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High Stakes Education - Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform (Hardcover): Pauline Lipman High Stakes Education - Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform (Hardcover)
Pauline Lipman
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Chicago School Reform and Its Political, Economic, and Cultural Context 3. Accountability, Social Differentiation, and Racialized Social Control 4. "Like a Hammer Just Knocking Them Down" - Regulation African American Schools 5. The Policies and Politics of Cultural Assimilation 6. It's Us Verus the Board - The Enemy - Race, Class and the Power to Oppose 7. Conclusion

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics (Hardcover): Jason Monios, Lucy Budd, Stephen Ison The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics (Hardcover)
Jason Monios, Lucy Budd, Stephen Ison
R6,424 Discovery Miles 64 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state of the art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics. The COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in internet shopping in particular has placed new demands on urban logistics which require innovative technological and policy responses. Similarly, the necessity for sustainable urban logistics offers both a challenge and opportunity for development and seeks to address traffic congestion, local air quality, traffic related degradation, the use of energy, safety aspects and noise. Featuring contributions from world-leading, international scholars, the chapters examine concepts, issues and ideas across six topic areas that reflect the increasingly diverse nature of current research and thinking in urban logistics: key features of urban logistics, freight transport, sectors in urban logistics, technical aspects, policy, and environmental and social sustainability. Each chapter provides an overview of current knowledge, identifies issues, discusses the relevant debates in urban logistics and the future research agenda. This handbook offers a single repository on the current state of knowledge, written from a practical perspective, utilising theory that is applied and developed using real-work examples. It is an essential reference for researchers, academics and students working in all areas of urban logistics, from policy and planning to technology and sustainability, in addition to industry practitioners looking to develop their professional knowledge.

Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region - Social and Cultural Perspectives (Hardcover): Viktor Pal, Iris Borowy Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region - Social and Cultural Perspectives (Hardcover)
Viktor Pal, Iris Borowy
R4,047 Discovery Miles 40 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region, where impressive economic growth has led to significant increases in production, consumption and concomitant waste production. This volume demonstrates the immense scope of waste as a multi-sectoral phenomenon, covering discussions on food, menstrual products, sewage, electronics, scrap, nuclear waste, plastics, and even entire villages as they are submerged underwater by dam building, considered expendable in favour of economic growth. It discusses the wide range of approaches and contexts through which people interact with waste, including socio-economic analysis, participatory observation, laboratory science, art, video, installations, literature and photography. Case studies focusing on India, China and Japan, in addition to other regional examples, demonstrate the ubiquity of waste, materially and geographically. It examines the duality of waste management, fostering community building while simultaneously excluding marginalised groups; how it can be linked to efforts creating circular economies, to then reappear in oceanic garbage patches; or technical waste repurposed for high-tech laboratory research before being discarded once again. This timely and wide-ranging collection of essays will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability, development studies, discard studies, and social and cultural history, particularly focusing on countries in the Asia-Pacific.

Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy (Hardcover): Stephen Cairns Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy (Hardcover)
Stephen Cairns
R4,225 Discovery Miles 42 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Preface. Introduction 1. Drifting: Architecture / Migrancy 2. On Cosmopolitanism 3. Architecture as Evidence 4. Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making 5. Why Architecture is Neither Here nor There 6. Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination 7. Building Hong Kong: from Migrancy to Disappearance 8. Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and Democracy in Canada 9. Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in the Chinese Diaspora 10. Emigration / Immigration: Maps, Myths and Origins 11. Earthquake Weather 12. Pacific Migration 13. La Frontera's Siamese Twins 14. Screening Los Angeles: Architecture, Mobility and Migrancy 15. By the Bitstream of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers and Diaspora Vistas. Index.

