Автор: Storper Michael Название: Keys to the City ISBN: 0691143110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691143118 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7128.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world`s leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and
Описание: A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, the author illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization.
Автор: Luz Название: The Mamluk City in the Middle East ISBN: 1107626714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107626713 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517), focusing on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon).
Автор: Jenkins Paul Название: Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City ISBN: 1137380160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137380166 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes.
Автор: Maeroff GeneI Название: Reforming a School System, Reviving a City ISBN: 1137349654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137349651 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3912.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New York Times, explores how the nonprofit group Say Yes to Education has instituted a network of reforms in Syracuse, New York, that aim to expand the city`s the middle class by supporting its children.
Автор: Bridge Gary Название: New Blackwell Companion to the City ISBN: 1118655303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118655306 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6170.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The New Blackwell Companion to the City provides a guide to the major themes in urban studies. Building on well established debates in the field, this volume provides students and scholars with a contemporary update on urban thinking.
Описание: Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, this title argues that communities still matter because life is decisively shaped by where you live. It discovers that neighborhoods influence a remarkably wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, and teen births.
Описание: If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world`s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. This book helps you explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity.
Автор: Acuto Michele Название: Global City Challenges ISBN: 1137286865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137286864 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the `global city`.
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