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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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International handbook of urban policy : Volume 3: Issues in the developing world
Geyer, Hermanus S. (contributor) - 2011
This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it represents over-urbanization--that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot find adequate shelter and do not have the means to feed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851285
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International handbook of urban policy : Volume 2: Issues in the developed world
Geyer, Hermanus S. (contributor) - 2009
This Handbook brings together a range of viewpoints on a number of the burning issues affecting urban sustainability in North America and Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. H.S. Geyer and his contributors cover a wide spectrum of the urban policy issues that determine the growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851335
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Handbook of creative cities
Mellander, Chorlotta (contributor);  … - 2011
With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new … nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851515
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Planning cities for the future : the successes and failures of urban economic strategies in Europe
Kresl, Peter Karl - 2007
pathologies, a fact which city planners must always keep in mind. Peter Kresl's book offers examples of cities that got it right …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420048
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Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city
Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.) - 2020
Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of … organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new … South Korea / Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan Kim -- PART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY -- 6 "Focused Research University"and "Matrix …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416717
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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
effects on the employment of women and minorities, central city vitality, and the futures of small or isolated regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437070
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Decision-making on mega-projects : cost-benefit analysis, planning and innovation
Flyvbjerg, Bent (contributor); Wee, Bert van (contributor);  … - 2008
This book enlarges the understanding of decision-making on mega-projects and suggest recommendations for a more effective, efficient and democratic approach. Authors from different scientific disciplines address various aspects of the decision-making process, such as management characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851130
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420036
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850799