Human geography Books
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Freiheit und Landschaft: Auf der Suche nach
Book SynopsisDas Buch befasst sich mit Fragen der Operationalisierung des Lebenschancen-Ansatzes von Ralf Dahrendorf in Bezug auf räumliche Entwicklungen. Dabei wird untersucht, welche Raumentwicklungen zu einer Maximierung von Lebenschancen beitragen können und welche Raumentwicklungen mit dem Ziel der Maximierung von Lebenschancen zu erstreben sind. Die auf der Idee der Maximierung von Lebenschancen ausgerichtete Raumentwicklung wird dabei an alternativen Weltanschauungen – wie dem klassischen Liberalismus, dem Konservatismus und dem Sozialismus – reflektiert. Der auf die Maximierung von Lebenschancen gerichtete Ansatz der Raumentwicklung wird anhand unterschiedlicher aktueller Herausforderungen exemplarisch dargestellt, etwa der Moralisierung von räumlichen Entwicklungen, der Energiewende, der Kommunikation von Räumen im Internet, Klimawandel und Protesten. Abschließend wird ein Ansatz eines Umgangs mit Raum aus der Perspektive eines Lebenschancen maximierenden Liberalismus erarbeitet.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Bevor es richtig losgeht: Einige begriffliche Vorklärungen – von drei Welten, Räumen und Landschaften.- Von Differenzierungen und Kontextualisierungen: Liberale Weltanschauungen im aktuellen raumwissenschaftlichen Mainstream und im politisch-philosophischen Vergleich.- Aktuelle gesellschaftliche und raumbezogene Entwicklungen.- Die Rückkehr des Utopischen und die Restriktionen von Landschaft 1 – eine kritische Auseinandersetzung.- Konturierungen eines Umgangs mit Raum aus der Perspektive eines Lebenschancen maximierenden Liberalismus.- Resümee.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Einführung in die Regenerative Energiewirtschaft
Book SynopsisDie vorliegende Einführung räumt mit angeblichen Technikproblemen, Strompreismythen und Netzinkompatibilitäten auf. Es wird unter anderem aufgezeigt, dass nicht die technische Seite das Problem beim Umstieg auf eine regenerative Energieversorgung darstellt, sondern vielmehr tradierte wirtschaftliche Interessen und die daraus resultierende politische und öffentliche Diskussion, dieser Entwicklung entgegensteht. Eine Entwicklung, die durch ihre Umweltauswirkungen so wichtig geworden ist – da sie nichts Geringeres als die globale Mitteltemperatur maßgeblich beeinflusst – und somit Kern jeder Klimawandeldiskussion. Leitkapitel sind die klassischen Felder der Energiewirtschaft: Beschaffung, Umwandlung und Verteilung. Der Fokus liegt auf der deutschen Energieversorgung und hier im emissionsreichsten Part, der Stromproduktion. Die konventionellen Erzeugungsmethoden werden den regenerativen gegenüber gestellt und zu einem schlüssigen sowie bestechend einfachen System, bei niedrigen volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtkosten, zusammengeführt.Der InhaltEinleitung und Begriffe • Beschaffung von Energie • Umwandlung von Energie • Verteilung von Energie • Klimaschutzpolitik Die AutorinDr. Sandra Hook ist (Bio-)Geografin und beim Umweltschutzamt in Freiburg tätig. Sie hat mehrere Lehraufträge inne, unter anderem an der Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.Table of ContentsEinleitung und Begriffe.- Beschaffung von Energie.- Umwandlung von Energie.- Verteilung von Energie.- Klimaschutzpolitik.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 222 Keywords Wirtschaftsgeografie: Grundwissen
Book SynopsisVon der Arrondierung über Footloose Industry und Isolinien bis zur Zeitdistanzmethode: Die Sprache der Wirtschaftsgeografie ist von zahlreichen Fachtermini und Anglizismen geprägt. Einen ersten schnellen Überblick verschafft das vorliegende Nachschlagewerk. Anhand von 222 übersichtlichen Schlüsselbegriffen werden die Grundkonzepte und -theorien der Wirtschaftsgeografie erläutert. Die Erklärungen sind kompakt und verständlich formuliert und bieten somit Basiswissen für alle, die einen schnellen Einstieg suchen, sich für die Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsgeografie interessieren oder ihre vorhandenen Kenntnisse auffrischen möchten.Table of ContentsAgrargeografie.- Industriegeografie.- Handelsgeografie.- Verkehrsgeografie.
£17.09
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Die Zukunft gehört dem urbanen Quartier: Das
Book SynopsisUrbanität ist längst zu einem weltweiten Narrativ geworden und motiviert die Menschen mehr und mehr, auf urbanes Zusammenleben und die damit erhofften neuen Möglichkeiten zu setzen. Das Narrativ verspricht die Verknüpfung von Arbeiten, Wohnen und Versorgung in einem praktikablen, alltagstauglichen und überschaubaren Lebensumfeld. Das vorliegende Buch bietet kurze Beiträge von Praktiker*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen aus den Disziplinen der Stadtforschung und Stadtentwicklung zu den Forderungen, die aus der jeweiligen individuell-fachlichen Sicht heraus zu stellen sind, damit das Konzept einer Stadt der kurzen Wege und damit eine verbesserte und zukunftsfestere Lebensqualität im urbanen Quartier umgesetzt werden kann.Table of ContentsDie Zukunft gehört dem urbanen Quartier.- Zukunftsorientierte Stadtentwicklung basiert heute auf dem Quartier.- Perspektiven des Urbanen Quartiers.- Stadtquartiere bauen - aus Erfahrungen lernen.- Das Geh-Quartier – Urbanität pur.- Mischen! Aber was?- Soziale Mischung im Quartier – 12 Thesen.- Open City – Der öffentliche Raum in der Stadt der kurzen Wege.- Alltag im urbanen Quartier.- Öffentliches Leben im Quartier – oder: Die Späti-Moderne.- Quartier als Markt. Mehrheimische Ökonomien bewegen und bilden das Stadtleben.- Von einer synchronen Quartierentwicklung zur Mobilitätswende.- Verkehrspolitik für urbane Quartiere in einer Stadt der kurzen Wege, abschließende Überlegungen.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Handbuch Methoden Visueller Kommunikation in der
Book SynopsisUm den aktuellen Stand des Wissens und der Anwendung von Methoden visueller Kommunikation aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln zu beleuchten, steuern Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis Beiträge zu diesem Sammelband bei. Sie arbeiten dabei aktuelle Herausforderungen in Bezug auf die visuelle Kommunikation und dazu einschlägige Methoden heraus, um entsprechende Zukunftsperspektiven der räumlichen Planung und insbesondere der Landschaftsplanung bzw. Landschaftsarchitektur aufzuzeigen. Ein solcher Überblick über die visuellen Methoden in der räumlichen Planung ist bisher einzigartig. Neben den eher traditionellen Methoden wie z.B. Modellen und Zeichnungen liegt ein Schwerpunkt in der Betrachtung des Umbruchs der Medienlandschaft, der auch der räumlichen Planung völlig neue Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation eröffnet. So wird die visuelle Kommunikation der Disziplin auch verstärkt Gegenstand einer eigenständigen Forschung, die sich vielfach auf Methoden angrenzender Disziplinen stützt und damit interdisziplinär agiert.Table of ContentsSchlaglichter aus der Geschichte visueller Kommunikation.- Die Macht der Bilder.- Orte und Soziale Medien.- Skizzen, Zeichnungen und Karten.- Computergenerierte Darstellungen und Virtuelle Welten.- Raumbezogene Empfindungen und Orientierung.- Ausblick.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Landschaft als Prozess
Book Synopsis,Landschaft‘ gehört in Deutschland zu einem vielgenutzten und in unterschiedlichen Kontexten eingesetzten Begriff – sowohl alltagsweltlich als auch wissenschaftlich. Die Veränderlichkeit von Landschaft wird häufig als Wandel verstanden. Im Verhältnis dazu wird deren Prozesshaftigkeit in diesem Sammelband als ein Spezialfall von Wandel gedeutet. Dieser Spezialfall ist in von Menschen geprägten Landschaften zielgerichteter und aktiver als der passive und auch ungerichtete Wandel. Der Begriff des Prozesses fokussiert zudem stärker die Kontextabhängigkeit von Veränderungen. Die Vielfalt der über 30 versammelten Beiträge zeigt, dass der Wandelbarkeit und konkret der Prozesshaftigkeit von Landschaft je nach Perspektive und Zielsetzung auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise nachgegangen werden kann. Es ist nicht die eine Grundkonzeption, die Erkenntnisgewinn verspricht, sondern mitunter je nach Zielsetzung eine spezifische Wahl oder eine neopragmatische Triangulation. In unterschiedlicher Ausprägung werden sowohl ,Landschaft’ als auch ,Prozess‘ einer Einordnung und Systematisierung zugeführt – durchaus auch je nach disziplinärem Hintergrund, womit sich eine Perspektivenvielfalt ergibt – als Grundlage für weitergehende Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Themenfeld ,Landschaft als Prozess‘.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Theoretisch-konzeptionelle und praktische Überlegungen zur Prozesshaftigkeit von Landschaft.- Darstellung von Landschaft und Landschaftsprozessen.- Landschaft im Wandel – Bedeutungszuschreibungen im Wandel.- Stadtlandhybride Landschaftsprozesse.- Konflikthaftigkeiten um Landschaftsprozesshaftigkeiten.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Wald in der Vielfalt möglicher Perspektiven: Von
