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Taylor & Francis EcoSocial Transformation and CommunityBased Economy
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Taylor & Francis Borderless Worlds for Whom
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Taylor & Francis Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan
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Taylor & Francis Women and Climate Change in Bangladesh
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Taylor & Francis Literary Mapping in the Digital Age
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Taylor & Francis British Colonialism and the Criminalization of Homosexuality
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Taylor & Francis Distance Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance
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Taylor & Francis Human Spatial Cognition and Experience
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Taylor & Francis Human Spatial Cognition and Experience
Book SynopsisThis book offers students an introduction to human spatial cognition and experience and is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who are interested in the study of maps in the head and the psychology of space. We live in space and space surrounds us. We interact with space all the time, consciously or unconsciously, and make decisions and actions based on our perceptions of that space. Have you ever wondered how some people navigate perfectly using maps in their heads while other people get lost even with a physical map? What do you mean when you say you have a poor sense of direction? How do we know where we are? How do we use and represent information about space?This book clarifies that our knowledge and feelings emerge as a consequence of our interactions with the surrounding space, and show that the knowledge and feelings direct, guide, or limit our spatial behavior and experience. Space matters, or more specifically space we perceive matters. Trade Review"This book gives us a readable and comprehensive overview of a fast-developing interdisciplinary field. An excellent introduction for beginners, a welcome refresher for working scientists."—Nora S. Newcombe, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and James H. Glackin Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Temple University, USA"This book is a timely addition to the literature on spatial and environmental cognition and experience. In this era of nearly unbridled enthusiasm for what neuroscience can reveal, Toru’s book reminds us that mind and behavior are not just in the brain, but in the brain and nervous system in the body in the physical and sociocultural world."—Daniel R. Montello, Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA"Toru Ishikawa presents an excellently written and concise account of research done on human spatial cognition. The book covers a full range of topics including motivation and history through methodological issues, empirical results to applications, and societal implications. A great introduction to the fascinating field of spatial cognition. The book should be read by everyone interested to understand how we know where we are."—Christian Freksa, Professor for informatics and director of the Bremen Spatial Cognition Center, University of Bremen, GermanyTable of ContentsPreface List of Figures List of Tables 1. Why Is Spatial Special? 2. Brief History of Research into Spatial Cognition 3. Maps in the Head 4. The Structure of Cognitive Maps 5. The Acquisition of Cognitive Maps 6. Spatial Abilities and Individual Differences 7. Communicating Information about Space 8. Development of Spatial Cognition in Children 9. Feelings about Space 10. Space, Information, and Society References Index
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Taylor & Francis Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe
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Taylor & Francis The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment
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Taylor & Francis Mobilities Mobility Justice and Social Justice
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Revivals Behavioral Problems in Geography 1969
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Taylor & Francis The Extraterritoriality of Law
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Taylor & Francis Urbanization in Socialist Countries 6 Routledge Library Editions Urbanization
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Taylor & Francis The Geography of UrbanRural Interaction in Developing Countries
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Taylor & Francis Urbanization in Israel
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Taylor & Francis Affected Labour in a Cafà Culture
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Taylor & Francis Soviet Urbanization
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape
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Taylor & Francis Constructing Metropolitan Space
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Taylor & Francis Constructing Metropolitan Space
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Taylor & Francis Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning
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Taylor & Francis Urbanization in China Town and Country in a Developing Economy 19492000 AD 3 Routledge Library Editions Urban History
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Taylor & Francis Shaping Holland
