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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book analyses recent innovations for researching travel behaviour over the life course. Original in its approach, it synthesises quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods to contribute to conceptual, methodological and empirical advancements in the field.Through a rich array of new studies, leading scholars from across the globe present work that pushes the theoretical boundaries of mobility biographies research. A balanced range of methods are showcased to establish a fruitful dialogue between disciplines and methodologies, overcoming the prevalence of statistical analyses of travel behaviour data that has governed the field. The book goes beyond a mere stocktaking exercise by offering critical reflections of previous work from a variety of backgrounds, including geography, sociology, psychology, transport planning and civil engineering.Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course is a key resource for students, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and established researchers in areas such as transport studies, geography and urban planning. Furthermore, policy makers and planners will benefit from the practical recommendations included throughout.Trade Review'This rich collection of research relating to mobility biographies provides a thorough insight into this immensely important field. It highlights innovative research from scholars that take seriously the role of everyday practices and the need for cross-disciplinary thinking in the field of mobility and transport. This is a must-read for researchers, students and practitioners in the field.' -- Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark'Mobility is an essential part of people's lives. This book presents frontier research on mobility and travel behaviour based on the life course approach. Drawing on new concepts and theories, it demonstrates how quantitative and qualitative methodologies can yield novel insights into how people travel, and why, capturing trends over time. Students and researchers interested in travel behaviour and mobility as well as the life course approach would benefit from this volume.' -- Junyi Zhang, Hiroshima University, JapanTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii Acknowledgements xviii 1 Mobility across the life course: an introduction to a dialogue 1 Henrike Rau and Joachim Scheiner PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT 2 Turning points in car ownership over the life course: contributions from biographical interviews and panel data 17 Kiron Chatterjee and Ben Clark 3 Quality and quantity in mobility biographies research: experiences from a mixed method study of non-cyclists in Germany 33 Henrike Rau, Monika Popp and Johannes Mahne-Bieder 4 Testing theories of travel behaviour change: the case for the latent transition model 50 Maarten Kroesen 5 Effect of respondent engagement on data quality in travel behaviour and retrospective mobility surveys 67 Romain Crastes dit Sourd and Chiara Calastri 6 Towards a mobility biography approach to long-distance travel and ‘mobility links’ 82 Giulio Mattioli 7 Job-mobility biographies in coworking spaces: a theoretical contribution to new social and spatial restructurings 100 Timo Ohnmacht, Thao Thi Vu and Widar von Arx PART II EMPIRICAL STUDIES 8 Episodes of carlessness across the life course 118 Nicholas J. Klein and Michael J. Smart 9 Gendered car allocation in couples sharing a car: a life course approach 133 Joachim Scheiner and Christian Holz-Rau 10 Car sharing, life stages and young people’s approach to daily mobilities: a dialogue between qualitative and quantitative research findings 152 Tanu Priya Uteng and Eivind Farstad 11 A qualitative exploration of children’s attitudes toward bicycling in Davis, California 172 Brigitte Driller, Calvin G. Thigpen and Susan Handy 12 How childhood experiences affect travel behaviour differently across generations: an example of structural equation modelling in mobility biographies research 190 Veronique Van Acker, Corinne Mulley and Loan Ho 13 Life cycle stages, daily contacts, and activity–travel time allocation for the benefit of self and others 206 Konstadinos G. Goulias, Elizabeth C. McBride and Rongxiang Su 14 The cycling trajectories of e-bike users: a biographical approach 221 Dimitri Marincek, Emmanuel Ravalet and Patrick Rérat PART III LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD 15 Mobility across the life course – looking back to look forward 242 Henrike Rau and Joachim Scheiner Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book examines the vital and contested connections between colonialism and tourism, which are as lively and charged today as ever before. Demonstrating how much of the marketing of these destinations represents the constant renewal of colonialism in the tourism business, this book illustrates how actors in the worldwide tourism industry continue to benefit from the colonial roots of globalisation. This interdisciplinary book focuses on the relationships between tourism, colonialism and place, in both historical and contemporary periods. Chapters explore cases of tourism and colonialism in locations across the globe, from colonial Korea and French Indochina, to colonial Australia, U.S Tourism in the British West Indies, heritage tourism in Mozambique, and city branding in Dunedin. Expert contributors analyse the motivations and impacts of colonial tourism, investigating such diverse topics as the Chinese tourist rush to Taiwan, issues of displacement at wildlife sites in Zimbabwe, the impact of tourism on Indigenous peoples in Hawaii and the pursuit of Macanese identity and re-colonisation. Excavating the range and diversity of colonialism at work in tourism across a wide variety of global destinations, Colonialism, Tourism and Place will be an illuminating read for students and scholars interested in tourism and development, heritage studies, and social, cultural and human geography. Trade Review'Vividly interrogating colonial tourism's hierarchies, this book explores the centuries of Eurocentric global expansion that shape these tourism attractions along with the resistance and critique they provoke. It also provides a fresh refocus on nationalism, identities and power through the comparison to Japanese and Chinese imperialist tourism. Intersecting commonalties include subaltern exploitation by dominant racial/ethnic groups, imaginaries of nostalgic compliance, and erasure or valorization of colonization's violence which are brought together in a rich sourcebook of case studies that expand our knowledge of coloniality in tourism.' --Margaret Swain, University of California, Davis, US'This innovative collection embraces