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The Practice of Spatial Analysis
Essays in memory of Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This edited volume compiles a set of papers that present various applications of spatial analysis, both traditional and contemporary, on diverse subjects in a wide range of contexts. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou, McMaster University, Canada, who greatly...
Catholic Schools
Private and Social Effects
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In When Work Disappears, Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson (1996) notes that African Americans in Chicago who attended Catholic schools are viewed more favorably by employers than African Americans who attended public schools. Such findings corroborate a widely though not univer sally-held...
by Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Business travel has become indispensable to the global economy, not only due to its necessity in the maintaining of corporate networks, but also because of the associated economies that cater to the daily requirements of the business traveller. Underlying these developments are concerns over the environmental...
Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?
Community Development and Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking...
by Nanny Bressers
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Water is becoming one of the world's most crucial concerns. A third of the world's population has severe water shortage, while three quarters of the global population lives in deltas which run the risk of severe flooding. In addition, many more face problems of poor water quality. While it is apparent...
by Raphael Städtler
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1.0, The University of Surrey, course: Strategy, language: English, abstract: After the financial crisis hit the global economy in 2008 many global companies found themselves in economic distress. To remain competitive and...
Names, Ethnicity and Populations
Tracing Identity in Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Ethnicity has become one of the most studied human dimensions in social and biomedical sciences over the past decade. However, there are important shortcomings in the means available to researchers to define and classify human group difference in past, as well as contemporary populations. Personal...
Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth
A Manual for Participation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an important tool for urban planners, municipal officials, community development staff, non-governmental...
Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth
Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby increasing...
Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds
Learning to Live Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Iraq today faces a whole gamut of problems associated with post-war recovery and state-rebuilding compounded by age old mistrust and suspicion. The situation in Iraq resembles a huge experiment in which social scientists can observe the consequences of actions taken across an entire country. Can Western...
Paradise Transplanted
Migration and the Making of California Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, plants, and seeds. In Paradise Transplanted, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo reveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California...
Soul of the Grid
A Cultural Biography of the California Independent System Operator
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
"I felt like we had failed," said director of grid operations Jim Detmers in a pained voice. "In my mind, I pictured people stranded in elevators. I pictured people stranded in stores and checkout lines. All I could think of was the Inconvenience, and I'm sitting here thinking thinking,...
by Junichiro Okata
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Systems of transportation long ago developed out of the profound human need to connect and communicate. Transport today is still the only means for the physical movement of goods and people. Alongside the evolution of transportation and communication technologies, the astounding phenomenon of urbanization...
Aging America and Transportation
Personal Choices and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
"Recommended."--CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
"Coughlin and DíAmbrosioís edited volume is a welcome contribution to highlighting this issue for gerontologists. The collection is an informative and useful reference for students, researchers, practitioners, planners,...