235 Jean Hillier 79 Mixed-use 239 Markus Moos and Tara Vinodrai 80 Modernism and planning 241 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 81 Multiplicity 243 Freek de Haan 82 Narrative 247 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 83 Neighbourhood design 249 Ali Madanipour 84 Network governance 253 Joop Koppenjan 85 New public management 257 Kris Hartley 86 New urbanism 260 Katherine Perrott 87 Noise and city design 263 Juan Miguel Barrigón Morillas, Guillermo Rey Gozalo and David Montes González 88 Nomocracy 266 Stefano Moroni 89 Object formation 268 Henk-Jan Kooij 90 Organization theory, lessons for the relation between planning and politics 271 Barbara Czarniawska 91 Participation 274 Torill Nyseth 92 Participatory planning and design 277 Jesus J. Lara 93 Place-based development 280 Greg Halseth, Laura Ryser and Sean Markey 94 Place branding in strategic spatial planning 284 Eduardo da Silva Oliveira 95 Policy integration 288 Jeroen J.L. Candel 96 Polycentricity 290 Wil Zonneveld 97 Post-colonialism – and beyond 295 Patrick Devlieger 98 Post-disaster planning 297 Robert Coates and Jeroen Warner 99 Power and planning 301 Raphaël Fischler 100 Power in planning literature 303 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 101 Power/knowledge 305 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 102 Property 307 Benjamin David Davy 103 Property rights and planning 310 Eran S. Kaplinsky 104 Public debate, discussion and dialogue 312 Noelle Aarts 105 Public interest 314 Stefano Moroni 106 Public–private partnerships 316 Stefan Verweij 107 Qualitative comparative analysis in planning studies 320 Lasse Gerrits and Sofia Pagliarin 108 Rationality and planning 324 Gert de Roo 109 Regional design 328 Terry van Dijk 110 Regional planning 330 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 111 Research through design 332 Sanda Lenzholzer 112 Resource towns: mining and social disruption 334 Lochner Marais 113 Rhetoric 336 James Throgmorton 114 Rhythmanalysis in planning 338 Robin A. Chang 115 Rules 341 Stefano Moroni 116 Self-organization 343 Ward Rauws 117 Shrinking cities and urban shrinkage 347 Marjan Marjanović 118 Smart cities: hype and reality 351 Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits 119 Smart growth 354 Katherine Perrott 120 Social capital in governance and sustainable development 357 Stefan Partelow 121 Social-ecological systems 362 Fikret Berkes 122 Social innovation and planning 365 Gert Verschraegen and Stijn Oosterlynck 123 Social justice 370 Susan S. Fainstein 124 Spatial planning concepts 373 Wil Zonneveld 125 Sprawl 375 Hans Leinfelder and Edwin Buitelaar 126 Storytelling 377 Terry van Dijk 127 Strata 378 Gareth Abrahams 128 Strategic navigation 380 Jean Hillier 129 Strategic spatial planning 383 Räine Mäntysalo 130 Strategy 387 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 131 Systems thinking 389 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 132 Therapy, planning as 392 Lisa Schweitzer 133 Think tanks 395 Daan Boezeman 134 Transition 396 René Kemp and Patrick Huntjens 135 Transversality 399 Jean Hillier 136 Trust 402 Jasper R. de Vries 137 Urban climate responsive planning and design 404 Sanda Lenzholzer 138 Utopia 406 David Pinder 139 Values and rational judgments: the role of ethics 408 Claudia Basta 140 Verticality 412 Ana Aceska 141 Walkability 415 Katherine Perrott 142 Waste picking 418 Radhika Borde 143 Youthification 420 Markus Moos 144 Zoning 423 Raphaël Fischler

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.Drawing on the rich personal archive of the geographer Josué de Castro, this book tells a new history of geography by following one of the twentieth century’s most influential and creative Brazilian intellectuals from the estuarine city of Recife to the halls of the UN, the chambers of Brasília, and exile amid the political fervour of the universities of Paris in 1968.This is the first English language book on the absorbing life of Josué de Castro. It follows modern anticolonial geographical thought in formation, re-reading Castro’s metabolic, humanist geography as the anchor of a utopian practice of freedom: the demand for a world without hunger.Starting from Castro’s life and work, the book offers new takes on the history of nutrition, translation in geography, Brazilian modernist art and practice in post-war internationalism, the radical geographical intellectual, the problem of the region in the Brazilian Northeast, and the birth of political ecology and critical environmental thought. At once a biographical intellectual history and a work of geographical theory, this innovative book tells the story of 20th century geography from a new angle and in new company.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE: 1930-1946 THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGER AND METABOLIC HUMANISMCHAPTER TWO: THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGER AND ITS POLITICS OF TRANSLATIONCHAPTER THREE: 1946-1951: THE CRY IN THE SERTÃO: ART AND THE UNIVERSAL IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGERCHAPTER FOUR: 1952-56: CASTRO AT THE FAO: HUNGER AND TECHNOCRATIC UTOPIANISMCHAPTER FIVE: 1955-64: THE NORTHEASTERN QUESTIONCHAPTER SIX: 1960-1968: THE QUESTION OF THE INTELLECTUAL: REGION, NATION, EXILECHAPTER SEVEN: 1968-1973: READING FRAGMENTS: VINCENNES, THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND ANTICOLONIALISMCONCLUSION: MILITANT GEOGRAPHY AND METABOLIC HUMANISM

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Over the past decade, digital geographies has emerged as a dynamic area of scholarly enquiry, critically examining how the digital has reshaped the geography of our world. Bringing together authors working at the cutting-edge of the field, and grounding abstract ideas in case studies, this Research Agenda looks at the ways in which technology has altered all aspects of society, culture and the environment.Chapters explore four key themes: the role of technology infrastructures; the ways that winners and losers are created at the digital margins; the power of the digital to create new spaces; and the ways that the digital is changing research methods. Critically outlining the state of play around these topics, each chapter unpacks a case study related to pioneering research, suggesting possible avenues for research that digital geographers might pursue. The Research Agenda concludes with an identification of three priority areas for future work: the intimate nature of our relations with technology; approaches to resisting the power of technology companies; and finally, the need for more interdisciplinary approaches to examining digital geographies.Rooted in the subject areas of technology, geography, sociology and political science, A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies will be greatly valuable to human and socio-cultural geographers, and digital social scientists with an interest in how the digital affects society and space.Trade Review‘Covering a wide range of topics and areas of research in short and effective chapters, Osborne, Jones, and a diverse group of collaborators have assembled a useful guide to the multiple trajectories, current state of knowledge, and future possibilities of digital geographies.’ -- Luis F. Alvarez Leon, Dartmouth College, US‘With its emphasis on digital geographies in action, this volume focuses much needed critical attention on a diverse set of digital technologies and what they mean for different groups in society. Collectively, the chapters provide a fascinating and insightful analysis of current grounded research and future prospects.’ -- Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies 1 Tess Osborne and Phil Jones PART I DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND TECHNOLOGIES 2 Digital geographies and the location economy: towards a transdisciplinary research agenda 19 Peta Mitchell, Marcus Foth and Markus Rittenbruch 3 Do digital technologies have politics? Imaginaries, practices and socio-political implications of civic blockchain 27 Fabio Iapaolo, Chiara Certom. and Paolo Giaccaria 4 Concepts for robot geographies 41 Shanti Sumartojo 5 The radio spectrum: an imperceptible infrastructure? 53 Daisy Curtis PART II DIGITAL METHODS AND APPROACHES 6 Virtual reality, place and affect 69 Zoe Gardner, Katy Bennett and Stefano De Sabbata 7 Wearable biosensors: an agenda for digital embodied methods 83 Tess Osborne, Paulo Morgado, Daniel Paiva and H. Shellae Versey 8 Digital film in therapeutic landscapes 97 Rosie Knowles 9 Doing digital children’s geographies, imperfectly: methodological reflections on a child-led digital tour in a slum neighbourhood in the Philippines 111 Aireen Grace Andal PART III DIGITAL MARGINS 10 Situating data: a critique of universalist approaches to data 127 Azadeh Akbari 11 The digital geographies of an asylum seeker: exploring the political potential of digital self-representation for marginalised populations 133 Seerat Kaur 12 Trusting data: the everyday geographies of gay men and digital data 147 Carl Bonner-Thompson 13 Digital geographies and ecologies 159 Jonathon Turnbull and Adam Searle PART IV DIGITAL SPACEMAKING 14 Geographies of the metaverse 177 Phil Jones 15 Disruptive spacemaking and extended reality 187 Rosie Wright 16 Digital placemaking: experiencing places through mobile media 199 Maciej Gł.wczyński 17 The mundane digital geographies of public space: a speculative visual approach 211 Robert Lundberg 18 Conclusion: toward a research agenda for digital geographies 225 Phil Jones and Tess Osborne Index 231

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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers an integrated and pragmatic approach to understanding recovery from all types of shocks. Whilst particular focus is given to identifying and exploring various aspects of recovering societies in the context of COVID-19, Pandemic Recovery? is framed with a wider appreciation of other societal challenges, most notably anthropogenic climate change.This forward-thinking and topical book provides expert examination of pandemic recovery in the context of reframing and rescaling broader societal challenges. Chapters offer thematic and in-depth focus, independently engaging with different aspects of recovery, simultaneously unpacking recovery in practice and in various settings.This critical analysis is split into five thematic sections exploring people, organisations, climate change and sustainability, and the policy and practice of recovery. The expert contributors highlight a clear consensus throughout that no shock is ever isolated from others and discuss how thiscan adversely impact recovery processes. The book further argues that this recognition paves the way for the development of a social science of recovery, but also preparedness for future shocks and the fostering of resilience.This progressive and enterprising book provides a valuable teaching resource which will be important for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students, PhD students, scholars and policymakers in a wide variety of disciplines including geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, city and regional planning, and business and management.Trade Review‘A comprehensive survey of “recovery society” highlighting how Covid-19 amplified existing inequalities, as well as generating myriad improvisations and forms of resilience. Perhaps most importantly, it underlines how political efforts too often remain premised on the pre-pandemic status quo even as shock events – including those associated with catastrophic climate change – continue to challenge communities across the world.’ -- Wendy Larner, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface: Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Broader Societal Challenges xxi Acknowledgements xxv 1 Introduction: shock chains and parallel shocks: towards a social science of the recovery society 1 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon PART I PEOPLE 2 Shocks, recovery processes and cultivating urban plasticity: a neuroplasticity-informed perspective on urban resilience 27 Joshua Kearney, John R. Bryson, Matthew Broome, Joanne Leach, Carlo Luiu, Francis Pope and Jonathan Radcliffe 3 Covid, telecommuting, and ethnic inequalities in the United States 42 Barney Warf 4 Addressing disparities and housing precarity: a pandemic recovery agenda 61 Brenda Parker and Catherine Leviten-Reid 5 Women in the urban informal economy and pathways towards inclusive cities 78 Rets’epile C. Kalaoane and Abraham R. Matamanda 6 The precariat and the age of permanent crisis: a research agenda for urban planning in India 95 Surajit Chakravarty PART II ORGANISATIONS 7 The central and local state after Covid: contesting the governance paradigm 113 Patrick Diamond and Martin Laffin 8 Food resilient urbanism: reconstructing hunger with NGOs 125 Lucy Natarajan, Hyunji Cho, Bernice Yanful and Abigail Woodward 9 Work after COVID-19 – is it bringing us closer to a post-carbon future? 140 Andrew Herod 10 Production space in the post-pandemic era: the intra-urban evolution of office districts 152 William Graves, Chuck McShane and Jonathan Kozar 11 Strategic decoupling, selective decoupling or recoupling of global supply chains in manufacturing GPNs during the post-COVID-19 era 164 Godfrey Yeung PART III PLACE 12 Artificial intelligence and post-pandemic recovery 178 Aksel Ersoy, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, Tong Wang and Paul Chan 13 Recovery from the pandemic: planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities 187 Tianzhu Liu, Willem K. Korthals Altes, Frédéric Wallet and Romain Melot 14 The intersecting political and health crises in Hong Kong and the socio-economic and political consequences 199 May Chu 15 Remote work, coworking spaces, and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: exploring peripheral and rural areas 210 Francesca Chiara Ciccarelli and Ilaria Mariotti PART IV CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY 16 What are the prospects of a just transition towards sustainable climate change policies? The search for practical lessons from policy studies 224 Paul Cairney, Irina Timonina and Hannes Stephan 17 The impact of the pandemic on circular innovation, transitions and research 238 Joanna Williams and Rendy Bayu Aditya 18 Inflection points and discontinuities? Pandemic recovery, experiential consumption, and the emergence of circular economy retail business models 251 John R. Bryson and Yinghao Zhang 19 Flexible working and the future of urban mobility: a novel conceptual framework 267 Li Wan and Jerry Chen 20 Sustainable aviation after COVID-19: will technology save all, or a more radical change is required? 289 Pol Fontanet-Pérez, Pere Suau-Sanchez and Xosé H. Vázquez PART V THE POLICY AND PRACTICE OF RECOVERY 21 Pandemic recovery? Reframing and rescaling societal challenges 304 Martin Hurst 22 Response, recovery and resilience: the role of healthcare leaders 314 Steve Gulati and Sheena Gohal 23 The magic of ordinary rather than extraordinary resilience? Higher education and longer-term pandemic impacts 325 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon 24 The value of public domain and placemaking rediscovered 336 Wouter J. Verheul 25 Comeback tourism: a critical research approach 350 Lars Fuglsang PART VI CONCLUSION 26 Fragmented recoveries and proactive adaptability: new paradigm shifts, and theoretical directions to unpacking recovery processes and behavioural change 362 Lauren Andres, John R. Bryson, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon Index 385

