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  • Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities

    Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia

    by Lily Kong, Ching Chia-ho, Chou Tsu-Lung ...
    This book is a welcome and timely analysis of how global economic and financial powerhouses in Asia also aim to become global cultural cities. It critically examines the tension between top-down policies implemented by strong states to boost urban culture, which are typically focused on the hardware of iconic venues, museums, and opera houses mostly designed by famous western architects, and the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The End of the Suburbs

    Where the American Dream Is Moving

    by Leigh Gallagher ...
    “The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.”For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle class ballooned and single-family homes and cars became more affordable, we flocked to pre-fabricated ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    by Bruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley ...
    Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Cities and the Urban Land Premium

    by Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings, Henri L.F. de Groot, Wouter Vermeulen ...
    After a long period of suburbanization, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city centre than on a large house in the countryside - and why doesn't this apply to all cities? The authors of this book argue that the appeal of the city in the 21st century is not only determined by the production side of the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The New Economy of the Inner City

    Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis

    by Thomas A. Hutton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Economic Geography
    Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and imaging, and video game production. The development dynamics of these new sectors are volatile in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects

    Building Resilient Regions, Volume IV

    Edited by Margaret Weir, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial ...
    The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

    How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture

    by Tom Borrup ...
    Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 gives you ten concrete ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Small Business and the City

    The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship

    by Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, Matthew Semansky ...
    In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a Canadian concept which has spread worldwide: the Business Improvement Area (BIA). BIAs allow small ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Global Cities

    A Short History

    by Greg Clark ...
    Series series The Short Histories
    Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century, the number of truly global cities is greater than ever before, reflecting the globalization of both economic ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Re-Act

    Tools for Urban Re-Activation

    by Gianpiero Venturini, Carlo Venegoni ...
    Urban re-activation is becoming an increasingly relevant and complex topic in Europe, as it brings together a growing community of influential actors who, in recent years, have established a number of successful interventions in the field of re-use and re-appropriation. In this book, we will not only investigate these informal practices as they pertain to architects, but also to various groups and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Geographies of the Internet

    by Barney Warf ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that cyberspace does not exist in some aspatial void, but is deeply rooted in national and local political and cultural contexts. Toward that ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Reconstructing Urban Economics

    Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment

    by Franklin Obeng-Odoom ...
    Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged. Yet, there remains one field of economics where these limitations continue virtually unchallenged: the study of cities and regions in built-environment economics.In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom draws on ... Read more

    $97.19 USD