Book SynopsisAn Wälder herangetragene Funktionen werden in einer sich weiter ausdifferenzierenden Gesellschaft immer komplexer und führen in der Folge häufig auch zu zunehmend dichotomisierenden und gewaltsamen Konflikten um Wald bzw. waldbezogene Maßnahmen. Beispielsweise sind die physischen Grundlagen zentraler Bestandteil bei der Deckung bestehender Bedarfe nachwachsender Rohstoffe sowie Arbeitsplatz und Existenzgrundlage für mehr als eine Million Menschen im Cluster Forst und Holz in Deutschland. Ökologisch sind sie von zentraler Bedeutung als CO2- und Wasserspeicher, das Ökosystem Wald ist bedeutender Klimafaktor, sozial als Topos der Naherholung, symbolischer Einschreibungen, therapeutischer Maßnahmen, Kulisse für Fitness oder Freizeit und vieles mehr.Bestehende waldbezogene Literatur fokussiert – häufig dem Umstand der Spezialisierung geschuldet – vielfach jeweils nur einen der genannten Bereiche und Aspekte, in deren Kontext weitere ergänzende Aspekte zu Wald in den Hintergrund rücken. Der vorliegende Band versteht sich als Versuch, diese Fokussierungen zu überwinden und multiperspektivische Sichtweisen zu Wald zusammenzutragen, um auf die Vielfalt der möglichen Perspektiven und thematischen Aspekte zu Wald zu verweisen und einer Verhärtung von Fronten entgegenzuwirken.Table of ContentsHistorische Hintergründe und theoretische Rahmungen.- Sozio-ökologische Kontexte.- Tourismus und Erholung.- Repräsentanzen von Wald.- Junges Forum.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Die Wahrnehmung von Landschaft in sozialen
Book SynopsisObwohl die Nutzung von sozialen Medien in der Landschaftsplanungspraxis noch recht neu ist, gewinnen Social-Media-Daten und deren Nutzung im Rahmen der forschenden Landschaftsplanung zunehmend an Bedeutung. Es besteht die Erwartung, dass die in den sozialen Medien von Nutzern bereitgestellten Daten Informationen liefern, die bisher in aufwändigen Beteiligungsprozessen erhoben werden mussten. Ein großes Potenzial liegt insbesondere in der enormen Menge an verfügbaren Fotografien, geographischen Informationen und Textelementen wie Beschreibungen und Kommentaren, die im Rahmen einer landschaftsplanerischen Bewertung der Landschaft genutzt werden können. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es daher, intersubjektive Aussagen über die Wahrnehmung der Landschaft in Bezug auf einen bestimmten Raum zu generieren. Qualitative Methoden werden zur Auswertung von Fotografien, textlichen und geografischen Daten aus sozialen Medien kombiniert, wodurch Erkenntnisse über die Wahrnehmung von Landschaften erlangt und für landschaftsplanerische Analysen aufbereitet werden können.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Grundlagen und Stand der Forschung.- Konkretisierung der Ziele der Arbeit.- Untersuchungsgebiet.- Herangehensweise.- Interpretation und Synthese der Ergebnisse.- Einbindung der Analyse in die Planungspraxis.- Diskussion der Ergebnisse und Methodenkritik.- Weiter Forschungsbedarf und Schlussfolgerung.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Humangeographie kompakt
Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch Humangeographie bietet einen Einstieg in die zentralen Themenbereiche des Fachs. An der Schnittstelle von Sozial-, Kultur- und Umweltwissenschaften dient die Humangeographie als integratives Bindeglied zwischen verschiedenen Disziplinen und Teildisziplinen und eröffnet ein differenziertes Verständnis gesellschaftlicher Strukturen und Prozesse in raumbezogener Perspektive. Während der vergangenen Jahre ist die Humangeographie als ein besonders dynamischer und produktiver Bereich der Wissenschaften hervorgetreten.Die Humangeographie kompakt vermittelt in knapper Form anschauliche Einblicke in die Zusammenhänge von Gesellschaft, Raum und Umwelt und behandelt aktuelle Themen und Fragestellungen des Fachs. Das Buch wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende im Bachelor- und Lehramtsstudium der Geographie sowie an alle am Fach Interessierten. In acht Kapiteln werden die Grundlagen der Humangeographie behandelt; der Band bildet damit eine aktuelle und verlässliche Referenz für Einführungsmodule. Exkurse, weiterführende Hinweise und kommentierte Literaturangaben ermuntern dazu, weiter zu lesen und zu denken.Trade Review“... „Humangeographie kompakt“ bietet sich auch besonders für Schulabgänger*innen zur Orientierung bei der Studienfachwahl an und wäre in den entsprechenden Jahrgängen an Schulen eine Empfehlung wert.” (Dr. Martina Blank, in: Geographische Zeitschrift, Jg. 108, Heft 1, 2020)Table of ContentsHumangeographie heute: eine Einführung.- Gesellschaft und Umwelt.- Bevölkerung und Migration.- Mensch und Gesellschaft.- Kultur und Politik.- Stadt und Urbanität.- Wirtschaft und Entwicklung.- Nach der Entwicklungsgeographie.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Geographie: Physische Geographie und
Book SynopsisSeit der ersten Auflage 2007 hat sich das von Hans Gebhardt, Rüdiger Glaser, Ulrich Radtke und Paul Reuber herausgegebene Lehrbuch Geographie zu einem viel zitierten Standardwerk der gesamten Geographie entwickelt, das Studierenden sowie Schülerinnen und Schülern die Möglichkeit bietet, die „Welt“ und ihre Zukunftsprobleme aus einer breiteren Perspektive verstehen zu lernen, als viele der rein natur- oder kulturwissenschaftlichen Nachbardisziplinen sie vermitteln.Das Buch liegt nunmehr in einer dritten, gründlich überarbeiteten Auflage vor und bietet das notwendige Grundwissen sowie einen Überblick über aktuelle Themen des faszinierenden Studien- und Schulfachs Geographie. Andreas Vött hat das Team der Herausgeber ergänzt, zahlreiche neue Autorinnen und Autoren stehen für neue Ansätze und Einsichten und machen die Vielfalt der Geographie auf mehr als 1000 Seiten erlebbar.Was ist neu?• Alle Kapitel sind gründlich überarbeitet und aktualisiert.• Zahlen und Abbildungen wurden auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.• Neue Kapitel zur Finanzgeographie, zu Geographien der Migration, Geographien der Mobilität sowie zu Geographien der Gesundheit sind hinzugekommen.• Neue und perspektivische Themenfelder der IT werden im Kapitel "Von der Geokommunikation und Geoinformatik zur Geographie 4.0" behandelt.• Das Kapitel zur Gesellschaft-Umwelt-Forschung bzw. zu den Global-Change-Diskursen wurde neu verfasst und um zahlreiche neue Perspektiven und Fragestellungen ergänzt, welche den aktuellen Diskussionsstand dieses wichtigen Themas der Geographie aufzeigen.• Sachverhalte werden anschaulich visualisiert und tragen damit zum Verständnis bei.• Beteiligt sind über 180 Autorinnen und Autoren aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum.Table of ContentsI Einführung in die Geographie.- 1 Globale Risiken und die Rolle der Geographie.- 2 Räume und Regionalisierungen als Forschungsgegenstände der Geographie.- 3 Geographische Wissenschaft.- II Methoden.- 4 Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Geographie.- 5 Kritischer Rationalismus und naturwissenschaftlich orientierte Verfahren.- 6 Hermeneutische und poststrukturalistische Verfahren.- 7 Von der Geokommunikation und Geoinformatik zur Geographie 4.0.- III Physische Geographie.- 8 Klimageographie.- 9 Geomorphologie.- 10 Bodengeographie.- 11 Biogeographie.- 12 Hydrogeographie.- 13 Landschafts- und Stadtökologie.- IV Humangeographie.- 14 Humangeographie im Spannungsfeld von Gesellschaft und Raum.- 15 Sozialgeographie.- 16 Politische Geographie.- 17 Geographie der Finanzen.- 18 Wirtschaftsgeographie.- 19 Geographien des Handels und des Konsums.- 20 Stadtgeographie.- 21 Geographien des ländlichen Raums.- 22 Geographische Entwicklungsforschung.- 23 Bevölkerungsgeographie.- 24 Geographien der Migration.- 25 Geographien der Mobilität.- 26 Geographien der Gesundheit.- 27 Geographie des Tourismus.- 28 Historische Geographie.- V Geographische Gesellschafts-Umwelt-Forschung.- 29 Konzepte der Gesellschaft-Umwelt-Forschung.- 30 Gefahren - Risiken – Katastrophen.- 31 Globaler Umwelthandel – globale Ressourcenknappheit.
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Springer Spektrum Stadtregionales Flächenmanagement
Book SynopsisHerausforderungen der Flächenentwicklung.-Pläne und Prozesse.-Information und Monitoring.-Institutionen und Zusammenarbeit.-Anreize und Wirtschaft.
£125.99
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Humangeographie
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Spektrum Academic Publishers China: Auf Tour
Book SynopsisChina ist eine Weltmacht, die täglich in unseren Nachrichten Raum einnimmt und sich wirtschaftlich stark entwickelt. Große Gegensätze herrschen im Land, sowohl zwischen den einzelnen Regionen, zwischen Stadt und Land sowie zwischen Arm und Reich. China ist ein Land, das für uns vom Westen geprägte Bürger etwas leicht Beunruhigendes vermittelt, aber auf uns durchaus auch eine großes Faszination ausübt. Der Geograph Dieter Böhn kennt sich bestens mit den physiogeographischen Gegebenheiten wie auch den kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Verflechtungen des Landes aus.Trade ReviewDieter Böhn, emeritierter Professor für Didaktik der Geographie an der Universität Würzburg, war schon über dreißigmal in China und kennt sich bestens mit den physiogeographischen Gegebenheiten, durch gute Kontakte aber auch mit den kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Verflechtungen des Landes aus. Das Buch ist die ideale Lektüre für Reiselustige und Wissenshungrige! Es findet sich geographisches Wissen in kompakter und verständlicher Form, gemixt mit spannenden Essays und reichen Illustrationen. Buchprofile /Medienprofile, Nr. 1, 2013, Gudrun SchülerTable of ContentsVorwort.- Kultur im Alltag.- Einige Kennzeichen der chinesischen Kultur.- Kräfte, die den Alltag bestimmen.- Soziale Strukturen.- Die soziale Kultur: Arm und reich in China.- Chinas Kultur: Vielfache Umbrüche.- Natur und Raum in China.- Das Relief Chinas.- Das Klima Chinas.- Doppelte Zweiteilung: Die vier Farben Chinas.- Naturlandschaften Chinas.- Lösslandschaft im zentralen Nordchina.- Die Schluchten des Jangtsekiang.- Karstlandschaft Südchinas.- Wüstenlandschaften Westchinas.- Das Hochland von Tibet.- Agrarzonen.- Bodenschätze.- Sonstiges Naturpotenzial.- Gefährdungen durch die Natur – Gegenmaßnahmen der Chinesen.- Umgestaltung der Natur zur Abwehr der Gefährdungen.- Geschichte: Die Wirkungen der Vergangenheit auf die Gegenwart.- Die alte Zeit.- Der Umbruch: Revolutionen und Kampagnen.- Großer Sprung nach vorn.- Große Proletarische Kulturrevolution.- Die Wirtschaftsreform.- Stagnation und Liberalisierung.- Die Gegenwart: Sozioökonomische Dynamik.- Bevölkerung.- Überblick über die Bevölkerungspolitik.- Maßnahmen des Staates zur Durchsetzung der Bevölkerungspolitik.- Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung.- Unterschiedliche Geburtenraten in Stadt und Land.- Weitere Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung.- Räumliche Bevölkerungsverteilung.- Die Verteilung der Bevölkerung auf Stadt und Land.- Wanderarbeiter.- Faktoren der Migration.- Soziale Strukturen der Migration.- Die Lage der Wanderarbeiter in der Stadt.- Räumliche Auswirkungen der Landflucht.- Szenarios der künftigen Entwicklung.- Die ethnische Bevölkerungszusammensetzung: Han und Minderheiten.- Die Gruppe der Han.- Beispiele für eine Ethnie innerhalb der Han: die Hakka.- Minderheiten.- Beispiele für Minderheiten in der VR China.- Politik gegenüber den Minderheiten.- Separation, Integration oder Assimilation.- Wirtschaft: vom Armenhaus zur globalen Wirtschaftsmacht.- Staatliche Zielvorstellungen und ihr radikaler Wandel.- Chinas Aufstieg durch Öffnung.- Chinas Wirtschaft in globaler Verflechtung.- China als Nutznießer der Globalisierung.- Stärkung des Binnenmarktes.- Die Gewinner: China und die Welt.- Verschiedene Aspekte der Wirtschaft.- Chinas wirtschaftliche Entwicklung – insgesamt und nach Sektoren.- Landwirtschaft: von der Überlebenssicherung zur Vollversorgung.- Industrie: Garant des Aufschwungs.- Handel und Dienstleistung: einst verachtet, heute unentbehrlich.- Leben auf dem Land.- Der ländliche Raum im traditionellen China.- Die sozialistische Umgestaltung des ländlichen Raumes.- Der ländliche Raum im 21. Jahrhundert.- Leben in der Stadt.- Die Stadt im traditionellen China.- Die sozialistische Umgestaltung der Stadt.- Die chinesische Stadt im 21. Jahrhundert.- Literatur.
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NIAS Press Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands: 2022
Book SynopsisSince its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The ‘magical’ qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories of childhood events or specific festivals. Although spices are frequently found in our kitchen cupboards, how they get there has something of a mythical allure. In this ethnographically rich and insightful study, the authors embark on a journey of demystification that starts in the Sino-Vietnamese uplands with three spices – star anise, black cardamom, and cassia (cinnamon) – and ends on dining tables across the globe. This book foregrounds the experiences of ethnic minority farmers cultivating these spices, highlighting nuanced entanglements among livelihoods, environment, ethnic identity, and external pressures, as well as other factors at play. It then investigates the complex commodity chains that move and transform these spices from upland smallholdings and forests in this frontier to global markets, mapping the flows of spices, identifying the numerous actors involved, and teasing out critical power imbalances. Finally, it focuses on value-creation and the commoditization of these spices across a spectrum of people and places. This rich and carefully integrated volume offers new insights into upland frontier livelihoods and the ongoing implications of the contemporary agrarian transition. Moreover, it bridges the gap in our knowledge regarding how these specific spices, cultivated for centuries in the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese uplands, become everyday ingredients in Global North food, cosmetics, and medicines. Links to online resources, including story maps, provide further insights and visual highlights.