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Book SynopsisThis exemplary Handbook provides readers with a novel synthesis of international research, evidence-based practice and personal reflections to offer an overview of the current state of knowledge in the field of teaching geography in higher education. Chapters cover the three key transitions - into, through, and out of higher education - to present a thorough analysis of the topic. With key contributions from top scholars, the Handbook investigates student transitions, exploring how students require different pedagogical approaches as they progress through university or college. A wide range of learning contexts relevant to the breadth of spaces and places in which geography teaching takes place is used to provide examples of how teaching and learning in geography can be enhanced. It identifies key principles including working in partnership and acknowledging the whole student, calling for the adoption of courageous pedagogy. With a useful resources section included in each chapter, this Handbook is a vital reference source for those teaching geography in higher education settings. Written in an accessible style, it will also be of use to early career geographers and those who are new to teaching, including postgraduate students. Contributors: C. Arrowsmith, K. Barton, S. Brail, J. Bullard, G. Butt, W. Cartwright, L. Clarke, D. Conradson, M. DeMers, S. Dyer, J. Esson, M. Finn, E.H. Fouberg, D. France, I.C. Fuller, A.L. Griffin, M. Haigh, R.L. Healey, J. Hill, R. Hodgkins, P. Hopkins, M. Horswell, A. Hovorka, A. Hughes, N.T. Huynh, J. Kerski, P. Klein, P.E. Kneale, A. Last, J. Lee, A. Maddrell, N. McDuff, G. Miller, L. Mol, N. Moore-Cherry, C. Mott, A. Parton, E. Pawson, M. Poskitt, K. Ramdas, C. Ribchester, B. Rink, Z.P. Robinson, J. Salo, D.M. Schultz, I.D.H. Shepherd, M. Solem, R. Spronken-Smith, S. Tate, T. Vowles, H. Walkington, R.I. Waller, K. Whalen, E. Wigley, P. Wolf, N. WorthTrade Review'This book is a much-needed comprehensive overview of recent research and practices on teaching geography in higher education. Written by leading researchers, it provides not only insights but also practical applications for lecturing, assessment and innovation in geography pedagogy.' --Jongwon Lee, Ewha Womans University, South Korea'Written by an acclaimed team of international scholars, this Handbook is invaluable for both early career and established geography faculty in higher education internationally, as well as for individuals, course teams and departments. It provides practical and research-based advice on a wide range of disciplinary and wider higher education issues.' --Alan Jenkins, Oxford Brookes, UK and co-founding editor of the Journal of Geography in Higher EducationTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Geography 1 Helen Walkington, Jennifer Hill and Sarah Dyer PART I PEDAGOGIES TO SUPPORT TRANSITION INTO HIGHER EDUCATION 2. Student perspectives on the importance of both academic and social transitions to and through their undergraduate geography degree 16 Simon Tate and Peter Hopkins 3. Bridging the divide between school and university geography – ‘mind the gap!’ 31 Graham Butt 4. Embodied teaching and learning through a large lecture: strategies for place-based pedagogies 46 Matt Finn and Carrie Mott 5. Measuring learning for the masses: assessment strategies for large classes 59 Bradley Rink 6. Finding your way in liminal space: threshold concepts and curriculum design in geography 71 Erin H. Fouberg 7. Fieldwork as transition pedagogy for non-specialist students in geography: promoting collaborative learning amidst uncertainty 87 Kamalini Ramdas 8. Supportive learning environments and the transition to university 99 David Conradson 9. Teaching in a multi- or interdisciplinary context 110 Amy L. Griffin 10. Co-pedagogy: teaching together for successful student learning 123 Sarah Dyer 11. Pedagogies for developing undergraduate ethical thinking within geography 139 Ruth L. Healey and Chris Ribchester 12. Information literacy: benefits, challenges and practical strategies 151 Richard I. Waller, Gill Miller and David M. Schultz PART II PEDAGOGIES TO FACILITATE MORE AUTONOMOUS LEARNING 13. Inclusive teaching and learning practices in geography 168 Annie Hughes and Nona McDuff 14. Developing and integrating a student-researcher pedagogy within the geography curriculum 183 Helen Walkington 15. Who owns the curriculum? Co-production of an evolving research-informed module 198 Richard Hodgkins and Joanna Bullard 16. Conveying geographic concepts through issues-based inquiry 211 Phil Klein, Karen Barton, Jessica Salo, Jieun Lee and Timothy Vowles 17. Learning and teaching about race and racism in geography 227 James Esson and Angela Last 18. Teaching challenging material: emotional geographies and geographies of death 241 Avril Maddrell and Edward Wigley 19. Geography as responsibility: sustainability through teaching and learning within geography 256 Zoe P. Robinson 20. Enhancing internationalisation in the geography undergraduate curriculum 269 Ash Parton and Martin Haigh 21. Heutagogy, personal learning environments, and multi-path entry into GIS education 284 Michael DeMers 22. Field-based pedagogies for developing learners’ independence 299 Ian C. Fuller and Derek France PART III CAPSTONE AND BRIDGING PEDAGOGIES FOR THE FINAL YEAR 23. Pedagogical partnerships, identity building and self-authorship in geography higher education 314 Niamh Moore-Cherry 24. Taking ownership: active learning and student engagement 329 Eric Pawson and Mark Poskitt 25. Examining the potential of experiential learning as pedagogy for senior undergraduate students 342 Shauna Brail and Kate Whalen 26. Fieldwork in the undergraduate geography curriculum: developing graduate skills 357 Lisa Mol, Michael Horswell and Lucy Clarke 27. Authentic assessment and feedback to develop lifelong learning 371 Jennifer Hill and Nancy Worth 28. Capstones in geography 386 Alice Hovorka and Peter Wolf 29. Learning for work 399 Ifan D.H. Shepherd 30. Embedding employability skills in the curriculum and extending into postgraduate programs 414 Colin Arrowsmith and William Cartwright 31. Graduate attributes in geography higher education 430 Rachel Spronken-Smith 32. Teaching geography students about careers 443 Michael Solem, Niem Tu Huynh and Joseph Kerski 33. Exploring pedagogic tensions in final year programme design 458 Pauline E. Kneale 34. Teaching, learning and assessing in geography: a foundation for the future 474 Jennifer Hill, Helen Walkington and Sarah Dyer Index 487

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Book SynopsisEstablishing a new set of international perspectives from around the world on experiences of death, disposition and remembrance in urban environments, this book brings deathscapes – material, embodied and emotional places associated with dying and death – to life. It pushes the boundaries of established empirical and conceptual understandings of death in urban spaces through anthropological, geographical and ethnographic insights.Chapters reveal how urban deathscapes are experienced, used, managed and described in specific locales in varied settings; how their norms and values intersect and at times conflict with the norms of dominant and assumed practices; and how they are influenced by the dynamic practices, politics and demographics typical of urban spaces. Case studies from across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America highlight the differences between deathscapes, but also show their clear commonality in being as much a part of the world of the living as they are of the dead.With a people- and space-centred approach, this book will be an interesting read for human geography, death studies and urban studies scholars, as well as social and cultural anthropologists and sociologists. Its international and interdisciplinary nature will also make this a beneficial book for planning and landscape architecture, religious studies and courses on death practices.Trade Review‘This volume challenges us to rethink the diversity of deathscapes – not just cemeteries and columbaria but also retirement homes, hospitals, museums and Facebook pages. Through the fraught terrain of death, the window on life is turned upside-down, giving us a ground-up view of contestations across social-political, familial and technological spheres.’ -- Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore‘Focussing on the urban areas where most humans now live and where conflict, insecurity, migration and violence can characterise death as well as life, this fascinating, disturbing yet hopeful book re-sets the agenda for research into deathscapes.’ -- Tony Walter, University of Bath, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: continuity, change, and contestation in urban deathscapes 1 Mariske Westendorp and Danielle House PART I SOCIO-POLITICAL DEATHSCAPES 2 Informal deathscapes in metropolitan Lima as cultural knowledge systems 21 Christien Klaufus 3 Between life, death, and modernity at Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore 42 See Mieng Tan and Benedict J.W. Yeo 4 There’s no place like home: minority-majority dialogue, contestation, and ritual negotiation in cemeteries and crematoria spaces 61 Katie McClymont, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Avril Maddrell, Brenda Mathijssen, Danny McNally, and Sufyan Dogra PART II FAMILIAL DEATHSCAPES 5 Negotiating the aesthetics of mourning in Luxembourg: on pre-modern forms in post-modern spaces 83 Elisabeth Boesen 6 “The crocodile is stronger in the water”: Swakopmund jetty as a place of death in Namibia 107 Jack Boulton 7 Adapting to ‘one-size-fits-all’: constructing appropriate Islamic burial spaces in Northwestern Europe 124 Danielle House, Mariske Westendorp, Vevila Dornelles, Helena Nordh, and Farjana Islam PART III TECHNOLOGISED DEATHSCAPES 8 Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan 145 Anne Allison 9 Being existed by another through the sensory: the ungrievable deaths of industrial pigs in slaughterhouse tours 162 Eimear Mc Loughlin 10 Mexico City’s exceptional deathscapes: the disappeared, (digital) bodies, molecular speculations 180 Arely Cruz-Santiago 11 Afterword: urban deathscapes – bodies, ritual spaces, urban inequalities, pressures, and opportunities 198 Avril Maddrell Index 204

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Book SynopsisSpatial Inequalities and Wellbeing represents a timely contribution to the literature tackling one of the most crucial concerns of modern times: the rise of inequalities and its far-reaching implications for individual wellbeing. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, the book highlights the different types and sources of inequalities and identifies opportunities for policy action to tackle various inequalities at once.Featuring expert contributions from eminent scholars, this insightful book posits that policies themselves can produce deep inequalities at the spatial level while trying to reduce them and also explores how inequalities and marginalisation depress individual wellbeing and can become a threat to political and institutional stability. Chapters critically analyse the causes of spatial inequalities, ranging from education and housing to location in the largest cities. The book also highlights the negative consequences of these gaps widening, and emphasises how participatory and bottom-up interventions can contribute to narrowing such disparities at the micro-level.Academics, researchers and students in urban and regional studies; human geography; economics and finance; politics and public policy; and sociology and social policy will find this to be an informative read. Policymakers within these fields will equally find this to be a beneficial resource.Trade Review‘The work is presented through up-to-date and scholarly comparative chapters that are immensely topical and timely. Contemporary European societies are facing the twin trends of growing socio-economic disparities between people and places, and the expansion of a regressive political populism that is undermining attempts to foster greater cohesion. This book contributes to the development and re-assertion of progressive agendas founded on social justice and the propagation of well-being.’ -- Mike Raco, University College London, UK‘Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing: A Multidisciplinary Approach is a brilliant and original contribution to the analysis of the new spatial dimension of social inequalities in EU countries. Through the innovative lens of a multi-scalar perspective, the book deals with different aspects of the challenges related to spatial inequalities and wellbeing, using different disciplinary approaches ranging from regional economics to urban studies, from economic and urban geography to planning.’ -- Gabriele Pasqui, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the interplay among inequalities, wellbeing and space 1 Camilla Lenzi and Valeria Fedeli 1 Spatial Inequalities in an Era of Modern Reindustrialization 16 Roberta Capello and Silvia Cerisola 2 Left behind places and local democracy: German small towns under the conditions of peripheralisation 33 Thilo Lang, Franziska Görmar, Stefan Haunstein and Martin Graffenberger 3 Resolving the Urban Wellbeing Paradox: The Role of Education and Social Contact 52 Philip S. Morrison 4 Housing and Urban-Rural Differences in Subjective Wellbeing in the Netherlands 95 Marloes Hoogerbrugge and Martijn J. Burger 5 Urbanization and the Geography of Societal Discontent 116 Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca 6 Regional disparities in the sensitivity of wellbeing to poverty measures 133 Cristina Bernini, Silvia Emili and Maria Rosaria Ferrante 7 Spatial Inequalities and International Cooperation Projects: a Bottom-up Wellbeing Model for Inclusion 155 Daniela De Leo and Valentina Vittoria Calabrese 8 Behind Left and Right – Disentangling the Voting Behaviour of Radical Parties in Europe 173 Luise Koeppen, Dimitris Ballas, Arjen Edzes and Sierdjan Koster 9 Spatial justice: the contemporary uncertainties of the French model 212 Valeria Fedeli

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the spatial transformation of the state; a pivotal process of globalization. It explores the state as an ongoing project that is always changing, illuminating the new spaces of geopolitics that arise from these political, social, cultural, and environmental negotiations. Drawing together a diverse set of expert contributors, this book showcases compelling scholarship on the changing geographies of the state. Chapters examine the state from a range of theoretical angles and analyse a variety of relevant themes, including feminist geographies, the relationship between state and environment, urbanization, security geographies, nation-building, and geographical political economies. The book considers the state as spatial in both form and outlook, illustrating how it occupies existing and constantly-changing political geographic conditions, and how it is maintained by the practices of categorizing and managing territory. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for academics and students across a range of subjects, including human geography, international relations, political science, spatial planning, and urban studies. The key case studies explored will also provide valuable examples for scholars and policy-makers seeking a better understanding of the broad scope of geopolitics in a globalizing world.Trade Review‘It is an excellent collection of contributions, drawing together many parallel streams and deserves to be on the reading agenda of researchers and students alike.’ -- David Newman, Geography Research Forum‘The Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State, with a comprehensive geographical scope, and with academic powerhouses such as John Agnew and Jason Dittmer, immediately positions itself as a collection demanding attention.’ -- Franck Billé, Eurasian Geography and Economics'This Handbook introduces readers to key ideas and issues related to geography and state power in the 21st century. A compelling collection, it investigates the production and transformation of the state, focusing on the spatial practices and expressions of political power over time. The volume brings together an extraordinary group of contributors, presenting researchers and students with a rich compendium of expert knowledge on the state as a form of social and political organisation that remains vital to understand and interrogate in these turbulent times.' --Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xx 1 Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures 1 Sami Moisio, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte and Juho Luukkonen CONCEPTUAL POINTS OF DEPARTURE 2 Introduction: conceptual points of departure 30 Sami Moisio 3 Cultural geographies of the state and nation 33 Alex Jeffrey 4 The everyday state 46 Rhys Jones 5 Feminist geographies of state power 61 Dana Cuomo and Vanessa Massaro 6 Assemblage and the changing geographies of the state 72 Jason Dittmer 7 The state and historical geographical materialism 82 Kevin R. Cox NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND THE STATE 8 Introduction: nationalism, identity and the state 93 Natalie Koch 9 The great swindle of nationalist sovereigntism: on territory, psychology, and communication technologies 96 Luca Muscarà 10 Indigenous nationalisms as profound challenges to settler colonial regimes 107 Kate Coddington 11 Orientalist-settler colonialism: foundations and practices of post-9/11 white nationalism in the United States 119 Christabel Devadoss and Karen Culcasi 12 The ‘problem’ of religion in the secular state: sectarianism and state formation in Lebanon 132 Caroline Nagel 13 Building nations/building states/building cities: concrete symbols of identity 145 Benjamin Forest and Sarah Moser GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF THE STATE 14 Introduction: geographical political economies of the state 158 Sami Moisio 15 Geoeconomics and the state 161 John Agnew 16 The geography of policy-making: mobile policy, territory and state space 173 Russell Prince 17 Neuroliberalism in the digital age: the emerging geographies of the behavioural state 185 Mark Whitehead 18 The combined ascent of the austerity state and the security state and its changing geographies 198 Bernd Belina and Tino Petzold 19 Feminist political economies of the Nordic welfare state: gendering the economy and economizing gender equality 212 Hanna Ylöstalo THE STATE, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 20 Introduction: the state, energy and the environment 225 Natalie Koch 21 State of nature: on the co-constitution of resources, state and nation 228 Tom Perreault 22 Governmentality and the global geopolitics of consumption-based environmental accounting 240 Afton Clarke-Sather 23 Already existing dystopias: tribal sovereignty, extraction, and decolonizing the Anthropocene 251 Andrew Curley and Majerle Lister 24 Sustainability as ‘corporate social responsibility’: paradoxes of hydrocarbon development in the Russian Arctic 263 Stephanie Hitztaler and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 25 Sovereignty and climate necropolitics: the tragedy of the state system goes ‘green’ 276 Meredith J. DeBoom PART V SECURITY AND THE STATE 26 Introduction: security and the state 288 Christopher Lizotte 27 Imagining the ‘outside’ danger: the critical geopolitics of security and the armed forces in Latin America (1960–2018) 291 Jerónimo Ríos Sierra and Heriberto Cairo 28 The school–security nexus and the changing geographies of the state 302 Nicole Nguyen 29 Spheres of influence 313 Stefanie Ortmann 30 Cyberspace: the new frontier of state power 325 Frédérick Douzet PART VI TERRITORY, THE STATE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 31 Introduction: territory, the state and urban development 339 Andrew E.G. Jonas 32 Territory, the state and geopolitics of mega city-region development in China 343 Yi Li and Fulong Wu 33 Competitive upscaling in the state: extrospective city-regionalism 355 David Wachsmuth 34 Emerging citizenship regimes and rescaling (European) nation-states: algorithmic, liquid, metropolitan and stateless citizenship ideal types 368 Igor Calzada 35 Post-crash cities: the Great Recession, state restructuring and urban governance 384 Mark Davidson 36 ‘Urbanizations’ of green geopolitics: new state spaces in global unsustainability 398 Yonn Dierwechter SPATIAL PLANNING AND THE STATE 37 Introduction: spatial planning and the state 413 Juho Luukkonen 38 Private expertise and the reorganization of spatial planning in England 416 Matthew Wargent, Gavin Parker and Emma Street 39 Metropolitanization as state spatial transformation 428 Carola Fricke and Enrico Gualini 40 Transforming the geography of the welfare state through neoliberal spatial strategies: the case of Denmark 442 Kristian Olesen 41 The absolutist city developer: predatory megaprojects and the state–planning nexus in Qatar 455 Agatino Rizzo 42 State land concessions and the spatial politics of rural planning 465 Miles Kenney-Lazar Index