the ''spatial turn' in the humanities and adopts a topographical approach to explore the powerful associations between cultures and societies, colonialism and space. The capacity of the various humanities is particularly welcome for decoding the power of colonial and post-colonial representations through the medium of tourism. The editors deserve commendation for assembling a highly stimulating volume that brings fresh theoretical approaches to the study of tourism and connects diverse settings with a genuinely global perspective.' --Brian King, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong'A fascinating scholarly work that allows readers to re-examine colonialism in all its guises. Themes of dispossession, the annihilation of indigenous culture and re-colonisation are explored. The numerous insights in this book highlight the remarkable global reach of colonisation showing how as one colonial power declined, another emerged. The remnants of colonialism now create a level of familiarity for travellers to connect with a sanitised past.' --Barry O'Mahony, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates and Swinburne University of Technology, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction 1 Denis Linehan, Ian D. Clark and Philip F. Xie PART I 2 Glimpses of the East via Japan: representing colonial Korea and French Indochina in the interwar years 13 H. Hazel Hahn 3 Towards recovered territory: the Chinese tourist rush to Taiwan, 1946–49 28 António Barrento 4 Aboriginal interactions and associations with the hospitality industry in colonial Victoria, 1835–70 44 Ian D. Clark 5 ‘They surprised them with national airs’: Aboriginal brass bands, tourism and sentimental colonialism 58 Toby Martin 6 ‘Neither wholly British nor wholly American but something in-between’: US tourism and layered colonialisms in the British West Indies 77 John S. Hogue PART II 7 Beyond the postcard: a translated Hawai’i for tourists 95 Ana Cristina Gomes da Rocha 8 A pagoda at the pearl of the Indian Ocean: producing nostalgic colonialism and heritage tourism in Mozambique 110 Eve Wong 9 The pursuit of Macanese identity: colonization and re-colonization through tourism 128 Ivy Lai-Chu Lou and Philip F. Xie 10 Displacement, memories and struggle: the case of Mapari Ranch in Zimbabwe 147 Svongwa Nemadire and Maarten Loopmans 11 Coloniality, tourism and city-branding as an apparatus of forgetting in Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand 163 Holly Randell-Moon 12 Afterword 180 Philip F. Xie and Ian D. Clark Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This timely Advanced Introduction explores the links between housing and households, including the complex process of how people sort themselves into houses and neighborhoods. It covers the choices that households make, why these choices are made, and the constraints faced in achieving housing aspirations, with a particular focus on the contemporary difficulties facing young adults and those unable to buy a house despite a reasonable income.Key features include: using the concept of the life course to analyse residential decisions and choices discussing tenure choice, affordability and social housing, as well as how neighborhoods matter in urban studies reviewing what is known about how the housing market operates, and how families and individuals engage with the process of becoming homeowners providing new information on the urban housing environment in a time of rising inequality, low income growth and extensive regulation in the housing market. Advanced students and professionals of geography, planning, demography and economics will find this an invigorating read on how housing markets operate and the role of individual decisions about homeownership and residential space.Trade Review‘The book's interdisciplinary and multi-country approach to housing studies is a strength. As is its multiscalar understanding of housing access, starting from the individual household through the lens of residential moves, to housing units based on their design and geographic placement, then to neighborhoods as independent social units sorting residents and housing across the urban mosaic, and finally to the institutional and country levels through macro demographic forces and policies shaping housing demand and supply. Written in a clear style, this book is suitable for students and scholars in geography, sociology, urban studies, urban planning, economics, and regional studies.’ -- Noli Brazil, Journal of Urban Affairs'William A.V. Clark shares four decades of wisdom in housing studies to craft a sweeping overview and broad integration of this multi-faceted field. Scholars in urban economics, geography, sociology, and public policy and planning can all profit from this high-level orientation that links supply and demand, markets and institutions, and dynamics of people moving across urban space. Specialists will find new light shed about context and implications, and every chapter features nuggets of deeper insight.' -- - Dowell Myers, University of Southern California, US'Written by one of the leading international housing researchers, this valuable wide ranging introduction covers issues of housing demand and supply, sustainability, social housing and affordability; housing and social life and demography. It provides a stimulating, clearly written and very useful resource.' -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and Renmin University of China'25 years after the book Households and Housing that he co-authored with the late Frans Dieleman, William A.V. Clark publishes a new book on housing. The book builds on around 40 years of scholarly research from various disciplines by the author himself--a world-leading expert in the field--and many others. Highly recommended!' -- - Clara H. Mulder, University of Groningen, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I HOUSING AND HOUSING MARKETS 1. Interdisciplinary perspectives on housing 2. Housing markets and the housing supply 3. Changing locations: housing choices and housing PART II NEIGHBORHOODS AND SOCIAL LIFE 4. Neighborhood contexts: how they shape where and how we live 5. Housing and social life 6. Housing and sustainable living PART III HOUSING AND POLICY 7. Affordability and inequality in the housing market 8. Social housing and the housing safety net 9. The evolving role of housing studies References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This timely Advanced Introduction explores the links between housing and households, including the complex process of how people sort themselves into houses and neighborhoods. It covers the choices that households make, why these choices are made, and the constraints faced in achieving housing aspirations, with a particular focus on the contemporary