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In this book, the author seeks to understand China’s urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state. China’s rapid socio-economic transformations since 1978 have been in large part attributed to China’s state transformations. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-26
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Shih-cheng Lien untersucht die Bedeutung der gestiegenen Frauenerwerbstätigkeit für die Veränderungen von Wohnstandort und räumlicher Mobilität. Mit Hilfe einer sekundärstatistischen Analyse des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) für die Jahre 1993 bis 2008 analysiert sie...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-23
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This book proposes, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, an original reading of current work on residential choice and the decisions associated with it. Geographers, social-psychologists, economists, sociologists, neurologists and linguists have worked together in the...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-13
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This book assesses the instruments and measures geared towards determining the EU's relations with it's neighbours. These are channelled on the one hand by the enlargement policy focusing on the Western Balkans and on the other hand by the neighbourhood policy which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-10
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In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-09
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This book is focussing on the results of the mobil.LAB Doctoral Research Group “Sustainable mobility in the metropolitan region of Munich” for its first phase. It highlights the key findings of young scientists from diverse disciplines on selected issues of sustainable...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-08-26
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space. It turns community thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object but as a relational process with sociality at its core. Based on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-24
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This book assesses recent migration patterns in Europe, which have significantly included 'return migration' against the stream of East-West migration. Since the Eastern enlargement of the EU, many regions of Central and Eastern European have experienced a loss of human...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-30
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This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning. It radically reverses the official version of the history of world cities as narrated during decades: slums are not at the margin of the contemporary process of urbanization; they...
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Springer
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2016-07-29
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Da die Komplexität gegenwärtiger Stadtentwicklungskonflikte in Quartieren wie Hamburg-St. Pauli etablierte diskurstheoretische Zugänge mit ihrem Fokus auf sprachliche Diskurse herausfordert, entwirft Katharina Wischmann ein an Michel Foucault anschließendes...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-07-13
Collection :
Quartiersforschung
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This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-07-08
Collection :
Global Diversities
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This book challenges
the prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigration
policy-making. Presenting an in-depth ethnographic study of the recent
implementation of local ‘diversity policies’ in the Netherlands, Belgium and
United Kingdom, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-05
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This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place, characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and entrepreneurialism, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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The edited volume explains why sport mega events can be discussed from the viewpoint of politics and power, and what this discussion can add to the existing scholarship on political regimes, international norms, national identities, and cultural narratives.The book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-29
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This book presents the results of empirical research conducted by the authors, who personally surveyed the people they met on each and every street, square and public space in Budapest. It has four extensive chapters that discuss urban change and structure in Budapest...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-06-11
Collection :
Springer Geography
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Several Asian cities have already invested in initiatives to build and promote Green Cities. Owing to the limited capacity of local governments, the funding of urban infrastructure has become a critical issue. Against this background, this book explores a new funding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-01
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This book analyses the waves of protests, from spontaneous uprisings to well-organized forms of collective action, which have shaken European cities over the last decade. It shows how analysing these protests in connection with the structural context of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-01
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This book focuses on peri-urban development processes in Africa, with special emphasis on Zimbabwe. The debates included highlight a number of issues in the peri-urban context, such as access to water, appropriate technologies and land management, political economy in...
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Springer
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2016-05-23
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This book presents an analysis of why some large infrastructure projects are delayed or compromised and offers important insights into the better delivery of future projects. It provides an important reaction to the ambitious €315 billion investment plan devised by the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-23
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This book takes a bold epistemological approach to address the fundamental questions that urban design has faced since its inception – questions concerning its legitimacy, definition, nature, content, purpose, theory, methods, jurisdiction and above all its knowledge...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-05-13
Collection :
University of Tehran Science and Humanities Series
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