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Book SynopsisThis expansive Handbook guides readers through a multi-layered landscape of the interpretations and uses of transdisciplinary thinking and practices worldwide. It advances understanding of the strengths and limits of transdisciplinary research in the context of societal power relations, institutional structures and social inequalities.Original chapters from 116 scholars and experts in 27 countries create a multi-cultural constellation of conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research, teaching, training and community projects, showcasing the diversity and plurality of transdisciplinary contributions. Framed through the core themes of thinking, doing and being, this Handbook thoroughly reviews key topics including philosophies and theories, research and practice, education and training and financial and institutional resources with examples from innovative transdisciplinary global projects.Inclusive in its approach, this Handbook will be an ideal resource for public and private domain professionals wishing to explore collaborative working practices. Scholars looking for a better understanding of transdisciplinarity and how it differs from interdisciplinarity will find the case studies illustrative and informative.Trade Review‘An indispensable Handbook on transdisciplinarity that unifies conceptual, pedagogic and practical contributions from over 100 authors across five continents. Transdisciplinarity is a global approach to complexity that progresses “between”, “through” and “beyond” individual disciplines. It is an obligatory yet challenging process, helping us to understand the (unstable) current world and to generate novel transformative propositions.’ -- Philippe Moreillon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and President of SCNAT‘This pragmatic, accessible and comprehensive reflection on global applications of a transdisciplinary approach is a welcome contribution to the debate and demonstrates that transdisciplinarity has become an intellectual field of its own. The various contributors discuss the epistemological, philosophical and theories that underpin transdisciplinarity and demonstrate the way in which the diversity, coexistence and plurality in different geographical and cultural contexts use transdisciplinarity in creative and meaningful ways. This Handbook is a valuable resource for all researchers and institutions in their efforts to link knowledge with practice and bring about transformation through dynamic acts of transgression.’ -- Heide Hackmann, University of Pretoria, South AfricaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xxix Alfonso Montuori Acknowledgements xxxix Roderick J. Lawrence Introduction 1 Roderick J. Lawrence PART I EPISTEMOLOGIES, PHILOSOPHIES, AND THEORIES 1 The promise of scaffolding: a metaphor and living practice for transdisciplinary inquiry 28 Pia Andersson and Henrietta Palmer 2 Transdisciplinarity as it emerges: a living-systems perspective 44 Danielle Davelaar 3 The public epistemic role of higher education for all 62 Su-ming Khoo 4 The pertinence of transdisciplinarity for global studies: the case of globalization 79 Amentahru Wahlrab 5 Addressing power relations in the global field of science 95 Petra Dannecker 6 Cross-pollination in art and science: plasticity of the mind and birth of transcultures 111 Marc-Williams Debono 7 New pragmatics and hermeneutics of self, knowledge, and society: transdisciplinarity, trans-civilizational dialogues, and planetary conversations 128 Ananta Kumar Giri PART II PRAXIS 8 Transdisciplinary practice: being, doing, knowing 145 David Adams and Kate Maguire 9 Emergence of transdisciplinarity in global environmental change research: moving from system understanding to systemic sustainability solutions 159 Rik Leemans and Karen Fortuin 10 Navigating knowledge systems to address resilience challenges: contributions of communities of practice 177 Corina Angheloiu, Shuchi Vora and Mike Tennant 11 The transdisciplinary potential of citizen science 197 Alexandra Albert, Muki Haklay, Fabien Moustard, Susanne Hecker, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Marina Chang and Ariel B. Lindner 12 Real-world Labs as transdisciplinary learning environments 214 Richard Beecroft 13 Transdisciplinary teams as discourse coalitions: building transformative narratives for transdisciplinary inquiry 230 Chris Riedy 14 Formative developmental evaluation: a transdisciplinary urban regeneration project in London, UK 247 Gemma Moore, Irene Pluchinotta, Helen Pineo, David Osrin, Nici Zimmermann, Giuseppe Salvia and Michael Davies PART III PEDAGOGY AND TRAINING 15 Collaborating for good: what would a transdisciplinary university look like? 267 Michael F. Mascolo 16 Advancing transdisciplinary research in the Global South 286 Katsia Paulavets, Sarah Moore and Mathieu Denis 17 Transdisciplinarity in higher education: the potential of digitalization 306 Theres Paulsen, Jakob Zinsstag and Lisa Crump 18 Transdisciplinary education and ATLAS activities: past, present, and future perspectives 319 Atila Ertas, Raymond T. Yeh, Bob Block and David Block PART IV A GLOBAL SAMPLE OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY 19 Value-added transdisciplinary One Health research and problem solving 333 Jakob Zinsstag, Kristina Pelikan, Monica Berger Gonzalez, Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund, Lisa Crump, Stephanie Mauti, Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa, Bassirou Bonfoh, Seid Mohammed Ali, Rahma Abtidon and Rea Tschopp 20 Engaging in transformative spaces: a design perspective 351 Aniek Hebinck, Timo von Wirth, Giorgia Silvestri and Laura Pereira 21 Amidst the flyway: co-designing accommodation fields for the barnacle goose in south-eastern Finland 367 Juha Hiedanpää, Matti Salo, Mikko Jokinen, Jani Pellikka, Ron Store, Toni Laaksonen, Mika Pirinen, Wieland Heim, Antti Piironen, Nina Mikander, Hanne Lohilahti and Jukka T. Forsman 22 Schola’s action program: modernizing and sustaining public schools in Quebec 384 Carole Després, Claude Demers, Caroline Gagnon, Pierre Larochelle, Frédérick Lépinay, André Potvin and Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre 23 Children as research actors: theories, methods, and experimentation 403 Frédéric Darbellay and Zoe Moody 24 Transdisciplinarity at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan 419 Tetsuzo Yasunari, Yasuhisa Kondo, Ria Lambino, Hein Mallee, Yuko Onishi, Makoto Taniguchi and Ichiro Tayasu 25 Implementing sustainability in Taipei with transdisciplinarity 436 Liling Huang, Shang-Hsien Hsieh, Yun-Tsui Chang, Kuan-Chieh Chen and Qile Dong 26 Co-producing urban and peri-urban agriculture in Andean countries 455 Jaime Hernández-García and Tannya Pico Parra 27 Reconceptualizing stakeholders and decentering collaborations: reflections from the Lagos housing sector 474 Basirat Oyalowo 28 Implementing transdisciplinarity in the Caucasus region: societal conditions, institutional transitions, and perspectives 492 Tamara Mitrofanenko, Tigran Keryan, Nina Shatberashvili, Lana Ghvinjilia and Ulli Vilsmaier PART V RESOURCES 29 Resourcing transdisciplinary programs and projects 513 Erica Key 30 Global alliance for inter- and transdisciplinarity: connecting organizations to advance collaborative research and education 525 Stephen M. Fiore, Julie Thompson Klein, Ulli Vilsmaier, Machiel Keestra and Theres Paulsen 31 Toolkits for transdisciplinary research: state of the art, challenges, and potentials for further developments 536 Sibylle Studer and Christian Pohl 32 Does transdisciplinarity need an underpinning discipline? The case for Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) 547 Gabriele Bammer PART VI PROSPECTS 33 Prospects for transdisciplinarity and beyond: collectively keeping the future in mind 560 Valerie A. Brown and John A. Harris 34 Digital Life Norway – should biotechnology be transdisciplinary? 575 Maria Bårdsen Hesjedal, Trygve Brautaset and Roger Strand 35 What futures for transdisciplinarity in nuclear R&D? 592 Catrinel Turcanu, Gaston Meskens, Robbe Geysmans, Joke Kenens, Marika Silvikko de Villafranca and Tanja Perko Epilogue: globalizing transdisciplinarity 609 Julie Thompson Klein Index 619

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Book SynopsisThe digitalization of work processes and the generalization of IT are creating unprecedented opportunities. An increasing part of the workforce is experimenting with new forms of work, as freelancers, self-employed or highly skilled employees with greater autonomy. International in scope, this book comprehensively explores these new models of work, mobility and life trajectories, and the increasing role of non-metropolitan coworking spaces.This interdisciplinary book investigates new trends in relationships between work, life plans, work-life balance, and mobility in the context of ongoing societal digitalization. An expert group of contributors adopts a comparative approach in assessing the coworking phenomenon. They examine the social embeddedness of collaborative workspaces and consider topics such as social exchange, cooperation, and collaboration, critically assessing the question of individual and collective mobilities, and exploring the historical roots of coworking and its developing meanings and uses in practice.Gathering a wide variety of studies which investigate the diversity of social trajectories, institutional context, social transition, cooperation, policy measures, and mobility patterns, this book will be an interesting read for academics and students in the fields of organizational behavior, human geography, sociology of work, cities, and regional studies. Politicians interested in territorial development, elected officials, workers of municipalities and regions, and journalists who cover work issues, will similarly find this to be a beneficial read.Trade Review‘An impressive selection of cases that reflects the variety and scope of the coworking phenomenon, setting a milestone for future research on the topic.’ -- Alessandro Gandini, University of Milan, Italy‘Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Gerhard Krauss have brought together an impressive array of scholars from the US, Canada, and Europe in what will certainly become an indispensable handbook for all, teachers and students alike, interested in understanding what coworking is all about.’ -- Mario Polèse, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to The Coworking (R)evolution 1 Gerhard Krauss and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay PART I CONCEPTUALIZATION AND DEFINITIONS OF THIRD PLACES, COWORKING, AND COWORKING SPACES 1 Third places, coworking, and coworking spaces as concepts responding to current social and economic trends 7 Gerhard Krauss and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 2 Collaborative working, coworking spaces, and communities of practice: their origins, definitions, forms, different types, and forms of collaboration 26 Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez PART II THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES 3 How coworking spaces have spread beyond larger metro areas: a spatial diffusion analysis in France 42 Christine Liefooghe, Guy Baudelle, Sébastien Le Gall, and Clément Marinos 4 A new mode of reconciliation of professional and personal life: the contribution of coworking space 59 Guy Baudelle, Flavie Ferchaud, Gerhard Krauss, Anne-Laure Peyrou, and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 5 Perceived health and well-being of workers: understanding the effects observed in coworking spaces 75 Nathalie Marceau and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay PART III SOCIAL EXCHANGE, COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION 6 Motivations to collaborate and motivations to work in coworking spaces: a comparative analysis 93 Jennifer Urasadettan, Anne-Laure Le Nadant, Pascal Glémain, and Gerhard Krauss 7 Coworking, legitimate practice, and physical presence in the modern workplace 111 Peter A. Bacevice and Gretchen M. Spreitzer 8 Co-working and entrepreneurship in non-metropolitan Third Working-places: which local transition? A first analysis in the west region of France 125 Pascal Glémain, Jennifer Urasadettan, and Valérie Billaudeau 9 Nuances of working together: the influence of managerial approaches on collaboration within coworking spaces 142 Costantino Romeo, Ignasi Capdevila, Barbara Da Roit, and Maurizio Busacca PART IV THE MOBILITY OF CO-WORKERS 10 Coworking spaces: a way of promoting more sustainable mobility and lifestyles? The example of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France 160 Patricia Lejoux, Aurore Flipo, Nathalie Ortar, Nicolas Ovtracht, and Stéphanie Souche-Lecorvec 11 Daily mobility patterns of coworkers in non-metropolitan areas: a French case study 174 Benoît Feildel PART V THE DIVERSITY OF SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES, INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT, COOPERATION, POLICY MEASURES, AND MOBILITY PATTERNS: LESSONS FROM EMPIRICAL FIELD STUDIES IN FRANCE, ITALY, NORWAY, CANADA, VIETNAM, LEBANON AND POLAND 12 Coworking spaces, digital nomads, and urban development: insights from Beirut, Lebanon 192 Divya Leducq and Étienne Bou Abdo 13 Third places for transitions? The role of an awareness-raising method with the transition-meter 209 Valérie Billaudeau and Pascal Glémain 14 The coworking space: a catalyst for initiatives at the crossroad of mobility and embeddedness. Lessons from peripheral areas of Western France 226 Sébastien Le Gall, Guy Baudelle, Anne-Laure Peyrou, and Clément Marinos 15 Public libraries as new community hubs for remote workers? 244 Mina Di Marino and Ilaria Mariotti 16 The diversity of coworking spaces: case studies from Canada 257 Arnaud Scaillerez and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 17 The little-observed spread of coworking spaces in Asia and their potential for urban and economic transition: the case of Vietnam 270 Helga-Jane Scarwell and Divya Leducq 18 Case studies in post-socialist Poland: the development of coworking spaces in small towns and rural areas 284 Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska and Mariusz Czupich Conclusion to the coworking (r)evolution 301 Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Gerhard Krauss Index

