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  • Mobility and Geographical Scales

    Edited by Guillame Drevon, Vincent Kaufmann ...
    Series series ISTE Consignment
    The concept of mobility has grown enormously over the last two decades. A large part of the social sciences has been interested in the different forms of mobility, from a wide variety of spatial and temporal scales.This book presents the different spatial and temporal scales of mobility and the way in which they form a system, by associating them with essential and original research objects. It ... Read more

    $136.00 USD

  • Europe Beyond Mobility

    Mobilities, Social Cohesion and Political Integration

    by Vincent Kaufmann, Ander Audikana, Guillaume Drevon ...
    Series series Networked Urban Mobilities Series
    Mobility, which has represented a critical scientific category and political driver, is currently under strong public scrutiny: has mobility lost its potential for social cohesion and political integration? Europe Beyond Mobility: Mobilities, Social Cohesion and Political Integration assesses this question by focusing on the European integration process, conceptualized as a political project for ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Re-Thinking Mobility

    Contemporary Sociology

    by Vincent Kaufmann ...
    Series series Transport and Society
    All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain. In order to avoid this trap, the motivations underlying mobility must be explored. This groundbreaking examination ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Handbook of Urban Mobilities

    Edited by Ole B. Jensen, Claus Lassen, Vincent Kaufmann, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and ‘the urban’ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, observe and analyse the world of urban mobilities.The Handbook of Urban Mobilities facilitates the understanding of urban mobilities within a ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • High Mobility in Europe

    Work and Personal Life

    Edited by Gil Viry, Vincent Kaufmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large European longitudinal study, Mobile Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situations and the implications for family and career development. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Tracing Mobilities

    Towards a Cosmopolitan Perspective

    by Weert Canzler ...
    Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality and globality. Taking its cue from this concept, this book presents a movement that begins with the macro-social transformations linked to mobility and ends with empirical discussions on the new forms of mobility and their implications for everyday life. The book opens with a study of the social ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development

    Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe

    Edited by Abdelillah Hamdouch, Torill Nyseth, Christophe Demaziere, Anniken Førde, José Serrano, Nils Aarsæther ...
    This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity, diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities and on metropolitan regions, there has been relatively little work on ‘smaller places’.This book ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership

    To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner

    by Lyse Langlois ...
    Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains that an enhanced awareness of the process of ethical decision making in difficult situations ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy

    Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives

    Edited by Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde ...
    Series series CRESC
    Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars.This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical work. It presents concrete evidence of different approaches to the interpretation of culture in Britain, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Gendered Mobilities

    by Tim Cresswell ...
    Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Making of Grand Paris

    Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

    by Theresa Enright ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Strategic Spatial Projects

    Catalysts for Change

    Edited by Stijn Oosterlynck, Jef Van den Broeck, Louis Albrechts, Frank Moulaert, Ann Verhetsel ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and administrative activity. There is an urgent need to develop a mode of planning that aims to innovate in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD