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This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and
approaches used in the field of urban analysis. The respective
chapters cover the background and relevance of various approaches
to urban studies and offer guidance on implementing specific
methodologies. Each chapter also provides links to real-world
examples. The book is unique in its focus on Australian examples
and subject matter, presented by recognized experts in the field.
This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and
approaches used in the field of urban analysis. The respective
chapters cover the background and relevance of various approaches
to urban studies and offer guidance on implementing specific
methodologies. Each chapter also provides links to real-world
examples. The book is unique in its focus on Australian examples
and subject matter, presented by recognized experts in the field.
The application of e-government technologies has led to increased
public participation and social inclusion, while allowing for
greater government transparency. These technologies provide
accessibility to online content and services while offering the
public an active voice in governmental issues. E-Governance and
Social Inclusion: Concepts and Cases presents current and emerging
research about the implementation of technology in government and
its broad social implications. This handbook aims to be a
comprehensive reference publication for academicians, researchers,
practitioners, students, and managers with an interest in
e-government content and the ability for the public to access and
utilize this technology.
The question of disadvantage, deprivation and social exclusion cuts
across many layers of society and has become an increasingly
important focus for both research and policy. While some localities
and communities are resiliant and manage to overcome change and
associated difficulties, many urban localities bare the negative
outcomes of periods of social and economic transformation. These
transitions, that impact on individuals and families, are also
reflected in the geographic patterns of disadvantage because of
where people live and their interactions within the wider
metropolitan systems. Using output an index of relative
disadvantage this book considers how these patterns of disadvantage
are a feature of Australian cities and how policy should begin to
address the uneven patterns noted.
In the globalizing world, knowledge and information (and the social
and technological settings for their production and communication)
are now seen as keys to economic prosperity. The economy of a
knowledge city creates value-added products using research,
technology, and brainpower. The social benefit of knowledge-based
urban development (KBUD); however, extends beyond aggregate
economic growth. ""Knowledge-Based Urban Development"" covers the
theoretical, thematic, and country-specific issues of knowledge
cities to underline the growing importance of KBUD all around the
world, providing academics, researchers, and practitioners with
substantive research on the decisive lineaments of urban
development for knowledge-based production (drawing attention to
new planning processes to foster such development), and worldwide
best practices and case studies in the field of urban development.
In a knowledge economy urban form and functions are primarily
shaped by global market forces rather than urban planning. As the
role of knowledge in wealth creation becomes a critical issue in
cities, urban administrations and planners need to discover new
approaches to harness the considerable opportunities of abstract
production for a global order. ""Creative Urban Regions"" explores
the utilization of urban technology to support knowledge city
initiatives, providing scholars and practitioners with essential
fundamental techniques and processes for the successful integration
of information technologies and urban production. Converging timely
research on a multitude of cutting-edge urban information
communication technology issues, this ""Premier Reference Source""
will make a valuable addition to every reference library.
Fault Lines Exposed intends to understand inequality across
Australian cities and towns. Social and economic change in
Australia has resulted in the emergence of disparities in advantage
and disadvantage between metropolitan communities and regional
localities, towns and cities. In 1999 the book Community
Opportunity and Vulnerability (Baum et al.) considered the
disparities that existed between communities using 1996 census
data. This new book, available both online and in print, uses
up-to-date data to reanalyse the patterns and consider the
important policy issues that arise from the patterns identified.
Fault Lines Exposed provides insight into advantage and
disadvantage at an aggregate community or locality level. Such
insight is necessary to better understand what is happening in
society. It helps in the planning of effective solutions to
problems that impact not only on individuals and families but also
on communities. Each of the chapters outlines the main findings
from the typology of advantage and disadvantage. The book concludes
with a strong policy orientation, addressing possible options and
raising more policy questions. Fault Lines Exposed will be
essential reading for academics, researchers, students, policy
makers and other professionals working in the areas of geography,
sociology, economics and social work.
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