"This book clarifies the smart city concept that is gaining application in Sub - Saharan Africa. It shows how the smart concept can be used to address problems that would be difficult and more expensive to solve using traditional techniques such as employment creation. This is d…
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"Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking …
""Truly the book for our times" -Karl Spracklen, co-author, Protests as Events The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the racism and xenophobia encoded in urban infrastructure-from highways cleaving neighborhoods of color to laws and policies fortifying…
"The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns addresses the theoretical, methodical and practical issues related to the development of small towns and neighbouring countryside. Small towns play a very important role in spatial structure by performing numerous significant developmental …
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"The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns addresses the theoretical, methodical and practical issues related to the development of small towns and neighbouring countryside. Small towns play a very important role in spatial structure by performing numerous significant developmental …
"This book offers an introduction to public administration by a veteran practitioner, written for planners, as well as students seeking a public administration career and individuals simply wanting to learn more about responsible government. The narrative provides an overview of…
"This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance re…
"Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious re-imaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion', 'Journey to the West', 'The Water Margin', and 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', and are conceived a…
"Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban environments through the lens of Baguio City, designed by American architect and planner Daniel Burnham in the early 20th century, and established by the America…
"The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future. At the heart of…
"International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative investigates the most significant global-scale international trade expansion and capital investment program since the Second World War. It takes a bottom-up approach to explore multinational experiences of China's Belt …
Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted social realities are embodied in the physical and material conditions imagined, …
"The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original an…
