Managing Intermediate Size Cities - Sustainable Development in a Growth Region of Thailand (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)

I am both pleased and honored to introduce this book to readers, and I want to take a few moments to explain why. Michael Romanos and Christopher Auffrey have produced a volume which will be of immense value to several different types of people. Planners and other specialists concerned with the development of the Southeast Asian region and the issues and opportunities associated with urban growth and sustainable development will find much to interest them in this book. But the book, I believe, has much wider appeal, and that is what I want to touch on briefly here. The University of Cincinnati, where Michael, Chris, and I work, is attempting to globalize itself - to develop its institutional capacity for international activities, to infuse its curriculum with international themes, and to promote and increase global competence among its graduates. Many American universities are doing this, of course. In the process, we are seeing some very interesting experiments in pedagogy, as faculty look for "learning moments" in new and sometimes exotic places. Michael, Chris, and their colleagues have, it seems to me, developed an outstanding model for learning across national and cultural boundaries. In the chapters which follow, you will read the results of their work. What will be less apparent, however, is the process by which that work was produced.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	GeoJournal Library, 69
Release date:	October 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	M. Romanos • C. Auffrey
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	338
Edition:	2002 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-0818-4
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN:	1-4020-0818-X
Barcode:	9781402008184

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