Chinese Spatial Strategies - Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911 (Hardcover): Jianfei Zhu Chinese Spatial Strategies - Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911 (Hardcover)
Jianfei Zhu
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Beijing as a Critical Problem
In Search of a Chinese Space
Outline of the Research and the Argument
A Note on Method
1. A Geo-Political Project
2. City Plan as Ideology
A Classical Tradition
Neo-Confucianism
3. Social Space of the City
A City of Cities
Space of the State
Space of Society
Concluding Notes 1: Architecture of the City and the Land
4. A Sea of Walls: The Purple Forbidden Palace
5. The Palace: Framing a Political Landscape
The Inner Court as a Corporeal Space
The Outer Court as an Institutional Space
A Composition of Forces
6. The Palace: a Battlefield
Flows of Reports and Directives
Defence
Recurring Crises
7. Constructs of Authority
Legalism and The Art of War
Vis-a-vis the Panopticon: Two Ages of Reason
Concluding Notes 2: Architecture as a Machine of the State
8. A Religious Discourse
Composing and Building the Discourse
Performing an Ideology
9. Formal Compositions: Visual and Existential
Beijing as a Scroll
Vis-a-vis 'Cartesian Perspectivalism': Two Ways of Seeing
Concluding Notes 3: Architecture of Horizon
Appendix: dynasties, reigns and emperors
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Cities Without Cities - An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt (Hardcover, English language ed): Thomas Sieverts Cities Without Cities - An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt (Hardcover, English language ed)
Thomas Sieverts
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to individuals pursing their own goals, with global social links and little interest in their city.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203380584

Planning Wild Cities - Human-Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (Paperback): Wendy Steele Planning Wild Cities - Human-Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (Paperback)
Wendy Steele
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now have serious doubts about the prospects for humanity to live within cities that are socially just and responsive to planetary limits. Is it possible for planning to better serve, protect and nurture our human and non-human worlds? This book argues it is. Drawing on international literature and Australian case examples, this book explores issues around climate change, colonization, urban (in)security and the rights to the city for both humans and nature. It is within this context that this book focuses on the urgent need to better understand how contemporary cities have changed, and the relational role of planning within it. Planning Wild Cities will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies, and sustainable development, and for all those invested in re-shaping our 'wild' city futures.

Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence - Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth (Hardcover): James P.... Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence - Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth (Hardcover)
James P. Anglin
R3,180 Discovery Miles 31 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Learn what children living in group homes need most! Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth presents the results of a 14-month study of 10 staffed group homes in British Columbia. The book uses grounded theory to construct a theoretical model that speaks to the primary challenge care workers face each dayresponding to pain and pain-based behavior in residents. It combines participant observations, transcribed interviews, and document analysis to develop a core theme of congruence, several major psychosocial processes, and 11 interactional dynamics identified as being fundamental to group home life. The study brings to light several neglected aspects of residential care and proposes new directions in policy development, education, practice, and research to create an integrated and accessible framework for understanding group home life for youths. Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth is a full and rigorous examination of the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of residential group care. The studyconducted during a time of heightened sensitivity to the rights of children and increased emphasis on accountability and outcome measurementreveals a core theme of congruence, focusing on consistency, reciprocity, and coherence. The book examines the major elements of this theme, including: creating an extra-familial living environment developing a sense of normality listening and responding with respect establishing a structure, routine, and expectations offering emotional and developmental support respecting personal space and time discovering potential communicating a framework for understanding and much more! Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth provides professionals concerned with the development and treatment of children and young people with a unique understanding of group home life and work. From the Foreword, by Dr. Barney Glaser: I am honored and delighted to be asked by Jim Anglin to write the foreword to this grounded theory text... The purpose of this grounded theory is to construct a theoretical framework that would explain and account for well-functioning staffed group homes for young people, that in turn could serve as a basis for improved practice, policy development, education and training, research, and evaluation. THE READER WILL SEE THAT ANGLIN HAS ACHIEVED HIS GOAL WITH ADMIRABLE SUCCESS. . . . HIS GROUNDED THEORY TRULY MAKES A SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTION TO THE LITERATURE.

Unequal City - London in the Global Arena (Hardcover): Chris Hamnett Unequal City - London in the Global Arena (Hardcover)
Chris Hamnett
R5,241 Discovery Miles 52 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Unequal City examines some of the dramatic economic and social changes that have taken place in London over the last forty years. It describes how London's changing industrial structure, particularly the shift from an industrial to a services-based city, and the associated changes in occupational class structure and in the structure of earnings and incomes, have worked through to the housing market and the gentrification of large parts of inner London.

Unequal City relates to the literature on global cities. The book has a wide sweep and summarises a wide range of literature on occupational and industrial change, earnings and incomes and the housing market and gentrification. It provides a wealth of original data, figures, maps and tables and will be a valuable reference for anyone interested in the changes that have reshaped the social structure of London in recent decades.