£22.46
University of the West Indies Press Island Cultures and Festivals
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Urban Wind Environment: Integrated
Book SynopsisIn the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality. The ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate a paradigm shift from the conventional experience-based ways to a more scientific, evidence-based process of decision making in both urban planning and architectural design stage. This book introduces novel yet practical modelling and mapping methods, and provides scientific understandings of the urban typologies and wind environment from the urban to building scale through real examples and case studies. The tools provided in this book aid a systematic implementation of environmental information from urban planning to building design by making wind information more accessible to both urban planners and architects, and significantly increasing the impact of urban climate information on the practical urban planning and design. This book is a useful reference book to architectural postgraduates, design practitioners and planners, urban climate researchers, as well as policy makers for developing future livable and sustainable cities.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION 1.1 NECESSARY COMPACT URBAN PLANNING1.2 NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF COMPACT URBAN PLANNING 1.3 CLIMATE SENSITIVE PLANNING AND DESIGNCHAPTER 2METHODOLOGY 2.1 METHOD OUTLINE 2.2 TARGET CITIES AND EXISTING PLANNING SYSTEM 2.3 MORPHOLOGICAL METHOD 2.4 COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) SIMULATIONCHAPTER 3WIND ENVIRONMENT IN URBAN PLANNING 3.1 FRONTAL AREA DENSITY 3.2 MODELLING TEST 3.3 A CASE STUDY IN HONG KONG3.4 A CASE STUDY IN WUHAN 3.5 SUMMARY CHAPTER 4WIND ENVIRONMENT IN MASTER PLANNING4.1 MODELLING DEVELOPMENT 4.2 MODELLING TEST 4.3 A CASE STUDY IN HONG KONG4.4 SUMMARY CHAPTER 5WIND ENVIRONMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 5.1 OPTIONAL TURBULENCE MODEL 5.2 COMPUTATIONAL PARAMETRIC STUDY 5.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 5.4 A CASE STUDY IN HONG KONG5.5 SUMMARY CHAPTER 6AIR QUALITY IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND URBAN PLANNING6.1 OPTIONAL TURBULENCE MODELS6.2 COMPUTATIONAL PARAMETRIC STUDY 6.3 AIR QUALITY IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 6.4 AIR QUALITY IN URBAN PLANNING 6.5 A CASE STUDY IN HONG KONG6.6 SUMMARY CHAPTER 7INTEGRATED IMPLEMENTATION IN PLANNING AND DESIGN 7.1 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IDENTIFICATION 7.2 LAND USE DENSITY GUIDELINES 7.3 BUILDING DESIGN GUIDELINES7.4 A CASE STUDY IN SINGAPORE7.5 SUMMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Dense and Green Building Typologies: Research,
Book SynopsisIn this book, academics, policy makers, developers, architects and landscape architects provide a systematic review of the environmental, social, economic and design benefits of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced live ability in future cities.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Creating Liveable Density through a Synthesis of Planning, Design and Greenery.- Building a City in Nature.- From Garden City to City in a Garden and Beyond.- Greenery in Commercial Buildings – Enhancing Returns for Investors?.- Green Buildings and the Homebuyers.- Emulating Ecosystems Ability to Provide Ecosystem Services in the Built Environment.- Biophilic Architecture to Biophilic Cities.- Prototypology and the 21st Century City.- The Role of Ecosystem Services in Making Cities Sustainable.- RGB: Red Blue Green Model as the “Lightness” of Being.- Taking Urban Greening to a Higher Level.- MPKL’s Investigation.- Punggol Waterway Terraces.- Green Architecture: Landscape Topology and Context.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Geographies of International Student
Book SynopsisThis book offers critical insights into the geographies of the international student higher education experience from initial recruitment, through to the plethora of personal factors which influence their decisions to become mobile and experiences when abroad. From the student perspective these include, but are not limited to, the importance of social networks, desire for a multicultural experience and the attraction to certain locations as discussed in this volume. However, unlike other work, it also reflects on the motivations of the HEIs themselves and their need to continue recruiting students in the face of greater competition from overseas. Recognising this omission, this book also analyses the resulting migration industries and how these are sustained (and even necessitated) by the sector. It is, therefore, the first to bring together these wider institutional narratives with those of the students resulting in a holistic and comprehensive insight into the student mobility process.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction – Conceptualising the International StudentChapter 2: Recruiting Students – Negotiating PolicyChapter 3: Recruiting Students – Developing Migration IndustriesChapter 4: Why Study Overseas? Identifying Instrumental Factors in Student MobilityChapter 5: Reputation, Rankings and the Russell Group – What Makes an Excellent University?Chapter 6: Friendship and Kinship – Driving MobilityChapter 7: Understanding Place – Imaginative Geographies and International Student MobilityChapter 8: Writing Biographies, Travel and a Multicultural Experience?Chapter 9: Conclusion – Developing a Theoretical Framework of International Student Mobility.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore A Future of Polycentric Cities: How Urban Life,
Book SynopsisIn this book, Dr Cole Hendrigan examines the options for sustainable transport and land-use planning based on building heights, mixes of land-use, transportation mode capacity and others to build the next generation of parks, housing, commercial and retail spaces along high-capacity rail corridors. Following the paradigm of ‘Transit Oriented Development’, Dr Hendrigan provides unique knowledge and insights on how to best make the transition towards more sustainable and livable cities, offering a practical method to better integrate transport and urban development to this end.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Freedom in CitiesChapter 2 Smart Cities and Smart Citizens: Are They the Same?Chapter 3 Global City ShapingChapter 4 Research and ResultsChapter 5 Analysis and DiscussionChapter 6 Conclusion: The Transit Oriented RegionBibliographyAppendices
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Socio-spatial Design of Community and
Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance. This is framed by an examination of the social projects, spaces, and realities that have shaped three contexts critical to the understanding of urban design problems in China: the histories of “collective forms” and “collective spaces”, such as that of the urban danwei (work-unit), which inform current community building and planning; socio-spatial changes in urban and rural development; and disparate practices of “spatialised governmentality”. These contexts and an attendant transformation from planning to design and from government to governance, define the current urban design challenges found in the dominant urban xiaoqu (small district) and shequ (community) development model. Examining the histories, transformations, and practices that have shaped socio-spatial epistemologies and experiences in China – including a specific sense of community and place that is rather based on a concrete “collective” than abstract “public” space and underpinned by socialised governance – this book brings together a diverse range of observations, thoughts, analyses, and projects by urban researchers and practitioners. Thereby discussing emerging interdisciplinary urban design practices in China, this book offers a valuable resource for all academics, practitioners, and stakeholders with an interest in socio-spatial design and development.Table of Contents
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Urban Informatics
Book SynopsisThis open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of ‘big’ data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.Table of ContentsUrban Science and Systems.- Urban Sensing.- Urban Big Data Infrastructure.- Urban Computing.- Urban Problems and Possible Solutions.- Perspectives for the Future.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Data-driven Analytics for Sustainable Buildings
Book SynopsisThis book explores the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary fields of energy systems, occupant behavior, thermal comfort, air quality and economic modelling across levels of building, communities and cities, through various data analytical approaches. It highlights the complex interplay of heating/cooling, ventilation and power systems in different processes, such as design, renovation and operation, for buildings, communities and cities. Methods from classical statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence are applied into analyses for different building/urban components and systems. Knowledge from this book assists to accelerate sustainability of the society, which would contribute to a prospective improvement through data analysis in the liveability of both built and urban environment. This book targets a broad readership with specific experience and knowledge in data analysis, energy system, built environment and urban planning. As such, it appeals to researchers, graduate students, data scientists, engineers, consultants, urban scientists, investors and policymakers, with interests in energy flexibility, building/city resilience and climate neutrality. Table of ContentsThe evolving of data-driven analytics for buildings and cities towards sustainability.- Data-driven approaches for prediction and classification of building energy consumption.- Prediction of occupancy level and energy consumption in office building using blind system identification and neural networks.- Cluster Analysis for Occupant-behaviour based Electricity Load Patterns in Buildings: A Case Study in Shanghai Residences.- A data-driven model predictive control for lighting system based on historical occupancy in an office building: Methodology development.- Tailoring future climate data for building energy simulation.- A solar photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) concentrator for building application in Sweden using Monte Carlo method.- Influencing factors for occupants' window-opening behaviour in an office building through logistic regression and Pearson correlation approaches.- Reinforcement learning methodologies for controlling occupant comfort in buildings.- A novel Reinforcement learning method for improving occupant comfort via window opening and closing. 2942492291991671341156161
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary
Book SynopsisThis book is an original contribution to literary geography and commentaries on the work of David Ireland. It plots the relationship between the spaces and places of 1970s Australian capitalism as it evolves through Ireland’s 1971 Miles Franklin prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. In particular, the book theorises the relationship between space and place in literature through two highly innovative arguments: a focus on the spatial unconscious as a means to assess and track the spatiality of capitalism in the novel form; and the articulation of a regime of space through the perceived, conceived and lived constitution of space. Drawing together concepts from radical geography and structural Marxist literary theory, it explores the dominance of the regime of abstract space in the Australian context. The text also examines the nature and possibilities of place-based strategies of resistance, and concludes by suggesting opportunities for future research and plotting the ways in which The Unknown Industrial Prisoner continues to speak to contemporary Australia.Trade Review“Heino’s project is a compelling one. His efforts to demonstrate the power of literary geography to analyse class and power issues work well in relation to his analysis of The Unidentified Industrial Prisoner. His book is a timely reminder of the power inherent in Australian literature, which still deserves recognition among the ‘old world’ reading publics.” (Dave McLaughlin, Environment, Space, Place, Vol. 14 (2), 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Space and place in radical geography Chapter 3: Literary geography, the spatial unconscious and The Unknown Industrial Prisoner Chapter 4: Abstract space (with antipodean characteristics?) Chapter 5: The spatial state Chapter 6: Resistance – the struggle for place Chapter 7: The limits to the Home Beautiful Chapter 8: Conclusion
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Planning Indian Megacity Regions: Spatial Model,
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America. These cities are not be seen in isolation from their respective influence regions. They complement each other. Most of the solutions to the problems of such cities are found in their respective regions, and, on the other hand, the regions derive their strength from their respective megacities. There is a need for promoting integrated spatial planning of megacity regions. The five chapters in this book highlight the spatial planning of such regions.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Evolution of Large Cities and Megacity Regions Growth and Spatial Distribution of Large Cities Global Scenario Growth of Million-plus Cities in India Geographical Distribution of M+ Cities Distribution of Megacities Distribution among States / UTs Primacy at State-level Characteristics of Megacities in India Merging of Cities and Evolution of new Regional Spatial Patterns Urban Corridors DMIC Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC) Bengaluru-Mumbai Economic Corridor (BMEC) Vizag-Chennai Industrial Corridor (VCIC) Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC) Defence Corridor East Coast Economic Corridor (ECEC) Mega-regions City Regions City Region: Definition Metro-city Regions Megacity Regions Polycentric Regions Functional / Morphological Polycentricity Chapter 2 Megacity Region Spatial Model Earlier Attempts Polarised Activity Centres Model Adaption of PAC Model for Megacity Region Approach to Conceptualisation Structure of a Megacity Region Spatial Configuration Basis for Spatial Arrangement Basic Spatial Unit of the Model: Cluster of Villages Micro-Region Sub-Region Megacity Region Basic Characteristics of the Megacity Region Spatial Model Settlement Pattern Road Hierarchy and Pattern Advance reservation for other Transit Systems Flexibility in the Model Application Application to Coastal Megacity Regions Application as Urban Corridors Application to less than a Million City Regions Application to Million-plus City Regions Cascading of Micro-regions Flexibility to to Spatial Planners Testing the Megacity Region Spatial Model Overall Spatial Configuration The Radius of Influence of a Megacity Total Area of the Megacity Region Regional Spatial Hierarchical Units and their Governance Micro-regions Sub-regions Composition of Megacity Region Core Test Results Application of Megacity Region Spatial Model Application as a Descriptive Tool Appraisal of existing Regional Plans: examples of NCR and MMR Preparation for application Regional Spread Sub-regions Settlement Hierarchy Road Hierarchy and Road Pattern Application as a Prescriptive Tool Steps for application for planning megacity region Steps for application for planning at sub-regional / district level Steps for application for planning at micro-regional / block level Application of the Spatial Model to Megacity Regions in other Countries Chapter 3 Dynamics of Megacity Regional Development Introduction Need for Preparation of Regional Plan for Delhi The Mass Migration of 1947-48 Establishing an Institutional Framework for Regional Planning High Power Board Constitution of NCR Planning Board Dynamics of Spatial Development Spatial Structure Spatial Patterns Hierarchy of Settlements Settlement Pattern Land Utilisation Zones Land Cover Road Patterns Dynamics of Socio-economic Development Policy of Containment of Delhi’s Population Policy of Dispersal of Employment-generating Activities from Delhi Policy of dispersal of Central Government Offices Policy of Dispersal of Wholesale Markets Policy of Dispersal of Industries Other Policies Promoting Industrial Development SEZ Policy 2000 IT Policy Regional Transport Policy / Strategy Road Transport Policy Bus Transport Policy on Rail Network Air Transport Policy Communication Policy Environment Policy Summing Up Dynamics of Spatial Development Dynamics of Socio-economic Development Chapter 4 Megacity Regional Governance and Plan Implementation Effect of Megacity Regional Plans Megacity Regional Governance Types of Megacity Regional Governance Systems Regional Governing Bodies in India Ministries / Departments / Agencies Metropolitan Regional Development Authorities Statutory Authorities Constitutional Provisions on Territorial and Local Governance Metropolitan Planning Committees District Planning Committee Urban Local Governing Bodies Rural Local Governing Bodies Gram Panchayat Intermediate Panchayat District Panchayat Implementation Strategies Implementation through Statutory Provision Implementation through Modifications to the Sub-regional / Development Plans Implementation through Projects Implementation through Central / State Government Interventions Implementation through Advocacy Resource Mobilisation Land Assembly Land Acquisition Land Pooling and Redistribution Scheme / Town Planning Scheme Accommodation Reservation Transferable Development Right Fiscal Resource Mobilisation Central / State Government Grants Market Borrowings Bilateral / Multilateral Funds Domestic Funds Internal Accruals Loans from Planning / Development Agencies / Projects Financed by NCRPB Funding through Convergence Resource Mobilisation through PPP Foreign Direct Investment Human Resource Mobilisation Chapter 5 Emerging Advances and Innovative Approaches (Tentative title, work on this Chapter is in progress) Transforming Global Urban Geography Need for Regional Planning Innovative Approach to Regional Planning Collaborative Planning Integrated Planning Spatial and Economic Integration Territorial Integration National, State, Regional, Sub-Regional, Micro-Regional, Urban and Rural Integration Through Cascading · Neo Spatial Patterns Urban Corridors Megacity Regions Clusters Urban Corridors and Rural Wedges Zero-Waste Nodes · New Tools For Planning Megacity Region Spatial Model Geographical Information System Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure Blockchain Information Technology (Regional Command Centre) · New Thrust Areas Social / Spatial Equity Conservation of Heritage And Culture Climate Change Resilience Green Regional Mobility Sustainability Trends in Implementation Trends in Regional Governance
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Shrinking Japan and Regional Variations: Along
Book SynopsisThis book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture. Using demographic data on municipal levels, the book identifies the power unique to each municipality, which can mobilize a shrinking but sustainable Japan. The study identifies the principal explanatory factors based on the small area data of e-Stat through GPS statistical software tools such as G-census and EvaCva within a historical perspective. The theoretical framework of this study, i.e., the reason for regional variations in Japan, is the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan). This historical knowledge helps in understanding the significance of the regional cultural heritage that remains in each municipality today. The book pays special attention to municipal variations within the same prefecture, utilizing a completely unique approach, unlike those that have been pursued by other researchers. This volume studies two present-day prefectures for detailed analyses based on the Goki-Shichido framework for impacts of regional variations of population decline in Japan. They are Niigata Prefecture, made up of the formerly named Echigo and Sado provinces; Ishikawa Prefecture, formed by the ancient Kaga and Noto provinces; Fukui Prefecture, based on the earlier Wakasa and Echizen provinces of the Hokurikudo; Nagano Prefecture, still called Shinano Province today and commonly divided into four areas and ten regions; and Gifu Prefecture, composed of the ancient Mino and Hida provinces of the Tosando as examples of the impact of municipal power on regional variations of shrinking Japan. However, due to the limitation of the number of pages set forth for Springer Briefs in Population Studies: Population Studies of Japan, for which the current publication is a part, it has become necessary to divide the book into two volumes, namely Volume I and Volume II. Because of this limitation the current volume I is consisted of three chapters, namely, Chapter 1: Issues, theoretical framework, and methodology; Chapter 2: Niigata Prefecture in the Hokurikudo; and Chapter 3: Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokurikudo. The remaining three prefectures, i.e., Fukui in the Hokurikudo area, Nagano and Gifu both in the Tosando area will be discussed in the Volume II of this book. By presenting unique analyses of regional variations on small municipal levels, with demographic variables, social indicators, and historical identities, this book offers suggestions for effective regional policies to revitalize a shrinking Japan to a sustainable one. The Volume I, therefore, analyzes and discusses in detail both Niigata and Ishikawa prefectures of the Hokurikudo.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Issues, Theoretical Framework, and Methodolog.- Chapter 2: Niigata Prefecture in Hokurikudo of Goki-Shichido and Regional Variations.- Chapter 3: Ishikawa Prefecture in Hokurikudo of Goki-Shichido and Regional Variations.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Shrinking Japan and Regional Variations: Along