difficulties facing young adults and those unable to buy a house despite a reasonable income.Key features include: using the concept of the life course to analyse residential decisions and choices discussing tenure choice, affordability and social housing, as well as how neighborhoods matter in urban studies reviewing what is known about how the housing market operates, and how families and individuals engage with the process of becoming homeowners providing new information on the urban housing environment in a time of rising inequality, low income growth and extensive regulation in the housing market. Advanced students and professionals of geography, planning, demography and economics will find this an invigorating read on how housing markets operate and the role of individual decisions about homeownership and residential space.Trade Review‘The book's interdisciplinary and multi-country approach to housing studies is a strength. As is its multiscalar understanding of housing access, starting from the individual household through the lens of residential moves, to housing units based on their design and geographic placement, then to neighborhoods as independent social units sorting residents and housing across the urban mosaic, and finally to the institutional and country levels through macro demographic forces and policies shaping housing demand and supply. Written in a clear style, this book is suitable for students and scholars in geography, sociology, urban studies, urban planning, economics, and regional studies.’ -- Noli Brazil, Journal of Urban Affairs'William A.V. Clark shares four decades of wisdom in housing studies to craft a sweeping overview and broad integration of this multi-faceted field. Scholars in urban economics, geography, sociology, and public policy and planning can all profit from this high-level orientation that links supply and demand, markets and institutions, and dynamics of people moving across urban space. Specialists will find new light shed about context and implications, and every chapter features nuggets of deeper insight.' -- - Dowell Myers, University of Southern California, US'Written by one of the leading international housing researchers, this valuable wide ranging introduction covers issues of housing demand and supply, sustainability, social housing and affordability; housing and social life and demography. It provides a stimulating, clearly written and very useful resource.' -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and Renmin University of China'25 years after the book Households and Housing that he co-authored with the late Frans Dieleman, William A.V. Clark publishes a new book on housing. The book builds on around 40 years of scholarly research from various disciplines by the author himself--a world-leading expert in the field--and many others. Highly recommended!' -- - Clara H. Mulder, University of Groningen, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I HOUSING AND HOUSING MARKETS 1. Interdisciplinary perspectives on housing 2. Housing markets and the housing supply 3. Changing locations: housing choices and housing PART II NEIGHBORHOODS AND SOCIAL LIFE 4. Neighborhood contexts: how they shape where and how we live 5. Housing and social life 6. Housing and sustainable living PART III HOUSING AND POLICY 7. Affordability and inequality in the housing market 8. Social housing and the housing safety net 9. The evolving role of housing studies References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book explores both the diversity of local resources and the interrelated issues concerning the concept of well-being. Drawing conclusions from diverse settings from across Europe and the US, chapters first begin with an analysis of the nature of local resources. The book then moves on to unpack the concept of well-being. It sheds light on topics such as the impact of urban design on health and the connection between amenities and social justice. Featuring key case studies supporting its theoretical foundations, the authors convincingly argue for a more comprehensive view of local resources and well-being from a territorial perspective. Providing unique and innovative insights into the significance of place-specific resources and well-being, this book is of particular interest to human geography, planning, economics and sociology scholars. Chapters also feature a strong emphasis on policy recommendations. Contributors include: C. Achin, K. Basset, C. Darroux, C. Di Marco, J.-C. Dissart, J. Gensel, E. George, P. Judet, K. Koop, P. Le Quéau, A. Le Roy, D.W. Marcouiller, D. Noël, G. Novarina, F. Ottaviani, B. Parent, B. Pecqueur, J.-F. Ruault, S. Sadoux, Y. Schaeffer, N. Seigneuret, C. Sowa, M. Talandier, R. Thomas, M. Villanova-OliverTrade Review'Local Resources, Territorial Development and Well-being provides a timely and innovative contribution to the literature on regional development. The edited book explores the relationships between territorial actors and resources and local well-being. The chapters demonstrate the value of multidisciplinary approaches to territorial development in a wide variety of settings. The book will provide a valuable resource for academicians, policy makers and practitioners.' --Gary Paul Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: well-being and local resources as the basis for territorial attractiveness xv Benoît Parent 1 Introduction: shifting resources, multifaceted well-being 1 Jean-Christophe Dissart and Natacha Seigneuret PART I DIVERSITY OF LOCAL RESOURCES 2 Territorial resources, proximity economics and new urban dynamics: the case of the city of Grenoble 14 Bernard Pecqueur and Kirsten Koop 3 Reconsidering the ground: new opportunities for shrinking cities. Lessons from the cases of Dessau and Halle 36 Charline Sowa 4 Mining the past? Alternative forms of heritagisation and local resources in mountain territories (France, 18th–21st centuries) 58 Karine Basset, Caroline Darroux and Pierre Judet 5 Are outstanding cultural heritage sites useful territorial resources for community development? 77 Jean-François Ruault and Magali Talandier 6 Implementation of tourism diversification in ski resorts in the French Alps: a history of territorializing tourism 100 Emmanuelle George and Coralie Achin 7 Territorial energy transition strategies: new models for cooperation between actors and resource management? 121 Gilles Novarina and Natacha Seigneuret PART II MULTIFACETED WELL-BEING 8 Beyond monetary well-being: can sociabilities offset the effects of low income? A case study in the Grenoble metropolitan area 144 Anne Le Roy and Fiona Ottaviani 9 Accessibility of urban public space: considering the diversity of ordinary pedestrian practices 162 Rachel Thomas 10 The British “Healthy New Towns” initiative: a step towards reuniting planning and health? 180 Stéphane Sadoux and Cecilia Di Marco 11 A framework for describing and analysing life course trajectories: taking a step towards studying residential migration factors 204 Marlène Villanova-Oliver, David Noël, Jérôme Gensel and Pierre Le Quéau 12 Natural amenities and social justice 227 Jean-Christophe Dissart, David W. Marcouiller and Yves Schaeffer 13 Conclusion: renewal of methods and multidisciplinary curiosity 251 Natacha Seigneuret and Jean-Christophe Dissart Index 257

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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 SynopsisProviding a comprehensive overview of the urban sharing economy, this Modern Guide takes a forward-looking perspective on how sharing goods and services may facilitate future sustainability of consumption and production. It highlights recent developments and issues, with cutting-edge discussions from leading international scholars in business, engineering, environmental management, geography, law, planning, sociology and transport studies.A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy begins with basic concepts and definitions, providing broad context with a focus on shifting service modalities, regulatory frameworks, and a historical overview of how sharing came to be a staple feature of the economies of contemporary cities. The second section focusses on shared mobility, with a particular lens on micromobility, parking, ride-hailing, car-sharing and ride-sharing. The third section focusses on shared space, including coworking office spaces and short-term rentals, as well as shared goods and services, including streaming music services, clothing rental services, food sharing and tool libraries. The book concludes by outlining the key ethical challenges that face the sharing economy.Real-world case studies are presented from authors in more than a dozen countries, making this a helpful and invigorating read for scholars of the sharing economy, urban studies and sustainable development. A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy is likely to also be of interest to those studying urban planning, human geography, and other disciplines focussing on the future of planetary urbanisation.Trade Review‘Spanning multiple disciplines and continents, A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy documents how sharing platforms transform mobility, space and our relationship with things. How platforms are regulated will determine whether ‘‘sharing‘‘ delivers community, prosperity and sustainability; or exclusion, precarity and hyper-extraction. Regulation requires a map. Here it is.‘Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy 2 Thomas Sigler and Jonathan Corcoran PART II UNDERSTANDING THE SHARING ECONOMY 2 What is the sharing economy? Origins and precedents 12 Sirat Mahmuda, Thomas Sigler, Jonathan Corcoran and Eric Knight 3 Regulating the urban sharing economy 28 Nestor M. Davidson and John J. Infranca 4 The identity crisis of ‘sharing’: from the co-op economy to the urban sharing economy phenomenon 41 Andrea Geissinger, Louise Pelgander and Christina Öberg 5 Overcoming scarcity through efficient consumption: innovative sharing initiatives 56 Pia A. Albinsson, B. Yasanthi Perera and Merlyn A. Griffiths PART III SHARING SPACES AND PLACES 6 Short-term rental platforms: home-sharing or sharewashed neoliberalism? 73 Petter Törnberg 7 Parking policy and bay-sharing for unmooring automobility from cities 88 Anthony Kimpton, Dorina Pojani, Neil Sipe and Jonathan Corcoran 8 The impact and regulatory issues of Airbnb in a mid-sized city: Valencia (Spain) 104 Shirley Nieuwland and Luis del Romero Renau 9 Sharing office spaces: coworking spaces from grassroots initiatives to globalised shared-office companies 120 Agnes Katharina Müller PART IV SHARING TRANSPORT 10 Bicycle sharing in cities 138 Oliver O’Brien 11 Bike-sharing and ride-hailing in Chinese cities 152 Fengjun Jin 12 Shared micromobility: policy and practices in the United States 167 Susan Shaheen and Adam Cohen 13 Street smart technology: Gojek as urban infrastructure 182 Onat Kibaroglu PART V SHARING THINGS 14 A spatiotemporal approach to micromobility 197 Grant McKenzie and Carlos Baez 15 Urban food sharing 211 Anna R. Davies 16 The environmental implications of car-sharing 225 Andrius Plepys and Ana María Arbeláez Vélez 17 The role of tool libraries in the new economy: sharing in an economic degrowth society 239 Sabrina Chakori and Shane Hopkinson 18 Clothes sharing in cities: the case of fashion leasing 256 Kirsi Niinimäki 19 The intricate relationship between music and the sharing economy 269 Raphaël Nowak PART VI CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS 20 Discrimination in the urban sharing economy 284 Awais Piracha, Rachel Sharples and Kevin Dunn 21 The sharing economy or the erring economy? How the law of amplification brings out the best and the worst in platform-based technologies 298 Kentaro Toyama Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book demonstrates the utility of big data approaches in human geography and planning. Offering a carefully curated selection of case studies, it reveals how researchers are accessing big data, what this data looks like and how such data can offer new and important insights and knowledge.Contributions from key scholars working in the field bring together an international series of case studies on demography and migration, retail and consumer analytics, health care planning, urban planning and transport studies. Chapters also discuss how data sets leveraged from commercial and public agency sources can greatly improve the data traditionally worked with in academic geography, regional science and planning. While addressing the challenges and limitations of big data, the book also demonstrates the usefulness of data sets held by commercial agencies and explores data linkage between big data and traditional public domain data sources.Focusing on the applications of big data to investigate issues in a spatial context, this book will be an essential guide for scholars and students of planning, mobility and human geography, particularly those who specialise in economic and transport geography. Its use of key case studies to demonstrate the applications of big data analytics in planning will also be useful for planners in these fields.Trade Review‘This is a very timely book featuring a collection of contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars working in the equivalent of social science’s ‘‘Wild West‘‘ - the world of Big Data. This book is indeed an essential companion for anyone wishing to understand the breadth of opportunities and challenges presented by data which lie outside of the traditional official statistics disseminated by governments. It will provide inspiration for those willing to take themselves out of their comfort zone and a glimpse of what is possible.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning 1 Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Jonathan Corcoran and Robert Stimson 2 Using social media advertising data to estimate migration trends over time 8 Monica Alexander 3 Estimating household mobility using novel big data 25 Nik Lomax 4 Using linked consumer and administrative data to model demographic changes in London’s city fringe 43 Justin van Dijk, Guy Lansley and Paul Longley 5 Combining large linked social service microdata and geospatial data to identify vulnerable populations in New Zealand 52 Lukas Marek, James Greenwell, Matthew Hobbs, John McCarthy, Jesse Wiki, Malcolm Campbell, Simon Kingham and Melanie Tomintz 6 The changing geography of clinical misery in England: lessons in spatio-temporal data analysis 64 Alexis Comber, Chris Brunsdon, Martin Charlton and John Cromby 7 Utilising smartphone data to explore spatial influences on physical activity 78 Francesca Pontin 8 Spatial extent and classification of retail agglomerations 92 Les Dolega 9 Applications of store loyalty card big data in the location planning process 106 Nick Hood, Graham Clarke, Andy Newing and Tim Rains 10 Online content of local interest and how it attracts individuals online 120 Emmanouil Tranos and Christoph Stich 11 Smart cities, big data: an overview 143 Robert Stimson and Chris Pettit 12 Is Sydney a 30-minute city? Big data analytics assisting to bring political rhetoric into practice 168 Simone Leao, Mohammad Hassan, Taha Rashidi and Chris Pettit 13 Data and public participation in national strategic planning 188 Eliahu Stern, Sheizaf Rafaeli and Arza Churchman 14 Goldmine or minefield? The methodological challenges associated with the analysis of the FixMyStreet neighbourhood problems dataset 205 Alasdair Rae and Elvis Nyanzu 15 Big data applications in urban transport research in Chinese cities: an overview 219 Sui Tao, Min Zhang and Jiangyue Wu 16 Unpacking the weather–transit ridership relationship using big data in Brisbane and beyond 244 Ming Wei, Yan Liu, Thomas Sigler and Jonathan Corcoran 17 Spatial microsimulation models for rail travel: a West Yorkshire case study 255 Eusebio Odiari, Mark Birkin, Susan Grant-Muller and Nick Malleson 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 SynopsisThe so-called ?'spatial turn?' in the social sciences has led to an increased interest in what can be called the spatialities of power, or the ways in which power as a medium for achieving goals is related to where it takes place. This unique and intriguing Handbook argues that the spatiality of power is never singular and easily modeled according to straightforward theoretical bullet-points, but instead is best approached as plural, contextually emergent and relational.The Handbook on the Geographies of Power consists of a series of cutting edge chapters written by a diverse range of leading geographers working both within and beyond political geography. It is organized thematically into the main areas in which contemporary work on the geographies of power is concentrated: bodies, economy, environment and energy, and war. The Handbook maintains a careful connection between theory and empirics, making it a valuable read for students, researchers and scholars in the fields of political and human geography. It will also appeal to social scientists more generally who are interested in contemporary conceptions of power.Contributors include: J. Agnew, J. Allen, I. Ashutosh, J. Barkan, N. Bauch, L. Bhungalia, G. Boyce, B. Braun, M. Brown, P. Carmody, N. Clark, M. Coleman, A. Dixon, V. Gidwani, N. Gordon, M. Hird, P. Hubbard, J. Hyndman, J. Loyd, A. Moore, L. Muscarà, N. Perugini, C. Rasmussen, P. Steinberg, K. Strauss, S. Wakefield, K. YusoffTrade Review‘Reading the Handbook on the Geographies of Power, you feel like you are on a road trip to visit an old friend (or fiend, to some),especially if you have engaged in understanding, describing, or explaining the unequal geographies of the world. That friend/fiend is power, a pervasive concept in our daily lives, and in the existence of other living and inanimate objects.’ -- Martín Arias-Loyola, Economic Geography‘Handbook on the Geographies of Power is a well-written volume with empirically rich and theoretically well-grounded chapters that are easy to comprehend and will be greatly appreciated by academics and students.’ -- Austin Dziwornu Ablo, Eurasian Geography and EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Part I Introduction 1. Introduction to the Handbook on the Geographies of Power Mat Coleman and John Agnew Part II Bodies Mat Coleman 2. When Ethnography Meets Space Ishan Ashutosh 3. Sex and Sexuality: Exploring the Geographies of Prostitution Phil Hubbard 4. Spatial Technologies of Racialized Knowing: On Visuality, Measurement, and the Law Robin Wright, Eric Goldfischer, Aaron Mallory and Kate Derickson 5. “This Wack(Yhut) Idea!!!”: The Plantation Bloc and Political Economy of Prison Expansion in Louisiana Jenna M. Loyd 6. Human, All too Human, Geographies Claire Rasmussen and Michael Brown Part III Economy John Agnew 7. Reflections on the Power in and the Power of Financial Markets Adam D. Dixon 8. Corporate–state relations in the age of Trumpism: analytical problems with the neoliberal synthesis and some potential ways forward Joshua Barkan 9. Reproduction, Justice and Spatialities of Power Kendra Strauss 10. Abstract and Concrete Labor in the Age of Informality Vinay Gidwani 11. The Circulation of Financial Elites John Allen Part IV Energy And Environment Mat Coleman 12. The Anthropocene and Geographies of Geopower Kathryn Yusoff 13. The Power of Water Philip Steinberg 14. Animated Place: Invisible Industrial Technologies and the Shaping of Eating Bodies Nicholas Bauch 15. Microontologies and the Politics of Emergent Life Nigel Clark and Myra Hird 16. Destituent Power and Common Use: Reading Agamben in the Anthropocene Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield Part V Warfare John Agnew 17. Human Shields and the Political Geography of International Humanitarian Law Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini 18. Matrix Governance and Imperialism Pádraig Carmody 19. Governing Banishment: Settler Colonialism, Territory, and Life in an Economy of Death Lisa Bhungalia 20. Military Contracting and the Labor of Force Projection Adam Moore 21. Autonomy, Human Vulnerability and the Volumetric Composition of US Border Policing Geoff Boyce 22. Maps, Complexity, and the Uncertainty of Power Luca Muscarà 23. To Help or Not to Help? Humanitarian Spaces, Power, and Government Jennifer Hyndman 24. Power’s Outsides Mat Coleman and John Agnew 