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Integrating Seaports and Trade Corridors

by PETER HALL & Robert J. McCalla

How can the benefits of maritime trade be increased for the companies and institutions directly involved as well as the port city-regions where the transfers take place? Tackling this question, the authors of...


Rural Policing and Policing the Rural: A Constable Countryside?

by Rob I. Mawby & Richard Yarwood

A multi-disciplinary team of leading scholars bring together case studies from developed countries to examine the performance of police and policing in rural areas. The book argues that rurality, policing and...


Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

by Giovanna Sonda & Claudio Coletta

By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity and advances the notion of the city as an urban texture. Taking an innovative,...


Dubai Amplified: The Engineering of a Port Geography

by Stephen J. Ramos

A detailed examination of the increasingly ambitious developments and infrastructure programmes realized in Dubai since the 1970s. This book provides an invaluable understanding of Dubai urbanism, but by highlighting...


Participatory Rural Planning: Exploring Evidence from Ireland

by Michael Murray

Participatory Rural Planning signposts what can work well and what should work differently in regard to participatory planning. The book takes rural Ireland as an empirical laboratory and explores the Irish...


The Imaginative Institution: Planning and Governance in Madrid

by Michael Neuman

Drawing on an in-depth critical analysis of Madrid's planning processes over the past century, Michael Neuman highlights a planning cycle in this city from preparation to implementation. He argues that Madrid's...


Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

by Tovi Fenster & Haim Yacobi

Bringing together a range of case studies from North America, South Asia, East Europe and the Middle East, this book critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to...


Landscapes of Care: Comparative Perspectives on Family Caregiving

by Andrew Power

Focusing on the welfare and social rights models of England, the US and Ireland, this book compares the welfare ideologies in each country and examines how their different historical, cultural, and political...


A Planner's Encounter with Complexity

by Gert de Roo & Elisabete A. Silva

Bringing together a team of leading spatiial theorists, this book argues that a view of environments which are confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes is more realistic than the notion that...


Landscape, Race and Memory: Material Ecologies of Citizenship

by Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly

This book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain. Reflecting on the cultural landscapes of British Asian women, it shows new spaces of memory to be as politically...


Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography

by Ben Anderson & Paul Harrison

Drawing together a range of innovative contributions from leading writers, this is the first book to provide an extensive and in-depth overview of non-representational theories and human geography. The work...


Missing Links in Labour Geography

by Ann Cecilie Bergene & Sylvi B. Endresen

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour and the organizations of the labour movement can be refined....


Multi-owned Housing: Law, Power and Practice

by Sarah Blandy & Ann Dupuis

This collection is the first comparative study of the issues raised by multi-owned residential developments. The chapters draw on the empirical research of leading academics in the fields of planning, sociology,...


Industrial Tourism: Opportunities for City and Enterprise

by Alexander H.J. Otgaar & Leo van den Berg

Both city and enterprise have an interest in industrial tourism development, but how can it be organized in such a way that the benefits outweigh the costs for both? By analyzing case studies of Wolfsburg, Cologne,...


Rethinking the Meaning of Place: Conceiving Place in Architecture-Urbanism

by Lineu Castello

Exploring the international spread of 'cloning spaces' such as theme parks, shopping malls and revamped historic areas, this detailed examination of these new 'invented' places analyses their impact upon society's...


Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning

by Libby Porter

Planning is here shown to be integral to colonial projects, used to appropriate territory for management by the state and then to produce an ordered, coherent system of land regulation and control. This is both...


Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City

by Christian Hermansen Cordua

Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book...


Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning: Opening the Bureaucracy to Strangers

by Diana MacCallum

This book introduces the methodology of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to the study of participatory planning. Illustrated by two case studies from Australia, it demonstrates the value of CDA to this field...


Terrorism, Risk and the Global City: Towards Urban Resilience

by Jon Coaffee

Published in 2003 and now revised, this book explores the changing nature of the terrorist threat against global cities in terms of tactics and targeting, and the challenge of developing city-wide managerial...


Cultural Capitals: Revaluing The Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces

by Louise C. Johnson

This book is about the power of the arts to enhance city images, urban economies and communities. It offers a series of five case studies to examine how the arts contribute to sustainable urban regeneration....