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Book SynopsisEncompassing a broad range of innovative studies on planning support science, this timely Handbook examines how the consequences of pressing societal challenges can be addressed using computer-based systems. Chapters explore the use of new streams of big and open data as well as data from traditional sources, offering significant critical insights into the field. Contributions from key scholars from around the world demonstrate how mature the field of planning support science has become in providing support for practitioners to confront diverse problems. The Handbook analyses a carefully selected range of case studies looking at digitization, big data, geodesign, applied modelling, smart city instruments and planning support systems. It addresses key urban challenges including traffic congestion, neighbourhood gentrification and urban heat-island formation, providing examples of how planning practitioners can improve modern urban conditions. Scholars of urban and regional studies as well as human geographers will find this to be a critical reference on the topic. With examples of planning applications from across the world, this will also be a key resource for urban and regional planners and policy-makers. Contributors include: J. Barton, R. Behrens, C. Biderman, M. Birkin, S. Blanchard, P. Boden, M. Campagna, Y. Chen, H. Chou, J. Claassens, C. Daniel, C. de Boer, B. Deal, Z. Deng, S. Eagleson, F. Fernandez, F. Figari, J. Flacke, Q.-L. Gao, S. Geertman, X. Goldie, R. Goodspeed, P. Greenwood, Y. Gu, S. Guhathakurta, J.D. Hamerlinck, N. Hood, R. Hughes, W. James, E. Janowicz, R. Janssen, M. Kahila-Tani, R. Kingston, B.W. Koo, E. Koomen, P. Krause, H.R. Kwon, M. Kyttä, S.Z. Leao, J. Li, S. Li, X. Li, S. Lieske, J. Liu, L. Liu, Z. Liu, O. Lock, N. Lomax, Y. Long, R. Lovelace, I. Luque-Martín, J. Martinez, S. Maurer, T. Moyo, W. Musakwa, A. Newing, H. Niu, P. Pelzer, C. Pettit, K. Pfeffer, S. Pinnegar, E. Punt, B. Rijken, R. Sieber, E.A. Silva, A.P. Smith, A. Staffans, I. Sterland, J. Stillwell, B. Stimson, T. Su, D.C. Swiatek, Z. Tomor, F. van den Bosch, V. Vlastaras, P. Waddell, S. Wang, M. Wegener, C. Whitcomb, P. Witte, A.G.O. Yeh, Y. Yue, G. Zhang, X. Zhang, N. Zhao, Z. Zheng, X. Zhou, M. ZuidgeestTrade Review'The editors and authors put together this seminal volume at the cross-roads of geospatial technologies, systems and (big and small) data science. Long-term PSSers and the newly initiated will enjoy this state of the art volume which builds on the past and looks into the future trajectory of PSS.' --Zorica Nedovic-Budic, University of Illinois at Chicago, US, and University College Dublin, Ireland'The Handbook of Planning Support Science provides an important, up-to-date review of innovative methods, tools, techniques, and case studies on the development and use of planning support systems (PSS), computer-based tools that support planning and policy-making. This essential international collection describes state-of-the-art applications using big data and data analytics, smart cities, cloud-based computing, and geodesign.' --Richard E. Klosterman, University of Akron, US'Read on. Enter a cornucopia of intelligent applications and reflections on PSS. Enjoy.' --Michael Batty, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: planning support systems in a connected world by Michael Batty xiii Preface xix 1 Planning support science: challenges, themes and applications 1 Stan Geertman and John Stillwell PART I DATA INTEGRATION AND LINKAGE 2 Data linkage and its applications for planning support systems 22 Mark Birkin, William James, Nik Lomax and Andrew Smith 3 Hard and soft data integration in geocomputation: mixed methods for data collection and processing in urban planning 37 Elisabete A. Silva, Lun Liu, Heeseo Rain Kwon, Haifeng Niu and Yiqiao Chen 4 Open access, open source and cloud computing: a glimpse into the future of GIS 56 Christopher Pettit, Bob Stimson, Jack Barton, Xavier Goldie, Philip Greenwood, Robin Lovelace and Serryn Eagleson PART II METHODS FOR SPATIAL PLANNING 5 Spatial planning and geodesign 73 Michele Campagna 6 Methodology and application of data augmented design: a case study of urban redevelopment design for the Panyu-Xinhua Area, Shanghai 87 Tianyu Su, Shihui Li, Jing Li, Hungyu Chou and Ying Long 7 Geodesign, resilience and planning support systems: the integration of process and technology 110 Yexuan Gu and Brian Deal 8 Spatial modelling and forecasting 132 Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Ge Zhang and Bon Woo Koo 9 Are urban land-use transport interaction models planning support systems? 153 Michael Wegener 10 Automated monitoring of planning policy: an overview of the journey from theory to practice 161 Claire Daniel PART III PLANNING SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND THE SMART CITY CONCEPT 11 Big data, urban analytics and the planning of smart cities 179 Anthony G.O. Yeh, Yang Yue, Xingang Zhou and Qi-Li Gao 12 Planning support systems and science beyond the smart city 199 Zhibin Zheng and Renée Sieber 13 The achievements and challenges of planning support science in e-planning in China 213 Shifu Wang, Zhaohua Deng, Zheng Liu, Nannan Zhao, Xiaoyang Zhang and Jie Liu 14 Smart governance in the making: integrating ‘smart’ in local spatial planning 226 Patrick Witte, Eline Punt and Stan Geertman 15 The influence of political context on smart governance initiatives in Glasgow, Utrecht and Curitiba 238 Zsuzsanna Tomor and Stan Geertman 16 Challenging the conventional wisdom: the case of MobiLab, S.o Paulo, Brazil 257 Ciro Biderman and Daniela Coimbra Swiatek PART IV PARTICIPATION AND ENGAGEMENT IN PLANNING 17 Transcending the exemplars of utility and implementation in planning support science 270 Scott N. Lieske 18 Limitations and potential of planning support systems application in planning in southern Spain: bridging academia and practice 281 Irene Luque-Martín and Karin Pfeffer 19 Interactive planning support systems with citizens: lessons learned from renewable energy planning in the Netherlands 294 Johannes Flacke, Cheryl de Boer, Frans van den Bosch and Karin Pfeffer 20 Participatory urban planning in the digital era 307 Aija Staffans, Maarit Kahila-Tani and Marketta Kyttä 21 Local government web-based services for neighbourhood planning 323 Richard Kingston and Vasileios Vlastaras 22 Organizing, facilitating, and evaluating planning support system workshops 338 Robert Goodspeed and Peter Pelzer 23 Using geodesign for collaborative planning: development planning in the Lower Zambezi Valley 353 Ron Janssen 24 Perspectives on planning support systems and e-planning in southern Africa: opportunities, challenges and the road ahead 366 Walter Musakwa and Thembani Moyo PART V SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR LAND-USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING 25 Linking socio-economic and physical dynamics in spatial planning 383 Jip Claassens, Eric Koomen and Bart Rijken 26 Cellular automata modelling for urban planning in fast-growth regions 397 Xia Li and Anthony G.O. Yeh 27 UrbanCanvas: a collaborative platform for informed planning 416 Paul Waddell, Edward Janowicz, Samuel Blanchard and Samuel Maurer 28 The making of a mega-region: evaluating and proposing long-term transport planning strategies with open-source data and transport accessibility tools 442 Oliver Lock, Simon Pinnegar, Simone Z. Leao and Christopher Pettit PART VI SECTORAL PLANNING SUPPORT 29 Planning support systems for retail location planning 459 Andy Newing, Nick Hood and Iain Sterland 30 Planning support systems for school-place forecasting 471 Peter Boden, Rebecca Hughes and John Stillwell 31 Penciler: a web-based affordable housing development feasibility analysis tool 486 Paul Waddell, Christiana Whitcomb, Francisco Figari, Federico Fernandez and Justin Martinez 32 A GIS-based planning support system for inclusionary housing profitability optimization in Cape Town, South Africa 506 Philip Krause, Mark Zuidgeest and Roger Behrens 33 Applying planning support science in rural environments 524 Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck Index 539

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Book SynopsisExploring the growing field of mobilities research, this Handbook focuses on the flows and movements of people, artefacts, capital, information and signs on different social and geographical scales. It examines the systems and practices of mobilities within societies, politics, cultures and economies from different theoretical, epistemological and methodological perspectives. Reflecting the variety and diversity of research methods and applications, contributions from top scholars highlight the multiple dimensions of mobilities, from transport to tourism, cargo to information, and across physical, virtual and imaginative mobilities. Chapters analyse mobilities from different angles and scales, emphasising interdisciplinarity by looking at how researchers engage with mobile methods. An inspirational toolbox of research methods and applications for mobilities, sociology and human geography scholars, this Handbook provides both qualitative and quantitative insights to the topic. It will be of interest to policymakers and urban planners looking for a better understanding of the impact and importance of mobilities in contemporary societies. Contributors include: K. Barry, N.M. Bennetsen, J. Berg, T. Birtchnell, T. Böhme, G. Bourg, R. Boyd, A.V.H. Bueno, M. Büscher, E.C. Cabalquinto, C.B. Christensen, F. da Costa Portugal Duarte, M. de Neergaard, A. Elliott, M. Freudendal-Pedersen, J. Germann Molz, K. Goetz, N. Grauslund Kristensen, K. Hartmann-Petersen, M. Henriksson, J.M. Hildebrand, F. Hirschhorn, M. Huyghe, O. Järv, H.L. Jensen, O.B. Jensen, S. Kesselring, H. Krobath, G.R. Larsen, C. Lassen, A. Maddrell, K. Manderscheid, A. Masso, L. Murray, L. Nitschke, A. Paulsson, A. Perkins, R. Rackham, A. Rocci, L. Schindler, M. Sheller, S. Silm, L.C. Smith, S. Smith, S. Sodero, G. Sunderer, C.H. Sørensen, B. Szerszynski, K.S. Tan, S. Thulin, M. Trandberg Jensen, C. Tschoerner-Budde, D. Tyfield, R. Tzanelli, P. Vannini, S. Wilson, D. ZuevTrade Review'Now, more than ever, researchers need multi-scalar tools to navigate complex and borderless research problems. This Handbook offers a multi-layered array of research methods that identify, experiment with and analyse mobile data and their infrastructures. Chapters detail practical methods by researchers who have applied them, while other chapters call for the design of methods to investigate new mobilities problems. Whether working with data hubs requiring methodological hierarchies or working with digitalized data generated in smart sensor technologies or working with spontaneous data co-created ''in the flow'' of fieldwork, researchers will find valuable resources and critical tools in this book.' --Martha Bell, Independent Sociologist with Media Associates, New Zealand'This is an exceptional contribution to the literature on mobilities that engages and goes beyond simply mobile methodologies to develop applied and critical insights. It is wide ranging in topics and includes authors of international repute. It is sure to be a must-read for students, academics and practitioners involved in future mobilities research.' --Kevin Hannam, City University of Macau, China'This is a sparkling collection of essays written by scholars - many of whom are leaders in the field - who are passionately committed to the way in which the new mobilities paradigm has fundamentally changed how we understand the contemporary world and the challenges it faces. Every chapter is a delight to read, with the inventiveness of the methods and applications surveyed spilling over into writing that is equally creative and inspired.' --Lynne Pearce, Lancaster University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities 1 Monika Büscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring and Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen PART I MOTIVATIONS 1 Mobility justice 11 Mimi Sheller 2 Mobilities and values 21 Malene Freudendal-Pedersen 3 Mobilities and (un)sustainability 28 Dennis Zuev and Luca Nitschke 4 Researching the mobile risk society 38 Sven Kesselring 5 Mobilities and social futures 50 Monika Büscher PART II METHODS 6 openAnalogInput(BODY): investigating data mobilities through critical making 63 Fernanda da Costa Portugal Duarte 7 How to use time-geographic travel diaries in mobility research 74 Malin Henriksson and Jessica Berg 8 Applying multiple and multi-scalar methods to mobilities hub research 84 Gunvor Riber Larsen 9 Drone mobilities and auto-technography 92 Julia M. Hildebrand 10 Logbooks of mobilities 102 Larissa Schindler 11 Sensory imagination as mobile method: sonic place-making on forest roads 111 Helena Krobath 12 Campervan ethnographies: mobile experiments and methodological manoeuvres 125 Sharon Wilson 13 Mobility orientations 137 Konrad Götz and Georg Sunderer PART III APPLICATIONS 14 Mobility behaviour change programmes in France: contexts of emergence, governance, goals and impacts 151 Marie Huyghe, Ghislain Bourg and Anaïs Rocci 15 Investigating mobilities with literary methods 162 Anita Perkins 16 Vital mobilities 172 Stephanie Sodero and Richard Rackham 17 Tracing human mobilities through mobile phones 182 Siiri Silm, Olle Järv and Anu Masso 18 MoVE: mobile virtual ethnography 193 Jennie Germann Molz 19 Mixed mobile methods for a mobile practice: inclusive research on pilgrimage mobilities 202 Avril Maddrell 20 Mobile visual methods 212 Phillip Vannini and Martin Trandberg Jensen 21 Fostering discursive mobilities in sustainable mobility policymaking 221 Chelsea Tschoerner-Budde 22 Mobilities policies: exploring momentums as urban tipping points in practice 231 Nina Moesby Bennetsen and Katrine Hartmann-Petersen 23 The transformation of mobility: AI, robotics and automatization 241 Anthony Elliott and Ross Boyd 24 Researching transnational family life in a mobile era 251 Earvin Charles Cabalquinto 25 Family mobilities 263 Lesley Murray 26 Supply chains and the mobilities of cargo 272 Thomas Birtchnell and Tillmann Böhme 27 Seeing into the future of mobility: the contestable value of expert knowledge and Delphi as futures methods 282 Alexander Paulsson, Fabio Hirschhorn and Claus Hedegaard Sørensen 28 Airports as a mobile method 292 Claus Lassen 29 Run riot! On mobilities, life, and death (of civilisation), and the reveries of running artfully 303 Kai Syng Tan 30 Creative arts practice in mobilities 315 Kaya Barry 31 Simulation and preserved mobility spaces 325 Lewis Charles Smith 32 Resonance of mobilities 335 Samuel Thulin 33 Phronesis (and its potentially central contribution to mobilities research in the twenty-first century) 345 David Tyfield 34 Methods of mobilities design research 354 Ole B. Jensen, Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno, Shelley Smith and Cecilie Breinholm Christensen 35 Critical mobilities – mobilities as critique? 365 Katharina Manderscheid 36 Embodied ethnography in mobilities research 374 Maja de Neergaard and Hanne Louise Jensen 37 Synaesthesia and the mobile city 382 Rodanthi Tzanelli 38 How to dismantle a bus: planetary mobilities as method 398 Bronislaw Szerszynski Index 411

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Book SynopsisProviding a succinct overview of historical, present and future perspectives of cities and urbanism, this discerning book examines how the 21st century, regarded as the age of cities, is associated with the current crisis of democracy.The book explores the tension between non-democratic liberalism and non-liberal democracy and the present era of cities as complex systems, in which the characteristics and dynamics of urbanism are transforming our way of life. Against the backdrop of globalization, the Anthropocene, and Industry 4.0, each chapter analyses the challenges and crises facing modern democracies from the unique perspective of cities and complexity theory. Expert contributors analyse the interplay between complexity theory, urban planning, governance and the internet, ultimately highlighting the need to rediscover the relationship between urban beauty and democracy.Offering key insights into the complexities of urban development and the challenges that arise when democracy intersects with the needs of modern cities, this innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of urban geography, political science, public administration, and architecture. It will be an invaluable resource for those researching cities and complexity.Trade Review‘Juval Portugali's The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities offers a compelling analysis of the challenges facing democratic governance in complex hybrid systems. This edited volume provides a thought-provoking exploration of the intersections between urbanization and democratic politics, shedding light on the key issues confronting our societies today.’ -- Alan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction x PART I PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES 1 The crisis of democracy in the age of cities and complexity 2 Juval Portugali 2 The ancient Greek lottery and modern democracies 24 Irad Malkin 3 The end of empire and the age of cities 31 Michael Batty PART II COMPLEXITY THEORY, CITIES AND DEMOCRACY 4 Learning from small urban nations – the importance of randomness and feedback for democratic stability 51 Karoline Wiesner 5 Perfection, does it lean toward balance or perversion? How democracy and the urban grid inform about the human condition 68 Gert De Roo 6 A synergetic cities view on the crisis of democracy in the age of cities 108 Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken 7 Democracy demands wisdom 136 J.A. Scott Kelso PART III THE INTERNET, SMART CITIES AND DEMOCRACY 8 Why the internet must become more like a city 148 Luís M. A. Bettencourt 9 Privacy and trust in artificially intelligent cities 167 Charlie Catlett, Juval Portugali and Venkat Venkatakrishnan PARTIV URBAN GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING 10 Cities under pressure – urban democracy and everyday life 185 Sabine Knierbein 11 Governing cities democratically through partnerships 204 Ashwin Mahalingam and Juval Portugali 12 A crisis of lost values: rediscovering the relationship between urban beauty, democracy and complexity 220 Stefano Cozzolino 13 Democracy beyond the state in the age of cities: explaining crisis dynamics in national democracy 246 Hans Agné Index 267

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Book SynopsisThis book asks why socially innovative initiatives, including attempts to rejuvenate democracy by introducing new modes of participation, are not leading to a democratization of the State or overcoming the gap between political leaders and people. It offers a vivid and thought-provoking conversation on why we are at such an impasse and explores concrete possibilities for change. Offering insights on the failures of modern democracies from three leading voices of contemporary social science, the book interrogates the possibilities of progressive socio-political agendas, strategies, and movements seeking to overcome these failures. It highlights examples of bottom-linked forms of governance that provide signs of positive change and focuses on the essential role that progressive institutions play in enabling socio-political transformation. It also analyses how processes of self-emancipation driven by social innovation and political mobilization movements represent the most promising form of political engagement today. Students and scholars of social innovation and governance will find this to be an invigorating read. It will also be helpful to politicians and government officials seeking to understand, respond to, and explore efforts towards democratizing political change.Trade Review‘This thought-provoking volume sits at the nexus of social innovation and democratic political theory and practice. Leading international scholars compare and confront different approaches to nurturing emancipatory social change in a world increasingly encountering populist politics and ruptures to “democratic” systems. It provides a valuable landmark for anyone interested in solidarity-based social relations and the potential for social political change.’ -- Jean Hillier, RMIT University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Can Mutual Aid in a Post-industrial Society Reforge the Political? Frank Moulaert, Bob Jessop, Erik Swyngedouw and Liana Simmons 2. Bottom-linked Governance and Socio-political Transformation Frank Moulaert 3. Is Emancipatory Politicization Still Possible Today? Erik Swyngedouw 4. Exploring the Dilemma between Self-emancipation and Self-responsibilization Bob Jessop 5. Debate: A Dialogical Encounter on the Potentialities of Social Innovation for Social-Political Transformation 6. Towards Socially Innovative Political Transformation Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck, Liana Simmons, Bob Jessop and Erik Swyngedouw Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores the foundations of the smart city and, through a critique of its challenges and concerns, showcases how to redefine the concept for increased sustainability, liveability and resilience in urban areas. It undertakes a review of the smart city concept, providing a new perspective on how technology-based urban solutions must be centred around human dimensions to render more liveable urban fabrics.Chapters highlight how existing digital infrastructures can be coupled with emerging ones, so that they can provide increased efficiency and performance, with an ultimate objective of rendering safer, more sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, aligning with the needs of the SDGs. The book also covers emerging technologies and concepts, such as 6G and the ’15-minute city’, underlining how these can develop within smart city frameworks.This is an invigorating look into the concept of the smart city and how it can be improved and rethought, making it useful for urban studies and human geography academics and researchers. It also offers helpful insights for policy makers and planners on how to increase the quality of life in modern cities.Trade Review'Rethinking Smart Cities offers a refreshing and insightful survey of the increasingly popular concept of “smart cities” It surveys the concept’s evolution before critiquing the scope and offering contemporary warnings about the biases and assumptions embedded in this idea that is pervading much of our Western-informed city and regional planning literature and practice today.' -- David S Jones, Monash University and Griffith University, Australia‘In the post-COVID world, humanity needs new models of understanding positive urbanization such as the “15-minute city”. Allam and Takun argue for using technology to implement the human-scale city, not to replace it with a totalitarian dystopia. Massive collection of data can be used either to enhance the human experience, or to control the population.’ -- Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. What is a smart city? Understanding the concept beyond a tech-centric approach 2. The underlying and basic foundations of the smart city: where do artificial intelligence, machine learning and other buzz words fit in the narrative? 3. Smart cities must be sustainable and inclusive cities 4. Smart cities as an urban regeneration avenue: redefining the efficiency and performance of cities 5. The paradox of safety within data-driven smart cities 6. Enter 6G and the augmented smart city 7. The emergence of a new urban proximity-based morphology: the 15-minute city and the smart city 8. Future smart and autonomous cities: an overview towards future trends Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This innovative Research Agenda draws together discussions on the conceptualization of territory and the ways in which territory and territorial practices are intimately bound with issues of power and control. Expert contributors provide a critical assessment of key areas of scholarship on territory and territoriality across a wide range of spatial scales and with examples drawn from the global landscape. After an introduction to shifting ideas of territory, territoriality and sovereignty, the book deals with territory in its more traditional macro-scale sense at the level of the nation-state before going on to explore questions of territory, identity and belonging at a more micro-scale focusing on issues of citizenship, inclusion and exclusion.A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality will be a key resource for scholars and students in geopolitics and social and cultural geography, whilst also being a thought-provoking read for those interested in nations and nationalism, sovereignty, conflict, citizenship, and territory, place and locality.Trade Review'This terrific book demolishes the false but commonly held assumption that territory is merely the inert stage on which the real political or sociological action of life takes place. Its sophisticated analysis of fascinating and wide-ranging examples demonstrates that far from being a passive platform, territory is an active and contested element in so many of the dramas of our age. We forget this at our peril.' -- Nick Megoran, Newcastle University, UK'With wonderfully illustrative case studies, David Storey and colleagues bring us on an engaging intellectual journey. They broaden our critical reading of territory and territoriality, connecting to and extending a range of important debates in political and cultural geography, from nationalism and biopolitics, to sovereignty and violence. With the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the book feels even more important as contributors bring nuanced perspectives to the territorial strategies and socio-political conditioning of citizenship, belonging and exclusion.' -- John Morrissey, National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Territory and territoriality: retrospect and prospect 1 David Storey 2 The history and persistence of territory 25 Alexander B. Murphy 3 The contingency of sovereignty 43 John Agnew 4 Nation, territory, memory: making state-space meaningful 61 Anssi Paasi 5 Territory, identity and the UK overseas territories 83 Nichola Harmer 6 The politics of place: violence as a territorial marker 103 Niall Cunningham 7 Territory and food sovereignty 127 Amy Trauger 8 Territory, locality and citizenship 145 Richard Yarwood 9 Tenuous territories 159 David Storey 10 Bodies in space: new frontiers 179 Sian Evans Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.The power of borders emerges not only from their institutional and legal nature but also from their symbolic and identity-forming significance. This innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of border-making to the wider social world.Grounded in their original research, contributors offer a variety of discussions on future directions for border studies, including two areas which may prove particularly fruitful; firstly, the question of the broader political salience of borders and secondly, the ways in which the border studies paradigm increasingly connects ontological and ethical questions to processes of border-making. Taken together, these address the question of how everyday bordering practices and discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of social relations.This timely book will be an invigorating read for those studying borders across a wide range of disciplines including human geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, international law as well as the humanities, notably art, media studies and philosophy.Trade Review‘A Research Agenda for Border Studies, edited by James W. Scott, is a timely and concise sweep of border theory as it has developed over the past two decades. Drawing upon a number of theoretical perspectives and case studies, this engaging book provides a clear understanding of the state of borders in global perspective. Chapters are written by both established and emerging border scholars, and each provides a careful examination of border theory and analysis at different scales and in different locations. The result is a study of borders from multiple perspectives and through very different lenses. A must read if you want to know why borders matter more and more in a contemporary world and networked world.' -- Heather Nicol, Trent University, Canada'This book ably answers a necessary question: what is a relevant research agenda for border studies in an age of post-disciplinary scholarly inquiry? The contributors to this volume, individually and collectively, show that while borders today may be seen to be inescapably political, they are also inescapably cultural, social and economic. This is a must-read book for those who seek both a starting point and inspiration for their own study of borders in the contemporary world.' -- Thomas M Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, US'At a pivotal time when right-wing populists and responses to a global pandemic are erecting new borders, Scott and a diverse team of international and interdisciplinary critical scholars are setting a new agenda for critical border studies. An important book giving hope for a brighter future.' -- Harald Bauder, Toronto Metropolitan University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Introduction 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Border Studies James Wesley Scott Part 2 Socio-Political Borders 2 Interpreting Politics of Borders Anna Casaglia 3 Rescaling the border: National populism, sovereignty, and civilisationism Paul Richardson 4 Beyond Post-Coloniality in Border Studies Innocent Moyo 5 Borders as Resources: Towards a Centering of the Concept Christophe Sohn Part 3 Borderscapes and Beyond 6 Reading Borders in the Everyday: Bordering as Practice Deljana Iossifova 7 Borders and Belonging Victor Konrad 8 Materialized Narratives of Border: Articulating the Unspeakable through Everyday Objects Tuulikki Kurki 9 Bordering as a Psychological Process: The Case of a Cross-Border Worker at the Spanish Moroccan Border Alicia Español Part 4 Ethics and Border Research Agendas 10 Exploring Links between Borders and Ethics Jussi Laine 11 “Go Anywhere I Damn Well Please”? Towards an Anarchist Vocational Ethics of International Borders Nick Megoran Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states. Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities and themes.Key features include: analysis of cities as the creative nodes of societies discussion of both contemporary and historical cities exploration of the different spaces created by cities and states identification of the demands of cities in relation to climate change. This Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for scholars and advanced students of urban studies, cities, urban geography, urban sociology, and social and cultural geography.Trade Review'This brilliant book, with its unique conceptual structure, accessible writing and innovative chapter format, featuring a kaleidoscope of ''insights'' from cities around the world, provides a comprehensive and succinct synthesis of Peter Taylor's unrivalled and systematic urban scholarship. The masterpiece checks off all registers of urban studies as we know them and still provides a pathbreaking perspective on one of humanity's oldest and most enduring achievements: the city.' -- - Roger Keil, York University, Canada'Peter Taylor's insightful new book provides an informed synopsis of current debates in urban theory while also taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of actual cities around the world at different historical moments. Theoretical ideas and empirical information are presented with admirable force and clarity. A notable strength of the book is the extended narratives on individual cities that accompany each chapter.' -- - Allen J. Scott, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Preamble: academic literature on cities 1. City basics 2. Cities as the birth of civilizations 3. Busy cities 4. Cities connected 5. Demanding cities 6. Divided cities 7. Cities in states 8. Cities globalized 9. Cities in Nature Bibliographic notes and references Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states. Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities and themes.Key features include: analysis of cities as the creative nodes of societies discussion of both contemporary and historical cities exploration of the different spaces created by cities and states identification of the demands of cities in relation to climate change. This Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for scholars and advanced students of urban studies, cities, urban geography, urban sociology, and social and cultural geography.Trade Review'This brilliant book, with its unique conceptual structure, accessible writing and innovative chapter format, featuring a kaleidoscope of ''insights'' from cities around the world, provides a comprehensive and succinct synthesis of Peter Taylor's unrivalled and systematic urban scholarship. The masterpiece checks off all registers of urban studies as we know them and still provides a pathbreaking perspective on one of humanity's oldest and most enduring achievements: the city.' -- - Roger Keil, York University, Canada'Peter Taylor's insightful new book provides an informed synopsis of current debates in urban theory while also taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of actual cities around the world at different historical moments. Theoretical ideas and empirical information are presented with admirable force and clarity. A notable strength of the book is the extended narratives on individual cities that accompany each chapter.' -- - Allen J. Scott, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Preamble: academic literature on cities 1. City basics 2. Cities as the birth of civilizations 3. Busy cities 4. Cities connected 5. Demanding cities 6. Divided cities 7. Cities in states 8. Cities globalized 9. Cities in Nature Bibliographic notes and references Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a fresh perspective, this timely book analyzes the socio-cultural and physical production of planned capital cities through the theoretical lens of feminism. Dorina Pojani evaluates the historical, spatial and symbolic manifestations of new capital cities, as well as the everyday experiences of those living there, to shed light on planning processes, outcomes and contemporary planning issues. Chapters explore seven geographically, culturally and temporally diverse capital cities across Australia, India, Brazil, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Myanmar and South Korea. Pojani argues that new capital cities have embodied patriarchal systems to govern their respective polities which has magnified problems in these cities. The book highlights how in new capitals, notions such as the state, the nation, urbanism, religion, the economy and even nature have been conceived of or treated in patriarchal terms, to the detriment of women and other disadvantaged groups.This book will be an invigorating read for urban studies and planning scholars. The information about the processes of new city formation will also be of great use to urban planners.Trade Review‘Another recent book by Dorina Pojani, Trophy Cities, is relentlessly critical of the underlying gender bias that undergirds these ventures. As its subtitle proclaims, she offers “a feminist perspective on new capitals.” She documents “the patriarchal character of most nationalisms,” including the male-led predilection to found new capitals. Importantly, this intersectional feminist lens centres “not only gender by also class, race, ethnicity, religion and other systems of domination.”’ -- Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘In Trophy Cities, Dorina Pojani offers a much-needed feminist analysis of the planning of capital cities across the globe. With a diverse set of case cities and an abundance of well-researched examples from them, this book makes a significant contribution and offers a fresh perspective to our understanding of cities, how we plan them, and with what consequences. The book, or select chapters, would be excellent additions to include in cities and urbanization courses, as well as feminist theory courses. Pojani’s accessible writing style makes the book suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as policymakers and practitioners. This book challenges us to re-evaluate the traditional and dominant planning paradigms and envision something different - something better.’ -- Megan E Heim La Frombois, Journal of the American Planning Association‘Feminism is not only about political representation or economic freedom, it is also about liberating our cities from only the pursuit of capital and making them the sites of play and community, about freeing all people in the way they occupy space and live out their daily lives, about giving dignity to the lived experience. Trophy Cities is a bold proposal for planning our cities around people and not money, for prioritizing joy over wealth. I'll be thinking about it for some time to come.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: why a feminist perspective on new capital cities? 2. New capitals in the context of national history and international relations 3. The spatial manifestation of new capitals 4. The symbolic manifestation of new capitals 5. The capital as an everyday city 6. Conclusion: what would a feminist capital look like? Reference Index

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Book SynopsisIt 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. Scholarly contributions are drawn from both established and up and coming experts in gentrification studies world-wide, and a deliberate attempt has been made to broaden the geographical scope of study. As such, the Handbook covers processes of gentrification in the global north and the global south. It also looks at different mutations of gentrification and pays proper attention to both resistance to gentrification and the importance of thinking about alternatives. The Handbook challenges readers to look at both the future of gentrification studies as well as the actual process of gentrification itself. Gentrification studies is interdisciplinary and this Handbook will be especially useful to scholars in many fields including geography, sociology, anthropology, planning, law, urban studies, policy studies, rural studies, development studies, and cultural studies. It will also be of value to those activists fighting gentrification worldwide.Trade Review‘This Handbook undertakes such a critical and authoritative assessment of the emergent field having an important dialogue between existing theories and new conceptualizations of gentrification.’ -- Saraswati Raju, Regional Science Policy and Practice‘This excellent, wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook deals with comparative gentrification theory, key concepts in gentrification, different types and dimensions of gentrification and resistance to gentrification. It includes a wide range of authors and looks at gentrification in a variety of global contexts. All in all, a valuable addition to the literature.’ -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and UESTC, Chengdu, China‘The Handbook truly is a useful resource for urban scholars and students as it offers well-written entries by established urban scholars and several promising new researchers on various subjects within gentrification research. As such, it provides a wealth of knowledge on the processes and modalities of gentrification, as well as new research agendas on a variety of topics.’ -- Wouter van Gent, International Journal of Housing Policy‘This volume draws on an impressive cast of contributors and embraces a dizzying array of interrelated topics.’ -- Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘This Handbook of Gentrification Studies will be useful for graduates studying anthropology of cities, urbanism, geography, and new urban identities. There is no more complete Handbook on gentrification in the English language to date.’ -- Yves Laberge, Electronic Green Journal‘The world’s leading analyst of gentrification convenes an extraordinary team of contributors to map the evolving contours of planetary gentrification. This Handbook is your essential guide to the cosmopolitan cultures of capital that are intensifying the competitive nature of life everywhere on an urbanizing planet — from big cities to small agricultural villages, from the postindustrial consumption landscapes of the Global North to the hybrid hyper-modernities of the Global South and East.’ -- Elvin Wyly, The University of British Columbia, Canada‘The Handbook of Gentrification Studies is useful and informative. It is a good starting point for encountering the variety of debates on the topic of gentrification and its current vexations. It demonstrates clearly the need to think in flexible, cosmopolitan and comparative ways about gentrification, and consider seriously the complicated potential offered by communal resistance to gentrification.’ -- Helen Traill, LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Towards a C21st Global Gentrification Studies Loretta Lees SECTION I RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION (THEORY) 2. Beyond Anglo-American Gentrification Theory Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales 3. Beyond the Elephant of Gentrification: relational approaches to a chaotic problem Freek de Hann 4. Comparative urbanism in gentrification studies: fashion or progress? Loretta Lees SECTION II KEY/CORE CONCEPTS IN GENTRIFICATION STUDIES 5. From class to gentrification and back again Michaela Benson and Emma Jackson 6. Gentrification and Landscape Change Martin Phillips 7. Spatial capital and planetary gentrification: residential location, mobility and social inequality Patrick Rérat 8. Rent gaps Tom Slater 9. Gentrification-induced Displacement Zhao Zhang and Shenjing He SECTION III SOCIAL CLEAVAGES IN ADDITION TO CLASS 10. Non-normative sexualities and gentrification Petra Doan 11. Age, lifecourse and generation in gentrification processes Cody Hochstenbach and Willem Boterman 12. Gentrification and ethnicity Tone Huse 13. Rethinking the Gender–Gentrification Nexus Bahar Sakizlioglu SECTION IV TYPES OF GENTRIFICATION 14. Slum gentrification Eduardo Ascensão 15. New-build gentrification Mark Davidson 16. The Gentrification of Public Housing Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia 17. Tourism Gentrification Agustin Cocola-Gant 18. Retail Gentrification Phil Hubbard 19. Gentle gentrification in the exceptional city of LA? Juliet Kahne 20. New directions in urban environmental/green gentrification research Hamil Pearsall 21. Gentrification, artists and cultural economy Andy Pratt 22. Wilderness gentrification: moving ‘off-the-beaten rural tracks’ Darren Smith, Martin Phillips and Chloe Kinton SECTION V LIVING AND RESISTING GENTRIFICATION 23. Resisting gentrification Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso 24. Alternatives to gentrification: exploring urban community land trusts and urban ecovillage practices Susannah Bunce 25. Immigration and gentrification Geoffrey DeVerteuil 26. Property and planning law in England: facilitating and countering gentrification Antonia Layard 27. Self renovating neighbourhoods as an alternative to gentrification or decline Jess Steele Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.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.Chapters span a range of important themes in contemporary place branding and are organised into sections covering place branding governance, contexts, experience and creativity. Drawing on contributions from key international scholars across a variety of academic disciplines, the book showcases an interplay of oppositional perspectives - ranging from those who see place branding as a potential means of improving the economic vitality of places, to others who consider much existing place branding activity exclusionary to certain sectors of society.Providing a wealth of creative and innovative suggestions on how place branding can be done, thought about and researched differently in the future, this Research Agenda will be a key resource for research-oriented academics and students in marketing, geography, planning and tourism.Trade Review'Most key themes of interest to anyone involved in place branding research are covered in the governance, contexts and experiences sections, and along with the key grounding issues, the book contains some very insightful case studies. In the final chapter, Stephen Brown recognises that while place branding may have peaked, we now see more of a focus on destination demarketing. This book is therefore very timely. Since global tourism was devastated in 2020 and places seek to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, a more considered research agenda as outlined in this book may lead to places being better managed with a focus more on sufficiency than growth, so we do not face a need for destination demarketing again.' -- Heather Skinner, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK'At last, a truly critical book on a highly controversial matter, with a broad range of contributions from geography, marketing, politics and beyond. One of its many merits is the juxtaposition of contrasting perspectives: from those who see place branding as a means of improving places, to others who consider it just another tool of the neoliberal project. This volume is an indispensable reference work for anybody who wants to understand the development, limitations, and potential research agendas of this ''discipline''.' -- Ares Kalandides, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK'A Research Agenda for Place Branding is not only the title of this book - but is also much needed. While in recent decades we created common ground and shared definitions (or at least agreed to disagree), place branding now needs an academic inspiration, some novel ideas and rigorous, impactful contributions. This book combines many of the critical well-known interdisciplinary minds of our field. I invite you to read it and use its ideas to develop bold research ideas and create this necessary new research agenda for place branding.' -- Sebastian Zenker, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: 1 Place branding’s present and past realities, and future research agendas 1 Dominic Medway, Gary Warnaby and John Byrom PART I GOVERNANCE 2 Place branding and the neoliberal class settlement 19 Aram Eisenschitz 3 Computational approaches to place branding: A call for a theory-driven research agenda 33 Efe Sevin 4 Demystifying participation and engagement in the branding of urban places 47 Andrea Insch 5 The spatial planning–place branding nexus: A research agenda for spatial development 67 Eduardo Oliveira, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen PART II CONTEXTS 6 Place branding and locational decisions: Taking a behavioural economics perspective? 87 Aleks Vladimirov and Gary Warnaby 7 Global city branding 101 Adriana Campelo 8 The Nordic wave in place branding: Global implications and relevance 117 Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli and Szilvia Gyimóthy 9 The tale of three cities: Place branding, scalar complexity and football 131 Steve Millington, Chloe Steadman, Gareth Roberts and Dominic Medway 10 Sustainable Development Goals in place branding: Developing a research agenda 151 Anette Therkelsen, Laura James and Henrik Halkier 11 Keeping pace with the digital transformation of place 163 Brendan James Keegan PART III EXPERIENCE 12 Posthuman phenomenology: What are places like for nonhumans? 183 Jack Coffin 13 Co-creation of place brands? 201 Jenny Rowley and Sonya Hanna 14 Tourism, the burden of authenticity and place branding 215 Maria Lichrou and Lisa O’Malley 15 Making ‘sense’ of place branding: Adopting a sensemaking, sensefiltering and sensegiving lens 233 Laura Reynolds and Nicole Koenig-Lewis 16 Considering place and the sensorium through the lens of non-representational theory 247 Simon Cryer PART IV CREATIVITY 17 Illuminating identity: The capacity of light festivals to enhance place? 267 Tim Edensor 18 ‘The artist in you’: Thinking differently about place branding research 283 Mihalis Kavaratzis and Gary Warnaby 19 Peak place marketing: My part in its downfall 301 Stephen Brown Index 313

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Book SynopsisThis major international Handbook offers the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as place, scale, networks and regionalism.This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together renowned specialists who have extensively theorized these spatial concepts and contributed to rich empirical research in disciplines such as geography, sociology, political science and international relations. It offers fresh, cutting-edge, and contextual insights on the significance of regions and territories in today’s dynamic world.This is a timely and vital resource for both students and researchers of human geography and regional studies. Political geographers and international relations scholars will also benefit from reading the Handbook as it offers a comprehensive yet accessible examination of the geography of regions and territories.Contributors include: J. Agnew, B.T. Asheim, S. Ayres, A. Beer, I. Braverman, G. Bristow, J. Bryson, I. Calzada, R. Castriota, J. Clark, A. Cochrane, R. Comunian, K.R. Cox, M. Deciancio, K. Dodds, M. Dunford, L. England, J.N. Entrikin, D. Gibbs, M. Glass, J. Harrison, A. Hemmings, Y. Herrera, R. Huggins, B. Jessop, A.E.G. Jonas, A. Jones, M. Jones, R. Jones, J.M. Kanai, D. Kofanov, D.F. Kogler, W. Liu, J. Loughlin, F. Mattheis, S. Moisio, R.L. Monte-Mór, C. Nine, A. Paasi, M. Pace, K. Peters, P. Riggirozzi, D. Rwehumbiza, S. Schindler, A. Shirikov, C. Sohn, D. Storey, N.-L. Sum, K. Terlouw, P. Thompson, I. Turok, L. Van Langenhove, A. WhittleTrade Review'As a keyword, the region is one of the more difficult ones to define. This fascinating anthology does an admirable job presenting a multi facetted and colourful palette of definitions of and debates on the concept. The Handbook assembles classical and up-to-date, tested and groundbreaking conceptual and empirical writing on the region and regionalism and will serve as an invaluable resource to students of the matter world wide.' --Roger Keil, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. New Consolidated Regional Geographies Anssi Paasi, John Harrison and Martin Jones Part I History, Theory and Key Concepts 2. Evolution of the Regional Concept John Agnew 3. Territory and Territoriality David Storey 4. Geography of Experience: Place and Region J. Nicholas Entrikin 5. Scale and Territory, and the Difference Capitalism Makes Kevin Cox 6. New Regionalism Gillian Bristow 7. Relational Thinking and the Region Allan Cochrane 8. The TPSN Schema: Moving Beyond Territories and Regions Bob Jessop Part II Region, Territory and Economy 9. Economic Regionalization Andrew Jones 10. Regional Innovation and Growth Theory: Behavioural and Institutional Approaches Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson 11. Learning Regions – a Strategy for Economic Development in Less Developed Regions? Bjørn T. Asheim 12. Divisions of Labour, Technology and the Transformation of Work: Worker to Robot or Self-employment and the Gig Economy? John R. Bryson 13. The Geography of Knowledge Creation: Technological Relatedness and Regional Smart Specialization Strategies Dieter F. Kogler and Adam Whittle 14. Creative Regions: from Creative Place-making to Creative Human Capital Roberta Comunian and Lauren England 15. Sustainable Regions David Gibbs Part III Region, Politics and Identity 16. Territory and Governance John Loughlin 17. Territorial Rights and Justice Cara Nine 18. Regional Governance and Democracy Sarah Ayres 19. Political Regionalism: Devolution, Metropolitanization and the Right to Decide Igor Calzada 20. Regions and Cultural Representation Rhys Jones 21. Regional Identities: Quested and Questioned Kees Terlouw 22. Military-to-Wildlife Geographies: Bureaucracies of Cleanup and Conservation in Vieques Irus Braverman Part IV Urbanization and New Forms of Spatiality 23. City-Regions and City-Regionalism Sami Moisio and Andrew E.G. Jonas 24. Cross-Border Regions Christophe Sohn 25. Comparing Regionalism at Supra-National Level from the Perspective of a Statehood Theory of Regions Luk van Langenhove 26. Regional Urbanization: Emerging Approaches and Debates J. Miguel Kanai and Seth Schindler 27. Extended Urbanization: Implications for Urban and Regional Theory Roberto Monte-Mór and Rodrigo Castriota 28. The Twenty-first Century Rediscovery of Regional Planning in the Global South Seth Schindler, J. Miguel Kanai and Deusdedit Rwehumbiza 29. African Urbanization: Will Compact Cities Deliver Shared and Sustainable Prosperity? Ivan Turok Part V Regions and Regionalisms in Contexts 30. The ‘Europe of the Regions’ Julian Clark and Alun Jones 31. Mediterranean ‘Regionalism’ Michelle Pace 32. Sovereignty and Regionalism in Eurasia Dmitrii Kofanov, Anton Shirikov and Yoshiko M. Herrera 33. Chinese regionalism Michael Dunford and Weidong Liu 34. The Production of a Trans-Regional Scale: China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ Imaginary Ngai-Ling Sum 35. Australasian Regionalism Andrew Beer 36. African Regionalism Frank Mattheis 37. North American Regionalism Michael R. Glass 38. Region Building, Autonomy and Regionalism in South America Pia Riggirozzi and Melisa Deciancio 39. Arctic and Antarctic Regionalism Klaus Dodds and Alan D. Hemmings 40. Ocean Regions Kimberley Peters Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon international case studies, and building upon Iain J.M. Robertson?'s work on ?'heritage from below?', After Heritage sheds critical light on heritage-making and heritagescapes that are, more frequently than not, located in virtual, less conspicuous and more everyday spaces. The book considers the highly personal, often ephemeral, individual ?- vis-à-vis collective -? experiences of (in)formal ways the past has been folded into contemporary societies. In doing so, it unravels the merits of examining more intimate materializations of heritage not only as a check against, but also complementary to, what Laurajanne Smith refers to as ?'Authorized Heritage Discourses?'. It also argues against the tendency to romanticize the fleeting and largely obscured means through which alternative forms of heritage-making are produced, performed and patronized. Ultimately, this book provides a clarion call to reinsert the individual and the transient into collective heritage processes.Researchers in human and cultural geography, heritage studies and tourism studies will find this strong contribution to the developing field of Critical Heritage Studies an insightful read. Policy makers and heritage practitioners will also develop a deeper understanding of how heritage practices may benefit from the '?heritage from below?' approach.Contributors include: A. Aceska, R. Carter-White, M. Cook, D. Drozdzewski, J. Gillen, C. Minca, H. Muzaini, M. Ormond, A.E. Potter, I.J.M. Robertson, J. TynerTrade ReviewAfter Heritage not only offers much needed critical analysis of the heritage-making power and practices of ordinary people, but also productively de-stabilizes the binaries that have long constrained critical memory studies - individual versus collective, intangible versus material, and bottom up versus top down. Its rich array of case studies move us beyond monolithic understandings of how the past is produced, resisted and emplaced within everyday life.' --Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee, US'By excavating politics and identities from below, the nine chapters of this book fascinatingly bring back into focus the everyday, mundane and the local; themes and contexts that continue to be too often overlooked by scholars in heritage studies. Moving away from accounts of state politics and world heritage sites, the book identifies why we need to critically examine family memorabilia, Bruce Lee and motorbiking as forms of heritage. After Heritage makes a significant contribution to the debate concerning where critical heritage studies should head in the future through its various nudges for conceptual innovation and its welcome incorporation of examples from different regions.' --Tim Winter, University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking heritage, but ‘from below’ Hamzah Muzaini and Claudio Minca 2. Official memorials, deathscapes, and hidden landscapes of ruin: material legacies of the Cambodian genocide James A. Tyner 3. Motorbikes as ‘aspirational’ heritage: rethinking past, present and future in Vietnam Jamie Gillen 4. The Bruce Lee statue in Mostar: ‘heritage from below’ experiments in a divided city Ana Aceska and Claudio Minca 5. Death camp heritage ‘from below’? Instagram and the (re)mediation of Holocaust heritage Richard Carter-White 6. Unfinished geographies: women’s roles in shaping Black historical counter narratives Matthew R. Cook and Amy E. Potter 7. Stolpersteine and memory in the streetscape Danielle Drozdzewski 8. Adoption, genealogical bewilderment and biological heritage bricolage Meghann Ormond Afterword Iain J. M. Robertson Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. 'Müller's accessible and timely volume takes a bold step closer to keeping pace with the constantly evolving sub-discipline of tourism geographies, unafraid to challenge earlier foundations and keen to prioritise academic diversity and real-world contexts. The contributors' flair, perspective and passion comes across throughout what is arguably the ideal backdrop for shaping future research agendas in the field.'- Julie Wilson, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Over recent years, tourism geographies have developed into a vibrant field of research, facing increasing challenges from globalisation and environmental change. This Research Agenda presents a unique and original collection of contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field. Encompassing both contemporary issues, and paving the way for future avenues of research, this book explores and develops research on tourism geographies. Chapters address emerging themes and apply new methodologies, allowing for intellectual and practical challenges to be tackled. With fresh global insights, this book expands on the geographic dimension of tourism work and workers, the challenges brought by changing economic atmospheres, spatial dynamics, big data and climate change to provide a thorough understanding of the field. Ideal for graduate and post-graduate students of geography and tourism studies looking to develop thesis ideas, this Research Agenda highlights the interest and potential of tourism geographers to contribute to a geographical tradition and influence the future content of geography as a discipline.Contributors: M. Bauder, P. Brouder, R. de Cássia Ariza da Cruz, K. Debbage, M.G. Gren, M. Hall, H.V. Haraldsson, X. Honggang, E.H. Huijbens, Z. Ibrahim, D. Ioannides, D.K. Müller, R. Ólafsdóttir, J. Saarinen, R. Steiger, R. Tremblay, G. Visser, Y. Wu, K. ZampoukosTrade ReviewA Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies brings together a global group of tourism geography scholars presenting insightful thoughts on many of the cutting-edge issues that our subfield of study is attempting to address today. Together they provide a foundation for moving tourism geography into the future.' --lan A. Lew, Northern Arizona University, US'Dieter Müller has successfully coordinated an international assembly of contributors who offer insightful new perspectives on tourism geography's evolution and future research agendas. The volume provides an excellent resource for tourism geographers to consider the position of their research with respect to the discipline of geography and the interdisciplinary arena of tourism studies.' --Alison Gill, Simon Fraser University, Canada'In a world characterised by rapid and radical change, this book sets out an ambitious future for a subject that will have increasing international importance in the years to come.' --Tim Coles, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Research agendas for tourism geographies: An introduction Dieter K. Müller 2. Tourism geographies: A bibliometric review Dieter K. Müller 3. Tourism/geography/mobilities are dead, long live Tourism/geography/mobilities: Or, returning to yet another turn - the inexorable search for relevant research agendas in tourism geographies C. Michael Hall 4. Not a serious subject?! Academic relevancy and critical tourism geographies Jarkko Saarinen 5. For a scientific and critical approach to tourism in geography Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz 6. The contribution of Tourism Geography to the field of Geography overall Honggang Xu and Yuefang Wu 7. Infusing tourism geographies Dieter K. Müller 8. Towards a geographical political economy of tourism Patrick Brouder 9. Geographies of tourism entrepreneurship and innovation: An evolving research agenda Keith Debbage 10. Exploring the geographic dimensions of tourism work and workers Dimitri Ioannides and Kristina Zampoukos 11. Towards a framework for lifestyle migration Zainub Ibrahim and Rémy Tremblay 12. The challenges of tourism and urban economic (re)development in Southern cities Gustav Visser 13. Tourism geography in and of the anthropocene Martin G. Gren and Edward H. Huijbens 14. Tourism spatial dynamics and causal relations: A need for holistic understanding Rannveig Ólafsdóttir and Hörður V. Haraldsson 15. Tourism and climate change Robert Steiger 16. Engage! A research agenda for Big Data in tourism geography Michael Bauder Index

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Book SynopsisBorder walls, shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, separated families at the border, island detention camps: migration is at the centre of contemporary political and academic debates. This ground-breaking Handbook offers an exciting and original analysis of critical research on themes such as these, drawing on cutting-edge theories from an interdisciplinary and international group of leading scholars. With a focus on spatial analysis and geographical context, this volume highlights a range of theoretical, methodological and regional approaches to migration research, while remaining attuned to the underlying politics that bring critical scholars together. Divided into six thematic sections, including new areas in critical migration research, the book covers the key questions galvanizing migration scholars today, such as issues surrounding refugees and border militarization. Each chapter explores new themes, expanding on core theories to convey fresh insight to contemporary research. A key resource for migration, refugee and border studies this Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the topic, covering a vast array of research ideas with a specific focus on the geographical aspects of migration. Scholars working on migration, refugees, asylum, transnationalism, humanitarianism and borders will find this an invaluable read. Contributors: J. Allsopp, I. Ataç, N. Bagheri, A. Blunt, J. Bonnerjee, A. Burridge, M. Casas-Cortes, A. Chikanda, S. Cobarrubias, K. Coddington, M. Collyer, D. Conlon, J. Crush, T. Davies, S. Dhesi, P. Ehrkamp, J.L. Fluri, G. Garelli, N. Gill, M. Gilmartin, C. Goh, M. Griffiths, E. Ho, J. Hyndman, A. Isakjee, R. Jones, B. Kasparek, P. Kelly, S. Kok, A.-K. Kuusisto-Arponen, R.B. Lacy, J. Loyd, K. MacFarlane, C. Maharaj, L. Martin, D.E. Martinez, E. Mavroudi, C. Menjívar, K. Mitchell, B. Muller, P. Pallister-Wilkins, N. Paszkiewicz, T. Raeymaekers, R. Rogers, R. Rotter, A. Sabhlok, R. Sampson, M. Schmidt-Sembdner, A. Secor, J. Slack, E. Steinhilper, S.D. Walsh, H. van Houtum, M. Walton-Roberts, K. Wee, Y. Weima, B. YeohTrade Review'This Handbook arrives at a significant time, when state and public responses to human mobility have taken a particularly hostile turn. A rich compendium, it examines numerous key spaces, scales, structures and dynamics of migration that characterize our turbulent era.' --Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany'By highlighting the intersection of two major themes - qualitative historical change within continuity and the significance of spatial analysis in the mapping of economic and political restructuring - this book advances migration studies and speaks to our precarious challenging times.' --Nina Glick Schiller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany'This comprehensively framed and engaging collection of essays by leading international geographers provides an innovative global perspective and critical analytic insights for both scholars and advocates into the multiple cultural, social, and political dimensions of international migration - a major contribution to contemporary theoretical and public policy debates.' --Josh DeWind, Social Science Research Council, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Critical Geographies of Migration Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones, and Jennifer L. Fluri PART I New Issues in Critical Migration Research 1. Borders and bodies: Siting critical geographies of migration Mary Gilmartin and Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen 2. Managing displacement: Negotiating transnationalism, encampment, and return Yolanda Weima and Jennifer Hyndman 3. Gender, Violence and Migration Cecilia Menjívar and Shannon Drysdale Walsh 4. The laws of impermanence: Displacement, sovereignty, subjectivity Timothy Raeymaekers 5. Biometric borders Benjamin J Müller PART II Corporeal and Gendered Geographies of Migration 6. Embodied migration and the geographies of care: The worlds of unaccompanied refugee minors Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen and Mary Gilmartin 7. Corporeal geographies of labour migration in Asia Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Kellynn Wee, and Charmian Goh 8. Seasonal Migration and the working-class laboring body in India Anu Sabhlok 9. Embodiment and memory in the geopolitics of trauma Patrica Ehrkamp, Jenna M. Loyd, and Anna Secor 10. Gendered circular migrations of Afghans: Fleeing conflict and seeking opportunity Nazgol Bagheri and Jennifer L. Fluri PART III Borders, Violence, and the Externalization of Control 11. The geography of migrant death: Violence on the U.S.-Mexico border Jeremy Slack and Daniel E. Martinez 12. 'Ceci n'est pas la migration: The surrealist migration map of Frontex Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno-Lacy 13. From preventative to repressive: The changing use of development and humanitarianism to control migration Michael Collyer 14. Military-humanitarianism Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 15. Genealogies of contention in concentric circles: Remote migration control and its Eurocentric geographical imaginaries Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 16. Renationalization and spaces of migration: The European border regime after 2015 Bernd Kasparek and Matthais Schmidt-Sembdner PART IV Camps, Detention, and Prisons 17. Informal migrant camps Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee, and Surindar Dhesi 18. Fractures in Australia’s Asia-Pacific border continuum: Deterrence, detention, and the production of illegality Kate Coddington 19. Carceral mobility and flexible territoriality in immigration enforcement Lauren Martin 20. The biopolitics of alternatives to immigration detention Robyn Sampson PART V Transnationalism and Diaspora 21. Home and diaspora Alison Blunt and Jayani Bonnerjee 22. Revisiting diaspora as process: timespace, performative diasporas? Elizabeth Mavroudi 23. Diasporas and development Margaret Walton-Roberts , Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda 24. Approximating citizenship: Affective practices of Chinese diasporic descendants in Myanmar Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho 25. Geographies of the next generation: Outcomes for the children of immigrants through a spatial lens Philip Kelly and Cindy Maharaj 26. Social media and migration: A moral epistemology of Rwandan return Saskia Kok and Richard Rogers Part VI Refugees, Asylum, Humanitarianism 27. Contentious subjects: Spatial and relational perspectives on refugee mobilizations in Europe Elias Steinhilper and Ilker Ataç 28. Law, presence and refugee claim determination Nick Gill, Jennifer Allsopp, Andrew Burridge, Melanie Griffiths, Natalia Paszkiewicz, and Rebecca Rotter 29. Im/mobility and humanitarian triage Polly Pallister-Wilkins 30. Contradictions and provocations of neoliberal governmentality in the U.S. asylum seeking system Deirdre Conlon 31. Counter-mapping, refugees and asylum borders Martina Tazzioli and Glenda Garelli 32. The sanctuary network: Transnational church activism and refugee protection in Europe Katharyne Mitchell and Key MacFarlane Index

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Book SynopsisThis new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at the regional level, and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow but others decline. While the analysis draws on industrial organization, labor economics, regional science, geography and entrepreneurship, the book focuses on innovation and the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory.The author argues that industrial innovation is the driving force behind long-run regional growth, and explores the issues of how technology and entrepreneurship can foster and promote growth at the regional level.With its multidisciplinary approach, Innovation and the Growth of Cities will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers alike in the areas of innovation and science, regional science and geography, entrepreneurship and evolutionary economics.Trade Review'An extremely valuable tool for the student of innovation and regional development. The structure of the book - a collection of previously published articles and book chapters - offers a final result that, although organized around a common theme, comprises chapters that are independent from another. This allows the reader to concentrate on specific subtopics of interest. The book also has the advantage of offering a very good description of the methodology used to arrive at the results.' -- Pierre-Marcel Desjardins, Journal of Regional Science'This book is both topical and of real-world interest. It brings some careful empirical analysis to the question of how localized knowledge is generated and diffuses within metropolitan areas.' -- Daniel Felsenstein, Journal of Economic Literature’. . . this is an impressive collection of work. The author's eclectic style is well managed and his evidence is persuasive. The book will improve the debate on regional growth issues including public policy. I would recommend this book to anyone studying regional economic or growth issues.' -- William H. Rogers, Journal of Economic Issues'Zoltan Acs has produced one of the major works of the past decade or two that helps to explain why cities grow. A central premise and one supported by empirical analysis throughout the book is that entrepreneurship is an important local activity that translates raw knowledge (that by the way is shown to be highly local) into ideas and start-ups that grow and underpin and sustain metropolitan growth. This is a must read for all students and scholars of urban and national economic growth and related policies.' -- Roger R. Stough, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Richard Florida Preface 1. Technology and Entrepreneurship 2. Knowledge, Innovation and Firm Size 3. Local Geographic Spillovers 4. Sectoral Characteristics 5. Innovation of Entrepreneurial Firms 6. Capital Structure, Innovation and Firm Size 7. Employment Growth in Metropolitan Areas 8. Employment, Wages and R&D Spillovers 9. Heterogeneity versus Specialization 10. Regional Innovation Systems 11. Epilogue: Towards a ‘New Model of Regional Economic Development’? Appendices A. The Innovation Database B. Innovation, R&D Lab Employment and University Research by State C. Innovation, R&D Lab Employment and University Research by MSA D. Innovation, Private R&D Lab Employment and University Research by MSA and Industry Sector E. Industry Groupings F. List of Variables References Index

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Book Synopsis'This book is a remarkable and often inspirational tour de force. Martin Jones confidently moves between theories of political economy and stories of regional and urban policy, using each to inform the other. He brings the uneven geographies of England to life, showing how they are reproduced in practice, while also offering the prospect of alternative futures.'- Allan Cochrane, The Open University, UKOffering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer intervention solutions in different cities and regions.Drawing on different approaches to state intervention, neoliberalism, crisis and contradiction theories, and notions of depoliticisation, this book explains policy failure and how it is impacted by flux surrounding economic development. With constant changes to legislation, institutional initiatives, and ministerial responsibility, local and regional economic development is shown to be at a critical crossroads.Theoretically innovative and empirically focused, this timely book is a must-read for researchers and policy-makers of urban geography, regional development, political economy and public policy.Trade Review‘Cities and Regions in Crisis presents a rich and insightful analysis of urban and regional governance in England. Jones has rather successfully curated a body of work that not only documents, but also questions the notion of crises in the context of uneven development and, more specifically, in left behind places. It manages to be both comprehensive and inclusive, thoroughly researched and accessible, and highly theorized and policy relevant. It should be recognized as an important contribution to the fields of critical economic and political geographies, at what is ostensibly a defining moment for subnational economic development.’ -- Margaret Cowell, Spatial Research and Planning‘Jones provides us with a range and depth of theoretical foundations, arguments and empirics that gives the reader a variety of insights into the critiques of the economic policy in neoliberalism. The book memorably shows us that 'the need for new spatial frameworks and ways of coupling governance with regulation to hold down the global and ensure some level of social cohesion via applying the brakes on combined and uneven development has never been so urgent'. It provides not only with several highly relevant critical perspectives on the praxis within academia and in the public sphere in framing and managing the local, but it also offers a foundation of critique of neoliberal economic policy, discourses and place-making. Its application of theory in research and able linkage between theory and practical, concrete, ideas about government at the local level gives the reader not only the critical perspective but an idea of what can be done. This is a relevant book for any researcher or policymaker that grapples the linkage between institutional arrangements, governance, the changing contours of the economy, and the consequent effect on uneven development, resentment, and inequalities.’ -- Andreas Erlström, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The book is a contribution to inter-disciplinary geographical political economy of cities and regions. Though based on England’s experience, the book is of general relevance and applicability across countries including India. It is a useful reference book for students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and policy makers who deal with multi-dimensional and comparative urban and regional economic governance and development issues in different countries and institutional set ups. The long list of references compressed in 48 pages at the end of the book is a fine source of comprehensive literature for both early and senior researchers in urban and regional development studies.’ -- M.R. Narayana, Aarthika Charche‘As Jones’ excellent study demonstrates, the last 30 odd years does not bode well, and without a challenge to the so-called ‘common sense’ of economic development, we will remain ensnared in the political and economy contradictions of neoliberalism. Exposing and challenging these contradictions, Cities and Regions in Crisis is essential reading for all scholars of the local state.’ -- Steven Griggs, Local Government Studies‘In Cities and Regions in Crisis, Jones achieves a synthesis of the literature critiquing neoliberal economic policy and space, and consolidates accounts of institutional changes and policy responses addressing the local effects of uneven development in the UK. His theoretical contributions are noteworthy, having been amongst the core group of scholars to challenge the neoliberal paradigm of development and carry associated ideas into the mainstream. His cases provide clear examples for applying theory in research. It is important for researchers and policy-makers to build upon the body of case research and to provide evidence that can be used to prevent the same failed policy responses from being repeated. For that, this book serves as a useful resource.’ -- Bradley Loewen, Regional Studies‘This book is a remarkable and often inspirational tour de force. Martin Jones confidently moves between theories of political economy and stories of regional and urban policy, using each to inform the other. He brings the uneven geographies of England to life, showing how they are reproduced in practice, while also offering the prospect of alternative futures.’ -- Allan Cochrane, The Open University, UK'Martin Jones is a critical economic and political geographer. This well-integrated monograph presents his radical, theoretically-informed, spatio-temporally nuanced, evidence-based research on cities and regions. While policy-relevant, it explains the many reasons why urban and regional policy-makers more often fail than succeed in delivering their changing projects. It deserves serious study.' --Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK'They say that crises are never really solved, only moved around. No one knows this better than Martin Jones, who for two decades has been one of the most astute, creative, and determined chroniclers of the churning ''system'' of urban and regional governance in England.' --Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, Canada'In Cities and Regions in Crisis, Martin Jones has crafted a rich and grounded geographical political economy. Consolidating and integrating a deep and important body of work, he provides insightful analysis of urban and regional governance in England and extends this to reflect upon more progressive future directions. It offers much to inspire and inform research on the rolling predicament of governing uneven geographical development beyond its empirical focus.' --Andy Pike, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Geographical Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis Space Impedimenta State PART I THE NEW LOCALISM 1. Government and Governance 2. Urban Crisis and Contradiction 3. Zones of Welfare and Workfare PART II THE NEW REGIONALISM 4. Regional Development Agencies 5. Spaces of Regionalism 6. City Region Building PART III THE NEW NEW LOCALISM 7. Locality Making 8. Devolution Dynamics 9. Devolution Depoliticisation PART IV ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM 10. Developing Inclusive Growth 11. Beyond Withered Local States Postscript: The Stoke Road to Brexit References Index