Public and Private Spaces of the City (Hardcover): Ali Madanipour Public and Private Spaces of the City (Hardcover)
Ali Madanipour
R5,097 Discovery Miles 50 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The subdivision of our social world and the spaces we inhabit into public and private spheres is one of the key features of how a society organises itself. This affects individuals' mental states and experiences, regulates their behaviour, and superimposes a long-lasting structure onto human societies. This book sets out to find out how and why social space is subdivided in this way and to explore the nature of each realm as defined by spatial and symbolic boundaries.

To understand this division, the investigation is conducted along three scales: spatial scale (body, home, neighbourhood, city), degrees of exclusivity and openness (from the most private to the most public), and modes of social encounter and association with space (personal, interpersonal, impersonal). We start from the private, interior space of the mind and move outwards to the extensions of the body in space, the personal space. Then we visit the home, the domains of privacy, intimacy and property, followed by interpersonal spaces of sociability among strangers, communal spaces of the neighbourhood, the material and institutional public sphere and the impersonal spaces of the city.

As the shape of the city and the characteristics of urban life are influenced by the way public and private distinction is made, the role of urban designers becomes ever more significant. By establishing a flexible and elaborate boundary between the two realms, urbanism can be enriched, where the danger of encroachment by private interests into the public realm and the threat of public intrusion into the private sphere are both minimised and carefully managed.

Political Economy of the Tokyo Olympics - Unrestrained Capital and Development without Sustainable Principles (Hardcover): Miyo... Political Economy of the Tokyo Olympics - Unrestrained Capital and Development without Sustainable Principles (Hardcover)
Miyo Aramata
R4,041 Discovery Miles 40 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is an analysis of both contemporary Tokyo and the contemporary Olympic Games, emphasizing the role of late-stage capitalism and political economy in shaping both. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were mired in scandal from the beginning of the bidding process all the way through to the end of the games. This was further exacerbated by the emergency postponement to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with many public opinion polls supporting further postponement or cancelation in 2021. The contributors to this volume look at the Tokyo 2020 Games in the context of other modern games and the struggle to use the games as an economic stimulus. They reveal the reality of the Olympic development in Tokyo based on evidence and concrete policy analysis. This is a valuable resource for scholars both of contemporary Japan and of the Olympics and other mega-events.

Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation, and the Commonwealth - The Commonwealth Association of Planners, Past, Present and Future... Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation, and the Commonwealth - The Commonwealth Association of Planners, Past, Present and Future (Hardcover)
Cliff Hague, Clive Harridge, Bryce Julyan, Ruiz Nik, Ian Tant
R4,049 Discovery Miles 40 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

--The book could be used at undergraduate and postgraduate levels on urban and regional planning programmes, but could also feature in some urban geography programmes and international studies. --The book would have widespread international appeal reflecting its focus on the Commonwealth and its authorship by world renown academics, thought leaders and distinguished practitioners from 9 countries.

Urban Futures - Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities (Hardcover): Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles Urban Futures - Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities (Hardcover)
Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century.
Specific areas of research include homeless people's organisations and restoration ecology in brownfield sites in the USA, post-industrial urban landscapes, post-industrial economics, tourism and cultural planning. The book allows each writer to state their own conclusions, but together they suggest that tomorrow's cities will, while remaining locations of difference and contestation, be rapidly evolving systems in which dwellers assume increasing responsibilities and power.

Urban World/Global City (Hardcover, 2nd edition): David Clark Urban World/Global City (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
David Clark
R5,235 Discovery Miles 52 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyzes the distribution and growth of settlements and explores the social and behavioral characteristics of urban living. The latest theoretical and empirical developments and insights are synthesized and presented in an accessible and engaging way. Emphasis throughout is placed upon the world scale, urban developments being seen as the geographical consequences of the evolution of capitalism. Individual chapters focus upon populations and places, growth and urbanization, urban development as a global phenomenon, socio-economic consequences of global urban development, urban culture and global urban society, world cities, and the urban future. This second edition has been extensively updated and referenced. Each chapter includes sets of learning objectives, annotated readings, and topics for discussion. Well-illustrated throughout, it will be essential reading for students of Geography, Sociology and Development Studies and all who seek an understanding of how the urban world has evolved and how it will change in the twenty-first century.

