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  • Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning
    Carlos Nunes Silva
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    231,57 €

  • Feeling the heat
    Alan March / James Ogloff / Janet Stanley
    In the context of climate change, world population growth and crashing ecological systems, wildfire is often a catastrophic and traumatic event. Its impact can include loss of life, life-changing injuries, long-term psychological stress; increases in domestic violence; destruction of properties, business and livestock; long-term housing insecurity; increased insurance premiums,...
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    84,94 €

  • METROPOLITAN CIRCLES DEVELOPMENT & THE FUTURE OF URBAN
    TBD / WEI SHAN & LIJUN YANG
    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 €

  • Resurgent Africa
    Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
    ’Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development’ is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. It provides in-depth analysis and knowledge of Africa’s diversified economies by establishing rela...
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    180,46 €

  • The spatial contract
    Alex Schafran / Matthew Noah Smith / Stephen Hall
    This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter - the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home. ...
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    26,37 €

  • The spatial contract
    Alex Schafran / Matthew Noah Smith / Stephen Hall
    This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter - the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home. ...
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    116,90 €

  • POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
    DONGSHENG ZHONG XINGZHI SHENGYONG CHEN / 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 €

  • Natural Resources Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods in Uganda
    Uganda,  like many countries in Africa, faces   the “paradox of poverty amidst plenty”. While the country is blessed with many natural resources including fertile land,  abundant water, good climate, fisheries, forests, minerals, oil and gas; these assets have not been used optimally to transform the lives of citizens. Why is this so? What can be done to guarantee sustainable u...
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    26,43 €

  • Great March towards Freedom
    Maryam Rajavi
    Great March towards FreedomMaryam Rajavi’s messages and speeches to the annual gatherings of Iranian Resistance at Ashraf 3 – AlbaniaBeginning on July 11, the Iranian Resistance’s gatherings this year were held for five days at Ashraf 3, the seat of the Iranian Resistance in Albania.Ashraf 3 is an exceptional city. Twenty months before the gatherings, it was a bare piece of lan...
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    13,61 €

  • Beijing
    Qian Guo
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    87,22 €

  • 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 €

  • ENVIRONMENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH & CHN GREEN DEVELOP STRATEGY
    Youguo Zhang / YOUGUO ZHANG & HAO XU / 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action
    This book addresses important issues facing neighborhoods as they strive to meet the human needs of their residents. It examines neighborhood mobilization from multiple perspectives. ...
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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 €

  • 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 €

  • The Legacy of Mayor Anthony Williams
    Ray Crawford / Ray Jr. Crawford / Ray JrCrawford
    This book examines the leadership of former Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams during his tenure in the office from 1998 to 2006. Williams’s effectiveness is analyzed using a unique model for political leadership, described as the “ideal type” of mayoral leadership (ITML). ...
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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 €

  • 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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    35,08 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €