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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 stimulating book explores the intersection of landscape, democracy and spatial justice on an international scale to offer an overarching definition and examination of the emerging field of landscape democracy.The concept of landscape in academia, policy and practice is being met with growing interest and a wider understanding that it is a complex living environment, moulded by tangible and intangible mediums, processes and systems. This book examines how physical, mental, emotional, economic, social and cultural wellbeing depend in large part on inclusive planning and management of landscapes. Through a broad set of theoretical and conceptual frameworks and international case studies, the authors of Defining Landscape Democracy address critical questions, such as: Why is democracy relevant to landscape? How do we democratise landscape? How might we achieve landscape and spatial justice?This work will provide new knowledge and insights for researchers in the fields of landscape architecture, human geography, planning, public policy, sociology, landscape management, and designers and planners actively engaged in shaping democratic public spaces and communities.Contributors include: A. Aagaard Christensen, R. Alomar, P. Angelstam, F. Arler, M. Bose, A. Butler, B. Castiglioni, M. Clemetsen, S. Egoz, M. Elbakidze, V. Ferrario, C. Geisler, P. Horrigan, K. Jøgensen, M. Jones, N.T. King, U. Krippner, L.C. Knudtzon, J. Langhorst, L. Licka, E. López-Bahut, J. Makhzoumi, D. Mitchell, K.R. Olwig, E. Oureilidou, L. Paz Agras, J. Primdahl, D. Ruggeri, E. Schwab, B. Sirowy, L. Søderkvist Kristensen, K.B. Stokke, T. Waterman, B. Yigit TuranTrade Review'''Land belongs to someone but landscape belongs to everyone'' sums up for me the message at the heart of this important book. Politically the world is at a crossroads and landscape, be it through the European Landscape Convention or as urban space occupied by a new wave of activists, literally forms a stage for playing out conflicts. I believe that the book is needed right now as a starting point for a new approach to landscape for the twenty-first century.' --Simon Bell, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia'This international collection of papers has its roots in multiple interpretations of democratic principles. All its authors share the view that people who are affected by design and planning decisions should be included in the process of making those decisions. In sum, the authors expand the traditional boundaries of landscape thinking in theory and practice to make this an invaluable contribution for all audiences.' --Henry Sanoff, North Carolina State University, US'The world we inhabit is increasingly created by developers unconcerned about justice, facilitated by governments fiddling while democracy smoulders. This anthology searches for ways to reverse this trend. The contributors pose questions seldom raised in the making of the city. By asking the right questions they provide uniquely hopeful alternatives that show how to bend the arc of the universe towards justice.' --Randolf T. Hester, University of California and Center for Ecological Democracy, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Introduction SECTION A FRAMING THE DISCOURSE 1. Democratic theories and potential for influence for civil society in spatial planning processes Lillin Knudtzon 2. Landscape democracy: more than public participation? Michael Jones 3. Landscape architecture and the discourse of democracy in the Arab Middle East Jala Makhzoumi 4. Exploring the concept of ‘democratic landscape’ Benedetta Castiglioni and Viviana Ferrario 5. Shatter-zone democracy? What rising sea levels portend for future governance Charles Geisler 6. Making the case for landscape democracy: context and nuances Shelley Egoz, Karsten Jørgensen and Deni Ruggeri SECTION B CONTEXTUALISING LANDSCAPE DEMOCRACY 7. Towards democratic professionalism in landscape architecture Paula Horrigan and Mallika Bose 8. Landscape assessment as conflict and consensus Andrew Butler 9. Invisible and visible lines: landscape democracy and landscape practice Richard Alomar 10. Enacting landscape democracy: assembling public open space and asserting the right to the city Joern Langhorst 11. Public space and social ideals: revisiting Vienna’s Donaupark Lilli Lička, Ulrike Krippner and Nicole Theresa King 12. Storytelling as a catalyst for democratic landscape change in a Modernist utopia Deni Ruggeri 13. Democracy and trespass: political dimensions of landscape access Tim Waterman 14. Rural landscape governance and expertise: on landscape agents and democracy Jørgen Primdahl, Lone Søderkvist Kristensen, Finn Arler, Per Angelstam, Andreas Aagaard Christensen and Marine Elbakidze 15. Managing cherished landscapes across legal boundaries Morten Clemetsen and Knut Bjørn Stokke 16. Landscape as the spatial materialisation of democracy in Marinaleda, Spain Emma López-Bahut and Luz Paz-Agras 17. Planning the cultural and social reactivation of urban open spaces in Greek metropoles of crisis Eleni Oureilidou 18. Landscape democracy in the upgrading of informal settlements in Medelín, Colombia Eva Schwab 19. Learning from Occupy Gezi Park: redefining landscape democracy in an age of ‘planetary urbanism’ Burcu Yiğit-Turan 20. Democracy and the communicative dimension of public art Beata Sirowy 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. International migration has emerged as one of the most pressing issues faced by national and regional governments in our modern world. This Research Agenda provides much-needed discussion on the health of migrants, and fundamental research directions for the future. The editors draw together key contributions that address people with a range of immigration statuses, including refugees. Written by leading experts in the field, chapters explore the evolving nature of health, from how this is experienced by migrants in their countries of origin, to the impact of the immigrant journey and experiences in their country of residence. Topical and timely, the Research Agenda offers key insights into previously underdeveloped areas of study, including an analysis of female migrants, a discussion of immigration relative to the Global South, and the relationship between climate change, migration and health. An important read for human geography scholars, this will be particularly useful for those looking into population and health geography and demography. It will also be beneficial to sociology and anthropology scholars interested in immigration and health. Contributors include: A.T. Banerjee, V. Chouinard, X. Deng, S. Gal, S. Gravel, J. Hanley, J. Hennebry, L. Hunter, A. Kobayashi, J.-H. Koo, L. Malhaire, K.B. Newbold, J.-A. Osei-Twum, S. Park, D.H. Simon, K. Stelfox, M. Walton-Roberts, L. Wang, K. WilsonTrade Review‘The various essays provide some innovative exploration of the migration-health nexus. As such, the book promises to be inspirational for scholars of geography, public health and related fields. Graduate students who seek to get oriented in this truly complex field and to identify salient research questions will undoubtedly benefit from perusing the essays of this volume.’ -- Brigitte Waldorf, Regional Science Policy and Practice‘A timely contribution to the field of migration and health, and a valuable resource for researchers seeking to explore newer questions. The nine chapters in this book offer diverse perspectives on themes such as inequity and discrimination in access to healthcare, gender, cultural safety, food security, disability and climate change as experienced by immigrants from countries in the Global South. The authors challenge and demystify pre-existing frameworks on migrant health, seek to broaden the theoretical and methodological scope of the field and provide a research agenda for future work.’ -- Divya Ravindranath, Progress in Development Studies‘It is a valuable resource for those seeking to refine their research questions and as a means to draw parallels across work on migration and health. While focused on international migration, the questions and approaches outlined are relevant to research on internal migration, and there is significant space to better articulate the connections between internal migration, international migration, and health.’ -- Frances Darlington-Pollock, Geographical Research'Bruce Newbold and Kathi Wilson are both health geographers with a strong legacy; this edited volume on which they have partnered is no exception. As they state in their opening chapter, the health of an immigrant is shaped by the immigration journey and the factors precipitating it (forced versus voluntary; economic, social, cultural, environmental push and pull factors…). What Newbold and Wilson have done with this edited volume is bring the immigrant health literature into the 21st Century by bringing heretofore invisible issues to the forefront: gender; climate change; inequalities in the global south. Their section on future research directions takes us even further through suggestions for alternative theoretical and epistemological approaches to the growing issues of immigration and immigrant health.' --Susan J Elliot, University of Waterloo, Canada'Tapping into the expertise from scholars in geography, international affairs, nursing, psychiatry, public health, social service and social work, A Research Agenda for Migration and Health fills a gap in migration studies by foregrounding climate change, gender/race and health, health status, health care, nutrition and their impacts.' --Wei Li, Arizona State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Migration and Health K. Bruce Newbold and Kathi Wilson 2. Disability, Migration and Health in the Global South: An Agenda for Research and Action Vera Chouinard 3. Healthcare Access among Immigrants and Transnational Migrants Lu Wang 4. Climate Change, Migration and Health Lori M. Hunter and Daniel H. Simon 5. Migrant Worker Strategies in Access to Health: Recognizing agency in a context of constraints Jill Hanley, Sol Park, Sylvie Gravel, Jah-Hon Koo, Loic Malhaire and Sigalit Gal 6. Rebalancing Act: Promoting an international research agenda on women migrant careworkers’ health and rights Jenna Hennebry and Margaret Walton-Roberts 7. Securing Culturally Appropriate Food for Refugee Women in Canada: Opportunities for Research Katherine B. Stelfox and K. Bruce Newbold 8. An Agenda for Newcomer Health Care? Research in Canada Audrey Kobayashi and Xiaojun Deng 9. Exploring the Applicability of Indigenous Cultural Safety to Immigrant Health Research Jo-Ann Osei-Twum, Erika Pulfer and Ananya T. Banerjee 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. It is becoming more important in the modern, globalized period to understand the power of illicit and illegal acts and actors in shaping our world. Opening with chapters that look across the diverse terrain of global crime, this Research Agenda moves on to consider key specific areas, including: organised crime, cyber crime, war crimes, terrorism, state and private violence, riots and political protest, prisons, sport and crime and counterfeit goods. Offering both critical reviews of key theories and in-depth case studies, this Research Agenda challenges the notion that criminal acts in a global age are solely the preserve of organised criminal groups, highlighting the role of other actors including governments, armies and corporations. A vital source of reference for criminology and sociology undergraduate, and post-graduate students, as well as those from a host of other social science disciplines, this Research Agenda will provoke thought and discussion across these topics. It will also be of great benefit for policy makers and practitioners working to better understand and combat transnational crime.Trade Review'This is a book that shows how legality and illegality are indeed limited concepts when it comes to global and transnational crimes. It successfully explores legal and conceptual diversities, but also procedural and thematic convergence in our globalized world where, to quote Hannah Arendt and to echo the authors of this text, certain harmful conducts simply ''explode the limits of legal thought'', leading to a constant need for deeper tools for analysis.' --Anna Sergi, University of Essex, UK, and University of Turin, Italy'Adopting the perspective that our world is increasingly tied together by flows that combine both licit and illicit, this timely volume pushes criminology into dialogue with wider debates about transnationalism and globalism, showing that crime can usefully be examined through a relational and geographical lens. But more than this, the book represents the state of the art in contemporary criminology, showing how the discipline is expanding to encompass multiple forms of economic and environmental exploitation, from human trafficking and drug smuggling through to corporate crime and environmental abuses. An exciting collection that underscores the value of inter-disciplinary thinking on questions of crime and criminology.' --Philip Hubbard, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Thinking through global crime and its research agendas Tim Hall and Vincenzo Scalia 2. Economic geographies of the (il)legal and the (il)licit Ray Hudson 3. Faces in the clouds: criminology, epochalism, apophenia, and transnational organized crime Dick Hobbs 4. War, terrorism and criminal justice John Lea 5. War crimes, genocide and the value of a social harm approach in a post-accountability world Daniel Mitchell 6. Environmental crimes: controversies and perspectives Rosalba Altopiedi 7. Transnational governance and cybercrime control: dilemmas, developments and emerging research agendas Majid Yar 8. The demand for counterfeiting on the criminological research agenda Jo Large 9. State, society and violence in Russia: towards a new research agenda Svetlana Stephenson 10. Riots, protest and globalization Matt Clement 11. The socio-material cultures of global crime: artefacts and infrastructures in the context of drug smuggling Craig Martin 12 Sport and crime in a global society Nicholas Groombridge Index

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Book SynopsisDeepening the scientific debate on planning and complexity, this Handbook combines theoretical discussion about planning and governance with modelling complex behaviour in space and place. Linking planning and complexity as a way of understanding dynamic change and non-linear development within cities, it presents critical new insights on complex urban behaviour. Building on the notion that cities have fractal-like structures, chapters look at their behaviour as complex adaptive systems, with co-evolving trajectories and transformative forces. The Handbook offers new perspectives, concepts, methods and tools for understanding the inter-relations between complexity and planning, including: adaptive planning, non-linear types of rationality, governance and decision-making, and different methods of experimental learning. Planning, complexity, urban studies and social geography scholars will appreciate the examples of complex urban behaviour and urban planning throughout the Handbook. This will also be an important read for modellers in urban development, urban policy makers and spatial planners. Contributors include: E.R. Alexander, Y. Asami, M. Batty, R. Beunen, B. Boonstra, S.D. Campbell, S. Cozzolino, M. Duineveld, S. Eräranta, N. Frantzeskaki, T. Ishikawa, W. Jager, D. Loorbach, S. Moroni, C. Perrone, J. Portugali, W. Rauws, N.A. Salingaros, K. Van Assche, A. van Nes, S. Verweij, T. Von Wirth, M. Zellner,Trade Review'The editors have brought together leading and upcoming experts in complexity and planning to create this 'state of the art' volume. It is wide ranging, thought provoking and comprehensive, covering the latest theoretical debates in complexity and planning, international and national applications, and even localised planning issues. It is a 'must read' for anyone working in planning and complexity and will undoubtedly be a benchmark for the next wave of works on complexity and planning and policy-making in general.' --Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UK'This excellent collection of chapters makes a direct contribution to understanding how planning interventions can interact with and rise above the self-organising forces of complexity and uncertainty. The threads of governance, rationality, modelling, communication, contextualisation and adaptability are interwoven across different chapters. By breaking down the divide between technical and political approaches, between theory and methods, the book is charged with positive energy and inspirational ideas to pursue more discursive and non-linear thinking in spatial planning.' --Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester, UK'This volume critically engages complexity thinking to identify possibilities for the reinvention of spatial planning as a meshwork of complementary mutual interrelations, purposeful interventions and subjective interactions. The book is an important source for scholars interested in pushing forward the frontiers of theoretical reasoning and practical modelling in the dynamic, non-linear world in which we live.' --Jean Hillier, RMIT University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introducing Planning and Complexity Gert de Roo 2. Complexity, Institutions and Institutional Design Ernest R. Alexander 3. A Multi-level Rationality Model for Planning Behaviour Gert de Roo & Camilla Perrone 4. Post-contingency: considering Complexity as a Matter of Choice Christian Zuidema 5. Adaptive Planning and the Capacity to Perform in Moments of Change Gert de Roo, Ward Rauws and Christian Zuidema 6. Rationalities for Adaptive Planning to address Uncertainties Gert de Roo, Ward Rauws and Christian Zuidema 7. Strategy in Complexity: the Shaping of Communities and Environments Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 8. Social Complexities in Collaborative Planning Processes Susa Eräranta 9. Conditions of Actions in Complex Social-Spatial Systems Stefano Moroni and Stefano Cozzolino 10. Information Adaptation as the Link between Cognitive Planning and Professional Planning Juval Portugali 11. Self-organization and Spatial Planning in the Face of the European Refugee Crisis Beitske Boonstra 12. Urban Living Labs as Inter-boundary Spaces for Sustainability Transitions? Timo Von Wirth, Niki Frantzeskaki and Dirk Loorbach 13. Planning with(in) Complexity: Pathways to Extend Planning with Complex Systems Modelling Moira Zellner and Scott D. Campbell 14. Simplification and Spatial Thinking in the Modeling and Planning of Complex Urban Environments Toru Ishikawa and Yashushi Asami 15. Complexity in Design: Optimal Location through Spatial Averaging Michael Batty 16. A Multiscale Approach in Regional and Urban Planning Strategies Claudia Yamu and Akkelies van Nes 17. Qualitative Comparative Analysis for Analyzing Spatial Planning Processes Stefan Verweij and Christian Zuidema 18. Planning, Complexity, and Welcoming Spaces: The Case of Campus Design Nikos A. Salingaros 19. Simulating Community Dynamics for Transitional Urban Planning Processes Wander Jager and Claudia Yamu 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 SynopsisFor cities investing in public transit infrastructure, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) continues to grow as a popular mode of choice. BRT implementation, planning, operation, performance and impacts, from a wide range of developed and developing cities across the globe are examined in depth in this exemplary book, with contributions by academics and practical experts on BRT.Each chapter is self-contained, presenting empirical research and grounded examples of BRT in specific urban spaces. Providing rich insight, the chapters also suggest lessons for cities elsewhere. As a whole, the book frames the chapters with the question of how BRT is valued, providing a timely lens to the broader conceptual question of how transport infrastructure can and ought to be valued in the twenty-first century. Urban and transport studies scholars will find this an invaluable read, as it compares BRT to similar forms of public transport in cities, exploring the pros and cons of the system. The rich set of empirical examples and research suggestions in this book will aid advanced students in determining dissertation and research topics.Contributors include: B. Adhvaryu, C. Balbontin, G. Beaudet, D. Bray, C. Cadena-Gaitán, W. Camargo, T.-T. Deng, R. Ellison, F. Ferbrache, D.A. Hensher, O. Hjelm, C.Q. Ho, M.-J. Jun, P. Lewis, R. Macário, S. Mejía-Dugand, C. Mulley, J.D. Nelson, D. Scrafton, S. Sinha, A. Stewart, H.M.S. Swamy, C.E. Vergel-Tovar, I. Wallis, G. Weisbrod, G. Whelan, P. White, D. Wignall, A. WoodTrade Review'This is a useful book that uses case studies from around the world to determine the value of BRT in a range of geographic contexts. The examples cover a variety of scales of systems from BRT lite, running largely in mixed traffic, to fully segregated schemes operating at high speeds and using sophisticated information systems. If you want to understand the potential of BRT as an effective urban mode of travel, this is an excellent place to start.' --Roger Mackett, University College London, UK'BRT offers sustainable mobility options to wealthy and poor communities alike, however, despite several decades of practice BRT research is limited. Ferbrache has compiled an impressive set of authors covering a wide range of places across the globe that illustrate how BRT is embedded and valued in the built environment. This book is a contribution to students, scholars and practitioners interested in better understanding the experience of BRT and the promise it holds for the future.' --John Renne, Florida Atlantic University, US, and University of Oxford, UK'This book is an invaluable addition to the expanding body of knowledge on BRT, particularly on its impacts on urban spaces. It combines a series of case studies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, South Korea, China, India, Colombia and South Africa, with global overviews, authored by 29 multidisciplinary researchers. The book reveals the diversity of applications of a concept that is still in evolution, with multiple positive and negative impacts that need to be understood. The array of contributions indicates that this understanding is maturing, but there are still areas that need further research, like the BRT wider economic and urban impacts. The book is a worthwhile reference for urban planners and researchers.' --Dario Hidalgo, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and the BRT+ Centre of Excellence, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. The value of BRT in urban spaces Fiona Ferbrache 2. The Adelaide O-Bahn: evolution, operation and lessons David Bray and Derek Scrafton 3. Ottawa-Gatineau: bus rapid transit and metropolitan planning Gérard Beaudet and Paul Lewis 4. The Auckland Northern Busway, New Zealand Don Wignall and Ian Wallis 5. Evaluating BRT and LRT on a level playing field in developed economies: a cross cultural comparison David A. Hensher, Camila Balbontin, Chinh Q. Ho, Corinne Mulley, Rosário Macário and Anson Stewart 6. Bus rapid transit implementation in China: performance, progress and lessons for transferability John D. Nelson and Tao-Tao Deng 7. Ahmedabad BRT H.M. Shivanand Swamy, Bhargav Adhvaryu and Shalini Sinha 8. How well does BRT perform in contrast to LRT: an Australian case study using MetroScan_TI David A. Hensher, Richard Ellison, Chinh Q. Ho, Glen Weisbrod 9. Assessing BRT outcomes in Great Britain Gerard Whelan and Peter White 10. The Wider economic impacts of BRT - a global synthesis Fiona Ferbrache 11. Urban development impacts of bus rapid transit in Colombia: challenges and opportunities C. Erik Vergel-Tovar and William Camargo 12. Welfare effects of proximity to the bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Seoul, Korea Myung-Jin Jun 13. Segregated lanes in a segregated society: a case study of Medellín, Colombia Santiago Mejía-Dugand, Carlos Cadena-Gaitán, Olof Hjelm 14. Materiality, immateriality and the replication of BRT in South Africa Astrid Wood Conclusion Fiona Ferbrache Index

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Book SynopsisInterest in tourism with a social imperative is gaining momentum not only amongst policy makers, but also researchers and the academy. This thought-provoking and timely Handbook considers the impact and challenges that social tourism has on people's lives. Integrating case studies from around the world, chapters showcase the latest research on social tourism and its potential role in tackling the challenges posed by modern, mass tourism development that can lead to sustainable alternatives and social equity in participation. Contributors explore tourism activities that are directed towards positive social and personal outcomes for people who would not be able to access leisure or holiday travel without such interventions and illustrate the social imperative of tourism as a force for good. The Handbook of Social Tourism enables academics and students from various disciplines, as well as practitioners in the tourism sector, to obtain a more holistic understanding of this phenomenon and offers an enlightening and stimulating read. Contributors include: C. Billen, N. Carr, J.D. Cisneros-Martinez, V. Cops, A. Diekmann, V. Eichhorn, A.E. Estrada-Gonzalez, C. Eusebio, A. Fernandez-Morales, J. Finniear, E. Herengodts, E. Hermans, P. Hunter Jones, L. Jolin, K.I. Kakoudakis, M. Kay Smith, R. Komppula, T. Kosar, J. Lima, S. McCabe, L. Minnaert, N. Morgan, B. Prideaux, S. Pyke, J. Pyke, G. Qiao, Y. Ram, A.C. Reyes Uribe, H. Schanzel, E. Schenkel, G. Shaw, L. Sie, E. Vento, M. Vilele de Almeida, M. Vincent, J. WootonTrade Review‘At least for this reviewer, this book has two unquestionable merits. On one hand, it gives a fresh snapshot of the problem of poverty and inequalities accelerated by modern consumption. On another, an all-encompassing diagnosis shaped by interdisciplinary research, which was conducted by worldly researchers, is generously offered as interplay between theory and practice.’ -- Maximiliano E Korstanje, Tourism Management‘This Handbook brings together cutting-edge work that addresses experiences from around the globe and examines social tourism from many angles and at many levels. The Handbook of Social Tourism advances our understanding of the conceptualisation of social tourism and how it is applied in practice at various points around the world. The chapters in this book contribute to building an argument that social tourism advances not only social inclusion, social equity and social justice through the capacities of tourism and tourism stakeholders, but also wider sustainability in tourism. It is hard to find faults in this comprehensive and valuable work.’ -- Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, International Journal of Tourism PolicyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Social Tourism 1 Anya Diekmann and Scott McCabe PART I HISTORICAL AND SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT 2 Social tourism in evolution, open to its socio-political environment 13 Louis Jolin 3 Going on holiday: an apprenticeship? 23 Claire Billen PART II SOCIAL TOURISM IN CONTEXT 4 Social tourism in Latin America: regional initiatives 33 Erica Schenkel and Marcelo Vilela de Almeida 5 Economic benefits of social tourism: theoretical reflections and insights for management 43 Joana Lima and Celeste Eusébio 6 The rights to tourism: reflections on social tourism and human rights 59 Scott McCabe and Anya Diekmann 7 The social tourism programmes in Spain 72 José David Cisneros-Martínez and Antonio Fernández-Morales 8 Leveraging stakeholder perspectives in social tourism: ‘large scale listening’ for innovation 83 Lynn Minnaert PART III BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES 9 Mental health and social tourism: exploring the provider landscape 98 Philippa Hunter-Jones, Steve Flatt, Liz Crolley and Katie Neary 10 From welfare to wellness: European spas at the crossroads 108 Anya Diekmann, Melanie Kay Smith and Jean-Paul Ceron 11 Social tourism in the UK: the role of the voluntary sector as providers in a period of austerity 123 Gareth Shaw, Scott McCabe and Julie Wooler 12 Nature for all? Public transport and accessibility to natural sites 139 Yael Ram 13 Issues and relationships between ageing and holiday participation 151 Martin Vincent PART IV BENEFICIARIES: IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIAL TOURISM 14 Social tourism in later life 165 Nigel Morgan, Lintje Siehoyono Sie and Jocelyn Finniear 15 Social tourism to overcome social exclusion: towards a holistic understanding of accessibility and its users 177 Victoria Eichhorn 16 Counterbalancing the effects of unemployment through social tourism 195 Konstantinos I. Kakoudakis 17 Empowering family self-efficacy through social tourism 209 Tahira Kosar 18 Intergenerational holidays 221 Elke Hermans, Elien Herregodts and Veerle Cops PART V NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 19 A social tourism lodging enterprise: the French case of VTF holiday villages 233 Ana Cecilia Reyes Uribe 20 Social tourism practices and implementation in Finland 244 Elli Vento and Raija Komppula 21 Social tourism in New Zealand: uncovering ‘hidden’ needs 256 Neil Carr and Heike Schänzel 22 A case study from Canada 267 Joanne Pyke and Sarah Pyke 23 Social tourism in China 279 Guanghui Qiao and Bruce Prideaux 24 Travel experience and social tourism programmes in Mexico 290 Adriana E. Estrada-González Index 301

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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 SynopsisThe Mobilities Paradox: A Critical Analysis asks how the mobilities paradigm, arguably one of the most influential theoretical innovations of the 21st century, holds up against the empirical realities of a deeply unequal world. Korstanje's provocative analysis pairs a sweeping overview of the theoretical landscape with specific instances of tourism, terrorism, hospitality, automobility, digital technologies, and non-places to put mobilities theory to the test.'- Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USThe theory of mobilities has gained great recognition and traction over recent decades, illustrating not only the influence of mobilities in daily life but also the rise and expansion of globalization worldwide. But what if this sense of mobilities is in fact an ideological bubble that provides the illusion of freedom whilst limiting our mobility or even keeping us immobile? This book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the mobilities paradigm and reminds us that today only a small percentage of the world?s population travel internationally. In doing so the author?s insightful analysis constructs a bridge between Marxism and Cultural theory.Offering a critical discussion of the theory of mobilities, the book explores the concept in the context of colonialism, nation states, consumption, globalization, fear and terrorism. This unique book presents an alternative viewpoint that is vital reading for cultural theorists, sociologists, anthropologists and Marxist scholars seeking a different understanding of the theory of mobilities.Trade Review'In his book, Korstanje sets himself the ambitious task of joining cultural critique and materialist dialectics to show how the great social evolution of globalization underpins changes in human mobility. He succeeds brilliantly in his ambition. This book offers a thought-provoking argument that calls for a re-thinking in many fields.' --Geoffrey R Skoll, Buffalo State SUNY, US’'In this influential work, Maximiliano Korstanje makes a radical proposal: fear places an epistemological barrier around our quest for truth, making us blind to reality. Look no further than 9/11 to discern the inner workings of this truth machine. Oligarchically controlled corporate mass media has historically been the primary instrument for advancing this objective. This book is essential reading for anyone who is curious to know what lies beyond the matrix of manufactured truths about our social lives.' --Babu George, Fort Hays State University, US'This book offers a very deep and important discussion around the nature and evolution of mobility. The progressive approach adopted in this book makes it easy to read and facilitates the understanding of some of the underpinning issues our society is facing. In so doing, the book explores how the world has changed after 9/11, as well as the different visions of mobility and hospitality. Case studies are used to illustrate the discussions. This book can be of interest for advanced researchers and students in tourism as geopolitics and sociology are quite central in this field particularly in our day and age.' --Hugues Seraphin, University of Winchester UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The theory of Mobilities 2. The manipulation of emotions 3. The rise of the Nation-state and hospitality 4. The life in the Island: metaphors of immobilities 5. Leashing the Dogs of War 6. The Life of Mary and Roger 7. Towards an Epistemology of Emotions, Written in Collaboration with Adrian Scribano Conclusion: Dialogue with Marc Augé References Index

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Book SynopsisTapping the Oceans provides a detailed analysis of the political and ecological debates facing water desalination in the twenty-first century.Water supplies for cities around the world are undergoing profound geographical, technological and political transformations. Increasingly, water-stressed cities are looking to the oceans to fix unreliable, contested and over-burdened water supply systems. Yet the use of emerging desalination technologies is accompanied by intense debates on their economic cost, governance, environmental impact and poses wider questions for the sustainable and just provision of urban water. Through a series of cutting-edge case studies and multi-subject approaches, this book explores the perspectives, disputes and politics surrounding water desalination on a broad geographical scale. As the first book of its kind, this unique work will appeal to those researching water and infrastructure issues in the fields of political ecology, geography, environmental science and sustainability. Industry and water managers who wish to understand the political debates around desalination technology more fully will also find this an informative read. Contributors include: E. Feitelson, M. Fragkou, S. Gorostiza, A. Loftus, H. March, J. McEvoy, D. Pavón Gamero, D. Sauri, A. Scheba, S. Scheba, E. Swyngedouw, M. Usher, J. WilliamsTrade Review'This very timely book provides an excellent and insightful introduction to the entanglements of water, salt, power, and capital in the emergence of an alleged environmentally friendly and cornucopian solution to increasing water scarcity. It helps decipher how desalination is fast becoming the last frontier of capital accumulation for both the water industry and financiers, and how it reconfigures existing socio-ecologies in profound and subtle ways.' --François Molle, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Mobilising the oceans to quench our thirst Joe Williams and Erik Swyngedouw 2. Wet dreams with a grain of salt: Desalination in Spain's water policy David Saurἰ, Santiago Gorostiza and David Pavón 3. Water Governance and Desalination in Baja California Sur, Mexico Jamie McEvoy 4. On the Implications of Seawater Desalination: Some Insights from the Israeli Case Eran Feitelson 5. Disclosing water inequalities at the household level under desalination water provision; the case of Antofagasta, Chile Maria Christina Fragkou 6. Desalination as emergency fix: Tracing the drought–desalination assemblage in South Africa Suraya Scheba and Andreas Scheba 7. Worlding via water: Desalination, cluster development and the ‘stickiness’ of commodities Mark Usher 8. Financialising desalination in London: The Thames Desalination Plant (TWDP) Alex Loftus and Hug March 9. Commodifying the Pacific Ocean: Desalination and the neoliberalisation of water in Southern California Joe Williams 10. Politicizing the salt of the seas Erik Swyngedouw and Joe Williams Index

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Book SynopsisThis ambitious work provides a history and critique of neoliberalism, both as a body of ideas and as a political practice. It is an original and compelling contribution to the neoliberalism debate. The Neoliberal Paradox challenges the standard interpretations of neoliberalism that focus on limited government and free markets. Instead, Ray Kiely reveals the ways in which the neoliberal project is reliant on state power. The history and application of neoliberalism is discussed from the Austrian and ordo-liberal schools in the 1930s and the Chicago School after 1945, through to developments such as the New Right and the third way, before finally considering the impacts of the financial crisis of 2008, the rise of Trump and Brexit. By exploring the full breadth of neoliberal theory and practice, in addition to the arguments of key thinkers, Kiely explores how neoliberalism has renewed itself in times of crises and turns his gaze towards the future.This book will provide a stimulating read for academics and advanced students in the fields of politics, human geography and sociology, in addition to those working in the public sector.Trade Review'This is a unique and uniquely valuable book. Ray Kiely provides a forensic examination of neoliberal thought between the early 20th century and Donald Trump. The thinkers who dreamed up the world in which we live today are exposed as never before, and the social, political and economic theories that have supported neoliberalism and informed neoliberal policymaking are explained in beautiful prose. This book is essential for anyone working on, around, or against neoliberalism.' --Afredo Saad Filho, SOAS University of London, UK'Tired of neoliberalism? Think its over? Ray Kiely's new book not only explains better than any other what neoliberalism is, where it came from and how it operates through what he calls the 'inverted totalitarianism' of the economic domination of politics, it brilliantly analyzes how it has persisted through its own crisis over the decade since 2008, reinforced by the very bureaucratic state that it so paradoxically disparages. A truly indispensable book for our troubled times.' --Leo Panitch, York University, Canada'What a great read. In a highly laudable feat of characteristically lucid and detailed writing, Ray Kiely takes us behind the scenes of contemporary neoliberalism to show us how the world came to be recast in this way. If you think you already know all there is to know about these dynamics, think again. There will be lots new here for even the most hardened historian of neoliberal thinking. A must-read.' --Matthew Watson, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I History and Theory 2. History and the crisis of liberal modernity: mass society and the crisis of the 1930s and 1940s 3. Neoliberalism and the crisis of liberal modernity in the 1930s 4. The second crisis of liberal modernity, the Chicago School and the rise of the New Right 5. Neoliberal theory: the core ideas Part II History and Practice 6. Neoliberalism in practice I: the 1980s 7. Neoliberalism in practice II: the 1990s to 2008 Part III Theory and Practice 8. Neoliberalism and the 2008 financial crisis 9. Actually existing neoliberalism I: post-politics and the new spirit of capitalism 10. Actually existing neoliberalism II: bureaucracy, corporate rule and the asset economy 11. Actually existing neoliberalism III: global competitiveness and inequality 12. Neoliberal theory assessed: the core ideas revisited 13. Conclusion: definitions, paradoxes and futures of neoliberalism Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine, it offers a varied set of collaborations, highlighting different theoretical, historical and methodological perspectives. International contributions assess the state of the field of network analysis, presenting interdisciplinary insights that draw on theory from geography, economics, sociology, history, archaeology and psychology, and outlining methodological tools that include ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative approaches. Illustrating a framework for integrating the diversity of urban networks, the Handbook demonstrates that by exploring urban networks with different combinations of levels and scales, new insights and opportunities can emerge. Featuring focused studies on specific regions and cities, this state-of-the-art Handbook is essential reading for scholars and researchers of urban studies and regional science, particularly those focusing on the transformation of cities as connected spaces through intracity and intercity networks. Its core theoretical insights will also benefit graduate students in urban studies and network analysis.Trade Review'If you want to understand cities - the innovation and dynamism they generate and the way they sort and segregate people by class, race and other dimensions – you have to start by understanding that cities are networks. Zachary Neal and Céline Rozenblat have done all of us who care about cities a great service by pulling together the very best and brightest thinkers on cities and networks in this terrific volume.' -- Richard Florida, University of Toronto, US and author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban CrisisTable of ContentsContents: PART I THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS OF CITIES AND NETWORKS 1 The levels and scales of urban networks 2 Céline Rozenblat and Zachary P. Neal 2 From networks of cities to systems of cities 16 Denise Pumain 3 Complex networks and fundamental urban processes 41 Luís M.A. Bettencourt PART II CITIES AND NETWORKS IN HISTORY 4 Settlement networks and sociocultural evolution 63 Elizabeth Bogumil and Christopher Chase-Dunn 5 Sizing up Roman urbanism 88 J.W. Hanson 6 Associational life in the rounding out of dynamic cities: an in-depth methodology and application to Newcastle city-region in the nineteenth century 107 Mike Barke and Peter J. Taylor PART III METHODS AND MODELS OF CITY–NETWORK INTERACTIONS 7 The structure of urban networks 127 Marc Barthelemy 8 Modeling the co-evolution of cities and networks 166 Juste Raimbault 9 Ties through place: socio-material network analyses in urban studies 194 Meg Bartholomew and Alasdair Jones 10 Theory and method in macro-comparative social network analysis 215 Matthew C. Mahutga and Robert Clark 11 The role of proximity and distance in inter-urban networks 239 Thomas Sigler, Kirsten Martinus and Petr Matous 12 About being in the middle: conceptions, models and theories of centrality in urban studies 252 Michiel van Meeteren PART IV NETWORK PROCESSES WITHIN CITIES 13 The city of opportunity: designing Cities4People 273 Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Tigran Haas 14 Community organizing and interorganizational network changes in a justice system reform coalition in Chicago 293 Brian Christens and Daniel G. Cooper 15 Racial/ethnic residential segregation and urban spatial networks in the United States 313 Kathryn Freeman Anderson and Joseph Galaskiewicz 16 Urban mobility and segregation examined through networked travel activity 331 Susan A. Burtner and Alan T. Murray 17 The impact of urban social life on sexual networks and health 350 Patrick Janulis and Michelle Birkett 18 Modeling dissemination of health information and beliefs in urban social networks 350 Sara S. Metcalf, Harvey D. Palmer, Qiuyi Zhang and Mary E. Northridge 19 Conflict resolution and opinion pooling in city planning 389 Michael Batty 20 Up close and impersonal: locative media and the changing nature of the networked individual in the city 409 Darryl A. Pieber and Anabel Quan-Haase 21 Far away ties, never so close: the geographical spread of social support resources for mobile individuals 427 Romina Cachia and Isidro Maya-Jariego PART V NETWORK PROCESSES BETWEEN CITIES 22 Is maritime transport an urban network? The interplay between global container flows and urban hierarchies 449 César Ducruet 23 Unravelling the forces underlying urban industrial agglomeration 472 Neave O’Clery, Samuel Heroy, François Hulot and Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz 24 Cities, networks, polycentrism: examining the place of polycentrism in spaces of flows 493 Kathy Pain and Shuai Shi 25 Intracity and intercity networks of multinational firms, 2010–2019 511 Céline Rozenblat 26 Uneven ties! The imposition of inequality through interscalar networks 557 Ronald Wall and Umakrishnan Kollamparambil 27 Research progress of Chinese city networks 585 Fenghua Pan, Cheng Fang and Xiande Li 28 The GaWC perspective on global-scale urban networks 601 Ben Derudder and Peter J. Taylor 29 Global cities, centripetal wealth transfer and uneven development 618 Christof Parnreiter Index 633

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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 SynopsisDrawing critically on the UN concept of 'human security', this book offers a transformative understanding of security in responding to the Mediterranean refugee crisis. From a range of arts, humanities and social science disciplines, and through case studies incorporating key governmental, NGO and refugee perspectives, the book critiques the major geopolitical, economic and social issues of the crisis. It documents the prioritization of population management techniques that are underpinned by conventional territorial logics of security, before reflecting on the alternative priorities of human security that can facilitate an active human rights framework and a more holistic and humanitarian interventionism. In advancing a human security approach to the crisis, the book insists upon our interconnected global sense of precarity, interrogates the human consequences of the endless cycles of conflict and displacement, and challenges the impoverished thinking of statist security agendas that divide the world into zones of sanctuary and abandonment. Of broad appeal and relevance across the social sciences, from geography and migration studies to international relations and critical security studies, this book will also be a timely read for people working for NGOs and policy makers looking for a more holistic response to the ongoing refugee crisis. Contributors include: T. Bicchieri, A. Bilgic, J. Bloomer, M. Brehony, R. Browne, M. Brunicardi, V. Cirefice, C. Dorrity, L. Elliott, D. Estrada-Tanck, D. Gasper, T.J. Hughes, J. Hyndman, G. Kearns, V. Ledwith, J. Morrissey, A. Mountz, K. Reilly, C. WilcockTrade Review'Can the framework of human security be reconstituted to provide an ethical grounding for international politics? The chapters in this volume grapple with this question as they incisively critique the Global North's response to the so-called ''refugee crisis'', and consider what kinds of conceptional and institutional changes are necessary to prioritize solidarity over securitization.' --Emily Gilbert, University of Toronto, Canada'Can human security be salvaged from the violence, exclusions, and cruelties created by the geopolitics of humanitarianism? Haven suggests that it can, offering important insights into opportunities for developing geosocial solidarity with refugees with safer forms of space-making and human rights work. But it does so without succumbing to siren songs about safety and pity that perform protection and care in damaging and uncaring ways. It thereby reminds us that while the ''Mediterranean Crisis'' is most definitely a crisis of human insecurity, it remains a crisis created by exclusionary approaches to security as much as by war, disease and human vulnerability. A call to ongoing critical thinking about what might make ''safe space'' safe for all, it brings together well-informed interdisciplinary arguments about the human geographies of human rights that human security urgently needs.' --Matt Sparke, University of California, Santa Cruz, US'With adroit editorial leadership, John Morrissey and the contributors take us on an intellectual journey. They convey vividly what is at stake for those enduring inhumane security. As they sweep through and with the crisis affecting the Mediterranean, it feels all the more poignant as the migration crisis is co-joined with the Covid-19 pandemic. Both have been described as ''invisible'' and yet the consequences for human security are far from invisible.' --Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Intervening for Human Security John Morrissey 2. Critical Human Security: Reclaiming a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Dignity and Recognition Lorraine Elliott 3. Between Security and Reparations: Ireland and the European Refugee Crisis Gerry Kearns 4. ‘Disposable People’: Borderlands and State Securitization in the EU Claire Dorrity 5. Situating Marginalised Human Geographies: A Human Security Approach to Direct Provision TJ Hughes 6. Seeking Safe Haven in Canada: Geopolitics and Border Crossings after the Safe Third Country Agreement Jennifer Hyndman 7. The Only Honest Thief: Critiquing the Role of Human Smugglers Julian Bloomer 8. Operation PONTUS: An Eye Witness Account from On Board L.É. NIAMH Michael Brunicardi 9. Disrupting Imagined Geographies: Media, Power and Representation in Contemporary Migration Ryan Browne 10. Discounting the Displaced: Examining Hungary’s Denial of Human Security for Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees Teo Bicchieri and Valerie Ledwith 11. Hierarchies of Race, Gender and Mobility in the Journey to Irish Citizenship Margaret Brehony 12. Performing Home, Security and Solidarity in the Everyday: The Alternative Refugee Accommodation of City Plaza V’cenza Cirefice 13. Human Security and International Human Rights Law in the Mediterranean Crisis Dorothy Estrada-Tanck 14. A Human Security Perspective on Migration to Europe Ali Bilgic and Cathy Wilcock Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field of education. In addition, this comprehensive Handbook tackles crucial group-dimensions across race, class and culture as well as age groups, the urban rich, middle class, and gentrified households. In a 'world tour' of urban contexts, the reader is guided through six continents confronting pressing segregation issues. Leading international scholars offer valuable insights across regional, ethnic, socioeconomic and welfare regime contexts. Three thematic parts explore key segregation questions worldwide, the multiple domains and dimensions of the topic and the methods, approaches and debates surrounding its measurement. Through these lenses, this timely Handbook provides a key contribution to understanding what urban segregation is about, why it has developed, what its consequences are and how it is measured, conceptualised and framed. Containing clear use of visual aids alongside textual analysis, this Handbook will be an engaging and accessible resource for students and scholars with an interest in urban and human geography, cities and planning, and the wider field of urban studies. Contributors include: R. Andersson, R. Atkinson, N. Bailey, W.R. Boterman, A. Brama, A. Cardoso, R. Cucca, R. Forrest, D. França, F. Gou, H. Hanhörster, H.K. Ho, C. Hochstenbach, P.A. Jargowsky, J. Kohlbacher, Z. Kovács, C. Lemanski, Z. Li, A. Madanipour, T. Maloutas, E. Marques, S. Musterd, M. Oberti, J. Östh, A. Owens, E. Préteceille, B. Randolph, U. Reeger, K.S. Tong, U. Türk, W. van Gent, J. van Rooyen, A. Walks, W. Wang, S. WeckTrade Review'Sako Musterd has brought together an extraordinary group of distinguished scholars from across the world to produce a cross-national, interdisciplinary study of urban segregation. As well as providing a wealth of empirical data and methodological approaches to the study of segregation, the book makes important contributions to the analysis of globalization, neoliberalism, gentrification, and the decline of the welfare state. Yet, while attributing much to these general processes, it also distinguishes the varying effects of particular local and national policies.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design, US'This book presents new points of departure for debates about segregation. Its chapters provide original, cross-disciplinary, research-based accounts using different frameworks to build on earlier work. They explore economic, policy and other factors that drive changing patterns of urban segregation in different cities and countries and analyse how the various dimensions of segregation are overlapping and reinforcing. The book provides new insights and a new baseline that make it essential reading for anyone concerned with urban research and policy.' --Alan Murie, University of Birmingham, UK'Social segregation is a wide-ranging and important phenomenon within cities across the world. The implications are profound in terms of social interaction as well as access to employment, housing, education, health, transport and open space. This valuable edited collection examines the variations in segregation in a variety of different cities and contexts and will be an important source for staff and students.' --Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and UESTC, Chengdu, ChinaTable of ContentsContents List of contributors ix Preface xv INTRODUCTION 1 Urban segregation: contexts, domains, dimensions and approaches 2 Sako Musterd PART I KEY SEGREGATION ISSUES ACROSS THE GLOBE: URBAN SEGREGATION IN CITIES IN AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 2 Urban segregation in South Africa: the evolution of exclusion in Cape Town 19 Jacobus van Rooyen and Charlotte Lemanski 3 Segregation by class and race in S.o Paulo 36 Eduardo Marques and Danilo Fran.a 4 Residential segregation of rural migrants in post-reform urban China 55 Zhigang Li and Feicui Gou 5 Dimensions of urban segregation at the end of the Australian dream 76 Bill Randolph 6 Globalization, immigration and ethnic diversity: the exceptional case of Vienna 101 Josef Kohlbacher and Ursula Reeger 7 Do market forces reduce segregation? The controversies of post-socialist urban regions of Central and Eastern Europe 118 Zolt.n Kov.cs 8 Urban and school segregation in the larger Paris metropolitan area: a complex interweaving with a strong qualitative impact on social cohesion 134 Marco Oberti 9 Racial and economic segregation in the US: overlapping and reinforcing dimensions 151 Paul A. Jargowsky PART II MULTIPLE DOMAINS AND DIMENSIONS OF SEGREGATION 10 Can the public space be a counterweight to social segregation? 170 Ali Madanipour 11 Spatial segregation and the quality of the local environment in contemporary cities 185 Roberta Cucca 12 Intersections of class, ethnicity and age: social segregation of children in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam 200 Willem R. Boterman 13 Change and persistence in the third dimension: residential segregation by age and family type in Stockholm, 1990 and 2014 219 .sa Br.m. and Roger Andersson 14 Segregation by household composition and income across multiple spatial scales 239 Ann Owens 15 Middle-class family encounters and the role of micro-publics for cross-social interaction 254 Heike Hanh.rster and Sabine Weck 16 Socioeconomic segregation and the middle classes in Paris, Rio de Janeiro and S.o Paulo: a comparative perspective 270 Edmond Pr.teceille and Adalberto Cardoso 17 Segregation and the urban rich: enclaves, networks and mobilities 289 Rowland Atkinson and Hang Kei Ho 18 The impact of gentrification on social and ethnic segregation 306 Wouter van Gent and Cody Hochstenbach 19 Vertical social differentiation as segregation in spatial proximity 325 Thomas Maloutas 20 Residential stratification and segmentation in the hyper-vertical city 346 Ray Forrest, Ka Sik Tong and Weijia Wang PART III MEASURING AND CONCEPTUALISING SEGREGATION: METHODS, APPROACHES AND DEBATES 21 Understanding the processes of changing segregation 367 Nick Bailey 22 Integrating infrastructure and accessibility in measures of bespoke neighbourhoods 378 John .sth and Umut Türk 23 On the meaning and measurement of the ghetto as a form of segregation 395 Alan Walks EPILOGUE 24 Towards further understanding of urban segregation 411 Sako Musterd Index 425

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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 timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future. Expert contributors analyze development from a mobilities perspective, exploring how globalization connects distant people and places, so that what happens in one place has direct bearing on another. Chapters provide an overview of the global trends related to the flows of people and capital over the past decade, and offer insights into the consequences of developmental practices and policies that unfold on the ground. Drawing on specific case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, this Handbook considers how, in many localities, livelihood opportunities are ever more shaped by positionality, and the ways in which people are attached to and participate in translocal and transnational networks. Providing a bottom-up analysis of the implications of globalization for translocal development, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of development studies, human geography, and sustainability and environmental science. Its use of global case studies will also be useful for practitioners and policy makers who desire a better understanding of the developmental impact of policies and investments.Trade Review'This exceptionally rich and innovative text engages issues of translocal development and mobility through detailed, often empirically-based case studies. Its chapters expand on how meta-trend such as digitalization and environmental degradation affect development, and advocate for a mobilities perspective in analysing and addressing resulting issues. ''Local'' perspectives are highlighted to give guidance to policymakers on how to avoid the pitfalls and unintended consequences of previous approaches. It offers us a new way to think through the major issues of our time.' -- Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland'Globalizing capitalism, originally imagined by global policymakers as diffusing development from North to South and enabling the latter to catch-up, has a much more complex, networked spatiality triggering persistently uneven outcomes. This important collection interrogates this complexity and its implications. Trans-local development interrogates how global networks of capital, commodities, logistics and migrants, unevenly connecting the world, come to earth: differentially shaping local landscapes and conditions of possibility for progress towards the good life, while also being shaped by local agency and initiative. Unraveling the implications for specific communities across the post-colony, these essays illuminate how contemporary globalization leapfrogs across space in ways that advantage certain localities and positionalities at the expense of many others. Readers will see the development implications of globalizing capitalism in new and transformative ways.' -- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, US'Combining new empirical research with novel conceptualizations, the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilitie explores the complex and changing ways in which global flows are restructuring livelihood possibilities. While recognizing the potential for peoples' agency, the authors draw attention to the increasing constraints on local development, and thus the challenges that new capital and human flows present for securing inclusion and sustainability. This book is a sympathetic but serious challenge to livelihoods research, as well as to arguments that global value chains offer pathways to human development.' -- Anthony Bebbington, Clark University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities 1 Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers PART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORY LANDSCAPES 2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labour migration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13 Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa 3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the case of Bangladesh 27 Ingrid Boas 4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships and counter-tactics in the West African–European migration industry 42 Joris Schapendonk PART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS 5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of ‘global’ inclusive agribusiness investments – examples from Ghana 58 Guus van Westen 6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increased farmer–Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76 Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers 7 Global flows of investments in agriculture and irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92 Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert Jan Veldwisch 8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of ‘impairing destruction’ 110 Alberto Alonso-Fradejas PART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131 Marja Spierenburg 10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable translocal development 147 Kei Otsuki PART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF LARGE-SCALE MINING 11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital and people in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162 Chris Huggins 12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining development corridor: the case of Suriname 179 Marjo de Theije 13 Civil society’s positionality in new development chains: insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191 Joanny Bélair and Thabit Jacob PART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES 14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows ‘touching ground’? 206 Femke van Noorloos 15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of the sustainability coin 218 Murtah Shannon 16 Conclusions 232 Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers Index

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Book SynopsisAnalysing the aural background of everyday spaces, this book explores the role and processes of sound in daily life in a range of contexts. Sounding Places questions how sound comes to be a meaningful ingredient in the microgeographies of place-making, how it contributes to shaping a variety of embodied and spatially situated experiences, and how such aspects can be harnessed methodologically. These topics contribute to broader debates on the relations between representation and the non- or more-than-representational that are taking place across the social sciences and humanities in the wake of the cultural turn. Using creative approaches, this multidisciplinary book brings together the work of international scholars to enrich our understanding of the more-than-representational registers of sound and sonic experiences. Social science scholars focusing on human geography, social psychology, music and cultural studies will find this to be a beneficial read. It will also prove to be a useful tool for urban planners and policy-makers interested in the use of sound and music in public environments.Trade Review'Sounding Places represents a significant theoretical and empirical moment in an emergent sonic geography. Through the lens of a more-than-representational theoretical approach, the volume presents an eclectic and dizzying array of sounds, places and experiences for the reader to savour - from the crashing of ocean waves, the sounds of airports, to breakdancing in Milan subways, to the spatial awareness of the visually impaired, to the geopolitical sounds of nations and the sonic atmospheres of dormitory rooms, this volume presents a truly compelling contribution to our understanding of the role of sound in the geographies of our everyday lives.' --Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK'Sound is embodied and embedded in materials and processes which envelope, embrace and touch humans deeply, providing senses of temporality which animate place through vivid presents and intense memories. Exploring relationships between sound, music, body and environment, this collection makes an important contribution examining sonic places in all their richness.' --George Revill, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents 1. Sounding Places: An introduction Karolina Doughty, Michelle Duffy and Theresa Harada PART I Sound and place-making 2. Soundings: Sensing and encounters in/with/of place Michelle Duffy, Angela Campbell and Richard Chew 3. Exploring Inclusive Therapeutic Soundscapes Alexandra Kaley, Chris Hatton and Christine Milligan 4. Affective Relations of Bodies and Sound: The Constitution of ‘Ben Gurion International Airport 2000’ Planning Project Mor Shilon 5. Resounding heterotopias: breakdance, caporales and the re-appropriation of the city Fabio Bertoni 6. The call of the sea: how sound co-composes the place of the surfed wave Jon Anderson and Lyndsey Stoodley PART II The centrality of sound to the making of bodies 7. Voicing Waters; (Co-)Creative Reflections on Sound, Water, Conversations and Hydrocitizenship Owain Jones, Luci Gorell Barnes and Antony Lyons 8. Rural Sound-Space: A Restless Quiet and an Active Silence Sheryl-Ann Simpson 9. The sounds we make: environmental feedback and the entanglements of sonic presence Daniel Paiva and Herculano Cachinho 10. Sonic and tactile bodies: sound, haptic space and accessibility Karla Berrens 11. Encountering everyday linguistic diversity in public space in Antwerp Nesrin El Ayadi PART III Affective politics of sound 12. Sonifying the World Anja Kanngieser and Rory Gibb 13. Observations on Politics and Communication in Electronic Music Performances͛ Ryan Bird 14. Modes of Power and Sonic Affect: Urban encounters in Bangkok͛’s transport infrastructure Leonie Tuitjer 15. Rethinking musical cosmopolitanism as a visceral politics of sound Karolina Doughty 16. The echo of communal space: More-than-representational tourist encounters in hostel accommodation Kaya Barry PART IV Methodological approaches to utilizing sound 17. Musical Improvisation as Therapeutic Practice: An Interlude Candice P. Boyd 18. Embodied listening in research practice Theresa Harada 19. All about that Place: Tuning in to Community Radio - Listener Diary Accounts Catherine Wilkinson and Samantha Wilkinson Index

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Book SynopsisWith social inequity in urban spaces becoming an increasing concern in our modern world, A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity explores the relationships between transport and social equity. Transport systems and infrastructure investment can lead to inequitable travel behaviours, with certain socio-demographic groups using particular parts of the transport system and accessing particular activities and opportunities. Employing international case studies to scrutinise the spatial and social equity impacts of transport systems and infrastructure, the contributors bring together wide-ranging empirical research to fill in the lacunae on social equity. This nuanced and comprehensive Companion examines transport investments, and related changes in accessibility, urban form and development, house prices and gentrification to better understand the complex relationships between transport and social equity. Drawing together competing perspectives, this book highlights the range and dimensions of the debate, the complexity and tensions, and the progression of the argument over time. Provocative and comprehensive, this book will serve as an impressive guide for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as offering a detailed reference point for researchers and academics working on urban social equity. Consultants and policy makers overseeing transport infrastructure, city planning and wider public policy will also benefit from this book's rigorous empirical approach to transport impacts.Trade Review'This unique and comprehensive volume provides a much-needed lens into multiple dimensions of transport equity across the life cycle, genders, modes, and indeed, the entire globe. By drawing from a diverse collection of cases, this collection advances our understanding of equitable transport, with relevant implications for theory and practice alike.' --Karen Chapple, University of California, Berkeley, US'This impressive collection by international authorities brings together aspects of equity issues in transport, space and society. Its strength is that it includes not just conceptual issues but puts these firmly in the context of case studies drawn from all over the world and countries at differing stages of development.' --Roger Vickerman, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I: Introduction 1. Transport and space and social equity impacts Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Moshe Givoni and Karst Geurs PART II: Transport and Spatial Impacts 2. Understanding the relationship between changes in accessibility to jobs, income and unemployment in Toronto. Robbin Deboosere, Geneviève Boisjoly and Ahmed El-Geneidy 3. Reducing social spatial inequity with public transport in Melbourne, Australia Jan Scheurer and Carey Curtis 4. Exploring the travel mode choice of rail transit with geographically weighted regression: Evidence from Chongqing Lixun Liu 5. Considering the impacts of HSR on China’s East Coast Region Qiyan Wu, Anthony Perl, Jingwei Sun, Taotao Deng and Haoyu Hu 6. Automobile peripheries: travel to school in suburban London through the lens of social practice Emilia Smeds 7. The impact of transport connectivity on housing prices Imogen Thompson PART III: Transport and Social Equity Impacts 8. Equity aspects of transportation in a multi-network world: a societal perspective Eran Feitelson 9. Urban public transport investment and socio-spatial development: the case of the Copenhagen Metro Kristian Bothe and Christine Benna Skytt-Larsen 10. Assessing transport equity or healthcare in Metro Manila Neil Stephen Lopez and Jose Bienvenido Manuel Biona 11. Working women and unequal mobilities in the urban periphery Eda Beyazit and Ceyda Sungur 12. Planning transport to meet the needs of children and young people Janet Stanley, John Stanley and Brendan Gleeson 13. Social assessment of transport projects in Global South cities using community perceptions of needs Karen Lucas, Nihan Akyelken and Janet Stanley PART IV: Emerging Approaches to Socio-Spatial Equity Analysis 14. Reasonable travel time – the traveller’s perspective David Banister, Yannick Cornet, Moshe Givoni and Glenn Lyons 15. Using different approaches to evaluate individual social equity in transport Mengqiu Cao, Yongping Zhang, Yuerong Zhang, Shengxiao Li and Robin Hickman 16. Why the Capability Approach can offer an alternative to transport project assessment, Beatriz Mella Lira 17. Assessing utility, feasibility and equity with competence-based multi criteria analysis Geert te Boveldt, Imre Keseru and Cathy Macharis 18. Using behavioural economics to inform more effective planning and delivery of cycling projects Matt Higgins 19. Operationalising motility for transport policy Rebecca Shliselberg and Moshe Givoni 20. Exploring the links between mobility capital and human flourishing in Buenos Aires Florencia Rodriguez Touron PART V: CONCLUSIONS 21. What next? Reflections for research and practice Karst Geurs, Moshe Givoni, Beatriz Mella Lira and Robin Hickman 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 SynopsisThis book provides new dimensions and a contemporary focus on sustainable transport, urban regeneration and development in eight countries spanning four continents at different stages of development. It examines the role of transit oriented development (TOD) in improving urban sustainability and providing different transport choices, exploring how these can be implemented in modern cities. Establishing a new agenda for TOD, experts in the field critically evaluate the links between urban transport investment and economic, social and environmental sustainability, introducing new methods of analysis. Chapters explore international dimensions of TOD, providing crucial insight to issues such as uneven development, transport emissions, global warming, car dependence and the challenge of powering vehicles with sustainable fuels. Urban and regional planning, transport studies and environmental management scholars seeking to understand urban sustainability issues will benefit from this timely book. It will also prove to be a valuable read for urban planners and research consultants looking to widen their knowledge of the role of TOD in enhancing urban sustainability.Trade Review'As TOD practice matures, executing the concept remains fraught with challenges and complexities. Knowles and Ferbrache advance theory and practice by synthesizing a large volume of literature and showcasing case studies from around the globe that examine economic development, sustainability, social development, and methods. This book serves as a foundation for students and practitioners across a variety of disciplines interested in enhancing their understanding of the multiple dimensions of TOD and how it remains a tangible method of advancing sustainable cities.' --John L. Renne, Florida Atlantic University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Transit Oriented Development and Sustainable Cities: Economics, Community and Methods Richard D. Knowles and Fiona Ferbrache PART I: TOD, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY 2 New stations and transit oriented development in three United States rail corridors Matthieu Schorung 3 Development of transit oriented development in Dubai City and the Gulf States Nasma Hannawi, Peter Jones and Helena Titheridge 4 Exploring the potential of light rail transit to encourage urban regeneration and support more sustainable commuting to and from Valletta Maria Attard 5 Funding public transport in Turin with transit oriented development land value capture Gualtiero Bonvino 6 Transit oriented development in Montr.al: past, present and future Pierre Barrieau 7 Effects of transit oriented development in Denver, Colorado, USA Andrew R. Goetz PART II: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY 8 Neighbourhood change around heavy rail transit stations: the case of three US cities Adam Miner, Elizabeth C. Delmelle and Isabelle Nilsson 9 Planning an effective transport system: learning from resident transit use behaviour and perspectives Devon McAslan 10 Transit oriented development in Buenos Aires, Argentina: comparing Puerto Madero and the Microcentro David Keeling PART III: TOD METHODS 11 The assessment of transit oriented developments using microsimulation models Tara Tanoz-Sargeant 12 Implementing transit oriented development in Greater London Enrica Papa 13 Paratransit as a feeder to mass transit in Manila, Philippines Daniel Mabazza PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 14 Conclusions Richard D. Knowles and Fiona Ferbrache Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the importance of megacities and megacity-regions as one of the defining features of the 21st century, this Handbook provides a clear and comprehensive overview of current thinking and debates from leading scholars in the field. Highlighting major current challenges and dimensions of megaurbanization, chapters form a thematic focus on governance, planning, history, and environmental and social issues, supported by case studies from every continent. Analysing vital questions for contemporary urban research, this Handbook looks at: what place megacities and megacity-regions occupy in a world of cities; how they interrogate current thinking about urban society, theory, and policy; and what role these largest of urban areas will play in shaping humanity's future. Key contributions reveal that research needs to further focus a critical and analytical lens on the particularities and distinctive issues associated with megaurbanization. A timely and essential read for urban studies, urban geography, and public policy students, the interdisciplinary nature of this Handbook provides a thorough view into the features and importance of megacities and megacity-regions. Public policy-makers and planners will also benefit from the wide-ranging case studies included.Trade Review'What remains to be said about cities when the planet is completely urbanized? This astonishing new Handbook seeks answers in the megacity-regions of the world, especially in the burgeoning urban constellations of eastern Asia. The book's diverse and topical chapters help planners and decision-makers, and ultimately inhabitants, to ''find their bearings'' in the unmoored vastness of a planet of megacities.' --Roger Keil, York University, Canada'The book fulfills a very timely mission: to reveal just how complex, varied, and multi-scaled the global urban reality has become - and is still becoming. The authors provide an antidote to simplifying notions about cities and megacities, updating our understanding of urban forces and dynamics, so that we might act upon them more effectively.' --Jeb Brugmann, Founder, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Germany and author, Welcome to the Urban RevolutionThe Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions provides a much needed assessment of 21st century urbanization, especially with its attention to the scale and density that characterizes todays cities. Its nuanced discussion of how to define megacities and megacity-regions is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the most critical megatrends of our times.' --Eugenie L. Birch, University of Pennsylvania, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Megacities, megacity-regions, and the endgame of urbanization 1 André Sorensen and Danielle Labbé PART I THE CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES OF MEGACITIES 2 Thinking about mega-conurbations and planning 21 John Friedmann 3 City limits: bounding and unbounding in conceptualizing the megacity 33 Michael Leaf 4 Urbanization and developmental pathways: critical junctures of urban transition 47 André Sorensen 5 El Monstruo : reflections on catastrophic metaphors about Mexico City 65 Julie-Anne Boudreau and Felipe de Alba PART II MEGA-URBAN GOVERNANCE 6 Urban governance of megacities: searching for the collective actor 78 Christian Lefèvre 7 Powerful states, weak states: understanding coercion and neglect in the governance of Marcos-era Manila 92 Nancy Kwak 8 Actors and shifting scales of urban governance in India 101 Loraine Kennedy 9 The incomplete and paradoxical ‘neoliberal turn’ in Mumbai 119 Marie-Hélène Zérah 10 Nurturing neighbourhoods to sustain quality of life in megacities and large city regions: an interdisciplinary reflection on planning for sustainable and socially just cities from Chile 134 Lake Sagaris, María Inés Arribas, María Inés Solimano, Sonia Reyes-Paecke and Juan Carlos Muñoz PART III MEGA-URBAN PATTERNS, FORMS AND PLANNING APPROACHES 11 Urban containment policies for megacities: the case of Beijing 153 Haoying Han 12 East Asian megacities: the view from the periphery 169 Douglas Webster and Jianyi Li 13 On the road again: the geography and characteristics of American commuter megaregions 188 Alasdair Rae and Garrett Dash Nelson 14 The West African corridor from Abidjan to Lagos: a megacity-region under construction 206 Armelle Choplin and Alice Hertzog 15 Cities: growing threats, growing opportunities 223 Daniel Hoornweg and Kevin Pope PART IV MEGA-URBAN LIFE SPACES AND LIVEABILITY 16 Navigating the extensiveness of Jakarta 234 AbdouMaliq Simone 17 Poverty in a wealthy megacity: stories from Tokyo’s alleys after the bubble burst 245 Heide Imai 18 Flooding as emotional politics in the Mexican megacity-region 261 Felipe de Alba PART V MEGA-URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES 19 Measuring progress toward sustainable megacities 278 Iain D. Stewart, Chris A. Kennedy and Angelo Facchini 20 Megacities at risk: the climate–energy conundrum 292 William E. Rees 21 Future megacity-regions and heatwave exposure 309 Peter J. Marcotullio, Carsten Keßler and Balázs M. Fekete 22 Megacity in the delta: managing water in Jakarta 327 Christopher Silver PART VI MEGA-URBAN ECONOMICS, REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY 23 Rethinking megacity-region development: the land–infrastructure– finance nexus as political project 345 Gavin Shatkin 24 The process of metropolization in megacity-regions 360 Rodrigo Cardoso and Evert Meijers 25 The emergence and economic restructuring of two global super megacity-regions in China: comparing the Pearl River and Yangtze River Deltas 376 Anthony G. O. Yeh, Xingjian Liu, Jili Xu and Mengdi Wu 26 The financialization of real estate in megacities and its variegated trajectories in East Asia 395 Natacha Aveline-Dubach Index 411