Cities Without Cities - An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt (Paperback, English language ed): Thomas Sieverts Cities Without Cities - An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt (Paperback, English language ed)
Thomas Sieverts
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to individuals pursuing their own goals, with global social links and little interest in their own town or city other than the quality of their personal space.
The account is complex and on a number of levels; social, philosophical, economic and environmental. The difficulties in managing or even controlling the city web, divided arbitrarily into areas of limited size and political power, are enormous. Areas compete with each other rather than co-operate. The book provides a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning systems for better management.

Landscape Architecture as Storytelling - Learning Design Through Analogy (Paperback): Bob Scarfo Landscape Architecture as Storytelling - Learning Design Through Analogy (Paperback)
Bob Scarfo
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides a complete, easily replicated design process that sees the designer-as-author, the landscape-as-text, and the participant, user-as-reader. It is also unique in the foundation it sets for learning design, the application of that foundation to doing landscape, architectural or interior design, and the call for landscape architectural design to explicitly address a greater inclusion of people, those left to live with what is designed. Illustrated with locations and landmarks in Canada and the United States. A few are from England, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Italy. They are of readily recognizable features such as walkways, paths, street scenes, and landmarks. Questions and thought-provoking situations provide instructors with discussion points and reader with self-reflective triggers that illuminate their taken-for-granted world.

Working Capital - Life and Labour in Contemporary London (Hardcover): Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Peter Hall, Michael Harloe, Mark... Working Capital - Life and Labour in Contemporary London (Hardcover)
Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Peter Hall, Michael Harloe, Mark Kleinman
R5,264 Discovery Miles 52 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
The Authors
Preface

1. Competition, Cohesion, Governance: The Urban Triangle

London and the New Urban Agenda

Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance: Issues and Debates
Cities and Competitiveness
Cohesion, Exclusion and Social Capital
Policy Issues and Urban Governance


Conclusion: From Theory to Research

2. Spaces and People: Changing Geographies of the Region

Structures and Processes: London and Its Region since 1950
The London of 1950
An Intermediate Geography: London in 1975
The Changed Geography of London 2000

Mapping London's Geographies
The Changing Geography of Employment
Social Structure
House Prices: An Index of Social Change
Social Patterns across the Region: Households, Ethnicity and Deprivation


The Eight Localities
Reading and Wokingham (East and Central Reading and Earley)
Hounslow (Heston and Great West Road)
Wandsworth (Battersea and Clapham)
Southwark (Bankside, Bermondsey and Peckham)
Newham (Stratford and Upton Park)
Redbridge (Gants Hill and Ilford)
Greenwich (Charlton and Eltham)
Dartford and Gravesham (Kent Thames-side)

Conclusion: Unpicking the London Puzzle

3. Complex Business: Growth and Volatility in London's Economies

Assessing London's Recent Competitive Performance
Employment Change
Productivity
International Markets
Overall Competitive Performance


Instability and Volatility in the Regional Economy

Key Sectors and Clusters
The Economic Base of the Regional Economy
Global City Functions
Capital City Functions
Innovative and Knowledge-based Activities
Cultural Services


The Local Economies
Reading (Centre and East)
Hounslow (Great West Road)
Wandsworth (Battersea and Clapham)
The City of London
Southwark (Bankside and Bermondsey)
Newham (Stratford)
Redbridge (Ilford)
Greenwich (Charlton)
Dartford (Thames-side)


Social Influences on Business Performance
Labour Supply
Entrepreneurship
Local Networks
Crime and Other Threats
Conclusion: Is London Competitive?


4. More Opportunity, More Inequality: Social Structure and Economic
Change in London
Population Change and Its Consequences
The Changing Ethnic Composition
Occupation and Social Class: Is London a 'Global City'?
Earnings and Incomes in London
The Role of the Housing Market
Commuting
Neighbourhood Change and Social Segregation
Conclusion: Social and Neighbourhood Change in London

5. ''Education, Education, Education': The Role of Schooling in London

Skills and Human Capital

Educational Outcomes and School Performance in the London Region
Socio-economic Influences on School Performance
The School Quality Factor

The Competitive London Schools Market
Parents' Educational Strategies
Effects of the Quasi-Market


Further and Higher Education in the Competitive City

Ethnicity, Immigration and Schooling in London

Conclusion: Education, Economy and Society in London


6. Climbing Up, Bumping Down and Flitting Around: London's Dynamic Labour Market

Aggregate Imbalances and Adjustment Processes

Flexibility and Turbulence in the Metropolitan Labour Market

Flexibility and Job Changing in the London Labour Market

Upward Mobility

The Role of Agencies

The Costs and Benefits of Flexibility

Concentrated Unemployment and Its Causes: Discrimination, Recession and Sedimentation