Book SynopsisAll around the world, regions are facing major challenges: climate change, the transition to renewable energy, reinventing the food system, ongoing urbanisation and finding room to sustain biodiversity. These will radically transform our living and working environments. Regional design uses the power of visualisation to unite regional players around appealing spatial development visions for meeting those challenges. It offers a route to new forms of regional governance and planning that match the urgencies of our time. This book exposes the benefits and the pitfalls of regional plans and designs. Shaping Holland gives a unique insight into the emergence of contemporary regional planning and design practice in the Netherlands. This densely populated country in the delta of the Rhine and Meuse rivers is internationally renowned for its urban planning and design tradition. Drawing on first-hand accounts and a rich collection of illustrations, maps and diagrams, the book gTrade Review"In the 21st century, climate change will be the biggest differentiator between the haves and have-nots. As some of our lands become uninhabitable, the key to determining who will thrive and who will merely survive will be how prepared our communities areto make the tough choices. Only by working regionally will we be able to answer the tough questions: who will be forced to relocate, where they will go, and what will happen to communities receiving new neighbors to an often already-taxed infrastructure. "Shaping Holland" dives straight into those complexities to create a thoughtful approach to address how future generations can adapt to a wetter, dryer, hotter and colder environment."- Amy Chester, Managing Director, Rebuild by Design"This richly illustrated book brings together a highly competent and experienced group of contributors including scholars, researchers, consultants and practitioners to provide a diverse set of insights into the Dutch renowned experimentations with regional spatial planning and design, using South Randstad as a high profile example. The book draws on wide range of approaches to the concept of ‘regional design’ and goes beyond the conventional understanding of ‘the region’ as a bounded spatial scale, and ‘design’ as an outcome. The book is an excellent example of how a productive link can be forged between visual and textual narratives, and how synergies can be generated from multiple ways of knowing and articulating socio-spatial relations."- Professor Simin Davoudi, Director of Global Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Co-Director of Centre for Researching Cities, Newcastle University, UK "This book reports on regional designs that were undertaken in Holland over the past 20 years from different perspectives: from the point of view of the practice of regional design, using illustrations of numerous practical design projects, through the lenses of the intellectual endeavors of the sciences that engaged in concept and theory formation, and last but not least, from the perspective of personal experience of responsible politicians, top policy makers, a planning director as well as an academic researcher, a planning advisor, and a professor in the planning sciences.The result is a diverse, animated and informative compendium that can be read with different intentions and intensities. After a general introduction to the performance and position in-between central government and municipalities of Dutch regional design, it provides six thematic chapters – titled Coast, Urban Growth, Landscape, Corridors, Regional Transit-Oriented Development, and Beyond the Port – and also briefly presents the most important "lessons" that one should take away from reading the individual chapters.This book could only be written in The Netherlands, building on an early planning culture that is still powerful today and which can ultimately be traced back to the centuries-old compulsion to control water.Regional design, as it is presented here, differs fundamentally from the making of plans which determine future development in a binding way. Regional design aims to identify the spatial implications of future socio-economic and technical problems, and to fathom and visualize spatial strategies for overcoming them. Regional design forms a basis for discussion in professional and political arenas. Regional design tells vivid stories, e.g. about the layering of the earth, about landscape-architectural characteristics, about the often conflicting interests that affect landscapes, about new economic and old natural cycles - always with the aim of composing a vivid and attractive image from the "stories," one that stimulates and inspires the imagination.Particularly beautiful examples are the "Sand engine," which uses characteristics of natural flows to stabilize and expand the beaches, the synopsis of the port industry and the glass house industry and the new development spaces that are opened up by this merging. And last but not least, the conception of a new type of "Parkstad" (Park City) that emerges from the permeation of urban development and agricultural production. I feel this tension between rational analysis and the creative invention of new spaces of possibility as a particularly valuable contribution of the Dutch variety of regional design.What could this book mean for the spatial planning debate in Germany? It could provide vital inspiration for releasing regional planning from its bureaucratic constrictions and for the development of a more creative regional planning approach. Everyday life has long ago exceeded the boundaries of the municipality and takes place in the region. Climate change, resource preservation and the circular economy call for a synopsis on a regional scale!"