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This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social sciences research, comprising cutting-edge theoretical and empirical investigations of urban livability and sustainability. Urban livability is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-09
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Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time. This book argues for the importance of water as a cultural object, and as a source of complex meanings and practices in everyday life, embedded in the socio-economics of local water provision. Each chapter aims to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-29
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Dieses Handbuch präsentiert unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf Landschaft und zeigt die Disziplinen mit ihren Landschaftsverständnissen auf. Ziel ist es, einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Landschaftsforschung zu geben und gleichzeitig die Zukunft der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-06-28
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Konflikte um die Energiewende, um die Ausweisung neuer Nationalparks und die Planung von Städten haben eines gemeinsam: jeweils werden landschaftliche Deutungen als Argument für Erhalt oder Veränderung von beteiligten Konfliktparteien vorgebracht. SolcheKonflikte lassen...
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Springer VS
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2019-06-19
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Depopulation, Deindustrialisation and Disasters are three of the biggest problems facing Japan today. This book discusses how sustainable communities are being created in Japan in an attempt to overcome the threat of the triple Ds . It provides an overview of how each...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-14
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This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century.This is a global challenge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-07
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This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.
Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the innovative use of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-04
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This book investigates how established transport planning tools can evolve to understand and plan for the ever-changing contemporary mobilities that influence the opportunities available to individuals. It discusses existing techniques, revised in the light of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-28
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Claudia Nußer festigt die wissenschaftliche Einbindung von visuellen Erhebungsmethoden durch die Systematisierung bestehender Untersuchungsdesigns und potentieller Forschungsansätze. Sie arbeitet konkrete Qualitäten und Grenzen von Photovoice-Erhebungen heraus und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-04
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This book attempts to advance critical knowledge and practices for fostering a variety of entrepreneurship at a city level. The book aims to connect scholarship and policy practice in two disciplines: Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship. The book has included...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-05-02
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Considering Asian cities ranging from Taipei, Hong Kong and Bangkok to Hanoi, Nanjing and Seoul, this collection discusses the socio-political processes of how neoliberalization entwines with local political economies and legacies of ‘developmental’ or ‘socialist’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-23
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Das Buch befasst sich mit den komplexen Prozessen der Zusammenschau physischer Objekte zu Wald auf Grundlage eines sozialkonstruktivistischen Ansatzes. Darüber hinaus werden in einem neopragmatischen Zugriff nicht nur landschaftstheoretische Perspektiven aufgegriffen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-04-10
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Jürgen Friedrichs, Felix Leßke und Vera Schwarzenberg untersuchen die Integration von Flüchtlingen in Hamburg, Köln und Mülheim an der Ruhr. Hierzu arbeiten sie mit einem komplexen Forschungsdesign: 88 Experteninterviews geben Aufschluss über die Integrationsmaßnahmen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-04-10
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This book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum for China’s economic restructuring and social progress, including the educational gap; the middle class in urbanization; consumption; division of labor;...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-02
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny. This volume offers the first interrogation of creative hubs, with ground-breaking critical writing from a combination of established scholars...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-23
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This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised. The book analyses how spatial concepts and political ideas permeate the European multi-level system. Through an interpretive comparison of five contexts, the book provides an overview of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-03-23
Collection :
Springer Geography
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This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-15
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This book presents a socio-historical analysis of the Somali Muslim diaspora in Johannesburg and its impact on urban development in the context of Somali migrations in the Southern African Indian Ocean region from the end of the 19th Century to today. The author draws...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-13
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Through an international comparative research, this unique book examines ethnic residential segregation patterns in relation to the wider society and mechanisms of social division of space in Western European regions. Focuses on eight Southern European cities, develops...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-02-27
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This book explores the leading role that cities can play in shaping progressive policies in collaboration with various stakeholders. It examines the timing of such shifts to progressivity in cities, the interactions that enable progressive actions to be developed and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-25
Collection :
ARI - Springer Asia Series
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