Discrimination

Segregation and Unemployment

Conclusion: London's Distinctive Labour Market

7. Down But Not Out in London: Marginality and Social Exclusion

The Analytical Framework

The Spatial Pattern of Disadvantage

Forms of Poverty and Disadvantage in London
Labour Market Marginality
Poverty
Subjective Poverty and Stress Indicators
Housing
Stress and Isolation
The Persistence of Poverty and Other Measures of Disadvantage

Populations at Risk

The Persistence of Poverty and Other Measures of Disadvantage

Conclusion: Deprivation and Social Exclusion in London

8. How Social is the Capital? Getting By and Getting On in London

Families in London

Friends

Neighbours

Getting Ahead

Trust, Neighbourhood Affiliation and Communities

Social Capital, Civil Society and Governance

Social Capital and the Economy

Social Disorder

Crime

Conclusion: Social Relations in London

9. Things Endure, Things Change: London's Neighbourhoods

Six Kinds of Neighbourhood
The New Melting Pots: Battersea and East Reading
Proletarian Islands Under Pressure: Bermondsey/Peckham
An Area of 'Potential': Upton Park
The Suburb Challenged: Eltham, Heston
The Arcadian Suburb under Shadow: Gants Hill
The Dynamic Edge Suburb: Dartford, Earley


Generalities and Commonalities: Dimensions of Neighbourhood Life

Conclusion: Change and Continuity

10. Steering, Rowing, Drowning or Waving? The Modernization of London's Governance

The Modernization Agenda

The Local Authorities and the Modernization Agenda

The Local Authorities and Service Delivery

The Local Authorities: Their Agenda, Policies and Politics
Newham
Southwark
Wandsworth
Greenwich
Hou nslow
Redbridge
Dart ford
Reading and Wokingham

New Governance Organizations: the Mayor, the GLA and the RDAs

Conclusion: From Government to Governance?

11. The Name of Action: Ideas, Commitment and the Agenda for Cities

Answering the Five Key Questions

Is London Special?

Work in Progress: A New Society, A New Sociology

The Role of Policy: Obstacles and Opportunities

Governance: Structures, Operations, Collaboration

Postscript: The Mayor's London Plan

Bibliography

Index

Urban Regeneration, Community Power and the (In)Significance of 'Race' (Paperback): Paul J. Maginn Urban Regeneration, Community Power and the (In)Significance of 'Race' (Paperback)
Paul J. Maginn
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The concepts of community consultation and participation have come to dominate academic and policy debate about urban regeneration partnerships. However, there has been relatively little discussion about the nature of 'community power' within regeneration partnerships. Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in London, this book highlights that there has been a 'pluralistic turn' in British urban regeneration policy. Local communities, often portrayed as the least powerful partner within partnerships, are shown to use various strategies to influence decision-making, thus giving rise to a new typology of pluralism - 'pragmatic'; 'hyper-' and 'paternalistic'. Furthermore, the significance of 'race' (and racism) within community forums and regeneration partnerships is challenged. The playful use of the term (In) Significance in the title is linked to the argument that, although racism exists, 'race' does not always matter.

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - Toward a More Equitable Future (Paperback): Eric Christian Bruun Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - Toward a More Equitable Future (Paperback)
Eric Christian Bruun
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made. Through detailed analysis of public investment in infrastructure over the last few decades in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Finland, the author explores how the decision-making processes for major public works spending, many of them requiring quite rigorous and detailed computational methodologies, can result in plans that underserve large portions of the population, are inequitable, and fail to efficiently preserve public property. Beginning with some of the commonly offered explanations for the slow pace of investment and repair in a supposedly prosperous society facing serious environmental challenges, the book then explores media's role in shaping the public-at-large's understanding of the situation and the unimaginative solutions put forward by politicians. It continues with some case studies of infrastructure investment, or lack thereof, including an exploration of competing uses for government funds. It concludes with some suggestions. It is aimed at a large readership of professionals, students, and policy makers in political science, urban planning, and civil engineering.

Urban Ethnic Encounters - The Spatial Consequences (Hardcover): Freek Colombijn, Aygen Erdentug Urban Ethnic Encounters - The Spatial Consequences (Hardcover)
Freek Colombijn, Aygen Erdentug
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Urban Ehtnic Encounters attempts to answer the two leading questions of how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space. A multidisciplinary team of authors searches the various dimensions of the spatial organization of inter-ethnic relations in cities and countries around the globe. Unlike most ethnographies in which authors write about the 'other' in faraway places, the majority of the contributors have studied their own society.
The case studies are from four different continents. Material is presented from diverse locations such as the cities of Toronto, Philadelphia, Vienna, Beirut, Jakarta, Tehran, Osaka and Albuquerque, and the countries of Israel, Brazil and Taiwan, presents a unique opportunity for comparative analysis of ethnicity and spatial patterns. From this wealth of material important inter-cultural conclusions can be made about urban ethnic diversity.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203218779

Place Attachment - Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (Paperback, 2nd edition): Lynne Manzo, Patrick Devine-Wright Place Attachment - Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Lynne Manzo, Patrick Devine-Wright
R1,366 Discovery Miles 13 660 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches. Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity, create meaning in our lives, facilitate community, and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and belonging, placemaking and displacement, mobility and migration, intergroup conflict, civic engagement, social housing and urban redevelopment, natural resource management, and global climate change. In this multidisciplinary book, Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe, including contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams, Mindy Fullilove, Randy Hester, and David Seamon, to capture significant advancements in three main areas: theory, methods, and applications. Over the course of fifteen chapters, using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods, the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge, identify significant advances, and point to areas for future research. This important volume offers the most current understandings about place attachment, a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and placemaking professions.

Sustainable Urbanization in India - Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Jenia Mukherjee Sustainable Urbanization in India - Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Jenia Mukherjee
R4,644 Discovery Miles 46 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations and India's official launching of the 'smart city' agenda. Reflecting on three major components of urban sustainability: investments and infrastructures, waste management, and urban ecologies and environmentalisms, it moves beyond the bi-centric approach of only looking into the differences between the 'developed' and the 'developing' world and reflects on cities across India using polycentric methods and approaches. The Indian urban scenario is extremely complex and diverse, and solutions laid out in official and non-official documents tend to miss these complexities. This volume includes innovative research across different parts of India, identifying city-specific sources of unsustainability and challenges along with strategies and potentials that would make the process of urban transition both sustainable and equitable. Complex explorations of non-linear, bottom-up, multisectoral process-based local urban contexts across north, south, east and west Indian cities in this volume critique a general acceptance of the universalized concept of 'sustainable urbanization' and suggest ways that might be important for transcending inclusive theories to form practical policy-based recommendations and actions.

Urbanisation in the Island Pacific - Towards Sustainable Development (Hardcover): John Connell, John Lea Urbanisation in the Island Pacific - Towards Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
John Connell, John Lea
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. Introduction: an Urban Pacific
Part One: the Context of Urbanization in the Pacific
2. The Colonial Heritage
3. Population Growth and Migration
4. Economic Development: Towards the City?
Part Two: Urban Issues

5. Managing Urbanization
6. Land and Urban Life
7. Housing and the Urban Environment
Part Three: Sustaining Pacific Urban Society?
8. Living in Town: a Sustainable Future?

Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation (Paperback): Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation (Paperback)
Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences 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. In this Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation, Frank Moulaert and Diana MacCallum present a pioneering exploration of the relatively young field of 'social innovation'. Delving into the history of innovation, from the 17th century to the present day, the authors investigate the modern preeminence of social innovation in scientific and policy debates, public policy, and collective action in many social spheres. Identifying a range of socio-political and ideological stances, from 'caring' liberalism to inclusivity and sustainability, this Advanced Introduction not only provides a compelling reflective survey of social innovation thought and practice, but also offers perspectives on what social innovation is, and what it should be. Concise and perceptive, this timely introduction will serve as an excellent resource for students and scholars of social innovation. Moulaert and MacCallum's insight into the explosion of social innovation in the 21st century will also offer practitioners a valuable guide for navigating socially innovative actions and processes.

Modelling in Urban and Regional Economics (Hardcover): Alex Anas Modelling in Urban and Regional Economics (Hardcover)
Alex Anas
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


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Harwood Fundamentals of Pure & Applied Economics

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