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  • Political Participation and Institutional Innovation
    Shengyong Chen
    The participation of citizens in democratic politics serves as an indicator to measure a country’s development, its political modernization and political civilization.To promote citizens’ political participation, it is important to have them participate extensively in local governance and exercise their constitutional rights. This book analyses Zhejiang’s experience in democrat...
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    178,47 €

  • Metropolitan Circles Development and the Future of Urbanization
    TBD
    This book discusses lessons and challenges of metropolitan circles development and urbanization in Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa. The book examines the effects of local governance systems, central-local relations, and administrative borders on metropolitan area development. It surveys economic, social and environmental issues, with an emphasis on how int...
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    144,94 €

  • Seeking Urban Transformation
    Davison Muchadenyika
    Seeking Urban Transformation. Alternative Urban Futures in Zimbabwe tells the stories of ordinary people’s struggles to remake urban centres. It interrogates and highlights the principle conditions in which urban transformation takes place. The main catalysts of the transformation are social movements and planning institutions. Social movements pool resources and skills, acquir...
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    70,70 €

  • The Transformative City
    Wilbur C. Rich
    Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American citi...
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    37,98 €

  • Transformative City
    Wilbur C. Rich
    Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American citi...
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    135,76 €

  • Cairo collages
    Mona Abaza
    With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo’s grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi. ...
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    157,68 €

  • Construir la periferia
    Guillermo Tella / Juan Lombardo / TELLA GUILLERMO
    Construir la periferia: Procesos, mecanismos y derechos en la ciudad de borde plantea una aproximación crítica al proceso de construcción de la ciudad y las relaciones establecidas entre las distintas dimensiones económicas, políticas, simbólicas, territoriales y los actores que ocupan posiciones diferenciadas en la reproducción de sus vidas. La construcción del espacio, entend...
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    15,08 €

  • Public Expenditure Governance in Uganda
    Good governance of public resources has a far reaching impact on development outcomes. Over time it has become clear that capitalism has excluded a larger part of society, leading to worsening development indicators. Cognisant of the limited participation of rural communities in development, Uganda introduced a decentralisation policy in 1992 in a bid to involve more  communiti...
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    32,09 €

  • Urban Governance and Smart City Planning
    Zaheer Allam
    In a changing climate characterised by rapid urbanisation it is increasingly difficult to devise resilient urban governance models which also preserve the environment. This book takes Singapore, the incontestable leader in this field, as a case study, delving into the triumphant story of its successes in urban governance and smart city planning. ...
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    85,17 €

  • SDG10 - Reduce Inequality AAin and Among Countries
    Chhabi Kumar / Umesh Chandra Pandey
    Defining inequality as the social, economic and political challenges of our time, this book will examine SDG10 to look ahead at how policy action might engage multiple stakeholders, involve diverse sectors and address gaps between policy and implementation to tackle key inequalities within and among countries. ...
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    85,17 €

  • Chinese Urbanism
    Jing Xie
    Since the 1990s, the urban landscape of China has witnessed revolutionary changes that are unrivalled in any country of the world throughout history. Rapid urbanization, facilitated by the modern planning mechanism for growth, provides a feast for property developers. Yet, associated urban problems such as housing affordability, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and envir...
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    120,19 €

  • Environmental Economics Research and China’s Green Development Strategy
    Youguo Zhang / Hao Xu / Linlin Xie
    This book discusses several important issues in the practice of China's green development. It analyzes the carbon mitigation, water conservation and environmental pollution from the perspectives of economic development, technological change, production and demand. The book uses various quantitative methods to reveal the pathways of China's green development. The methods...
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    178,59 €

  • Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action
    This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods to meet the human needs of their residents. They address the constraints put on...
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    54,40 €

  • A U-Turn to the Future
    From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a more sustainable future. Yet even as politicians and planners look ahead, there remain critical insights to be gleaned from the history of urban mobility and the unsustainable practices that still impact our e...
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    174,82 €

  • The Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams
    Ray Crawford / Ray Jr. Crawford / Ray JrCrawford
    The Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams: Economic Development in the Federal City examines the leadership of former Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams during his tenure in the office from 1998 to 2006. The first purpose of this book is to provide an analytical tool for effective mayoral leadership that will be appropriate for the unique characteristics of Washington, DC, whi...
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    129,01 €

  • City of Children
    Francesco Tonucci
    The city, born to be a place of meeting and exchange, has for several decades taken as a default model the strong citizen, man, adult and worker, thereby transforming it into a hostile space for the weakest: the elderly, the disabled, the poor and the children. The automobile, the toy of choice for the privileged citizen, is also taken to be the principal 'citizen' of t...
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    43,75 €

