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Material Geographies of Household Sustainability

by Ruth Lane & Andrew Gorman-Murray

Charting new research directions, this book constructs a series of imperatives for linking culturally informed research around household sustainability with policy and planning. The household, or 'home', is...


Growth Management and Public Land Acquisition: Balancing Conservation and Development

by Timothy S. Chapin & Christopher Coutts

Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA. Various aspects of...


Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq

by Choman Hardi

This book examines Kurdish women's experience of violence, destruction, the disappearance of loved ones, and incarceration during the Anfal campaign. It explores the survival strategies of these women in the...


Rural Revival?: Place Marketing, Tree Change and Regional Migration in Australia

by John Connell & Phil McManus

How, if possible, do we re-populate declining rural and regional areas? This book examines this crucial and complex issue in relation to Australia, and the manner in which a particular organization, Country...


The Politics of Proximity: Mobility and Immobility in Practice

by Giuseppina Pellegrino

This book analyses patterns of mobility in relation to new possibilities of organizing space, time, and proximity to others. Different phenomena - from memorial sites to migration, from urban mobility to mobile...


Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning

by Heiko Schmid & Wolf-Dietrich Sahr

In the course of economic and cultural globalization, most large cities have been transformed via increasing commercialisation of urban space, and consequent intense processes of theming. Bringing together leading...


Towards Healthy Cities: Comparing Conditions for Change

by Alexander Otgaar & Jeroen Klijs

This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities effective. It argues that three conditions are essential: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a...


Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development: Contrasting the 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots'

by David Marcouiller & Mark Lapping

Rural America is undergoing a dramatic and sustained post-industrial economic transition. This book draws on contemporary concepts of exurbanization, rural amenity-based development, and increased conurbation...


Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974

by Simon Rycroft

This book contrasts two imaginings of 1960s London: the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, and the radical politics generated by the city's counter-culture. These disparate perspectives combine...


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...


Sex, Tourism and the Postcolonial Encounter: Landscapes of Longing in Egypt

by Jessica Jacobs

Illustrated by interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book opens up the debate surrounding sex tourism by examining the way in which holiday romances between western women...


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...


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...


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...


Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies

by Tim Edensor

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. Here, leading geographers are brought together to expand and advance...


Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions

by Jason Dittmer & Tristan Sturm

Over the last quarter-century, evangelicalism has become an important social and political force in modern America. This comprehensive study covers a range of evangelical ideas and practices, creating a unique...


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...