Book SynopsisThis book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture. Using demographic data on municipal levels, the book identifies the power unique to each municipality, which can mobilize a shrinking but sustainable Japan. The study identifies the principal explanatory factors based on the small area data of e-Stat through GPS statistical software tools such as G-census and EvaCva within a historical perspective. The theoretical framework of this study, i.e., the reason for regional variations in Japan, is the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan). This historical knowledge helps in understanding the significance of the regional cultural heritage that remains in each municipality today. The book pays special attention to municipal variations within the same prefecture, utilizing a completely unique approach, unlike those that have been pursued by other researchers. This book studies three present-day prefectures for detailed analyses based on the Goki-Shichido framework for impacts of regional variations of population decline in Japan. They are Niigata Prefecture, made up of the formerly named Echigo and Sado provinces; Ishikawa Prefecture, formed by the ancient Kaga and Noto provinces; Fukui Prefecture, based on the earlier Wakasa and Echizen provinces of the Hokurikudo; Nagano Prefecture, still called Shinano province today and commonly divided into four areas and ten regions; and Gifu Prefecture, composed of the ancient Mino and Hida provinces of the Tosando as examples of the impact of municipal power on regional variations of shrinking Japan. However, due to the limitation of the number of pages set forth for Springer Briefs in Population Studies: Population Studies of Japan, for which the current publication is a part, it has become necessary to divide the book into two volumes, namely Volume I and Volume II. Because of this limitation, the current Volume II consisted of four chapters. They are Chapter 1: Fukui Prefecture in the Hokurikudo; Chapter 2: Nagano Prefecture in the Tosando; Chapter 3: Gifu Prefecture in the Tosando, and Chapter 4: Epilogue: The Future of Shrinking Japan. The remaining two prefectures, i.e., Niigata and Ishikawa prefectures in the Hokurikudo area have been discussed in the Volume I of this book. By presenting unique analyses of regional variations on small municipal levels, with demographic variables, social indicators, and historical identities, this book offers suggestions for effective regional policies to revitalize a shrinking Japan to a sustainable one.Table of ContentsPreface.- Chapter 1: Fukui Prefecture in Hokurikudo of Goki-Shichido and Regional Variations: Echizen vs. Wakasa Provinces.- Chapter 2: Nagano Prefecture in Tosando of Goki-Shichido and Regional Variations: Shinano Province, Four Areas and Ten Regions.- Chapter 3: Gifu Prefecture in Tosando of Goki-Shichido and Regional Variations: Mino vs. Hida Provinces.- Chapter 4: Epilogue: The Future of Shrinking Japan: What Can Be Done to Mobilize Shrinking to Sustainable Japan.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Smart Cities for Sustainable Development
Book SynopsisThis book reviews the structure, applications, technologies, governance, environmental sustainability, smart communities, gender space and other issues related to smart cities. The book is divided into four parts. The first one entails the conceptual background, growth and development. The second part presents diverse issues on smart cities in terms of environmental sustainability, the role of the community, and gender space, among others. The third part revolves around economic and technological issues, and the fourth is a compilation of case studies in connection with smart cities. This collection of diverse issues from different locations presents a holistic view of smart cities contributed by authors who have undertaken research projects and implemented their own unique perspectives and methods. A variety of innovative concepts such as digital governance, polycentric structures, geodata repositories, geoweb services and advanced geospatial technologies in smart city planning, urban microclimatic parameters, and urban heat islands provide invaluable knowledge for researchers and practitioners in these fields.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Smart Cities for Sustainable Development : An Introduction Part 1: Smart Cities: Conceptual Background, Growth and Development Chapter 2: Monocentric City Plans to Polycentric Structures Chapter 3: Intelligent Communities - Towards a New Ontology of Practice Chapter 4: Digital Governance for Smart City and Future Community Construction: From Concept to Application Chapter 5: Smart cities or Smart People: The Role of Stakeholders to Achieve Integrative Vision Chapter 6: Smart City Initiatives in Japan: Their Achievements and Remaining Issues Part 2: Smart Cities: A Dimensional Look Chapter 7: Smart Cities and Urban Deprived Communities: A Reflection on the Need to Re-think Chapter 8: Environmental Sustainability of Smart Cities: Cues from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Movement Chapter 9: Linking Sustainability of Smart Cities to Education and Health: A Study in Smart City Mission, India Chapter 10: Celebration of Public Festivals Towards Sustainable Development: A Perceptual Study Chapter 11: Gendered Spaces: A Spatial Perspective of Women’s Fear of Violence and Smart Cities Rhetoric Part 3: Economic and Technological Issues Chapter 12: Crowdsourcing for Sustainable Smart Cities and their ICT Practices Chapter 13: Online Geodata Repositories, Geoweb Services and Emerging Geospatial Technologies in Smart City Planning Chapter 14: Assessment of Urban Microclimatic Parameters in Various Urban Landscape Settings using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Chapter 15: Foreign Investment in Energy – Mix: An Assessment of Sustainable Indian Cities Chapter 16: Understanding Economic Activities of Smart and Amrut Cities of Telangana State Part 4: Indian Smart Cities: Some Case Studies Chapter 17: Urban Heat Island (UHI) Assessment using the Satellite Data: A Case Study of Varanasi city, India Chapter 18: SWOT Analysis to Determine the Feasibility for Guwahati Smart City in North East India Chapter 19: Smart City Surat: A Case Study for Urban Health System and Climate Resilience Chapter 20: Industrial Pollution and Soil Quality: A Case Study from Industrial Area, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India Chapter 21: Analyzing Urban Extension and Land Use Changes in Kalimpong Municipality, West Bengal Using Remote Sensing and GIS Chapter 22: A Comparative Analysis of Emerging Water Consumption Pattern in Indian Smart Cities
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Social Virtual Worlds and Their Places: A
Book SynopsisThis book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer’s perspective. How can the geographer’s craft be applied to social virtual worlds? This question is addressed through careful analysis of what social virtual worlds are, how interest in these worlds has waxed and waned during the twenty-first century, and the meaning of their concocted spaces. Examining one of the key features of the social virtual world, the avatar, the book focuses on its user's motivations and identity choices. The book draws on the geographical understanding of place to examine where avatars live, work, and roam, and describes how virtual-world places resemble and diverge from actual-world places. A mixed-methods survey conducted in Second Life adds additional breadth to the discussion, whilst a series of vignettes gives extra life to the subject matter. This original exploration of the content and meaning of social virtual worlds is an essential resource for geographers, and for anyone interested in the virtual world experience.Table of ContentsSetting the Stage.Where in the World Are These Worlds?.Who Am I if I’m not Me?.Is Place Still a Place in Social Virtual Worlds?.Whither Social Virtual Worlds and Their Geographers.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Cyclonic Disasters and Resilience: An Empirical
Book SynopsisThe Bay of Bengal is prone to tropical cyclones and storm surges as a result of its location, and many of the mostly poor people living along the coastal regions of South Asia lose their lives almost every year. These disasters have been particularly devastating and have caused serious damage. During the past five decades, the low-lying coastal and offshore islands have experienced a tragic history of 50 severe cyclones and storm surges, with more than one million victims dead or missing. People accepted and waited for the next disaster as they had no alternatives. Members of the poor families who survived the disasters experienced hard times recovering from damage and the loss of their loved ones. After disasters, epidemic diseases arise in the affected areas. Many of the people in distress are also deprived of public services. Providing all sorts of assistance and emergency health preparedness are most essential to overcome such a situation. The causes of these huge casualties have been mainly: (1) the high population density of costal settlements, (2) inadequate cyclone shelters in the disaster risk areas, (3) lack of awareness of the disaster risk by the vulnerable population, (4) deterministic attitudes of people who accept disasters as “fate”, (5) houses that are weakly constructed and (6) underdeveloped central awareness programmes and weather forecast systems. This book is based on an empirical study presenting a timeline analysis of major cyclones and their impacts and consequent losses through the super-cyclones in the disaster-prone coastal regions of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This study also investigates resilience mechanisms based on early warning systems, technology applications including GIS and remote sensing, best practices, success stories and case studies that can be used for effective cyclone management and development of a resilience mechanism among coastal communities.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Conceptual and Contextual Scenario of Disaster Risk Reduction and Cyclonic Resilience Chapter 2: Major Cyclonic Disasters in India Chapter 3: The Application of Early Warning System in India Chapter 4: Major Cyclonic Disasters in Bangladesh Chapter 5: The Major Cyclonic disasters in Sri Lanka Chapter 6: Policy and Governance Strategies for Effective Cyclone Risk Management in Odisha, India: A Journey from 1999 Super Cyclone Chapter 7: Way forward and Resilience Development for Cyclone in South Asia
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Smart Cities in Asia: Regulations, Problems, and
Book SynopsisThis open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualize smart cities and provide an overview of these cities’ problems such as privacy and data protection concern. The general chapters also discuss the role of public and private sectors in developing and governing smart cities. The second part encompasses country-specific chapters that examine the concepts addressed in the general chapters in practice by analyzing several specific smart city projects.This book provides researchers and practitioners with some knowledge of a smart city and its implication in the Asia context. The book is designed with some general chapters updating the literature on smart cities for readers who are interested in an overview of this concept. Audiences who are curious about how smart cities are perceived and implemented in some Asian jurisdictions are benefited from country-specific chapters. The book is also helpful to general audiences whose interests lay at the intersection of law, governance, and technology.Trade Review“This concise open access book follows in a line of comparative investigations of how laws impact the development of smart cities. … this insightful book suggests that a future clash between international expectations and proposed use of smart wristbands and other surveillance technology in Phuket may necessitate legal provisions to cope with the disconnect from foreign laws protecting private data. Updating legislation to meet contemporary needs would be Welcome for protecting personal data and privacy in Thailand’s smart Cities.” (Benjamin Ivry, Thai Legal Studies, Vol. 3 (2), 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Conceptualizing Smart Cities: An Overview of Technology and Governance.- Data Privacy Challenges in Smart Cities.- Hong Kong: Does a Smart City Need a Coherent Policy for External Data Flows to Really be Smart?.- The Promise and Challenges of Privacy in Smart City: The Case of Phuket.- Smart City and Privacy Concerns During COVID-19:Lessons from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.- The Legal Framework of Smart Cities in Vietnam.- Smart Cities in Vietnam: From the Perspective of the Banking Industry.- Developing Smart City Infrastructure Inside a Historical City – A Case from Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Quantitative Research on Street Interface
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the historical evolution, regional differences, and quantitative measurement on street interface, which forms the street space and plays a very important role in urban form. Empirical research reveals the street interface in Chinese cities are much more complicated than European and American cities. This book explores the reason and reveals the relationship between street interface and urban form in morphology. By constructing quantitative measurement method on street interface morphology, quantitative parameters can be used in urban planning guidelines in China. Both researchers and students working in architecture, urban design, urban planning and urban studies can benefit from this book.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part 1: Street interface in historical and regional context.- Chapter 1: The historical evolution of street interface in Chinese cities.- Chapter 2: The historical evolution of street interface in European cities.- Chapter 3: The comparison of street interface between Chinese and Western Cities.- Part 2: Quantitative method of street interface morphology.- Chapter 4: Review of qualitative research on street morphology.- Chapter 5: Review of quantitative research on street morphology.- Chapter 6: Constructing quantitative method on street interface morphology.- Part 3: Empirical application of quantitative method.- Chapter 7: Street interface density.- Chapter 8: Build-to-line ratio and Near-line ratio.- Chapter 9: Integrated application.- Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Geographic Information Systems in Urban Planning
Book SynopsisGeographic Information Systems (GIS) play a pivotal role in the field of urban planning and management and provide better solutions for numerous urban problems. With GIS, one has the ability to better understand existing requirements of a city and its design to fulfill those needs. This book contributes to developing scientific knowledge based on geospatial technologies among planners, researchers, scientists, professionals, students, and laymen and providing them with better understanding for urban planning and management at various levels. The book manifests the importance of GIS in better understanding of current urban challenges and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It also encourages the various stakeholders of society to participate in the decision-making process and assists planners and authorities to formulate suitable plans for sustainable urban growth of a region. The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes the fundamental concepts of GIS and also deals with the advanced techniques of spatial planning. The second part addresses real-world case studies using various applications of GIS. The case studies include urban land-use changes, simulation of future urban growth, urban heat island, alternate landfill site selection and urban flood susceptibility mapping, among others. This book shows how to integrate GIS with remote sensing, geostatistics, artificial intelligence-machine learning techniques, and other cutting-edge technologies. Readers find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and management.Table of ContentsPART I Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems 1. Introduction of Geographic Information System 2. Referencing and Coordinate Systems in GIS 3. GIS Data Models 4. Data Input in GIS 5. Data Visualization and Output 6. Spatial Data Analysis 7. Non-spatial Data Management 8. Applications of GIS in Urban Policy/Planning/Management PART II Case Studies: Applications of Geographic Information Systems in Urban Planning and Management 9. Case Study 1 – Monitoring and Modelling of Urban Land Use Changes 10. Case Study 2 – Simulating Future Urban Growth using Cellular Automata-Markov Chain Models 11. Case Study 3 – Identification of Potential Sites for Housing Development Using GIS Based Multi-Criteria Evaluation Technique 12. Case Study 4 – Urban Green Space Analysis and Potential Site Selection for Green Space Expansion 13. Case Study 5 – A Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Alternative Landfill Site Selections Using Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach 14. Case Study 6 – Urban Flood Susceptibility Modelling of Srinagar using Novel Fuzzy Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network (Fuzzy MLPNN) 15. Case Study 7 – Assessment, Mapping and prediction of Urban Heat Island
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just
Book SynopsisThis book is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved from the inception to the end. While much has been written on OWS, few books have focused on how the movement was organized. Marisa Holmes, an organizer of OWS in New York City, aims to fill this gap by deriving the theory from the practice and analyzing a broad range of original primary sources, from collective statements, structure documents, meeting minutes, and live tweets, to hundreds of hours of footage from the OWS Media Working Group archive. In doing so, she reveals how the movement was organized in practice, which experiments were most successful, and what future generations can learn.Trade Review“Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a two-month occupation of Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in 2011. … Throughout the book one gets the sense that what occupiers most wanted from the experience was a sense of community. … I found a lot of new words and new ideas in this book. The ref‐ erences for each chapter are at the end of each chapter. At the end of the book is an index and a glossary.” (Jo Freeman, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, December, 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1- Intergenerational Dialogues.- Chapter 2- The Squares.- Chapter 3- The New York City General Assembly.- Chapter 4- Day One.- Chapter 5- Our Park.- Chapter 6- This Is What Democracy Looks Like.- Chapter 7- Direct Action.- Chapter 8- Media for the 99%.- Chapter 9- Allies.- Chapter 10- Race in OWS.- Chapter 11- Gender in OWS.- Chapter 12- Structure.- Chapter 13- The Eviction.- Chapter 14- Occupy Somewhere.- Chapter 15- Money in the Movement.- Chapter 16- All Our Grievances Are Connected.- Chapter 17- All Roads Lead to Wall Street.- Chapter 18- Occupy the World Social Forum.- Chapter 19- Informal Elites.- Chapter 20-The Founders.- Chapter 21- Power and Leadership.- Chapter 22- Co-option.- Chapter 23- Repression.- Chapter 24- Neo-fascism.- Chapter 25- Conclusion -Building the New Society.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Digital Global Condition
Book SynopsisThis book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges and opportunities. Although globalization is already associated with the speeding up of interactions and change, digital globalization is characterized by immediacy. The utter pervasiveness opens new global vulnerabilities at international, national, social and personal levels. The Digital Global Condition examines the nature of digital globalization, enabling us to not only inhabit a digital world, but also to understand it, even to live well in it.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - The Digital Global Condition.- Chapter 2 - The Imagined Latent Zone: How the myth of cultural authenticity survived the Covid-19 lockdowns.- Chapter 3 - Disruptive Technologies and New Threat Multipliers.- Chapter 4 - Digital ‘Natives’: Unsettling the Colony through Digital Technology.- Chapter 5 - Dangerous Misogyny of the Digital World.- Chapter 6 - Technology and lawyering: On legal practice and value in a digital age.- Chapter 7 - The Digital Power Paradox: US-China Competition, Semiconductors, and Weaponized Interdependence.- Chapter 8 - The political economy of digital educational content and the transformation of learning and teaching in global higher education.- Chapter 9 - Becoming Digital? University Learning and Teaching in the Digital Information Ecology.- Chapter 10 - Digital Inter-est: On being together in a global digital world.