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 Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides a critical review and discussion of research concerning spatial statistics, differentiating between it and spatial econometrics, to answer a set of core questions covering the geographic-tagging-of-data origins of the concept and its theoretical underpinnings, conceptual advances, and challenges for future scholarly work. It offers a vital tool for understanding spatial statistics and surveys how concerns about violating the independent observations assumption of statistical analysis developed into this discipline.Key Features: A concise overview of spatial statistics theory and methods, looking at parallel developments in geostatistics and spatial econometrics, highlighting the eclipsing of centography and point pattern analysis by geostatistics and spatial autoregression, and the emergence of local analysis Contemporary descriptions of popular geospatial random variables, emphasizing one- and two-parameter spatial autoregression specifications, and Moran eigenvector spatial filtering coupled with a broad coverage of statistical estimation techniques A detailed articulation of a spatial statistical workflow conceptualization The helpful insights from empirical applications of spatial statistics in agronomy, criminology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography, remotely sensed data, urban studies, and zoology/botany, will make this book a useful tool for upper-level students in these disciplines. Trade Review‘With widespread and increasingly available georeferenced data, this book offers a timely assessment of contemporary methods, models, and metrics—such as the eigenvector spatial filtering approach to handling spatial autocorrelation—in spatial statistics. I salute the authors for this enlightening contribution! The book will greatly empower us to better uncover mechanisms behind georeferenced data.’ -- Li An, San Diego State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. An advanced introduction to spatial statistics: motivation and scope 2. Describing spatial random variables 3. Spatial statistical model parameter estimation 4. A spatial statistical modeling workflow 5. Applications from A to Z of spatial statistical modeling 6. Nonparametric spatial statistical models Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides a critical review and discussion of research concerning spatial statistics, differentiating between it and spatial econometrics, to answer a set of core questions covering the geographic-tagging-of-data origins of the concept and its theoretical underpinnings, conceptual advances, and challenges for future scholarly work. It offers a vital tool for understanding spatial statistics and surveys how concerns about violating the independent observations assumption of statistical analysis developed into this discipline.Key Features: A concise overview of spatial statistics theory and methods, looking at parallel developments in geostatistics and spatial econometrics, highlighting the eclipsing of centography and point pattern analysis by geostatistics and spatial autoregression, and the emergence of local analysis Contemporary descriptions of popular geospatial random variables, emphasizing one- and two-parameter spatial autoregression specifications, and Moran eigenvector spatial filtering coupled with a broad coverage of statistical estimation techniques A detailed articulation of a spatial statistical workflow conceptualization The helpful insights from empirical applications of spatial statistics in agronomy, criminology, demography, economics, epidemiology, geography, remotely sensed data, urban studies, and zoology/botany, will make this book a useful tool for upper-level students in these disciplines. Trade Review‘With widespread and increasingly available georeferenced data, this book offers a timely assessment of contemporary methods, models, and metrics—such as the eigenvector spatial filtering approach to handling spatial autocorrelation—in spatial statistics. I salute the authors for this enlightening contribution! The book will greatly empower us to better uncover mechanisms behind georeferenced data.’ -- Li An, San Diego State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. An advanced introduction to spatial statistics: motivation and scope 2. Describing spatial random variables 3. Spatial statistical model parameter estimation 4. A spatial statistical modeling workflow 5. Applications from A to Z of spatial statistical modeling 6. Nonparametric spatial statistical models Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.Interdisciplinary chapters written by social policy, geography, planning, policy, sociology and public health experts explore the broader impacts of COVID-19, positioning the pandemic in the context of wider trends and risks including climate change. Chapters highlight the importance of place and local contexts in understanding its impacts in different settings including Europe, Canada, North America, South Korea, South Africa and Lebanon. In doing so, the book develops a pandemic preparedness, responsiveness and recovery research framework and intends to inform post-pandemic policy development and research. This is an important book for geography, social policy, politics, urban studies, planning and business and management researchers and students, particularly those focusing on crisis management and risk and resilience. With key case studies from across the globe, it will help elucidate key issues for policy makers and practitioners across a range of sectors including strategic management, social policy, public health and the built environment.Trade Review‘This book captures a very specific moment in our current lives: the rise of a formidable pandemic, one more aggressive and more global than prior pandemics. It has already killed more people than have some of our major wars. The authors add what is too often left out: how do we prepare for future pandemics? We already know they will come.’ -- Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface: what’s next? COVID-19 as a planetary inflection point for places, people, policy and research xxi PART I INTRODUCTION 1 A year into the pandemic: shifts, improvisations and impacts for people, place and policy 2 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon PART II PANDEMICS, PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETY 2 Human-centered solutions to the digital divide: lessons from a global pandemic 36 Kira Allmann 3 Living with pandemics in higher education: people, place and policy 47 Matthew Thomas, Tendayi Gonondo, Peter Rautenbach, Kiran Seeley, Ardita Shkurti, Angus Thomas and Holly Westlake 4 Building post-COVID community resilience by moving beyond emergency food support 59 Megan K. Blake 5 The job–food–health nexus in South African townships and the impact of COVID-19 69 Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Katrina du Toit 6 Repercussions and impact of COVID-19 pandemic encampment mechanisms on Lebanese informal tented settlements along the Lebanese–Syrian borderline 79 Paul Moawad and Lauren Andres 7 COVID-19 and the emergence of a level 2.5 society in South Korea 91 Jin-Tae Hwang 8 COVID-19, digital transformations and essential services 103 Maria Savona PART III PANDEMICS, PLACE AND ENVIRONMENT 9 COVID-19 and the climate emergency: lessons in the time of crisis? 