Contesting the Olympics in American Cities
This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the …
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-5094-9
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- IX, 113p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 And c
The Private Rental Sector in Australia
This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth cen…
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- 1
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- 978-981-33-6672-5
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- xvii, 169p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Mor t
Street-Level Bureaucrats' Impact on the Emergence of Local Governance Networks
This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats during this process. It aims to identify whether some organizations are favored as…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-36153-2
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- xiii, 146p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Fis s
The Role of the State in China’s Urban System Development
This book investigates how the state intervenes in the urban system in China in the post-reform period. To do so, it constructs a conceptual framework based on the perspective of political hierarch…
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- 1
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- 978-981-33-6362-5
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- xvi, 213p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Wan t
Settlement Spaces: Urban Survival Prospects of China’s Special Communities
This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology. Using…
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-4892-2
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- xxiii, 677p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Xia s
Building a traditional Kurdish City
This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Ir…
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-3634-9
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- xviii, 218p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Ali b
New Workplaces—Location Patterns, Urban Effects and Development Trajectories
This book explores the innovative workplaces, namely coworking spaces and makerspaces, that are emerging as a consequence of digital innovations and the related development of the knowledge economy…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-63443-8
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- XI, 304p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 New
Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa
This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It argues that the SADC’s pursuit of a rationalist and state-centr…
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- 1
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- 978-981-15-9388-8
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- xxi, 263p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Tsh r
Theorising Urban Development From the Global South
This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, th…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-82475-4
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- xxi, 287p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 The
Cities, Health and Wellbeing
On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 70/1, “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Also known as 2030 Agenda, …
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-89348-4
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- xv, 181p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Soe c
Urban-Rural Transformation Geography
This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rur…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-16-4835-9
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- xxxiv, 376p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Liu u
Audiovisual Tourism Promotion
This book deploys the concept of ‘audiovisual tourism promotion’ to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films…
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-6410-6
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- xvii, 270p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Aud
Feng Shui and the City
Feng Shui and the City analyses the past and contemporary influences of traditional geomancy on Chinese built environments across three domains: domestic spaces, spaces of commercial development an…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-16-0847-6
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- xv, 158p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Mad f
Learning Country in Landscape Architecture
This book strategically focuses upon the feasibility of positioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary built environment education and research in Australia. Australian tertiary education h…
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- 1
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- 978-981-15-8876-1
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- xxvi, 122p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Lea
Ecoscenography
This ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice. Ecoscenography weaves environmental philosophies and prac…
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-7178-4
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- xxxvi, 210p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Bee e
Restless Cities on the Edge
Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews—often occurring during times of protest or even violent action—this book studies a variety …
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-91323-6
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- xv, 252p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Far r
The Hidden Side of the Creative City
This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of V…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-81249-2
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- XXI, 214p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 The
Smoking Environments in China
This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China. In recent decades, few studies have explored the significance of geographical factors and the role they have playe…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-76143-1
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- x, 353p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Smo
Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace in the Day the World Stopped
This book covers the nexus between urban health, sustainability, and peace. 'Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace' is the first book that attempts to put these three critical areas together. …
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-4888-5
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- xxiv, 196p.:ill.
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- -
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- 307.76 Che u
South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid
This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the …
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-73073-4
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- xvii247p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Sou
Why Place Matters
This book is based on the author’s 33 years of intensive fieldwork. It chronicles a major movement that shaped the preservation policy in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, providing “thick descript…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-71600-4
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- xxvi, 416p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Hor w
Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume II
This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China. It argues that sustainable urban design and mobility should be …
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-83860-7
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- xii, 358p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Hum
Skateboard Video
This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here ‘below’ ha…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-16-5699-6
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- xi, 157p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Mcd s
Understanding Emergent Urbanism
The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional pl…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-82731-1
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- IX, 262p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Dha u
Territories, Environments, Politics :Explorations in Territoriology
This collection seeks to illustrate the state of the art in territoriological research, both empirical and theoretical. The volume gathers together a series of original, previously unpublished essa…
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- 1st
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- 978-1-003-19636-5
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- 242 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 621.36 TER
Transformation of Transportation
This book features original scientific manuscripts submitted for publication at the International Conference – The Science and Development of Transport (ZIRP 2020), organized by University of Zag…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-66464-0
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- x, 226p.:ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 388.46 Tra
Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture
At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-50765-7
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- xvii, 368p.:ill
- Series Title
- Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
- Call Number
- 577.56 Adv
Urban Regionalisation Processes
This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to describe appropriately. So far, scholars…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-64469-7
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- xi, 233p.:ill
- Series Title
- UNIPA Springer Series
- Call Number
- 577.56 Urb
Social Movements and Public Policies in Southern European Cities
The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities. The essays sh…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-52754-9
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- vi, 179p.:ill
- Series Title
- Urban and Landscape Perspectives
- Call Number
- 577.56 Soc
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