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NUS Press Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore
Book SynopsisThe basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary 'beats and blues' band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. Grounded in debates from sound studies, Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social-continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, 'associations of heterogeneous elements' of human and non-human 'mediators and intermediaries' - to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and world history.Trade Review“Sonic City plugs the gap for younger Singapore rock enthusiasts such as myself and throws the creative spurt of the 1990s into stark relief, making the latter era seem even more precious and fragile by revealing its place in a longer history of state policing and censorship.” -- Ken Kwek * Mekong Review *“[Ferzacca maps out the] emotionally charged vibrant, cosmopolitan acoustemological undercurrent circuits of the Straydogs in Sonic City.” -- Liew Kai Khiun * Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society *“Ferzacca’s sonic ethnography is well supported by scholarship on broader human relational capital.” -- Eugene Dairianathan * Anthropological Forum *“Sonic City is an enjoyable read and should appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike, including undergraduate students. Like Ferzacca, the reader gets drawn into the blues rock community and gains a good sense of the people involved, and their lives in music as well as in Singapore society.” * Asian Ethnology *“[This] is a dense yet engaging read on Singaporean musicians and Singapore’s blues and rock and roll scene in the 2010s… Overall, Sonic City is worth the read for anyone interested in blues and rock and roll. This book proves that these musical styles will hopefully not die out anytime soon, and their reach is felt far beyond the United States, even in a country that perceives the styles as 'noisy.' Any collection will be enriched by the resources provided by Ferzacca and his experiences in Singapore.” * Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal *
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Palgrave Macmillan Contested Urban Bodies
Book SynopsisPART I: CONCEPTS, METHODOLOGIES AND CONTEXT.- CHAPTER 1: In the tight space of a single body.- CHAPTER 2: The Urban Body: Tourism as the Ultimate Redemption of Naples’ Underbelly?.- CHAPTER 3: New Municipalism, Commons, and Tourism: Contested Urban Politics in 2010s Naples and at the Turn of the 2020s.- PART II: THE PRODUCTION OF LIBERATED SPACES IN THE HEART OF THE TOURIST CITY.- CHAPTER 4: Memories and Genesis of the Liberated Spaces.- CHAPTER 5: We reconstruct the places of construction of communities.- CHAPTER 6: Ethnography of the Liberated Spaces in the Tourist City.- CHAPTER 7: New contested urban subjectivities in a tourist monoculture.
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Springer The Anthropocene Ontopolitics and International
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Springer Population Dynamics and Livelihood Changes of
Book SynopsisPrologue.- Population Dynamics and Livelihood Change of Small-scale Society in Laos.- Food Procurement Strategy of Swidden Agriculturalists in Central Laos: Analysis of Side Dish Ingredient Records in Food Diaries.- Temporal-Spatial Distribution of Swidden Agriculturists' Daily Activities in Central Laos.- Population Growth and Generational Response to Livelihoods in a Rain-fed Paddy Farming Village of Central Laos.- Transnational Labor Migration from Rural Village in Laos to Bangkok, Thailand.- Growth in the Use of Modern Contraception Methods and the Related Social Context in a Central Laotian Farming Village.- Population Dynamics and Paddy Holdings in Remote Rural Villages of Northern Laos.- Rural-rural Migration in a Rural Village, Luang Phabang Province, Northern Laos: Focusing Both on Immigration and Emigration in the Village of HB.- Ruralurban Migration in Northern Laos: A Case Study of the Village HB in Luang Phabang Province.- Aspects of Modern Contraceptive Use among Women in Rural Northern Laos.- Family Planning, International Health Cooperation, and Fertility Level in Laos: Maintenance or Further Reduction.- Epilogue: The Implications for the Study on Population Dynamics and Livelihood Changes in Small-scale Communities in Laos.
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Palgrave Macmillan MixedUse Megaprojects and the Competitive City
Book Synopsis Introduction.- Battery Park City, New York.- Ørestad, Copenhagen.- Docklands, Melbourne.- Hudson Yards, New York.- Barangaroo, Sydney.- North Harbour, Copenhagen.- Conclusions.
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Springer China Under Construction
Book SynopsisNavigating China's Urban Revolution: From Tradition to Transformation.- Xi'an: From Ancient Glory to High-Tech Hub.- Changsha: The PuDong of Western China through Regional Synergy and Technological Innovation.- Zhengzhou: Transformation from Ancient Capital to Logistical and Economic Hub.
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Palgrave Macmillan Youth Policy Citizenship Education and Olympic
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Looking back, looking forward: the role of youth memories and imaginaries in setting a new Olympic Games' legacy discourse.- Chapter 2:The Olympic Games: a catalyst for youth civic engagement and participation in society.- Chapter 3: London 2012 and Rio 2016, the memories of young Londoners and the imaginaries of cariocas of the Olympic Games.- Chapter 4.- Towards a new policy for the youth legacy of the Olympic Games.
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Taylor & Francis Place Policy and Politics
Book SynopsisThe past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies. The key aspects of these changing fortunes of British towns explored in this important new book is the ability of individual localities to exercise any control over their own growth and decline. Place, Policy and Politics examines local political initiatives seeking to influence economic and social development in seven sharply contrasting localities, ranging from the outer council estates of Merseyside to the boom towns of Cheltenham and Swindon. Throughout their analysis, the contributors, drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, address the vital questions in the debate over local policy initiatives, including: * To what extent are localities able to harness trends in the national aTrade Review`These studies add a great deal to our knowledge of the process of local economic regeneration from a political economy perspective and the interrelationships between the political and economic interests operating in these localities. Localities do matter.' - Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction: The Institutional Context of Local Economic Development: Central Controls, Spatial Policies and Local Economic Policies, C.G. Pickvance Swindon: The Rise and Decline of a Growth Coalition, Keith Bassett & Michael Harloe Trying to Revive an Infant Hercules: The Rise and Fall of Local Authority Modernization Policies on Teeside, Ray Hudson Merseyside in Crisis and in Conflict, Richard Meegan Coping with Restructuring: The Case of South-West Birmingham, Dennis Smith Regency Icons: Marketing Cheltenham's Built Environment, Harry Cowen Lancaster: Small Firms, Tourism and the Locality, John Urry Council Economic intervention and Political Conflict in a Declining Resort: Isle of Thanet, C.G. Pickvance Conclusion: Places and Policies, John Urry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Determinants of Small Firm Growth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Multinationals and European Integration
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regional Development in the 1990s
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regional Development Strategies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regional Policy in Europe
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