116 Suzanne Bartington 10 The emergence of coworking models in the face of pandemic 129 Ilaria Mariotti, Mina Di Marino and Mina Akhavan 11 A refuge from the storm? The English Church during COVID-19 140 Andrew Davies 12 Coronavirus and the digitalisation of planning: perspectives from practice and academia 149 Charles Goode and Ben Rayner 13 Housing during and after the pandemic: an exploration of immediate and structural effects of COVID-19 on housing markets 159 Vincent Gruis and Aksel Ersoy 14 City-building in a context of crisis: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential investment in London 166 Frances Brill and Mike Raco 15 ‘Escape to the country’: the implications of coronavirus upon the English housing crisis 174 Charles Goode 16 Mobility during and after the pandemic 184 Iain Docherty, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable and Tom Forth 17 Global pandemic disruptions, reconfiguration and glocalization of production networks 195 Vida Vanchan 18 COVID-19 and the immediate and longer-term impacts on the retail and hospitality industries: dark stores and turnover-based rental models 202 John R. Bryson PART IV PANDEMICS AND POLICY 19 Impact, response and reflection: COVID-19 and health policy 218 Steve Gulati 20 Governance and policy in pandemics: approaches to crisis, chaos and catastrophe 227 Jessica Pykett and Anna Lavis 21 Reimagining work? COVID-19 and the impacts on employment in Canada and the United States 237 Nichola Lowe and Tara Vinodrai 22 Evidence-informed COVID-19 policy: what problem was the UK government trying to solve? 250 Paul Cairney 23 In the eye of the storm: English local government and the COVID-19 crisis 261 Arianna Giovannini 24 COVID-19 and the impacts on commercial aviation: a dead stop? 272 Pere Suau-Sanchez, Augusto Voltes-Dorta, Natàlia Cugueró-Escofet and Keith J. Mason PART V CONCLUSION 25 The preparedness, responsiveness and recovery triality: a pandemic research and policy framework 286 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy and Louise Reardon Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook offers a detailed cross-policy assessment on the need, locale and impact of regional cooperation and integration, addressing how the principles of regional integration have affected multi-level governance and subsequent public policy. Individual chapters provide explanations of what regional cooperation means in a specific policy area, identify relevant theories, and present empirical evidence to support the arguments outlined. The Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration brings together a diverse range of expert contributors who deftly explore regional cooperation across a number of key policy areas, including migration, trade, the digital sphere, finance, security, democracy and higher education. Through a comprehensive analysis of the nature of and need for regional cooperation in today’s world, this Handbook argues for greater and more pressing discussions on regional policy, the value of integration and its resulting application in organisations. A crucial text for global governance, international relations and public policy academics and students, this is also an invigorating read for regional studies scholars. The Handbook ’s in-depth study of practical applications makes this suitable for public officials in the sector, as well as regional organisation and think tank staff.Trade Review‘This book is very timely because the challenges of climate change, peace and security and sustainable development we face require regional collaboration and solidarity to successfully tackle. The collaboration between regions in the global South and global North is also crucial for resolving these issues.’ -- Tshilidzi Marwala, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Rector of United Nations University‘Philippe de Lombaerde and his ardent team of fearless experts have produced more than a timeless reference manual on the economics of cooperation. This innovative, rigorous, and readable compendium is also a blueprint for thinking about the economy of togetherness—and practicing it happily but without illusions or regrets in a globalized world of dilemmas and trilemmas.’ -- Célestin Monga, Harvard University, US‘An enlightening exploration of regional cooperation's profound impact. This book navigates the complexities of integration, revealing its potential to foster progress and prosperity while illuminating the significance of regional integration in shaping international trade dynamics. An essential read for policymakers, economists, and trade enthusiasts alike.’ -- Alfred K'Ombudo, Principal Secretary, Trade, Kenya‘This extraordinary book presents and analyzes the multi-dimensional universe of regional cooperation and integration. Across seventeen policy areas, it explores the potential of innovative regional frameworks with solid economics and beyond. This is a product of UNU-CRIS’s extensive research networks and Dr. De Lombaerde's superb leadership.’ -- Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Japan and Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), IndonesiaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration: why, where, and so what? 1 Philippe De Lombaerde PART I REGIONAL COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION BY POLICY AREAS: WHY?, WHERE?, SO WHAT? 1 Regional migration governance 22 Ine Lietaert and Antoine Pécoud 2 Regional trade liberalisation 38 Justine Miller, Glenn Rayp, and Samuel Standaert 3 Common markets 63 Jacques Pelkmans 4 Regional digital governance 108 Jamal Shahin, Sophie Hoogenboom, Carlota Morais, and Mauro Santaniello 5 Regional financial cooperation and regional financial arrangements 123 Yaechan Lee and William N. Kring 6 Regional monetary integration: multilateral currency unions in operation 143 Ad van Riet 7 Regional security cooperation 164 Amandine Gnanguênon and Stephanie C. Hofmann 8 Regional democracy protection 182 Stefano Palestini 9 Regional protection of human rights and the environment 197 Liliana Lizarazo Rodríguez and Deborah Casalin 10 Regional tax governance 223 Dries Lesage, Wouter Lips, Eli James Moskowitz, and Attiya Waris 11 Regional social policies: aspirations, vernacularisation, or new forms of solidarity? 243 Alexandra Kaasch, Amanda Shriwise, Tuba Agartan, Sarah Cook, Jeremy Seekings, and Rangsan Sukhampha 12 Regional cooperation in higher education 266 Meng-Hsuan Chou, Jeroen Huisman, and Maria Pilar Lorenzo 13 Regional cultural cooperation 289 Domenico Valenza and Nahuel Oddone 14 Regional cooperation for health 311 Obijiofor Aginam 15 Regional science and innovation policies 326 Susan Schneegans and Luc Soete 16 Regional management of stranded hydro-carbon assets and the energy transition 351 Fatima Denton 17 Cross-border water management 372 Martha Cassidy-Neumiller, Nidhi Nagabhatla, M. Rafiqul Islam, and Alix Debray PART II CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS 18 Regionalism as policy autonomy in post-colonial contexts: insights from Africa 398 Tim Shaw, Janet M. Kiguru, and Elijah Nyaga Munyi 19 Multi-level governance 417 Diana Panke and Sören Stapel 20 Regional organisations and their resources 431 Frank Mattheis 21 Regional organisations: a multidimensional approach to policy scope 442 Anja Jetschke and Sören Münch 22 Build your own regional integration indicator system 460 Philippe De Lombaerde

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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. Original and thought-provoking, this book investigates how creative experiences, interactions, and place-specific dynamics and contexts are shaping the expanding field of creative tourism across the globe. Exploring the evolution of research in this field, the authors investigate pathways for future research that advance conceptual questions and pragmatic issues. Bringing together an array of international perspectives and research approaches, this book investigates the growing synergies between creativity and tourism. Contributors from a variety of disciplines utilize key case studies to examine the development of creative tourism in both the global North and South, including: World Heritage Sites in Malaysia; small communities in Thailand; small town 'creative outposts' in Canada; community-engaged projects in rural Russia; Gangneung, Korea's 'coffee city'; the pioneering creative tourism city of Santa Fe; and a participatory museum in Croatia. Both the growing diversity and scope of creative tourism and the expanding body of literature on this topic makes this timely Research Agenda a vital read for scholars of tourism studies, especially as it offers much-needed suggestions of areas for future research, at doctoral and post-doctoral levels. Tourism policy makers and creative tourism practitioners will also find this a useful read. Contributors: M. Blapp, P. Brouder, M.-A. Delisle, N. Duxbury, M.L. Emmendoerfer, J. Erkkilä-Hill, I. Freitas, R. Gôja, B. Hanifl, M. Hiltunen, D.A. Jelincic, T. Jokela, S.-M. Koistinen, H.d.S. Lopes, M. Matetskaya, O. Matos, S. Miettinen, O. Mitas, M. Pereira, P. Remoaldo, V. Ribeiro, G. Richards, M. Senkic, U.-S. Seo, A. Svyatunenko, S.-H. Tan, S.-K. Tan, T. Vongvisitsin, J. WisansingTrade Review'This fascinating new book with its diversity of authors and international case studies provides fresh insights into the dynamic field of creative tourism. The authors focus on topical themes such as experience design, co-creation, authenticity, transformation, sense of place and sustainability. The work identifies important gaps in research, as well as emphasizing implications for policy and planning.' --Melanie Kay Smith, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest Metropolitan University, HungaryTable of ContentsContents: 1. Advancing creative tourism research and practice in a dynamic and diversifying context Nancy Duxbury and Greg Richards Part I The creative tourist and creative tourism experiences 2. Nurturing the creative tourist in Malaysia Siow-Kian Tan and Siow-Hooi Tan 3. The role of authenticity in rural creative tourism Manuela Blapp and Ondrej Mitas 4. The value of experience in culture and tourism: The power of emotions Daniela Angelina Jelinčić and Matea Senkić Part II Forms of creative tourism destinations 5. Creative tourism in creative outposts Patrick Brouder 6. Stories of design, snow, and silence: Creative tourism landscape in Lapland Satu Miettinen, Jaana Erkkilä-Hill, Salla-Mari Koistinen, Timo Jokela, and Mirja Hiltunen 7. Coffee tourism as creative tourism: Implications from Gangneung’s experiences U-Seok Seo 8. Montréal: A creative tourism destination? Marie-Andrée Delisle Part III Creative tourism in local development 9. Creative tourism in Santa Fe, New Mexico Brent Hanifl 10. Local impacts of creative tourism initiatives Jutamas (Jan) Wisansing and Thanakarn (Bella) Vongvisitsin 11. The development of creative tourism in rural areas of Russia: Issues of entrepreneurial ability, cooperation, and social inclusion Marina Matetskaya, Alexandra Svyatunenko, and Olga Gracheva 12. Creative tourist regions as a basis for public policy Magnus Luiz Emmendoerfer Part III Creative tourism networks and platforms 13. Good and not-so-good practices in creative tourism networks and platforms: An international review Paula Remoaldo, Olga Matos, Isabel Freitas, Hélder Lopes, Vítor Ribeiro, Ricardo Gôja, and Miguel Pereira 14. Towards a research agenda in creative tourism: A synthesis of suggested future research trajectories Nancy Duxbury and Greg Richards Index

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Book SynopsisInfrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy. Proposing a more people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national 'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning, and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors seeking insights into the intersections of financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe and globally.Trade Review'Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure explores the crucial connection between globalised financial flows and the infrastructure that provides the scaffolding for urban development. By following the money, the authors show the interaction of state and capital in shaping urban form and the uneven impacts on particular cities and groups within them.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance 3. Towards city statecraft 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK’s centralised state 5. Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation and the City Deals 6. Sell, hold or buy? Privatising, managing, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets 7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city-region, undermining the rest of the UK? 8. Conclusions References Index

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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