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Book SynopsisSustainable and integrated regeneration in the context of culture and tourism is explored for the first time within this book. The text is enhanced by international case studies.Table of Contents1: Introduction, M K Smith 2: Towards a Cultural Planning Approach to Regeneration, M K Smith 3: The Creative Turn in Regeneration: Creative Spaces, Spectacles and Tourism in Cities, G Richards, Tourism Research and Marketing, Spain, and J Wilson, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 4: Culture, City Users and the Creation of New Tourism Areas in Cities, R Maitland, University of Westminster, UK 5: VivaCity: Mixed-Use and Urban Tourism, R Aiesha and G Evans, London Metropolitan University, UK 6: Ethnoscapes as Cultural Attractions in Canadian ‘World Cities’, S J Shaw, London Metropolitan University, UK 7: (Re)Creating Culture through Tourism: Black Heritage Sites in New Jersey, D Cheyenne Harvey, Rutgers University, USA 8: Sustainable and Responsible Leisure and Tourism Space Development in Post-industrial Cities? The case of Odaiba Waterfront City, Tokyo, Japan, M Murayama, University of Greenwich, UK, and G Parker, University of Reading, UK 9: After Regeneration the Circus Leaves Town: The Relationship between Sports Events, Tourism and Urban, A Smith, University of Westminster, UK 10: World Class: Using the Olympics to Shape and Brand the American Metropolis, C H Heying, Portland State University, USA, M J Burbank, University of Utah, USA, and G Andranovich, California State University, Los Angeles, USA 11: Touring Templates: Cultural Workers and Regeneration in Small New England Cities, M M Breitbart, Hampshire College, USA, and C Stanton, Tufts University, USA 12: Cultural Policy and Urban Restructuring in Chicago, C Spirou, National-Louis University, USA 13: Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts: The Challenges of Implementing a Cultural District Initiative, A Maria Bounds, New York, USA 14: On the Water’s Edge: Developing Cultural Regeneration Paradigms for Urban Waterfronts, A Jones 15: Born Again: From Dock Cities to Cities of Culture, Pat Avery, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK 16: Interpretative Planning as a Means of Urban Regeneration: Recife, Brazil, B Bath and P Goncalves, Hove, UK 17: Conclusion, M K Smith

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Book SynopsisSocial Impact Assessment (SIA) is the process of analysing and managing the intended and unintended consequences on the human environment of planned interventions (policies, programmes, plans, projects) so as to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment. This important Handbook presents an indispensable overview of the range of new methods and of the conceptual advances in SIA.Recent increased attention to social considerations has led to substantial development in the techniques useful to, and the thinking in, SIA. A distinguished group of contributors provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the cutting-edge in SIA development.This Handbook outlines a new understanding and definition of SIA and, as such, will be an invaluable reference tool for both practitioners and scholars at different levels working in the fields of SIA and environmental studies (including both impact assessment and management).Trade Review'This book provides a valuable addition to the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) literature. While the volume addresses several good examples of "how to" case studies it also firmly addresses the importance of the need for firm conceptual and theoretical guidelines for SIA practice. . . the volume is an excellent contribution to the SIA literature and I highly recommend it to both practitioner and researcher alike.' -- Geoff Syme, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management'An innovative collection which takes social impact assessment to the frontiers of environmental and social policy and citizen awareness. Unusually, this collection includes both sophisticated quantitative tools and equally important chapters on participation, stakeholder involvement and environmental mediation. A most valuable source book.' -- Michael Redclift, King's College, London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Social Impact Assessment Frank Vanclay PART I: CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES IN SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT 2. Undertaking Longitudinal Research Nick Taylor, Colin Goodrich, Gerard Fitzgerald and Wayne McClintock 3. Using Local Knowledge James Baines, Wayne McClintock, Nick Taylor and Brigid Buckenham 4. Learning from Participatory Land Management Neil Powell and Janice Jiggins 5. Integrating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Roel Slootweg, Frank Vanclay and Marlies van Schooten 6. Conceptualizing Social Change Processes and Social Impacts Marlies van Schooten, Frank Vanclay and Roel Slootweg 7. Integrating Health and Social Impact Assessment Robert Rattle and Roy E. Kwiatkowski 8. An Ecological Model of Wellbeing Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor, Paula Tanemura Morelli, Jon Kei Matsuoka and Luciano Minerbi PART II: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR BEST PRACTICE 9. Theory Formation and Application in Social Impact Assessment Henk Becker 10. Computer-based Qualitative Data Methods Gerard Fitzgerald 11. Assessing Gender Impacts Bina Srinivasan and Lyla Mehta 12. Socioeconomic Modelling for Estimating Intergenerational Impacts Gijs Dekkers 13. Using Geographic Information Systems for Cultural Impact Assessment Luciano Minerbi, Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor and Jon Kei Matsuoka 14. Vulnerability and Capacity Measurement Mark Fenton, Sheridan Coakes and Nadine Marshall 15. Citizen Values Assessment Annelies Stolp 16. Involving the Public Richard Roberts 17. Handling Complex Societal Problems Dorien DeTombe 18. Environmental Mediation Helen Ross Index

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Book SynopsisEncouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth. The contributions consider the range of social mix initiatives in different countries across the globe and their relationship to wider social, economic and urban change. The book combines understandings of social mix from the perspectives of researchers, policy makers and planners and the residents of the communities themselves. Mixed Communities also draws out more general lessons from these international comparisons - theoretically, empirically and for urban policy. It will be highly relevant for urban researchers and students, policy makers and practitioners alike.Trade Review"This volume is extremely useful for anyone hoping to get to grips with the complex and little-understood issues regarding social mix policy and gentrification." LSE Review of Books"This collection is the definitive analysis of today's urban policy paradox: a friendly language of community and inclusion used to justify policies that threaten exactly what they name - social mix and diversity." Elvin Wyly, Chair of Urban Studies Programme, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gentrification and social mix ~ Loretta Lees, Tim Butler and Gary Bridge; Part one: Reflections on social mix policy: Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: A quantitative appraisal ~ Paul Cheshire; Social mix and urban policy ~ Patrick Le Galès; Mixed communities and urban policy: Reflections from the UK ~ Rebecca Tunstall; Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia ~ Wendy Shaw; Part two: Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times: Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification ~ David Ley; HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany: Social mix as a 21st century planning goal ~ Juergen Bruns-Berentelg; Part three: Social mix policies and gentrification: Mixed income schools and housing policy in Chicago: A critical examination of the gentrification/education/'racial' exclusion nexus ~ Pauline Lipman; Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: The example of the Goutte d'Or district in Paris ~ Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Yankel Fijalkow; Beware the Trojan horse: Contructions of social mix in Melbourne ~ Kate Shaw; Part four: The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies: Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: Evidence based policy or urban myth? ~ David Manley, Maarten van Ham and Joe Doherty; Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification - A view from Brussels ~ Mathieu Van Criekingen; 'Regeneration' in interesting times: A story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city ~ Sarah Glynn; HOPE VI: Calling for modesty in its claims ~ James Fraser, James DeFilippis and Joshua Bazuin; Part five: Experiencing social mix: The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing ~ Mark Davidson; Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research ~ Kirsteen Patton; From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto's public housing and the dilution of tenant organizational power ~ Martine August and Alan Walks; Mixture without mating: Partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands ~ Talja Blokland and Gwen van Eijk; Afterword ~ Gary Bridge, Tim Butler and Loretta Lees.

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Book SynopsisEncouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth. The contributions consider the range of social mix initiatives in different countries across the globe and their relationship to wider social, economic and urban change. The book combines understandings of social mix from the perspectives of researchers, policy makers and planners and the residents of the communities themselves. Mixed Communities also draws out more general lessons from these international comparisons - theoretically, empirically and for urban policy. It will be highly relevant for urban researchers and students, policy makers and practitioners alike.Trade Review"This volume is extremely useful for anyone hoping to get to grips with the complex and little-understood issues regarding social mix policy and gentrification." LSE Review of Books"This collection is the definitive analysis of today's urban policy paradox: a friendly language of community and inclusion used to justify policies that threaten exactly what they name - social mix and diversity." Elvin Wyly, Chair of Urban Studies Programme, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gentrification and social mix ~ Loretta Lees, Tim Butler and Gary Bridge; Part one: Reflections on social mix policy: Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: A quantitative appraisal ~ Paul Cheshire; Social mix and urban policy ~ Patrick Le Galès; Mixed communities and urban policy: Reflections from the UK ~ Rebecca Tunstall; Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia ~ Wendy Shaw; Part two: Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times: Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification ~ David Ley; HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany: Social mix as a 21st century planning goal ~ Juergen Bruns-Berentelg; Part three: Social mix policies and gentrification: Mixed income schools and housing policy in Chicago: A critical examination of the gentrification/education/'racial' exclusion nexus ~ Pauline Lipman; Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: The example of the Goutte d'Or district in Paris ~ Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Yankel Fijalkow; Beware the Trojan horse: Contructions of social mix in Melbourne ~ Kate Shaw; Part four: The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies: Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: Evidence based policy or urban myth? ~ David Manley, Maarten van Ham and Joe Doherty; Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification - A view from Brussels ~ Mathieu Van Criekingen; 'Regeneration' in interesting times: A story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city ~ Sarah Glynn; HOPE VI: Calling for modesty in its claims ~ James Fraser, James DeFilippis and Joshua Bazuin; Part five: Experiencing social mix: The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing ~ Mark Davidson; Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research ~ Kirsteen Patton; From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto's public housing and the dilution of tenant organizational power ~ Martine August and Alan Walks; Mixture without mating: Partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands ~ Talja Blokland and Gwen van Eijk; Afterword ~ Gary Bridge, Tim Butler and Loretta Lees.

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Book SynopsisThis accessible reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice, why they matter and what they are. Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media - including newspaper articles and key publications - 'Fair Play' provides evidence that Britain is becoming more politically, socially and economically divided whilst coming together in terms of educational outcomes and reduced segregation by ethnicity.Trade Review"A store of brain stimulants to dip into. Dorling turns his serious research into engaging prose, consistently questioning the ways of our world." Ludi Simpson, University of Manchester'In this book Daniel Dorling has brought together fifty-two of his academic papers, newspaper articles, magazine articles, and unpublished essays, to create a nicely structured and really quite devastating critique of our unequal society: devastating because so carefully researched.' - Citizen's Income Newsletter"Danny Dorling consistently works to subject the myths that sustain inequality and injustice to the test of patient inquiry. In the political struggles that lie ahead of us we need a social science that does not reproduce the assumptions of the privileged and the powerful. We need, in other words, to read Danny Dorling." Dan Hind, author of The Return of the Public and The Threat to Reason"Professor Dorling, geographer extraordinaire, brings the debate on inequalities and social immobility to life: if his powerful new book leaves you stimulated, provoked, angry, then Danny Dorling has succeeded again." Lord Richard Best, independent member of the House of LordsTable of ContentsPreface ~ Mary O'Hara; Introduction; Context; Inequality and poverty; Injustice and ideology; Race and Identity; Education and hierarchy; Elitism and wealth; Mobility and employment; Bricks and mortar; Wellbeing and misery; Advocacy and action.

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Book SynopsisSpatio-temporal Approaches presents a well-built set of concepts, methods and approaches, in order to represent and understand the evolution of social and environmental phenomena within the space. It is basedon examples in human geography and archeology (which will enable us to explore questions regarding various temporalities) and tackles social and environmental phenomena. Chapter 1 discusses how to apprehend change: objects, attributes, relations, processes.Chapter 2 introduces multiple points of view about modeling and the authors try to shed a new light on the different, but complementary approaches of geomaticians and thematicians. Chapter 3 is devoted to the construction of spatio-temporal indicators, to various measurements of the change, while highlighting the advantage of an approach crossing several points of view, in order to understand the phenomenon at hand. Chapter 4 presents different categories of simulation model in line with complexity sciences. These models rely notably on the concepts of emergence and self-organization and allow us to highlight the roles of interaction within change. Chapter 5 provides ideas on research concerning the various construction approaches of hybrid objects and model couplings.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ix CHAPTER 1. BUILDING OBJECTS IN TIME 1 1.1. Different points of view on ontology 4 1.1.1. Defining ontology 4 1.1.2. Qualification of the objects from an ontological perspective: “bona fide” versus “fiat” objects 8 1.1.3. Specification of ontologies in the field of spatial analysis and geographical sciences: objects versus fields 10 1.1.4. An example of empirical objects’ construction: the case of cities 13 1.2. Locating spatial objects in time 16 1.2.1. Objects’ formalization in time: “endurant” and “perdurant” entities of philosophers 17 1.2.2. From change to objects’ life 21 1.3. Conclusion 28 CHAPTER 2. FROM EMPIRICAL QUESTIONING TO SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELING 29 2.1. From the conception of entities to their analysis of responding to thematic issues 30 2.1.1. Building the spatio-temporal objects from the empirical observations (challenge 1) 32 2.1.2. Representing and exploring change and movement (challenge 2) 35 2.1.3. Analyzing the evolution of statistical and spatial relationships (challenge 3) 38 2.1.4. Identifying the underlying processes of change: simulation and scenario testing (challenge 4) 41 2.2. Challenges and models: the possible misunderstandings 44 2.3. Application examples 46 2.3.1. Cities’ dynamics: construction and follow-up of composite objects in time 47 2.3.2. Distribution of urban functions in the intra-urban space: construction of spatio-temporal functional objects 53 2.3.3. Evaluating the impact of mobile objects on a spatial support 56 2.3.4. What factors are behind the emergence and/or the reinforcement of school segregation? Construction of multilevel and multidate information 60 2.4. Conclusion 64 CHAPTER 3. ANALYZING SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA: EMPIRICAL AND STATISTICAL APPROACHES 65 3.1. Statistical data and spatio-temporal analysis 66 3.1.1. Spatial analysis evolution in a context influenced by statistics and computer science 66 3.1.2. Different ways to take time and space into account to analyze spatio-temporal processes 70 3.1.3. From entities’ dynamics to that of organizations: what is it that changes and relative to what frame of reference? 73 3.2. Following the evolution of the structure of spatial systems 76 3.2.1. Describing the evolution of space and hierarchical organizations 76 3.2.2. Change, temporalities and statistical explanations 82 3.3. Understanding the evolution of a spatial system’s entities 86 3.3.1. Constructing, describing and categorizing trajectories of evolution 87 3.3.2. Identifying a priori defined types of change to classify evolutions 91 3.3.3. “Unfolded” time and forecast 93 3.4. Conclusion 97 Chapter 4. Exploring the Underlying Processes of Change: Simulation Models 99 4.1. Computer simulation versus statistical approach: different points of view about explanation 99 4.1.1. From covariation to interaction, from differentiation to emergence 102 4.1.2. Different types of explanation: from the percentage of variance explained to the generation of mechanisms 104 4.1.3. Different points of view on multilevel phenomena 105 4.2. Microsimulation models107 4.3. Computing models: simulation and emergence 112 4.3.1. Modeling the diffusion of a migratory wave front 113 4.3.2. Cellular automata approaches: the case of land use changes 115 4.3.3. Agent-based models applied to simple entities 120 4.3.4. Agent modeling on composite entities 124 4.4. Conclusion 129 CONCLUSION 133 BIBLIOGRAPHY 139 INDEX 155

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Book SynopsisThis major reference collection describes and reviews the contribution which geographers have made to the charting, description, analysis and understanding of this age-old phenomenon. Migration is one of the dominant forces reshaping modern societies. The traditional concerns of geographers with flows, spatial differentiation and the power of place have given them unique understandings in the study of migration relevant to contemporary problems. Geographers have been able to make a distinctive contribution to knowledge about this phenomenon, from the laws of Ravenstein to the humanistic accounts of those caught up in refugee movements.Geography and Migration includes macrolevel descriptions to examine whether migration takes place in discernible flows and whether there are regularities in migration patterns or in the characteristics, origin and behaviour of migrants. Micro and macro-level explanations follow and address the impact of life cycle, quality of life and search factors. The final section includes essays and papers on the impact of migration on participants, source areas and destinations.Trade Review’The papers for inclusion are judiciously selected and will prove invaluable for lecturers and students needing to put their hands quickly on references. The selection includes both classic texts and less familiar material.’- Ceri Peach, Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Macro-Level Description Part II: Micro-Level and Macro Level Explanations Part III: Impacts Upon Participants, Source Areas, Destination Regions and Destination Countries Name Index

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