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  • The Geography of Underdevelopment

    A Critical Survey

    by Dean Forbes ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geography , critically assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and showing the relationship between intellectual developments and changing material conditions.The work is primarily concerned with theories, though it does contain much empirical material ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Price of War

    Urbanization in Vietnam, 1954-1985

    by Nigel Thrift, Dean Forbes ...
    Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Australian Overseas Aid

    Edited by Philip Eldridge, Dean Forbes, Doug Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Aid
    Originally published in 1986, this book evaluated the review of the Australian Overseas Aid Program (the 1984 Jackson Report) and discusses the significance of Australia’s contribution to overseas aid for the future. The book focusses on the overall context of the Jackson report; discusses the geographical distribution of aid proposed by the report and examines aid administration in its more ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Planning Asian Cities

    Risks and Resilience

    Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities.They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. Tokyo is an archetypal world city. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Internationalization of Emerging Economies and Firms

    Edited by M. Marinov, S. Marinova ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Explores the impact of country and firm specific factors, the role of institutions and governments, the strive for compensation of initial disadvantages and the struggle in finding ways to counterbalance late coming into the international arena in the process of internationalization. ... Read more

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  • The 'One Planet' Life

    A Blueprint for Low Impact Development

    by David Thorpe ...
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  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
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    Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

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  • Conflicted Identities

    Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation

    by Alexandra Staub ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
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