- Thomas Sieverts, award-winning architect, planner and urban theorist. He was a Professor of Urban Design at Technical University Darmstadt, and in 2000 become a Partner of S.K.A.T. Architecten und Stadtplaner. He is the author of Zwischenstadt (1997; first published in English in 2000 as Cities without Cities: An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt)"This insightful book enhances and introduces regional design as a powerful technique to bridge the gap between regional planning and urban design. It is an inspiring contribution that adds value to current research-based and governance-oriented regional problem-solving, offering a methodology to face the regional era of global urbanization. Reshaping spatial planning with a broader sense of design, regional design is a revolutionary theory of shaping regions, based on the Southern Randstad experience, showing how regional development could be given direction and be transformed."- Shifu Wang, Professor of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology"The regional governance debate is gridlocked between two contrary positions. While some argue that formal administrative boundaries need to be better aligned with functional urban areas to resolve challenges on supra-local scales, others insist on working within the given boundaries to preserve local identity and facilitate inter-municipal competition.The proposition of a design exercise at regional scale shifts the discourse from issues of formal governmental re-organisation towards multi-scalar and inter-scalar methodologies for imagining and narrating alternative spatial futures. ‘Shaping Holland’ conveys convincingly that regional designing is possible and impactful. Regional design thus is necessary for any structural transformation as a means to overcome pressing contemporary challenges."- Alain Thierstein, TU MunichTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Coast 2. Urban growth 3. Landscape The Civil Servant / The Politician / The Director 4. Corridors 5. Regional transit-oriented development 6. Beyond the port The Researcher / The Advisor / The Academic 7. Regional Design Principles for the Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Everyday LifeEnvironmentalism
Book SynopsisThis book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi. This concept emerged in the 1980s as a shared research framework among Japanese social scientists studying the adverse consequences of postwar industrialization on everyday life in communities.Life-environmentalism offers a lens through which the agency of small communities in sustaining their everyday life and living environment can be understood. The book provides an overview of this approach, including intellectual backgrounds and foundational concepts, along with a variety of empirical case studies that examine environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and other parts of Asia. It also includes critical reflections on the approach in light of contemporary sustainability challenges. The empirical topics covered in the book include local community responses to development projects, resource governance, disaster response andTable of Contents1. Introduction Daisaku Yamamoto2. Theorizing Everyday Life: The Life-Environmentalist Way Daisaku YamamotoPart I: Developmental Impulse and Everyday-Life Organizations3. Local Rules: Sustaining Local Everyday Life with Aqua-Tourism Takehito Noda4. Coexistence without Consensus: The Role of a Life Organization in Mediating between Fishermen and Surfers in a Coastal Community Shusuke Murata5. When Civil Society Falls Short: Rural Community Response to a Resort Development Project Daisaku Yamamoto and Yumiko YamamotoPart II: Governing Everyday-Life Spaces6. From Dichotomous Interpretations to Spectrum Thinking: Formation of a Community Organization in a Nuclear Host Locality Atsushi Yamamuro 7. “Public” (gong) as Village Norm: Urbanization and Community Response in China Meifang Yan 8. Multilayered Commons Space: Dry Riverbed Use in a Local Community in Ibaraki, Japan Takaaki IsogawaPart III: Living with Disasters9. Why Do Victims of Tsunami Return to the Coast? Kyoko Ueda and Hiroyuki Torigoe10. The Roots of Resilience: Forest Commons and the Cultivation and Disappearance of Livelihood Security in a Nuclear Disaster-Afflicted CommunityHiroyuki Kaneko11. Apparitions and the Recovery of Livelihoods after the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami DisasterKiyoshi KanebishiPart IV: Historic Environment and Urban Communities12. Living Traditional Culture: Gujo Dance in Hachiman Town, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture, JapanShigekazu Adachi13. Embracing the Enemy’s Legacy: Historical Environmental Preservation in Daegu, South KoreaRie Matsui14. Boxing Camp as a Community School: Local Boxers in Metro Manila, PhilippinesTomonori IshiokaPart V: Critical Reflections and Prospects15. Empirically Speaking: Life-Environmentalism, Environmental Justice and Feminist Political EcologyDaisaku Yamamoto, Sophia Ferrero, and Keegan Kessler16. Life-Environmentalism, Critiques, and Prospects: Focusing on the Experientialist ApproachYasushi Arakawa17. The Future of Life-Environmentalism: A Sympathetic CritiqueMasaharu MatsumuraPart VI: Translated Excerpts from Sociological Theory of Environmental Problems (1989)18. Original Introduction of Life-Environmentalism (1989)Hiroyuki Torigoe
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