Cities of the Mind, Lloyd Rodwin; Robert M. Hollister

Автор: Savitch, H.v. Kantor, Paul
Название: Cities in the international marketplace
ISBN: 0691120145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691120140
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place? This book looks at the political responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled with the forces of global restructuring.

Автор: Rose
Название: Fiscal Stress in Cities
ISBN: 0521124077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521124072
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Conflicting pressures to increase public expenditure and restrict taxation have created fiscal stress in many major cities. The object of this book is to identify the extent, the causes and consequences of fiscal stress as it affected British local government in the 1980s.

Автор: Karsten Grunewald; Junxiang Li; Gaodi Xie; Lennart
Название: Towards Green Cities
ISBN: 3319582224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319582221
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The book aims to capture, describe and convey the current significance, the values and potentials of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services to scientists and professionals in the context of sustainable urban development and ongoing urbanization processes. Current developments, different approaches and future challenges in the competition of green spaces and urban land consumption in China and Germany are elaborated, discussed and illustrated within case studies and good practice examples. The strategic goal is a long-term appreciation of the potentials and increased consideration of urban green spaces in city planning and development.
This book provides tangible recommendations for urban planners, politicians and stakeholders in the fields of green infrastructure at the interface of environment and urban landscape.

Автор: Anirban Adhya
Название: Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs
ISBN: 3319517082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319517087
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures.

Название: Cities and the super-rich
ISBN: 113755715X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137557155
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Описание: Contents.- Abbreviations.- List of Tables and Figures.- Acknowledgements.- 1 In Search of the Super-rich: Who are they? Where are they? - Ray Forrest, Bart Wissink and Sin Yee Koh.- 2 Elites Without Hierarchies: Intermediaries, 'Agency' and the Super-rich - William Davies.- Part I: Real Estate Investments.- 3 Real Estate Holdings among the Super Rich in the United States - Richard A. Benton, Lisa A. Keister and Hang Young Lee.- 4 The Super-Rich and Transnational Housing Markets: Asians Buying Australian Housing - Chris Paris.- 5 Becoming a Super-Rich Foreign Real Estate Investor: Globalising Real Estate Data, Publications and Events - Dallas Rogers.- Part II: Elite Spatialities and Practices.- 6 Beyond the City: Exploring the Maritime Geographies of the Super-Rich - Emma Spence.- 7 Reviving Transnational Elite Sociality: Social Clubs in Shanghai - Yannan Ding.- 8 Old Money, Networks and Distinction: The Social and Service Clubs of Milan's Upper Classes - Bruno Cousin and Sйbastien Chauvin.- 9 Arts and the Super-Rich: Emerging Relations in the Gulf and the East - Sarina Wakefield.- Part III: Urban Political Economies.- 10 Selling the Tokyo Sky: Urban Regeneration and Luxury Housing - Yosuke Hirayama.- 11 Elite informality, Spaces of Exception and the Super-Rich in Singapore - Choon-Piew Pow.- 12 Tycoon City: Political Economy, Real Estate and the Super-Rich in Hong Kong - Bart Wissink, Sin Yee Koh, and Ray Forrest.- 13 Minimum City? The Deeper Impacts of the 'Super-Rich' on Urban Life - Rowland Atkinson, Roger Burrows, Luna Glucksberg, Hang Kei-Ho, Caroline Knowles and David Rhodes.- 14 Hyper-Divided Cities and the 'Immoral' Super-Rich - Five Parting Questions - Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh and Bart Wissink.- Notes.- References.- Index.

Автор: Buitelaar
Название: Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice
ISBN: 1138283991 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138283992
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In six compact chapters, this book enriches and broadens the debate on increasing economic inequality in cities and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods. Chapters bring together the literature on the social effects of this and question whether there are sizable effects and what their direction is.

Автор: Mayer
Название: The Political Economy of Capital Cities
ISBN: 1138681431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138681439
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations - so-called `secondary capital cities` (SCCs) - tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science. This book aims to address this gap by presenting the dynamics that influence policy and economic development in four in-depth case studies.

Автор: Leonard von Morz?
Название: Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 1137541296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137541291
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Investigating the dissemination of cultural forms between cities of the Atlantic world, this book attends to the forms and norms of cultural representation, examining topics such as the Portuguese Atlantic; the Spanish Empire; Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musee of Dakar, and the writings of Jane Austen, Alexis de Tocqueville and others.

Автор: Satoshi Baba
Название: Economic History of Cities and Housing
ISBN: 9811040966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811040962
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems.

Автор: Ali Cheshmehzangi; Chris Butters
Название: Designing Cooler Cities
ISBN: 981106637X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811066375
Издательство: Springer
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Автор: Mahendra Sethi; Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Название: Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities
ISBN: 9811058156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811058158
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development goals in cities. (3) Sectoral analyses of co-benefits in energy, transport, buildings, waste, and biodiversity, and (4) Innovations and reforms needed to promote co-benefits in cities.