  • 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative
    Jianglin Zhao
    The concept of a "21st-Century Maritime Silk Road" refers to the proposed modern-time version of the ancient Maritime Silk Road that connected China with the rest of Asia, and even parts of eastern Africa. It is a strategic initiative designed to increase investments in and foster collaboration among all countries along the ancient Silk Road. This volume, 21st-Century Maritime ...
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    142,16 €

  • Integral City
    Marilyn Hamilton
    How are we evolving the human hive? 60% of humanity now lives in cities. Can city dwellers, like bees who pollinate the fields, act so intelligently that they add value to the planet? How can the clash of differences that separate people, purpose, profits, and priorities generate fresh energy to solve 21st-century VUCA problems? How do we propagate new pathways for community le...
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    32,16 €

  • Making Government Work
    Katherine Barrett / Richard Greene
    In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way-and how to avoid them. As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-bas...
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    66,96 €

  • Making Government Work
    Katherine Barrett / Richard Greene
    In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way-and how to avoid them. As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-bas...
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    33,72 €

  • Development Planning in South Africa
    John Reynolds
    Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious programme – the Provincial Growth and Development Plan – aimed at tackli...
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    39,32 €

  • Ciudades en venta
    Ricardo Méndez Gutiérrez del Valle
    Durante años, el principal objetivo de las investigaciones urbanas en España consistió en estudiar las raíces del intenso proceso urbanizador asociado a la burbuja inmobiliaria. Más tarde, se dirigieron hacia los graves efectos provocados por la crisis de ese modelo de crecimiento. No obstante, desde 2013 se ha iniciado un nuevo ciclo inmobiliario marcado por la recuperación de...
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    20,00 €

  • Security Sector Reform and Citizen Security
    John de Boer / Robert Muggah
    While widely considered a core pillar of the peace and security architecture, Security Sector Reform (SSR) is coming under fire. SSR theory and practice are criticized for being overly focused on traditional conflict and post-conflict settings and for being unable to adjust to unconventional settings marked by chronic crime and terrorism. SSR tends to be disproportionately focu...
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    8,63 €

  • Armenia’s Transformative Urban Future
    Asian Development Bank
    This report identifies future urban development scenarios in Armenia that rely on strong political commitment to establish a territorial strategy that ensures balanced regional development and inclusive economic growth.The National Urban Assessment for Armenia provides a snapshot of the country’s urban sector and offers insights to achieving prosperous and sustainable cities. A...
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    26,86 €

  • Handbook of Research on Urban-Rural Synergy Development Through Housing, Landscape, and Tourism
    As cities continue to grow with advancing technologies, the spatial and temporal gaps between rural and urban areas are shrinking, thereby requiring the sectors to interact with each other. While the prospect is to develop each area without hampering the newfound synergy between them, there are still many barriers and concerns that hinder this inevitable urban-rural relationshi...
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    416,22 €

  • Investigating Spatial Inequalities
    Offering in-depth perspectives on factors such as local labour markets, housing and mobility, this book investigates centralization tendencies in Scandinavia and South East Europe that help shape regional development and act as a catalyst to creating regional inequalities. ...
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    152,45 €

  • Transformation of Shunde City
    Henry Hing Lee Chan
    "China has achieved an economic miracle in the past four decades. This book is a tour de force of scholarship, demonstrating and explaining how such a miracle came about through a comprehensive examination and review of the development of a city, Shunde, in China. Shunde is well-known in China and in East Asia, not only because it is the richest city (county-level) in China; mo...
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    68,97 €

  • What’s Your Community Like? | Rural, Suburban, Urban Regions | 3rd Grade Social Studies | Children’s Geography & Cultures Books
    Baby Professor
    A nation has three types of regions: the rural, suburban and urban. Each of these types of communities will be discussed and categorized in the pages of this book. In particular, their features related to size, density and grasslands. Additional information include the differences in housing, culture, jobs, populations and transportation too. Soon, your child should be able to ...
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    19,40 €

  • Common Sense Zoning
    Connor Murphy
    When zoning and subdivision ordinances were created in the early 1900s they were two distinct governmental functions. But failure to combine them led to jurisdictions writing contradictory regulations.Author Connor Murphy looks at the standard way subdivision and zoning are presented as separate code titles in most land use regulations then combines the regulations into a singl...
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    16,63 €

  • Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core
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    132,71 €