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International handbook of urban policy : Volume 1, Contentious global issues
Geyer, Hermanus S. (contributor) - 2007
This first Handbook in a series of three original reference works looks at globally contentious urban policy issues from a wide variety of different angles and perspectives. Matters related to urban densification, population mobility, urban inequality and sustainability are analysed in a manner...
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Sustainable cities : diversity, economic growth and social cohesion
Janssens, Madeleine (contributor) - 2009
This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850845
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The impact of covid on cities and regions : policy responses of local leaders
Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.); Bertin, Mattia (ed.) - 2023
"The recent COVID-19 pandemic has arguably caused some of the most noticeable and influential societal and economic changes since World War Two. This path-breaking book investigates these changes and the subsequent responses of urban policy makers. Chapters offer keen insights into the methods...
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Urban planning
Button, Kenneth; Batey, Peter W. J.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2008
With the global expansion of urbanization there is a need to ensure that cities develop in a way that allows all … into the problems encountered in urbanization and the ways in which planning has evolved to meet the resultant challenges … and Options for Third World Cities', Environment and Urbanization, 4(2), October, 131-40 -- Alan Gilbert (1992), 'Third …
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Asian cities in the 21st century : contemporary approaches to municipal management
Hamid, Naved (contributor); Martin, John (contributor);  … - 1999
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Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city
Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.) - 2020
sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and competitiveness / Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez -- 3 Urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416717
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Incentives, regulations and plans : the role of states and nation-states in smart growth planning
Knaap, Gerrit-Jan (contributor) - 2007
This unique book allows readers to compare analyses of how North American states and European nation-states use incentives, regulations or plans to approach a core set of universal land use issues such as: containing sprawl, mixed use development, transit oriented development, affordable...
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