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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
This contributed volume studies and explains the effect of agglomeration on a firm’s innovation and performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the Great Recession. Beyond the analysis of regions or clusters, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
An excellent new analysis of federalism and the EU that investigates their mutual impact.
It shows how scholars of comparative politics increasingly include the EU among their cases when investigating the impact of federalism on key issues such as policy making.
The last decade saw a...
City-Region 2020
Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region. It translates principles into practice for achieving the necessary balance to ensure a higher standard of living and safe environment....
Children's Participation
The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
People's relationship to nature is the greatest issue facing the world at the turn of the millennium, and all over the world young people have shown enormous enthusiasm for environmental action. Many countries are radically reassessing both the role of citizens in managing their environment and the...
A City of One's Own
Blurring the Boundaries Between Private and Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book highlights the citizens' continuous participation in a wide range of urban affairs, especially outside institutional frameworks. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of French, British and American academics who examine the long and rich history of participation or partnership in...
The Symbolic Representation of Gender
A Discursive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
What is symbolic representation? Since Hanna Pitkin’s seminal The Concept of Representation, the symbolic has been the least studied dimension of political representation. Innovatively adopting a discursive approach, this book - the first full-length treatment of symbolic representation - focuses...
Global gentrifications
Uneven development and displacement
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses...
Mobility in Daily Life
Between Freedom and Unfreedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Why do we choose specific modes of transport and what are the perceived rationalities for our choice? How are different theoretical concepts within mobility research actually perceived and lived in everyday life? At this book's core is a conceptual and empirical contribution to critical mobility research....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
With more than 70 percent of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most urbanized regions in the world. Yet, although its cities are, on average, more productive than those elsewhere in the world, their productivity lags that of North American and Western...
Towards Equitable Progress
Essays from a South Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
This book gathers a collection of essays presented from the perspective of a spatial planner whose working life has been immersed in South Asia. It concerns some of the serious challenges that need to be confronted in the South Asian context, including the externalities and ethical concerns that arise...
Special Economic Zones in India
Status, Issues and Potential
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book examines India’s ten years of experience developing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the performance of SEZs in the context of India’s growing international engagement, its endeavours to attract domestic and foreign investment in manufacturing and services and its aim to increase and...
Rentier Capitalism
Disorganised Development and Social Injustice in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged behind....
by Rongxing Guo, Luc Changlei Guo, Hao Gui
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
This book provides, in an easy-to-use format, an extensive collection of data and information on China’s 31 provinces and its interprovincial economic linkages. Intended as a comprehensive resource book, it profiles the geography, demography, and economy for each province. The materials presented,...
Parties, Elections and Electoral Contests
Competition and Contamination Effects
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a pre-electoral coalition with another party or withdraw from competition entirely. Why then do non-viable political parties throughout the world systematically...