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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 SynopsisAs the Internet develops, on top of earlier urban communications, facilities and media, it is becoming the site of urban communications on an unprecedented scale. Exploring the history of the Internet, from pre-conception to the possibilities of an internet-based future, The Internet City explores ways in which the Internet and urban life intersect. The book interprets how the contemporary city is becoming fully based on Internet technologies in all of its major dimensions: the daily activities of urbanites and urban companies, the operations of urban systems, and the functioning of upcoming driverless vehicles. With particular focus on the ways in which people routinely consume urban services via the Internet, Aharon Kellerman examines how they are simultaneously present in physical and digital spaces. Urban geographers and urban planners will benefit from the detailed information on how the cityscape will be altered in the near future by the introduction of internet-based autonomous vehicles. City policy makers will also find this a useful tool to explore how and why policies may need to be updated in accordance with the rising importance of the Internet in the urban sphere.Trade Review‘This is a fascinating book which opens to the reader a wide view of the Internet development, applications and potential impacts on urbanities.’ -- Eran Ben-Elia, Geography Research Forum<>‘Those looking for an introduction to the impacts of the Internet on society and within cities will find the book useful. Kellerman has provided a public service in marshalling the basic historical and contemporary data about how the Internet has become embedded in our lives in multiple ways, and in showing us in an organized fashion some of the main concerns about how AVs may change cities.’ -- Daniel G Chatman, Journal of Urban Technology‘For more than 30 years Aharon Kellerman has chronicled the spatial implications of evolving communications and internet technologies culminating in his current volume The Internet City. . . The book is accessible to a wide audience and would find a place in undergraduate and graduate courses on information geography or urban planning, as well as be useful for urban planners, city managers and policy makers.’ -- Mark Wilson, Urban Analytics and City Science'As the internet revolution continues to reverberate through the global economy and daily life, urban life has become progressively more constituted around digital transactions. Kellerman has long been one of the most astute observers of this transformation. This volume not only covers the basics of how cyberspace has become woven into the contemporary world, such as cell phones and digital divides, it also breaks new ground by addressing topics that have received scant attention, such as autonomous vehicles. It offers a fecund series of insights into how people, firms, and places have been restructured by the ever-growing use of digital technologies. This volume will be useful to students and faculty alike, and of interest to anyone interested in how cyberspace and the analogue world have become shot through with each other.' --Barney Warf, University of Kansas, US'Computer networks and autonomous technologies continue to rapidly redefine the geography of the city. Kellerman has spent a lifetime reflecting on what this might mean and his recent book presents one of the most insightful pictures of this future to date. Essential reading for all those interested in how our future cities will be organised.' --Michael Batty, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I URBAN CONNECTIVITY AND INFORMATIONAL ACTIVITIES 1. Introduction 2. Pre-Internet urban connectivity and informational activities 3. The Internet PART II URBAN INTERNET APPLICATIONS 4. The Internet for Individual users 5. The dual-space society 6. The Internet and companies 7. The Internet for urban systems 8. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the Internet PART III IMPLICATIONS OF URBAN INTERNET APPLICATIONS 9. Urban perspectives for the Internet-based city 10. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisTravelling through various historical and geographical contexts, Social Imaginaries of Space explores diverse forms of spatiality, examining the interconnections which shape different social collectives. Proposing a theory on how space is intrinsically linked to the making of societies, this book examines the history of the spatiality of modern states and nations and the social collectives of Western modernity in a contemporary light. Debarbieux offers a practical exploration of his theory of the social imaginaries of space through the analysis of a number of case studies. Advanced geography scholars will find the analysis of space and its impact on societies a valuable tool in understanding the ways in which space, culture and behaviour interact. Historians of Western modernity will also benefit from Debarbieux's analysis of case studies that impact modern life.Trade Review'The trajectory of this book crosses brilliantly major phenomena of cultural and social geography, emphasizing the importance of social, political, mental and imaginative cartographies constantly proliferating and giving birth to new definitions for urbanism and non urban settlements. Debarbieux examines with ease and clarity the radical historical and rhetorical narratives leading to the formation of solid imaginary concepts, without neglecting the fact that despite rhetorical changes along national and state history, imaginaries did not lose their constitutive place in the nation agenda. Debarbieux proposes an original, informative and unique position regarding the binding of space to societal transformations, developing an idiosyncratic vocabulary including almost all the facets of effervescent spatial manifestation of the visual and the imaginative socially constructed world. The book, I sincerely hope, will ring the bell for the need to expand the boundaries of humanistic geography, emphasizing the urge to shape new imaginative models and debates having in common the dialectical relationships between the and reality reflection. The rich bibliography offered is of high interest to those who wish to relieve their thirst for additional information.' --Miron M. Denan, Geography Research Forum'Debarbieux continues to traverse with ease the Anglophone/Francophone border in social theory with this most recent work, a creative and highly readable exploration of the political significance of social imaginaries of space. Through a series of conceptual essays and related case studies, or in his terms ''detours'', he crafts an intriguing, jargon-free narrative that examines the spatial imaginings that have generated the territorial ideals and practices of modern states and nations. Debarbieux further demonstrates that while the rhetoric of post-nationalism and globalization has changed the content of these imaginaries, it has not diminished their constitutive role. His is a cosmopolitan vision but one that does not dismiss the power of particularism, especially evident in the place loyalties that have become so prominent in current national and global political debate.' --J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Notre Dame, US'Social Imaginaries of Space explores a crucial contact zone between cultural and political geographies. Written by a major figure of contemporary Francophone geography, this ambitious book brilliantly analyses how spatial imaginaries have continuously constituted societies and their mutations in the modern era.' --Ola Söderström, University of Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Framing the spatial dimension of social imaginaries 2. Concept 1 - Social Imaginaries and space 3. Case 1 - Competing imaginaries of nature in Yosemite 4. Concept 2 - State Imaginary of Territory 5. Case 2 - England at the time of the Tudors and Stuarts, or the self-representation of the modern State 6. Case 3 - Science and State imaginary in colonial Indochina 7. Concept 3 - The singularity of the national imaginary 8. Case 4 - Nationalist rhetoric of space and of time in Paris, Washington and other places 9. Concept 4 - Post national political imaginaries of space 10. Case 5 - Post-national imaginary of New York Italianness 11. Case 6 - Post national imaginaries of nature 12. Epiphany - Leviathan at the border Bibliography 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. Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanisation, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.Chapters collapse traditional binary notions of development as north-south, rural-urban, global-local and traditional modern, embracing a revised conceptualisation of uneven development as a process dependent upon multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks. It offers potential routes for substantive, interlinked research agendas, including new ruralities, governance, land rights, agro-ecology, financialisation, power relations, family farming, and the role of markets.Scholars of geography, planning, rural sociology and rural-urban studies looking for a broader understanding of the topic will find this book essential. It will also be beneficial for those engaged in rural development policy and practice.Trade Review‘This book makes an interesting contribution to rural studies, informed by a solid grounding in the history of the discipline. It is surely correct to work toward eroding the division between rural and urban studies and the book provides a good guide to anyone looking for a broad description of the issues facing global development.’ -- Selyf Morgan, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘This book makes a significant and valuable contribution to interdisciplinary rural studies. It centres the rural and rurality while breaking down barriers, divides and binaries between the rural and the urban. It identifies key areas of rural research, as well as their relevant debates and bodies of literature, which will be indispensable for anyone interested in researching or working in and on rural spaces and places.’ -- Miles Kenney-Lazar, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography'Rural spaces, while still under-threat, also represent sites of incredible experimentation, innovation and resistance. In an era of growing ecological and economic crisis, this book represents a much needed addition to the literature showing rurality as site for contestation and socio-ecological redemption.' --Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. New ruralities and centralities for rural development 2. Changing questions of governance: reflexive and disruptive governance in the Anthropocene 3. New power configurations and transformations 4. Financialization and nested vulnerabilities. The rise of fictitious capital in placing agrarian change 5. Re-claiming land: questions of land rights and the management of the biosphere 6. Agroecology: a new paradigm for rural development? 7. Family farming in changing agricultural social structures 8. The power of the new markets Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisMaritime transport is a constantly evolving critical transport mode, thoroughly explored in this timely book from a geographical perspective. Chapters cover maritime shipping markets, territories of maritime shipping, institutional dimensions, and environmental and future challenges. With contributions from researchers in a range of disciplines, including geography, economics, law and spatial planning, as well as practitioners, the book emphasizes the wide-ranging interest in and impacts of maritime transport. Offering empirically rich studies of historical and contemporary geographies of maritime transport, this book also looks ahead to the importance of adaptation and of questioning the effects of the continued economization of maritime transport. Geography, transport economics, logistics and management scholars will appreciate the thorough case studies and in-depth analyses of the topics offered in the book. It will also benefit industry and government representatives looking for a broader understanding of the recent evolution of maritime transport in a globalizing world. Contributors include: M. Acciaro, G. Aerts, M. Akhavan, C.G. Alvstam, J. Berli, M. Bunel, A. Christodoulou, P. de Langen, M. Dooms, C. Ducruet, H. Ghiara, E. Haezendonck, R. Horster, W. Jacobs, T. Koukaki, J.S.L. Lam, M. Langenus, K. Li, I. Mariotti, A. McKinnon, E. Musso, A.A. Pallis, F. Parola, R. Sabonge, R.J. Sánchez, G. Satta, C. Sillig, H. Sornn-Friese, S.P. Strandenes, A. Tei, H.A. Thanopoulou, C. Tournaye, G. Vaggelas, F. Vitellaro, J. Woxenius, W. ZhangTrade Review'This prodigious work provides a comprehensive overview of issues in maritime transport from a uniquely geographical perspective. In so doing, it brings together an eclectic assortment of insightful, interesting and, sometimes controversial, contributions from some of the world's leading maritime academics.' --Kevin Cullinane, University of Gothenburg, Sweden'If you want an overview of maritime transport and its geographies, this is the book to read. It draws on the experience of a large number of authors to provide wide-ranging coverage of an extensive range of issues. Wilmsmeier and Monios have brought together a noteworthy collection in these pages.' --Jon Shaw, University of Plymouth, UK'Wilmsmeier and Monios have assembled a comprehensive investigation by the world's leading researchers into the many facets of maritime transport geographies. The 20 chapters provide excellent coverage of and insightful commentary on both traditional and emerging issues. This well-crafted book will be of interest to policy-makers, scholars and students.' --Mary R. Brooks, Professor Emerita, Dalhousie University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Geographies of maritime transport 1 Gordon Wilmsmeier and Jason Monios 2 The geography of maritime trade: globalisation and beyond 16 Gordon Wilmsmeier and Jason Monios 3 GDP and international seaborne trade: past trends, present breaks and future directions 33 Siri Pettersen Strandenes and Helen A. Thanopoulou 4 Geography versus topology in the evolution of the global container shipping network (1977–2016) 49 César Ducruet, Justin Berli and Mattia Bunel 5 The geography of commodity flows: the bulk sector 71 Theodora Koukaki and Alessio Tei 6 Commodity supply networks as complex adaptive systems: how commodity and freight markets respond to a supply shock 87 Wouter Jacobs and Robert Horster 7 The Panama and Suez Canals: re-engineered to be competitive 100 Rodolfo Sabonge and Ricardo J. Sánchez 8 Belts and Roads: The geopolitics and transport geography of the China–European seaborne trade 117 Claes G. Alvstam 9 Short-distance maritime geographies: short sea shipping, RoRo, feeder and inter-island transport 134 Anastasia Christodoulou and Johan Woxenius 10 Transport on international rivers: a model of governance for the commons? 149 Cécile Tournaye 11 The changing geography of cruise shipping 170 Athanasios A. Pallis and George Vaggelas 12 Container shipping: beyond the era of maturity? 192 Gordon Wilmsmeier and Jason Monios 13 Is there a case for state ownership in ports and shipping? 210 Peter de Langen and Henrik Sornn-Friese 14 Financial operators in port infrastructures: typologies, objectives and global strategies 232 Giovanni Satta, Francesco Parola, Enrico Musso and Francesco Vitellaro 15 Development models and policies for maritime clusters 258 Wei Zhang, Jasmine Siu Lee Lam and Kevin X. Li 16 Attractiveness of port-centric advanced logistics clusters 275 Mina Akhavan, Hilda Ghiara, Ilaria Mariotti, Enrico Musso and Cécile Sillig 17 Assessing the strategic role of inland ports in urban freight policy: an application to the port of Brussels 292 Geoffrey Aerts, Michaël Dooms, Elvira Haezendonck and Mychal Langenus 18 International shipping and climate change: policy responses and implications for the maritime industry 312 Michele Acciaro and Alan McKinnon 19 Shipping and the environment: how environmental challenges impact on the shipping network 330 Theodora Koukaki and Alessio Tei 20 Arctic sea routes: a new geography for shipping 346 Gordon Wilmsmeier Index 359

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Book SynopsisUsing case studies from the UK and Europe, Chris Couch examines the nature and achievements of the expanded towns programmes that emerged in the mid-20th century to accommodate population growth and overspill from densely populated urban areas. Thought-provoking insights into lessons to be learnt are provided, alongside arguments for further planned expansion of smaller towns today. This timely book investigates how development pressures caused by rapidly growing populations, have led to some disregard for health and housing standards, and how a fresh look at the relationship between urban form and public health is necessary, particularly in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. The author raises the importance of strong planning and public land acquisition, concluding with a strong case for a new programme of planned expansion in smaller towns. Written in an accessible style, this book is an excellent resource for students and researchers in urban planning, geography and history as well as housing policy, estate management and the built environment. Practitioners and policy makers within town planning and urban development would also find this an invaluable read.Trade Review‘This book offers valuable insight into the UK and European experience of planning for growth and pressure on existing settlements. By examining the development and implementation of several UK and European urban expansion policies the reader is provided with a balanced insight into approaches to planning for urbanization. This book will be particularly valuable to academics with an interest in urban design, planning, regeneration and economic development grappling with planning for future needs and demands.’ -- Katherine Pollard, Journal of Urban Affairs'Chris Couch provides a detailed overview of the modern history of urban extension schemes in Britain. Discussions of broader trends are combined with in-depth chapters on individual localities, including international comparative case studies in France and the Netherlands. The book contains rich empirical material throughout and is illustrated by original masterplan sketches, recent images and data visualizations. The lessons from Couch’s historical analysis will be valuable for planners managing urban expansion and sprawl in a variety of contemporary contexts across the world.' -- Matthew Cocks, Principia College, Illinois, US'Planned Urban Development: Learning from Town Expansion Schemes in the UK and Europe is an important and timely contribution to planning literature. The analysis provided in this book confirms the centrality of the broad vision and applied practice of planning for balanced urban development. Through a series of national and international case studies, each of which is documented in great detail, Chris Couch provides a meticulously researched account of one of the most significant planning initiatives of the 20th century - the town expansion scheme.' -- Cathal O'Connell, University College Cork, Ireland'By threading different time periods of different town expansion plans, Chris Couch has written a must-read text for anyone who is interested in learning from how planning policies and decisions since the 1950s have impacted on housing supply and shaped our everyday life in the UK and Europe. It is a very well-researched book and serves as a mirror to remind us what to do and what not to do in our planned urban development.' -- Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Planned Urban Development 2. The origins and evolution of expanded towns policy 3. The geography and planning of town expansion 4. Big beasts: pioneering developments in Bletchley and Swindon 5. Other expanded towns serving London 6. Planning for overspill in North-West England 7. Using the New Towns Acts for larger town expansion schemes 8. Comparative experiences from the Netherlands and France 9. Overall achievements and future possibilities 10. Conclusion: learning from town expansion schemes in the UK and Europe Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage relationally in a material world, within which we are inter-dependent and reliant, and governed by laws in a dynamic process. It advances novel insights into the numerous intersections of space, place and law in our lives.International contributors offer a range of activity-orientated analyses, focusing on methodology, embodied experience, legal pluralism, conflict and resistance, and non-human and place agency. The Handbook examines a number of cross-cutting themes including social inequality, environmental justice, sustainability, urban development, Indigenous legal systems, the effects of colonialism and property law. Representing a diversity of locales from all around the world, the chapters encompass both urban and rural, terrestrial and marine areas, agential and storied spaces, and fictional as well as ''real'' places.Taking a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates law, human and legal geography, planning, sociology, political ecology, anthropology, and beyond, this comprehensive Handbook will be critical reading for scholars and students of these and cognate areas. Its discussion of empirical examples will also be beneficial for practitioners and policymakers interested in these fields. Trade Review‘The editors make a distinct contribution to legal geography, shaping a diverse, expansive, and future-focused collection of essays which finely balance being critically attuned to unequal formations of law and power whilst offering optimistic approaches of how to do things with legal geography. The range of topics and breadth of imagination is undoubtedly impressive.’ -- Jessica Smith, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies'A must-have for readers paying attention to space, place and law. This edited book is a journey along a braided river, with 32 chapters on Indigenous issues, non-human others, cyberlaw, the sea, cities, energy, the underground and much more. Highly readable and packed with important insights, you will need to put this book down, but you will soon pick it up again.' -- Phil McManus, University of Sydney, Australia'The contributors, refreshingly, are diverse and differently situated. Intellectually, they also come from many worlds -- geography, law, planning, anthropology, and so on. Their work speaks to the crucial challenges, tied to systemic inequality, that we confront, while also reminding us of the diverse forms that legal geography takes. It insists that legal geography is needed now, more than ever.' -- from the Foreword by Nicholas Blomley'Legal geography has much promise in deepening our understanding of the linkages between societies, their governance, and the world we live in. The Handbook on Space, Place and Law offers not only a major consolidation of the field, but a significant extension. Bartel, Carter and colleagues scope widely across socio-legal contexts, policy sectors and environments, and offer deep insights of great value to geographers and lawyers alike, and indeed to anyone concerned with the conditions of people and their environments.' -- Stephen Dovers, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: What is legal geography? Why, and why now? xvii Nicholas Blomley Introduction to space, place and law xx Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter PART I WAY FINDING 1 How to make 1500 holes in the ground: accounting for law alongside other place-shaping factors in the making of an exceptional Cold War network 2 Luke Bennett 2 Legislative tenure and spatial economic analysis: an illustrative example of papaya production in Nadroga province, Fiji 14 Chethna Ben 3 In the eyes of the law: stalking and the legal (mis)construal of scopic relational spaces 26 David Delaney and Päivi Rannila 4 All the land was stolen: investigating the aporia of justice through countertopographies of Indigenous land rights and settler colonialism across the Americas 38 Joel E. Correia PART II JOURNEYING 5 Neighbourhoods for an ageing population in Singapore 50 Belinda Yuen 6 Sexual offences and to have done with the courtroom 61 Victoria Brooks 7 Performing law: space and the unfolding of gender and violence in India 72 Kalindi Kokal and Werner Menski 8 Place: sacrifice and property law in extra-territorial nation spaces 86 Lee Godden PART III BORDER CROSSINGS 9 Understanding the impact of customary land tenure and reform in Papua New Guinea 99 Flora Kwapena 10 The spatial management of sex work: placing marginality through formal and informal practices 109 Caitlin Neuwelt-Kearns, Tom Baker and Octavia Calder-Dawe 11 Collision between two ‘public interests’ in housing demolition and relocation in Dalian, China 118 Chen Li, Min Jiang and Mark Yaolin Wang 12 Law, place and maps 129 Antonia Layard PART IV DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS 13 Activating rural spaces in the pursuit of unconventional energy and justice 142 Meg Sherval 14 Land territorialisation, contestation and informal place-laws of Indigenous peoples in Phuket and Phang Nga, Thailand 156 Daniel Robinson, Danielle Drozdzewski and Jaruwan Kaewmahanin Enright 15 Indigenous land conflict and the underlying life of laws: lessons from the Ipperwash Crisis 170 Nicole Latulippe 16 Extracting Indigenous jurisdiction on private land: the duty to consult and Indigenous relations with place in Canadian law 182 Estair Van Wagner PART V INTERSECTIONS 17 Paying attention to the spaces in between: the social production of space and Indigenous presence in cities 196 Melissa Nursey-Bray and Stephen Muecke 18 Negotiating privacy in the ‘vertical city’: regulating the gentrification of the skies 207 Phil Hubbard 19 Landscapes of colonial Australian entanglement: authorities, self-definition and cultural pedagogy 217 John Ryan and Baden Offord 20 Reclaiming land, reclaiming the ‘nomos’: towards a geography of emerging rights 229 Benno Fladvad, Silja Klepp and Florian Dünckmann PART VI FELLOW TRAVELLERS 21 Pets, pests and humane humans 241 Jennifer Carter and Mandy Paterson 22 Apples and oranges? Exchanging offsets for a place agency-based approach 254 Wendy Beck and Robyn Bartel 23 A case for ‘place’ in governing the energy–environment nexus 268 Amanda Kennedy and Cameron Holley 24 Dephysicalised property and shadow lands 281 Nicole Graham PART VII NEW HORIZONS 25 Territorializing Arrakis: competing for water and melange at the edge of the galactic empire – between desert gatherers and the spacefaring 293 Allan Charles Dawson and Ismael Vaccaro 26 Law underground: the legal geographies of gas transmission pipeline risk regulation 304 Brad Jessup 27 Place, space, and cyberlaw 316 Barney Warf 28 Freedom and constraint in sailing: exploring a gendered attachment to sea-places 327 Shelley A. Wright PART VIII WAYS FORWARD 29 Tackling corruption in urban development and planning: from compliance to integrity in Africa and beyond 339 Dieter Zinnbauer and Stephen Berrisford 30 Land, people and places: double visions and corporate land ownership 350 Radha D’Souza 31 Making there like here: is the impossible possible? 365 Robyn Bartel and Christopher Stone 32 Where to from here? From law to place and back again 382 Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter 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 timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.Demonstrating a range of research methods and theoretical perspectives, this Research Agenda looks at the topic of slow violence through qualitative fieldwork, document analysis, geospatial technologies and cartographic analysis and representation. Key case studies consider slow violence in the form of social injustice, environmental alteration, and harmful human-environment interactions. The chapters also highlight how physical infrastructure, social and legal practices, places that have experienced armed conflict, and groups of people being labeled or marginalised can foster forms of slow violence.Scholars and students of human geography, particularly those looking at decolonization, environmental and social justice and different geographic methods for research, will find this book to be a beneficial read. It will also be useful for those studying structural harm and indirect violence more widely.Trade Review'This collection of impressive research and poignant scholarship is a must read for scholars interested in examining the spatial temporalities of violence. Also, recommended for professors seeking to engage students in productive and provocative dialogue about violence and its myriad and insipid encroachments into the geographies of everyday life.' -- Jennifer L. Fluri, University of Colorado, Boulder, US'This book explores vital new avenues of thought and political possibility across a wide range of geographical locations. O'Lear has brought together a crucial set of consequential analyses and interventions. This is an invaluable book for scholars of environmental and social justice.' -- – Rob Nixon, Author of Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor'Engaging with the spatial and temporal complexities of slow violence requires innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. The chapters in this valuable collection do not disappoint. Essential reading for anyone interested in exploring diverse ways to analyze the practices and processes that shape contemporary forms of systemic and structural violence.' -- Kevin J. Grove, Florida International University, US'Peace is arguably more than just the absence of war. It should be about identifying and rooting out all the insidious forms of violence, particularly between human groups, that not only can lead to war but that also poison the everyday lives of people when unaddressed. This is the basis for investigating ''silent violence.'' Yet, as this innovative volume suggests, the spatial and temporal framings and contexts must also be central to that investigation, since it is the accumulation of threats over time and their embeddedness in places that makes them so intractable.' -- John Agnew, UCLA, US, and Co-Editor of The Handbook of Geographies of PowerTable of ContentsContents: 1 Geographies of slow violence: an introduction 1 Shannon O’Lear 2 Geography, time, and toxic pollution: slow observation in Louisiana 21 Thom Davies 3 Rhythms of crises: slow violence temporalities at the intersection of landmines and natural hazards 41 Ruth Trumble 4 Complicating the role of sight: photographic methods and visibility in slow violence research 57 John Paul Henry 5 Tourism development as slow violence: dispossession in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve 73 Jennifer A. Devine, Hannah L. Legatzke, Megan Butler and Laura Aileen Sauls 6 From violent conflict to slow violence: climate change and post-conflict recovery in Karamoja, Uganda 89 Daniel Abrahams 7 Enduring infrastructure 107 Kimberley Anh Thomas 8 Slow violence and its multiple implications for children 123 Sheridan Bartlett 9 For Indigenous youth: towards caring and compassion, deconstructing the borderlands of reconciliation 137 Joseph P. Brewer II and Jay T. Johnson 10 The infliction of slow violence on first wives in Kyrgyzstan 155 Michele E. Commercio 11 When rednecks became meth heads: cultural violence, class anxiety, and the spatial imaginary 173 Aaron H. Gilbreath 12 The slow violence of law and order: governing through crime 189 Samuel Henkin and Kelly Overstreet 13 Dark cartographies: mapping slow violence 205 Peter Vujakovic 14 Closing thoughts and opening research pathways on geographies of slow violence 225 Shannon O’Lear Index 233

