Human geography Books
Palgrave Macmillan MixedUse Megaprojects and the Competitive City
Book Synopsis Introduction.- Battery Park City, New York.- Ørestad, Copenhagen.- Docklands, Melbourne.- Hudson Yards, New York.- Barangaroo, Sydney.- North Harbour, Copenhagen.- Conclusions.
£108.30
Palgrave Macmillan The Drowned
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Abandoned – Drowned Infants.- 3. Shamed – Swimming Witches.- 4. Jettisoned – Slaves Overboard.- 5. Displaced – Removing the Colonized.- 6. Dislocated – Perilous Movements.- 7. Inundated – Planet Water.- 8. Epilogue.
£94.99
Palgrave Macmillan Flux Cities
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction, "Navigating the City in Flux".- Chapter 2: "Cities as events: rich everyday life spatial practices”.- Chapter 3: "Mo(ve)ment: Production of the real in Cities".- Chapter 4: "The Intangible City: beyond Power, Perception and Place".- Chapter 5: "Shadow casting and accounts: Urban Form and Subjective Well-being".- Chapter 6: Conclusion, "Towards a Flux Cities".
£31.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Governing PostWinter Olympic Games Legacies
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games.
£35.43
Palgrave Macmillan Resilient Recovery from Disasters
Book SynopsisChapter 1: A changing development geography intertwined with disasters, housing recovery and resilience.- Chapter 2: Indian case studies.- Chapter 3: Thailand case studies.- Chapter 4: Japan case studies.- Chapter 5: Cross-cultural insights from long-term analysis of housing recovery.
£33.24
Springer China Under Construction
Book SynopsisNavigating China's Urban Revolution: From Tradition to Transformation.- Xi'an: From Ancient Glory to High-Tech Hub.- Changsha: The PuDong of Western China through Regional Synergy and Technological Innovation.- Zhengzhou: Transformation from Ancient Capital to Logistical and Economic Hub.
£134.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore A Transition to Sustainable Housing: Progress and
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.Table of ContentsHousing for a sustainable future.- Current housing provision.- A critical juncture.- The sustainable housing challenge.- Providing sustainable housing through sustainability transitions.- Socio-technical dimensions for a sustainable housing transition.- Sustainable housing in practice.- Facilitating the sustainable housing transition.- Prospects for a sustainable housing transition.
£31.49
Palgrave Macmillan Youth Policy Citizenship Education and Olympic
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Looking back, looking forward: the role of youth memories and imaginaries in setting a new Olympic Games' legacy discourse.- Chapter 2:The Olympic Games: a catalyst for youth civic engagement and participation in society.- Chapter 3: London 2012 and Rio 2016, the memories of young Londoners and the imaginaries of cariocas of the Olympic Games.- Chapter 4.- Towards a new policy for the youth legacy of the Olympic Games.
£33.24
Langaa RPCID The Interactions of Human Mobility and Farming
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£28.21
Academic Studies Press On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of
Book SynopsisOn the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided—and continues to provide—a condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization.
£27.54