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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 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.Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the complex mobility disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely Advanced Introduction. It outlines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies, arguing that mobilities theory is crucial to planning post-pandemic recovery, sustainable communities, and low-carbon transitions. From tourism to migration to urban infrastructure, to informal and reproductive mobilities, Sheller reveals how multiple im/mobilities are interconnected, as the novel coronavirus reminds us as it hitchhikes across the globe through its human hosts. Key features: Centres mobility justice as a key topic throughout, revealing the vast inequities in im/mobilities, structured by gender, race and nationality Challenges existing approaches to social science, calling for the extension of critical mobility studies to address complex contemporary challenges Offers up-to-date analysis of key policy programs such as the Green New Deal, and a comparative analysis of differing visions of alternative mobilities futures. This innovative Advanced Introduction will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of mobilities research, tourism studies, migration studies, human geography, urban studies and sustainability.Trade Review'The ''new mobilities paradigm'' was announced 15 years ago. Here, one of the main figures in the development and phenomenal rise of mobilities work across the social sciences and humanities accounts for its progress since then, and shows why work on mobilities has never been more crucial for our understanding of the modern world. Linking low carbon transitions to social justice, tourism to migration, and the present to possible futures, there is no better summary of the state of the art than this.' -- Tim Cresswell, University of Edinburgh, UK'Once again, Mimi Sheller has succeeded in considering the mobile world in innovative and eye-opening ways. Sharp and precise social science at its best. This book is a milestone in mobilities research and critical theoretical thinking and makes progress in understanding the hopefully soon to come post-pandemic world.' -- Sven Kesselring, Nuertingen-Geislingen University (HfWU), Germany'Be forewarned. This amazing book is not just for budding scholars new to mobility studies, despite the title's introductory nomenclature. In addition to laying out the history of the inter-disciplinary field of critical mobility studies, Advanced Introduction to Mobilities offers an original and provocative way of reframing collective knowledge on the origins and effects of contemporary mobility transitions. Sheller not only ties her ''radical re-thinking of the relation between bodies, movement, and space'' to contemporary shifts in travel and movement associated with the pandemic, as well as other disruptions. She links these developments to ongoing political and philosophical debates about sustainability and the future of our planet. With both analytical rigor and projective aspirations, this book makes clear what is at stake in terms of mobility justice and how we might achieve it, despite the multi-scalar spatial formations and power relations that threaten to impede such priorities. Whether new to such debates or committed to their epistemological evolution in response to the societal shocks that continue to transform mobilities on a global scale, this book is an essential companion for the journey.' -- Diane E. Davis, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: 2020 mobility shock 2. The formation of an interdisciplinary field 3. Materiality, spatiality, and temporality 4. Mobility justice and Anthropocene mobilities 5. Tourism mobilities 6. Migrant mobilities 7. Informal and reproductive mobilities 8. Alternative mobility futures 9. Conclusion: Building a mobile commons 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.Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the complex mobility disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely Advanced Introduction. It outlines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies, arguing that mobilities theory is crucial to planning post-pandemic recovery, sustainable communities, and low-carbon transitions. From tourism to migration to urban infrastructure, to informal and reproductive mobilities, Sheller reveals how multiple im/mobilities are interconnected, as the novel coronavirus reminds us as it hitchhikes across the globe through its human hosts. Key features: Centres mobility justice as a key topic throughout, revealing the vast inequities in im/mobilities, structured by gender, race and nationality Challenges existing approaches to social science, calling for the extension of critical mobility studies to address complex contemporary challenges Offers up-to-date analysis of key policy programs such as the Green New Deal, and a comparative analysis of differing visions of alternative mobilities futures. This innovative Advanced Introduction will be a beneficial read for students and scholars of mobilities research, tourism studies, migration studies, human geography, urban studies and sustainability.Trade Review'The ''new mobilities paradigm'' was announced 15 years ago. Here, one of the main figures in the development and phenomenal rise of mobilities work across the social sciences and humanities accounts for its progress since then, and shows why work on mobilities has never been more crucial for our understanding of the modern world. Linking low carbon transitions to social justice, tourism to migration, and the present to possible futures, there is no better summary of the state of the art than this.' -- Tim Cresswell, University of Edinburgh, UK'Once again, Mimi Sheller has succeeded in considering the mobile world in innovative and eye-opening ways. Sharp and precise social science at its best. This book is a milestone in mobilities research and critical theoretical thinking and makes progress in understanding the hopefully soon to come post-pandemic world.' -- Sven Kesselring, Nuertingen-Geislingen University (HfWU), Germany'Be forewarned. This amazing book is not just for budding scholars new to mobility studies, despite the title's introductory nomenclature. In addition to laying out the history of the inter-disciplinary field of critical mobility studies, Advanced Introduction to Mobilities offers an original and provocative way of reframing collective knowledge on the origins and effects of contemporary mobility transitions. Sheller not only ties her ''radical re-thinking of the relation between bodies, movement, and space'' to contemporary shifts in travel and movement associated with the pandemic, as well as other disruptions. She links these developments to ongoing political and philosophical debates about sustainability and the future of our planet. With both analytical rigor and projective aspirations, this book makes clear what is at stake in terms of mobility justice and how we might achieve it, despite the multi-scalar spatial formations and power relations that threaten to impede such priorities. Whether new to such debates or committed to their epistemological evolution in response to the societal shocks that continue to transform mobilities on a global scale, this book is an essential companion for the journey.' -- Diane E. Davis, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: 2020 mobility shock 2. The formation of an interdisciplinary field 3. Materiality, spatiality, and temporality 4. Mobility justice and Anthropocene mobilities 5. Tourism mobilities 6. Migrant mobilities 7. Informal and reproductive mobilities 8. Alternative mobility futures 9. Conclusion: Building a mobile commons References index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements within systems, but as deliberative actors with ambitions, desires, strategies and objectivesDeepening the scholarly debate on leadership in cities and regions, the Handbook combines theoretical discussion and empirical evidence within methodological development to present a state-of-the-art view of a rapidly emerging field of study, highlighting paths for future research. Chapters explore power, politics, policy-making, social corporate responsibility and international city diplomacy through the lens of leadership, covering leadership in different countries from a broad range of theoretical perspectives.This Handbook is a valuable resource for academics and students of regional studies, human and economic geography, and policy studies. The conceptual discussion and case studies from different parts of the world will provide valuable examples for scholars, policy-makers and practitioners seeking a better understanding of what it takes to mobilise and co-ordinate complex multi-actor constellations for improvement of their respective places.Trade Review‘I consider this edited volume to be more than a welcome contribution and a notorious collection for all scholars, keen to understand the theoretical grounding, practices, patterns and types of leadership, as well as the manifestation of that leadership in local and regional socio-economic development and policy.’ -- Eduardo Oliveira, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The Handbook on City and Regional Leadership is the first comprehensive overview of place leadership in urban and regional research, edited by pioneers of the concept, Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer. Publication of the Handbook is very timely with the significant growth of research on the importance of agency in regional development in recent years. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics ranging from theoretical issues and empirical studies to methodological questions. It contains a rich and stimulating compilation of chapters and is a must-read for researchers as well as policy makers interested in promoting place leadership.’Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I THE SETUP AND THE PLOT 1 Introduction to city and regional leadership 2 Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer 2 Place, city, regional, rural … leadership: a review 19 Andrew Beer, Markku Sotarauta and Karen Ayles PART II THEORETICAL AND THEMATIC AREAS 3 Old wine in a new bottle: Revisiting organisational conceptions of leadership to understand what place leaders ‘actually’ do to make things happen 41 Alyson Nicholds 4 Place leadership, policy-making and politics 57 Alessandro Sancino, Leslie Budd and Michela Pagani 5 Re-imagining place leadership as social purpose 71 John Gibney and Alyson Nicholds 6 Roles of formal and informal leadership: civil society leadership interaction with political leadership in local development 91 Oto Potluka 7 Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities 108 Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala 8 Place-based leadership ‘beyond place’: the rise of international city diplomacy 131 Robin Hambleton 9 Combinatorial power and place leadership 152 Markku Sotarauta PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES 10 From coal-mining to data-mining: the role of leadership in the emergence of a regional innovation system in an old industrial region 168 Jiří Blažek and Viktor Květoň 11 The supporting and hampering role of place leadership in Italian industrial districts 187 Marco Bellandi, Monica Plechero and Erica Santini 12 Patterns of place leadership: institutional change and path development in peripheral regions 203 Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, and Jari Kolehmainen 13 Universities and place leadership: a question of agency and alignment 226 Liliana Fonseca, Lisa Nieth, Maria Salomaa and Paul Benneworth 14 Establishing leadership in a ‘busy’ governance structure 248 Martin Quinn 15 Inclusive leadership and local economic development: perspectives from Latin American peripheral regions 266 Sergio Montero and Andrés M. Medina-Garzón PART IV METHODOLOGY 16 Theory, methods and innovation in the study of place leadership: a review of the opportunity 281 Andrew Beer and Jacob Irving 17 Investigating agency: methodological and empirical challenges 302 Markus Grillitsch, Josephine V. Rekers and Markku Sotarauta 18 Action research as a methodology for the construction of territorial leadership 324 James Karlsen and Miren Larrea 19 Narrative and leadership: lessons for policy and place leadership 343 Helen Dinmore and Andrew Beer 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.Exploring the innovative and thriving field of animal geographies, this Research Agenda analyses how humans think about, place, and engage with animals. Chapters explore how animals shape human identities and social dynamics, as well as how broader processes influence the circumstances and experiences of animals.This Research Agenda presents recent forays into theories of power, methodological innovations unearthing animal lifeworlds, and commitments to praxis. It demonstrates opportunities for animal geographies to engage creatively with diverse movements, including industrial farm workers' rights, intersectional feminism, the environmental movement, racial equality, and decolonization. Critical and timely, contributions from top and emerging scholars suggest that it is time to bring the animals outwards into broader geographical dialogue to address pressing contemporary issues such as climate change.An important read for animal and human geographers, this will be a foundational text for emerging scholars interested in critical perspectives on human-environment relations and societal dynamics. Its grounding in historical evaluation, discussion of scholarly innovation in the field and the opportunities to reflect on the topic in a time of socio-ecological crisis will also be helpful for more established scholars.Trade Review‘Geography is one of the most productive and creative disciplines to engage with the animal turn. This collection of essays, part of the Elgar Research Agenda series, makes plain that the discipline will remain in the vanguard for some time to come. The Editors have assembled an extraordinary diversity of scholars and perspectives, contributing 11 essays presented under three headings: 'Power,' 'Lifeworlds,' and 'Praxis.' These evoke the central themes, methods, and commitments of the contributors, who challenge readers to continue the extraordinary developments and provocations offered here. The sophistication, reflexivity, and commitment of these scholars are a rebuke to assertions that scholarship and activism are mutual anathemas. The works cited for each essay are themselves deeply engaging, and the breadth of scholarship the collection represents is breathtaking.’ -- J W Cox, CHOICE‘A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies is a compelling roadmap for future scholarship on the complex connections between people and animals shaped by diverse subjectivities and lifeworlds, and manifest in power relations that demand a multispecies moral landscape and new ways of becoming together.' -- Jennifer Wolch, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies: visioning amidst socio-ecological crises 1 Alice Hovorka, Sandra McCubbin and Lauren Van Patter PART I POWER 2 A feminist research agenda for multispecies justice 23 Jody Emel and Padini Nirmal 3 Animality/coloniality: COVID-19 and the Animal question 39 Jenny R. Isaacs and Ariel Otruba 4 Exploring the human–animal–technology nexus: power relations and divergent conduct 55 Lewis Holloway and Christopher Bear 5 [Re]animating and [re]animalizing wildlife conservation landscapes 69 Anita Hagy Ferguson PART II LIFEWORLDS 6 Sensuous and spatial multispecies ethnography as a vehicle to the re-enchantment of everyday life: a case study of knowing bees 87 Rebecca Ellis 7 Researching animal geographies through the use of walking methods 101 Jamie Arathoon 8 Animal subjectivities and lifeworlds: working with and learning from animals through the practice of multispecies participant observation 115 Carley MacKay 9 Affective ethnographies of animal lives 129 Anindya Sinha, Anmol Chowdhury, Nitesh S. Anchan and Maan Barua PART III PRAXIS 10 ‘Speaking’ with other animals through intuitive interspecies communication: towards cognitive and interspecies justice 149 M.J. Barrett, Viktoria Hinz, Vanessa Wijngaarden and Marie Lovrod 11 Ghost stories: investigative animal geographies for multispecies justice 167 Jacquelyn Johnston 12 Advancing trans-species social and spatial justice through critical animal geographies 183 Richard J. White Index 199

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Book SynopsisCities have become the major habitat for human societies. They are also the places where the starkest social inequalities show up. Income, social, land and housing inequalities shape the built environment and living conditions of different neighborhoods of cities, and in return, unequal access to services, environmental quality and favorable health conditions in different neighborhoods and cities fuel the reproduction of interpersonal inequalities.This book examines how inequalities are produced and reproduced both within and between cities. In particular, we review land rent and social segregation theories from diverse disciplinary references and through examples taken from around the world. The attraction of urban centralities, which is further reinforced by the growing financialization of property and urban capital, is also analyzed through the lens of its influence on rent-seeking mechanisms and the ever increasing pressure of population migration.Table of ContentsPreface ixDenise PUMAIN and Clémentine COTTINEAU Chapter 1. Major Models of the Spatial Organization of Urban Societies 1Clémentine COTTINEAU and Denise PUMAIN 1.1. Historical evolution of the spatiality of social status markers in the city 2 1.2. Slums, informal settlements and shanty towns 12 1.3. Institutional segregation 16 1.4. Separations by choice 21 1.5. Mobility and unequal accessibility in urban space 26 1.6. Corrections and remedies 30 1.7. Conclusion 35 1.8. References 35 Chapter 2. Land Rent and the Center--Periphery model 45Denise PUMAIN 2.1. Introduction 45 2.2. Space and rent: the urban field 47 2.3. Variations of the urban field by city 58 2.4. Towards a complex explanatory construction of urban rent inequalities 64 2.5. Financialization of urban development and conflicts over land use? 67 2.6. Conclusion 72 2.7. References 72 Chapter 3. Inequalities in Access to Urban Services 79Eugenia Doria VIANA CERQUEIRA 3.1. Introduction 79 3.2. Urban services: definitions 81 3.3. Urban services and issues of socio-spatial inequality 82 3.4. Access to urban services: a plurality of dimensions 90 3.5. Conclusion 96 3.6. References 97 Chapter 4. Gentrification and the Real Estate Market: What Can We Learn from the Rent Gap Theory? 105Guilhem BOULAY 4.1. Introduction 105 4.2. The theoretical basis for thinking about gentrification 108 4.3. Apparent simplicity leads to great success 112 4.4. Testing and quantifying the rent gap hypothesis 118 4.5. What place for the rent gap theory in the geography of real estate? 125 4.6. Conclusion 129 4.7. Acknowledgments 130 4.8. References 130 Chapter 5. Socio-spatial Segregation in Cities 137Renaud LE GOIX 5.1. Segregation in metropolises, renewed theoretical issues 137 5.2. Segregation, social division of space and restratification in the contemporary city 139 5.3. From observations to theories: the multiple factors of segregation 147 5.4. Analyzing segregation, scales and temporalities 154 5.5. Conclusion 160 5.6. Acknowledgments 161 5.7. References 161 Chapter 6. Migrants In and Between the Cities of the World 173Armelle CHOPLIN, Hasnia-Sonia MISSAOUI and Olivier PLIEZ 6.1. Introduction: migration, urbanization and inequalities 173 6.2. City networks and migration networks: a coincidence rather than a given 176 6.3. Migration flows creating urban systems 183 6.4. Conclusion. Migrants and cities: creators and accelerators of inequalities? 194 6.5. References 195 Chapter 7. Inequalities Between Cities 205Clémentine COTTINEAU 7.1. Interweaving of scales and cities 205 7.2. Inequalities related to urban functions 208 7.3. Inequalities related to urban status and city powers 213 7.4. Size inequalities 217 7.5. Image inequalities 221 7.6. Conclusion 226 7.7. References 226 Conclusion 233Denise PUMAIN and Clémentine COTTINEAU List of Authors 237 Index 239

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Book SynopsisWritten by some of the founders of complexity theory and complexity theories of cities (CTC), this Handbook expertly guides the reader through over forty years of intertwined developments: the emergence of general theories of complex self-organized systems and the consequent emergence of CTC.Examining studies from the end of 1970 through to the current leading approach to urbanism, planning and design, the book provides an up-to-date snapshot of CTC. Insightful chapters are split into five parts covering the early foundations of the topic, the evolution of towns and cities and urban complexity, the links between complexity, languages and cities, modelling traffic and parking in cities, and urban planning and design. The Handbook on Cities and Complexity concludes with the contributors’ personal statements on their observations of COVID-19’s impact upon global cities. This book will be an invaluable resource for those researching cities and complexity and also for scholars of urban studies, planning, physics, mathematics, AI, and architecture.Trade Review'This is a fascinating collection of discussions by leading authors, ranging from philosophical perspectives to conceptual frameworks and mathematical models across many disciplines. A unifying theme is the role of human cognition and decision making, addressed via psychology, uncertainty and risk, evolutionary game theory, behavioral economics and more. The book should be a reference to anyone interested in the history of the field and as a source of ideas for the opportunities (and challenges) of treating cities as complex systems in contrast to less holistic approaches to urban planning and policy.' -- Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Cities and Complexity 1 Juval Portugali PART I FOUNDATIONS 1 Cities, complexity and beyond 13 Juval Portugali 2 The emergence of complexity theories: an outline 28 Hermann Haken 3 City systems and complexity 48 Michael Batty 4 Major transitions in the story of urban complexity 64 Stephen Marshall and Nick Green PART II COMPLEXITY THEORIES OF CITIES 5 Complexity: the evolution and planning of towns and cities 86 Peter M. Allen 6 Synergetic cities 108 Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken 7 Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity 136 Denise Pumain 8 Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planning sustainable cities 154 Pierre Frankhauser 9 Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities 176 Yanguang Chen 10 Cybernetic cities: designing and controlling adaptive and robust urban systems 195 Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo Ratti PART III COMPLEXITY, LANGUAGE AND CITIES 11 New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field of architecture: an overview of the four books of the nature of order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised 210 Christopher Alexander 12 The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems 233 Alan Penn PART IV MODELING COMPLEX CITIES 13 Modelling car traffic in cities 260 Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy 14 Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: a new methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning 274 Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal 15 The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking 295 Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman PART V COMPLEXITY, PLANNING AND DESIGN 16 Complexity and uncertainty: implications for urban planning 319 Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi 17 Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space 331 Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo 18 Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning 349 Sara Encarna..o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali 19 Homo faber, Homo ludens and the city: a SIRNIA view on urban planning and design 370 Juval Portugali Epilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19 391 Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green, Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful Modern Guide explores heterodox approaches to modern wellbeing research, with a specific focus on how wellbeing is understood and practised, exploring policies and actions which are taken to shape wellbeing. It evaluates contemporary trends in wellbeing research, including the sometimes competing definitions, methods and approaches offered by different disciplinary perspectives.¬†Exploring the threats to wellbeing from the environments we inhabit and the situations societies create and endure, chapters particularly look at wellbeing inequalities and the experiences of marginalised groups, demonstrating the connection between wellbeing and political struggle. Provocative commentaries from leading scholars plus chapters on original theoretical developments and research studies across diverse world regions reveal wellbeing research based on situated practices, social differences and specific cultural contexts. This Modern Guide assesses the influence and impact of wellbeing research on policy and practice across a range of sectors and spaces, including: wellbeing budgeting, nature-based interventions, urban design, environmental resource management, prisons, housing, international migration, and post-conflict situations.¬†This will be a useful read for scholars of human geography, social policy, urban studies, anthropology, political science and environmental economics. Policy makers will also appreciate the suggestions for improvement to wellbeing policies and practices.Trade Review'A powerful, thought-provoking and timely contribution, offering new insights that will greatly enhance our understanding of well-being and its determinants.' -- Dimitris Ballas, University of Groningen, the Netherlands'Wellbeing has been a vibrant field of research across a number of disciplines for several years. However, the experience of the pandemic, which has exposed deeply ingrained inequalities and injustices, makes the concept more relevant than ever. The pandemic raises the possibility of transformational change that could lead to a refocusing of policy goals away from narrowly-defined economic indicators to those focused on a multidimensional conception of wellbeing. As such, this volume is incredibly well timed. It brings together contributions from across the social sciences to demonstrate how understanding the ways in which wellbeing is mobilised as a concept in research, practice and policy is central to these endeavours. In highlighting practice-based approaches the volume reflects on how wellbeing could form the foundation of a post-pandemic world. In doing so, it provides a rich and valuable contribution not only to wellbeing scholarship but also to practical debates on how to take this agenda forward most effectively.' -- Ian Bache, University of Sheffield, UK'An essential practical aide for charting the challenges facing us today with the ambition they merit, A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research offers guidance for actions and policies to improve wellbeing while casting some light on the different understandings of this important, but complex concept.' -- Katherine Trebeck, Wellbeing Economy Alliance'Wellbeing is the overarching aim of social science and needs a multidisciplinary dialogue and approach. For sustainable, inclusive well-being as both a goal and process we need to draw on the strengths of all academic disciplines. You won‚Äôt agree with everything here, I don‚Äôt, but that‚Äôs the point as we work out what really matters, how we can study it and how to use that knowledge in practice.' -- Nancy Hey, Executive Director, What Works Centre for Wellbeing, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Katherine Trebeck, Wellbeing Economy Alliance 1 Introduction to wellbeing research 1 Beverley A Searle, Jessica Pykett and Maria Jesus Alfaro-Simmonds PART I APPROACHING WELLBEING 2 Commentary to Part I: reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing 23 Sarah Atkinson 3 Towards a queer epistemological framework for wellbeing research 29 Julia Zielke 4 A Marxian approach to wellbeing: human nature and use value 51 David Watson 5 Developing qualitative, biographical research into happiness and wellbeing: a sociological perspective 68 Mark Cieslik 6 Practicing wellbeing through community economies: an action research approach 84 Thomas SJ Smith and Kelly Dombroski PART II PRACTICING WELLBEING 7 Commentary to Part II: a wellbeing lens in practice 104 Neil Thin 8 Prisoners’ rehabilitation and wellbeing: a psychosocial perspective 110 Fabio Tartarini 9 Gender and wellbeing in post-war Sri Lanka 129 Fazeeha Azmi 10 Wellbeing and inclusion: a place for religion 148 Laura Kapinga and Bettina Bock 11 Children experiencing happiness in the city 164 Maria Jesus Alfaro-Simmonds 12 Housing inequalities and wellbeing: a critical analysis of narratives from stakeholders in Luxembourg 184 Magdalena Górczyńska-Angiulli, Elise Machline 13 Woodlands and wellbeing: evaluating the ‘Actif Woods Wales’ programme 205 Heli Gittins, Sophie Wynne-Jones and Val Morrison PART III WHERE NEXT FOR WELLBEING? 14 Commentary to Part III: wellbeing: a means for informed policy-making 227 Susan J Elliott 15 Who benefits and who suffers from international migration? Global evidence from the science of happiness 232 Martijn Hendriks 16 Human wellbeing in environmental management 245 Kelly Biedenweg and David J Trimbach 17 Budgeting for wellbeing 266 Arthur Grimes 18 Subjective wellbeing and transformation 282 Beverley A Searle Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the need for a sustainable transport paradigm, which has been sought after by local and national authorities internationally over the last 30 years, this illuminating and timely Handbook offers insights into how this can be secured more broadly and what it may involve, as well as the challenges that the sustainable transport approach faces.Drawing on a wide range of research and relevant case studies that showcase where the principles of sustainable transport have been, or could be, implemented, the Handbook offers readers a holistic understanding of the paradigm. Contributions showcase the evidence of the continued need for a sustainable transport approach, analyse its core principles, and, finally, discuss what it will take to achieve implementation, considering aspects such as behaviour change, accessibility, governance and politics.Offering a comprehensive overview across the many dimensions of sustainable transport, this Handbook will be an indispensable resource for transport, planning and urban studies scholars. It will also be a useful guide for planners and policy makers looking for advice to advance future practice.Trade Review'Curtis and the impressive cast of international researchers have written a comprehensive resource at the forefront of sustainable transport scholarship. Early on, this text establishes a sustainable framework and makes the case for why the automobile, while transformative, has not been utilized in a sustainable way under the previous paradigm. Then, the book evaluates the wide swath of legacy, new, and emerging transportation options and how they measure up against sustainability metrics. One particularly outstanding contribution is the wide-ranging treatment of land use and the built environment and their critical and symbiotic role in supporting a modal shift. This will be a resource for students, practitioners, and scholars around the globe interested in meeting the challenge of creating sustainable transport systems.' -- Kelly Clifton, Portland State University, US'The Handbook of Sustainable Transport will be a must-read for students, researchers, and practitioners. With more than 40 chapters written by some of the leading scholars in the field, the Handbook covers the area of sustainable transport in an unprecedented manner, calling for a paradigm shift in the way we think, plan, and develop sustainable transport. With the COVID-19 pandemic, this Handbook could not be more timely.' -- Ahmed El-Geneidy, McGill University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xxiii Preface xxiv 1. Introduction to Handbook of Sustainable Transport 1 Carey Curtis PART I THE RATIONALE FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT: FROM GENESIS TO PRESENT DAY 2. Paradigm shift? 5 Tom Rye 3. Unsustainable transport 14 Leigh Glover and Nicholas Low 4. Economic inefficiency of the car-based paradigm 26 John Whitelegg 5. Social equity and disadvantage 37 Ren Thomas 6. Transport and health: a personal and UK perspective 48 Adrian Davis 7. Beyond the dilemma: questioning the links between human prosperity and mobility growth 58 Luca Bertolini 8. Low carbon mobility transitions 69 Debbie Hopkins PART II INTEGRATED TRANSPORT 9. To travel, or not to travel? Telecommuting, teleshopping, and avoiding the need to travel 81 Erik Elldér 10. Universal design – universal access: Sweden as leaders in the built environment and transport 90 Helena Svensson 11. What of a walkable urban future? Towards sustainable institutional design for walking 100 Courtney Babb 12. How culture shapes – and is shaped by – mobility: cycling transitions in The Netherlands 109 Marco te Brömmelstroet, Willem Boterman and Giselinde Kuipers 13. Making space for bicycling 119 Kevin J. Krizek and David A. King 14. Docked and dockless public bike-sharing schemes: research, practice and discourse 129 Dorina Pojani, Jiashuo Chen, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, Richard Bean, Jonathan Corcoran 15. Public transport network planning 139 Jan Scheurer 16. On-demand public transport – the future of public transport or the emperor’s new clothes? 150 Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt 17. Paratransit 160 Deike Peters and Samikchhya Bhusal 18. The sustainability of last-mile freight in cities 170 Michael Browne and Sam McLeod 19. Is micro-mobility sustainable? An overview of implications for accessibility, air pollution, safety, physical activity and subjective wellbeing 180 Dimitris Milakis, Laura Gebhardt, Daniel Ehebrecht, Barbara Lenz 20. The role of car-sharing in sustainable transport systems 190 Jennifer L. Kent 21. Congestion charging/mobility pricing 199 Daniel Firth 22. The transition to automated mobility : how well do connected and autonomous vehicles really fit into a sustainable transport future? 209 Iain Docherty PART III INTEGRATED LAND USE AND TRANSPORT 23. Why sustainable transport cannot ignore land use 220 Susan Handy 24. Transit-oriented development and sustainable transportation 230 John L. Renne 25. Making places with transit-oriented development: the case of North Holland 238 Paul Chorus 26. Reducing the need to travel: the challenge of employment self-containment 248 Sharon Biermann and Kirsten Martinus 27. Rethinking the urban arterial: from car mobility to urban liveability 258 Peter M. Jones 28. The Ghent Living Streets: experiencing a sustainable and social future 269 Dries Gysels 29. Parking: an opportunity to deliver sustainable transport 280 Rebecca Clements 30. Integrating land use and transport: understanding the dynamics of proximity 289 Anders Larsson PART IV ADJUSTING TO THE NEW PARADIGM 31. CBA legitimizes unsustainable transportation outcomes 299 Petter Næss 32. A multi-actor multi-criteria exercise in transport planning : the case of the Nueva Alameda Providencia project 310 Beatriz Mella Lira and Robin Hickman 33. Using accessibility metrics and tools to deliver sustainable mobility 323 Enrica Papa 34. Accessibility at the local scale: how its constrains our ability to ‘live locally’ 333 Cecília Silva 35. Children and sustainable transport 343 Claire Freeman 36. Generational change and travel 357 Tsoi Ka Ho and Becky P.Y. Loo 37. Keeping older people mobile through a new philosophy for a new ageing population 368 Charles Musselwhite 38. Financing the expansion of mass transit services 378 John Stone and James C. Murphy 39. Financing public transport through land use and value capture 388 Corinne Mulley and Barbara T.H. Yen 40. Institutional path dependence 398 Muhammad Imran 41. Experts and bias: the impact on sustainable transport 408 Alexa Delbosc 42. Politics of paradigm shift: a story from Stockholm 416 Karolina Isaksson 43. Educators as advocates in transport politics 425 Crystal Legacy 44. Sustainable transport: looking back – looking forward 434 Phil Goodwin and Carey Curtis Index 447

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Book SynopsisHighlighting the global scale of the major classes of voluntary movements - commodities and people, capital, information and technology - Aharon Kellerman offers a contemporary and synthesizing perspective on global spatial mobilities. This wide-ranging book sheds new light on each of the mobility types individually as well as globalization and spatial mobilities more broadly through detailed comparative analysis. This important work is set in the context of current conflicting global trends towards growing globalization of information and technology on the one hand and pressures to limit the globalization of the movements of immigrants and commodities on the other. By its nature, the book will appeal to a wide international readership and is of particular value to students and researchers in a variety of fields that focus on mobility and globalization, namely, geography, business administration, economics, sociology and political science.Trade Review'This is an impressive grand sweeping book about the globalization and spatial mobility of people, capital, information and technology. It requires a great scholar such as Kellerman to bring such wide-ranging topics together in a single book.' --Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: 1. Globalization and Mobility 2. Ports and Ships 3. The Global Mobility of Commodities (Exports and Imports) 4. Airports and Airplanes 5. Global Tourism and Relocation 6. International Banking and Investment Organs 7. The Global Mobility of Capital 8. Digital Media: Telephony, Radio, Television, and the Internet 9. Global Information Mobility 10. Global Transfers of Technology and Knowledge 11. Global Mobilities: Patterns and Relationships 12. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisInvigorating and timely, this book provides a thorough overview of the geographies of cosmopolitanism, an ethical and political philosophy that views humanity as one community. Barney Warf charts the origins and developments of this line of thought, exploring how it has changed over time, acquiring many variations along the way.Offering a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism at multiple spatial scales, chapters note how and why cosmopolitans reject the nation-state and nationalism and view borders as artificial. The book addresses the intersections between cosmopolitanism and geography, including care-giving and relational space. It examines key contemporary issues, including globalization, negotiating the post-Westphalian political order, the United Nations, global citizenship, immigration, refugees and sanctuary cities. Particular focus is also given to cosmopolitanism in everyday life, including education, tourism, consumption and veganism.Analysing cosmopolitanism in an interdisciplinary manner, Geographies of Cosmopolitanism will be an interesting read for sociology, human geography and political science scholars. It will also appeal to philosophy and social science students more broadly who are keen to understand this approach to social justice and human rights.Trade Review'Truly an insightful pathbreaking tour de force on an evolving concept related to cultures, politics and economies in the contemporary world. It is a world where empathy, generosity, diversity and understanding are central and the meanings of boundaries, nationalism, identity, territory and distance are contested. Cosmopolitanism as a transdisciplinary theme intersects the social sciences and humanities and merits more research and classroom instruction at all levels.' -- Stanley D. Brunn, University of Kentucky, US'This is a pioneering book in its challenging portrayal of the geographies of cosmopolitanism, so far an almost terra incognita for geographers. Warf provides us with wide ranging geographical perspectives on cosmopolitanism, provocatively discussed and interpreted. This book promises to open up new research and study horizons for a better understanding of contemporary society.' -- Aharon Kellerman, University of Haifa, Israel'Warf powerfully examines the nuances of cosmopolitanism in clear and lucid strokes. This timely and much needed contribution, theoretically informed and empirically robust, will guide us for years to come. This book is essential reading for social scientists seeking to understand the complexities of cosmopolitanism as an analytic construct, a political movement and a social phenomenon in modern life.' -- David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. What is cosmopolitanism? 2. The history and varieties of cosmopolitanism 3. Cosmopolitanism and geography 4. Cosmopolitanism and nationalism 5. Globalization and cosmopolitanism 6. Immigrants, refugees, and cosmopolitan political practices 7. Applied cosmopolitanism: sanctuary cities 8. Banal cosmopolitanism and everyday life 9. Conclusion to Geographies of Cosmopolitanism References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook examines the evolution of smart growth over the past three decades, mapping the trajectory from its original principles to its position as an important paradigm in urban planning today. Critically analysing the original concept of smart growth and how it has been embedded in state and local plans, contributions from top scholars in the field illustrate what smart growth has accomplished since its conception, as well as to what extent it has achieved its goals.Providing an overview of the history of smart growth, the book further examines its changing governance over time, and the new horizons for smart growth, exploring ways to confront contemporary challenges in urban planning. Illuminating key issues in the field, from urban sprawl to gentrification, that the original principles failed to address, this insightful Handbook advocates for the expansion of smart growth principles to meet the emerging challenges of the modern world, concluding with an agenda for a “smart growth 2.0”. Informative and comprehensive, this Handbook will prove to be essential reading for researchers, academics and students of urban planning. Its proposals for the future evolution of smart growth will also serve as an accessible and up-to-date reference point for urban planning professionals, activists and policymakers.Trade Review‘Too often when a new and transformational movement emerges, we do not take time to contemplate and evaluate its achievements and shortcomings. This crucial and comprehensive volume on smart growth gives us a much-needed critical reflection on how the movement unfolded and how it continues to impact urbanization as new challenges arrive in the 21st century. A must-read for every urbanist, whether professional or armchair!’ -- Karen Chapple, University of Toronto, Canada‘Full of counter-intuitive and often sobering insights, this volume is not just incredibly timely, it's indispensable as a reference on the past, present and uncertain future of the smart growth ideal.’ -- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Brookings Metro, US‘The Handbook is a sobering assessment of the movement’s progress over its first generation. While its success has been too elusive for many advocates, this book shows that Smart Growth’s progress over just a generation is impressive, nonetheless. Using lessons from the first generation, the Handbook is the platform that will guide research, policy, and practice over the next generation.’ -- Arthur C. Nelson, University of Arizona, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii Introduction xix PART I SMART GROWTH HISTORY, PERFORMANCE, AND GOVERNANCE 1 Smart growth: introduction, history, and an agenda for the future 2 John D. Landis 2 Smart growth governance in historical context: the rise and fall of states 35 Martin A. Bierbaum, Rebecca Lewis, and Tim Chapin PART II SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE LOCATION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT 3 Urban containment as smart growth 60 John I. Carruthers, Hanxue Wei, and Lucien Wostenholme 4 Farmland and forest conservation: evaluation of smart growth policies and tools 75 David A. Newburn, Lori Lynch, and Haoluan Wang 5 Redevelopment and the smart growth movement: definitions, consequences, and future considerations 92 Bernadette Hanlon PART III SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE FORM AND FUNCTION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT 6 Promoting mixed land uses for smart growth: implications and recommendations for research and practice 111 Yan Song 7 The urban design requirements of smart growth 128 Emily Talen 8 Smart growth and housing choice 145 Casey Dawkins and Jinyhup Kim PART IV SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE TRANSPORTATION-LAND USE CONNECTION 9 A step ahead for smart growth: creating walkable neighborhoods 168 Kelly J. Clifton 10 Transportation: a facilitator of and barrier to smart growth 188 Timothy F. Welch and Steven R. Gehrke PART V NEW HORIZONS FOR SMART GROWTH: HEALTH AND EQUITY 11 Planning for opportunity: linking smart growth to public education and workforce development 207 Ariel H. Bierbaum, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Jonathan P. Katz 12 Smart growth and public health: making the connection 228 Andrea Garfinkel-Castro and Reid Ewing 13 Smart growth’s misbegotten legacy: gentrification 245 Nicholas Finio and Elijah Knaap 14 Growing together or apart? Critical tensions in charting an equitable smart growth future 259 Willow Lung-Amam and Katy June-Friesen PART VI NEW HORIZONS FOR SMART GROWTH: CLIMATE, ENERGY, AND TECHNOLOGY 15 Community resilience to environmental hazards and climate change: can smart growth make a difference? 277 Marccus D. Hendricks and Philip R. Berke 16 Tale of two sprawls: energy planning and challenges for smart growth 291 Jacob Becker and Nikhil Kaza 17 Leveraging the promise of smart cities to advance smart growth 307 Robert Goodspeed PART VII UNFINISHED BUSINESS: WHERE DOES SMART GROWTH GO FROM HERE? 18 Toward a “Smart Growth 2.0” 324 Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty and Katy June-Friesen Index

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Book SynopsisUsing a geographic lens to examine the adoption and dissemination of, and attention to ‘fake news’, this timely and important book explores how misinformation in the digital age calls attention to the multiple geographic dimensions of online fictions, conspiracy theories and political disinformation.Chapters delve into how social and digital media have rescaled and disrupted relations of trust and authority in the (mis)information age. The book draws on quantitative data and qualitative cases to shed light on the geographies of misinformation, covering urban legends, political rumors, information weaponization, and Climategate, as well as trade and financial fictions. The book explores in depth climate change misinformation, conspiracy theories and other critical contemporary events such as Pizzagate, Russian-led overseas political interference campaigns, and Cambridge Analytica.Geography and environmental studies scholars will benefit from the analysis of the denial of global climate change and geographic lens the book uses. It will also be an important read for practitioners and policy makers looking for a helpful reference summarizing interdisciplinary work on misinformation in accessible prose.Trade Review‘Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic provides an important and much-needed account of the causes and consequences of declining trust in, and reliance on, traditional epistemic authorities in the United States today. Stephens, Poon, and Tan highlight the roles that social media, a fragmented media market, and foreign actors have played in legitimizing authoritarian charisma at the expense of scientific and journalistic predominance. Covering topics such as authorship democratization, news deserts, adversary-sponsored disinformation, algorithmic agency and manipulation, and conspiracy theories, this illuminating book provides the definitive geographical perspective on the mischief of misinformation in contemporary American society.’ -- Bryan T. Gervais, University of Texas at San Antonio, US‘Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic has carved out a nice space in a crowded field by bringing an underused lens to the analysis – geography. Their topic is timely, and the theory has legs. This readable book can inform theory building beyond the scope of its contents.’ -- Jason Gainous, University of Louisville, US, Author of Tweeting to Power, and Editor of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics‘Misinformation has never been more important, and more of a threat, to politics, society, or the economy. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how misinformation is circulated across geographies and within networks. This powerful book changes that and brings together a wealth of research into misinformation in the digital age.’ -- Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Misinformation in the digital age: an American infodemic 2. Trust and authority in relational geography 3. Personalized social media, geographies of trust and the news 4. Social media as information weapon 5. New agencies of technologically mediated power 6. Misinformation governance and regulation 7. Conclusion: a resurgence of Misinformation in the Digital Age References Index

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Book SynopsisUsing a geographic lens to examine the adoption and dissemination of, and attention to ‘fake news’, this timely and important book explores how misinformation in the digital age calls attention to the multiple geographic dimensions of online fictions, conspiracy theories and political disinformation.Chapters delve into how social and digital media have rescaled and disrupted relations of trust and authority in the (mis)information age. The book draws on quantitative data and qualitative cases to shed light on the geographies of misinformation, covering urban legends, political rumors, information weaponization, and Climategate, as well as trade and financial fictions. The book explores in depth climate change misinformation, conspiracy theories and other critical contemporary events such as Pizzagate, Russian-led overseas political interference campaigns, and Cambridge Analytica.Geography and environmental studies scholars will benefit from the analysis of the denial of global climate change and geographic lens the book uses. It will also be an important read for practitioners and policy makers looking for a helpful reference summarizing interdisciplinary work on misinformation in accessible prose.Trade Review‘Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic provides an important and much-needed account of the causes and consequences of declining trust in, and reliance on, traditional epistemic authorities in the United States today. Stephens, Poon, and Tan highlight the roles that social media, a fragmented media market, and foreign actors have played in legitimizing authoritarian charisma at the expense of scientific and journalistic predominance. Covering topics such as authorship democratization, news deserts, adversary-sponsored disinformation, algorithmic agency and manipulation, and conspiracy theories, this illuminating book provides the definitive geographical perspective on the mischief of misinformation in contemporary American society.’ -- Bryan T. Gervais, University of Texas at San Antonio, US‘Misinformation in the Digital Age: An American Infodemic has carved out a nice space in a crowded field by bringing an underused lens to the analysis – geography. Their topic is timely, and the theory has legs. This readable book can inform theory building beyond the scope of its contents.’ -- Jason Gainous, University of Louisville, US, Author of Tweeting to Power, and Editor of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics‘Misinformation has never been more important, and more of a threat, to politics, society, or the economy. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how misinformation is circulated across geographies and within networks. This powerful book changes that and brings together a wealth of research into misinformation in the digital age.’ -- Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Misinformation in the digital age: an American infodemic 2. Trust and authority in relational geography 3. Personalized social media, geographies of trust and the news 4. Social media as information weapon 5. New agencies of technologically mediated power 6. Misinformation governance and regulation 7. Conclusion: a resurgence of Misinformation in the Digital Age References Index

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Book SynopsisTimely and original, Rethinking Communication Geographies explores the human condition under digital capitalism, depicting an environment in which digital logistics have taken centre stage in day-to-day life. The book responds to a pressing need to address the key questions of human autonomy and security, as well as the social power relations of the platform economy, in a world in which media and space have become increasingly entangled. Establishing a framework for understanding ‘geomedia’ as an environmental regime that shapes human subjectivity, André Jansson advances a humanistic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of communication geographies, arguing that human activities are accommodated to sustain the circulation of digital data. The book examines concrete examples related to audio-streaming, transmedia tourism, and platform urbanism, ultimately demonstrating how digital skills and logistical expertise have become forms of capital in contemporary society. Mapping ongoing transitions related to how digitalization affects spatial processes, the unique perspectives explored in this book will be of equal interest to postgraduates and researchers in the fields of human geography and media and communication studies. The innovative concepts and approaches to the study of digital geography introduced throughout will also enhance the dialogue between a vast range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.Trade Review‘This book offers a deep and stimulating insight into how geographies of communication are changing with contemporary digital media and data infrastructures, and why we need to rethink questions of geography, media and communication with today's geomediatization.’ -- Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Germany‘This book offers an innovative and exciting framework for understanding how the digitally mediated world is increasingly experienced: logistically. Its sustained attention to the entanglement of spatiality and communicative media, as well as to the differentiated possibilities for everyday human agency that then emerge, is particularly insightful and welcome.’ -- Gillian Rose, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking communication geographies 2. Dwelling under geomedia 3. The culture of streamability 4. Transmedia travel 5. Guidance landscapes 6. Geomedia as the human condition Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique Companion showcases the importance of valleys and their socio-economic, physical and cultural landscapes across three continents. Expert scholars in the field offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on the topic, discussing key historical and contemporary issues governing and transforming valleys.Exploring the impact of economic and spatial justice, and environmental and climate change issues on valleys, the Companion also studies key topics including lifestyle placemaking, the rise of inequalities within and across valleys, and alternate representations of this under-studied geographical feature. Highlighting some lesser-known valleys across Europe and North and South America, chapters provide in-depth reviews of experiencing, living in and growing up in valleys, and how internal and external factors shape each valley’s characteristics.The Elgar Companion to Valleys is an excellent resource for academics and scholars in the fields of geography, and environmental studies, as well as anthropology and sociology. Using original empirical data to tackle emerging theoretical issues, researchers interested in the changing internal configurations of valleys and under what conditions those changes take place will find this Companion illuminating and insightful.Trade Review‘Steeped in the disciplines of Anthropology, Sociology, and Geography, this theoretically engrossing volume of sixteen case studies explores the geographic, ecological, economic, and culturally contingent aspects of “Valleys” on different continents.’ -- Benny Andrés, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: fronting valleys in social science research 1 Luís LM Aguiar, Donna Senese and Diana E. French PART I SEEING THE VALLEY: NARRATIVES OF POWER AND DISRUPTION Luís LM Aguiar, Donna Senese and Diana E. French 2 The Yakima Valley: a personal history of the Valley 9 Benjamin L. Peterson 3 Changing places in Silicon Valley 21 Charles N. Darrah 4 To dis-remember the valley in the Okanagan 35 Luís LM Aguiar 5 Valley conservatisms: racial landscapes of religion and migration in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley 51 Bonar Buffam PART II IN, AROUND, AND BEYOND THE VALLEY Diana E. French, Luís LM Aguiar and Donna Senese 6 Hybrid interstices: conceptualising suburbanism in Alpine valleys 66 Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Cristina Mattiucci 7 Vertical (sub)urbanization in Zurich’s northeast: the valley along the Glatt as both a metaphor and mediating structural element 79 Constance Carr and Evan McDonough 8 The magical Elqui Valley: from ruralism and solidarity to neoliberalism 92 Ricardo Trumper and Patricia Tomic 9 The emergence of contemporary valley images: a comparison of landscape perceptions of three valleys in north-western British Columbia, Canada 111 Diana E. French 10 Commanding the heights: governing valley terrain 125 Mike Zajko PART III PLACES OF PLENTY: VALLEY PRODUCTION, REFLECTION AND TRANSFORMATION Donna Senese, Luís LM Aguiar and Diana E. French 11 Wine from Waipara Valley: expressing sense of place in an emerging New Zealand wine region 143 Rory Hill and Joanna Fountain 12 Reconstructing valley: the transformative power of wine in the lower Pisuerga River Valley (Spain) 160 Julio Fernández Portela and Donna Senese 13 Agricultural place-making in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley: new wine in old skins? 173 Danielle Robinson 14 The community resilience of mountain valleys in the European Alps 188 Rike Stotten and Markus Schermer 15 The Creston Valley: a socio-environmental history of food procurement and change 203 Joanne Taylor 16 Migrant farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia: margins and mechanisms of struggle in the making of the valley 217 Amy Cohen and C. Susana Caxaj 17 Conclusion: backing the valley: origin stories, conclusions and paths forward 233 Donna Senese, Luís LM Aguiar and Diana E. French Index 238

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Book SynopsisExamining the changing nature of cities in the face of smart technology, this book studies key new challenges and capabilities defined by the Internet of Things, data science, blockchain and artificial intelligence. It argues that using algorithmic logic alone for automation and optimisation in modern smart cities is not sufficient, and analyses the importance of integrating this with strong participatory governance and digital platforms for community action. Separated into three parts, the book moves from looking at the academic establishment of the smart city paradigm as an advanced system of innovation, to focusing on major technologies and the governance of smart cities. Chapters explore other sources of intelligence available in cities within both institutions and platforms, including human intelligence, innovation, and collective intelligence, with insights on how to combine algorithmic logic in these areas of competence to become much more effective. Offering a crucial understanding of how cities and regions can adopt the smart city paradigm, this book will be a useful read for policy-makers and stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of smart city strategies. Urban studies and planning scholars, post graduate students, as well as those researching the built environment, will benefit from the blend of theoretical and practical knowledge offered in the book. Contributors include: M. Angelidou, A.-V. Anttiroiko, D. Bechtsis, F. Duarte, C. Kakderi, N. Komninos, I. Kompatsiaris, K. Kourtit, V. Loscri, N. Mitton, L. Mora, V. Moustaka, P. Nijkamp, J. Oskam, A. Özdemir, R. Petrolo, A. Panori, C. Ratti, A. Reid, H. Schaffers, I. Tsampoulatidis, A. Vakali, S. Zhang Trade Review'Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era: Integrating Technologies, Platforms and Governance is a seminal original contribution to the emerging field of smart cities. The book sets out to highlight the pervasive importance of smart technologies, platforms and governance in the urban context. It frames this new challenging field, and offers a wealth of informed conceptual and practical studies. For academics, students, and practitioners, this book offers many novel and useful insights.' --Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'The 21st Century is said to be the Century of Cities. Echoing this sentiment, Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era argues they emerge from collaboration technologies, data science and AI and the algorithmic logic, under which these technologies operate, can be much more effective if such platforms combine with other sources of intelligence available in cities, such as human intelligence, creativity and innovation, collective and collaborative intelligence already embedded in institutions. The constructive alignment and augmentation of these technologies with human, collective and collaborative intelligence and sharing of the knowledge such a synthesis produces, is the object of this latest book from Komninos and Kakderi.' --Mark Deakin, Edinburgh Napier University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Smart cities beyond algorithmic logic: digital platforms, user engagement and data science 1 Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori and Christina Kakderi PART I SMART CITIES, ALGORITHMIC LOGIC AND THE QUEST FOR INTELLIGENCE 2 The current status of smart city research: exposing the division 17 Luca Mora, Alasdair Reid and Margarita Angelidou 3 Towards an algorithmic city: transformation in politics, governance and service provision 36 Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko 4 Shaping ecosystems for collaborative innovation towards fostering urban and regional development 70 Hans Schaffers 5 The creation of city smartness: architectures of intelligence in smart cities and smart ecosystems 101 Nicos Komninos and Anastasia Panori PART II SMART CITIES AT THE CROSSROADS OF IOT, SOCIAL MEDIA AND DATA SCIENCE 6 Cloud, network and sensing in a smart city: toward a cloud of meshed cooperative heterogeneous things 129 Valeria Loscri, Nathalie Mitton and Riccardo Petrolo 7 City dynamics tracking based on citizens’ data and sensing analytics 150 Athena Vakali and Vaia Moustaka 8 Moving from e-Gov to we-Gov and beyond: a blockchain framework for the digital transformation of cities 176 Ioannis Tsampoulatidis, Dimitrios Bechtsis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris 9 A world of data: Underworlds and health challenges in the age of smart cities 201 Snoweria Zhang, Fábio Duarte and Carlo Ratti PART III SMART CITIES, PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS 10 Exploring the relationship between smart cities and spatial planning: star cases and typologies 217 Margarita Angelidou and Luca Mora 11 Social policy in smart cities: the forgotten dimension 235 Akın Özdemir, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp 12 Smart cities, ‘sharing’ and platform impact 262 Jeroen Oskam 13 Smart cities and vision zero: common ground for a generic vision zero methodology 279 Christina Kakderi Index 293

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