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2012 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); … - 2013
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development
Greif, Avner; Kiesling, Lynne; Nye, John V. C. - Princeton University Press
, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …
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Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development
Greif, Avner; Kiesling, Lynne; Nye, John V. C. - Princeton University Press
, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097664
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Public Space in Urban Asia
Lim, William SW (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Two. The thoughtful essays in <em>Public Space in Urban Asia</em> emphasise how engaging with the present actuality of ….<strong>Contents:</strong> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"> <ul> <li>Introduction and Acknowledgements</li> <li>Foreword ¡ª Public Space in Asia …: Ways of Knowing and Acting <em>(Leon Van Schaik)</em></li> </ul> </li> <li><strong><em>Part I: Public Space in Urban Asia …
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COMMENTARY ON INCOMPLETE URBANISM
LEE, ANDREW; WUI, LEONG TENG; HONG, ONG SWEE - In: Public Space in Urban Asia
The following sections are included:Liquid: Changing WorldNew Technology and the Emergence of a ‘System of Cities’Mass Urbanisation and the Rise of the ’Creative Class’Environmental Challenge and the Safeguarding of ‘Urban Futures’Shift 1: From Fixed and Closed Planning to Open and...
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GLOBAL DYNAMIC CHANGE AND POWER REBALANCE
LIM, WILLIAM S.W. - In: Public Space in Urban Asia
The following sections are included:IntroductionNew World Order and Power RebalanceNew Knowledge and SustainabilityRedefining Centre/Periphery and Global CitiesExpanding Historical Experiences of ModernitiesLand Policy, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)Conclusion
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CHANGE WE MUST
LIM, WILLIAM S.W. - In: Public Space in Urban Asia
The following sections are included:Why We Must Change: Four Critical IssuesThe Challenges Ahead
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RECALLING THE POLITICAL IN PUBLIC SPACE
WEE, H. KOON - In: Public Space in Urban Asia
The history of public space is often the same history as discrimination and revolts. It is because public spaces are …
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COMMON SPACE AND PUBLIC SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY URBANISATION
KUSUMAWIJAYA, MARCO - In: Public Space in Urban Asia
Seemingly, rising aspiration for common space and community life in many cities faces two counter currents: The receding and underperforming states in producing and reproducing public spaces, and the acceding private corporations to being the major producer of private spaces-public places. By...
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PUBLIC SPACE TODAY
LIM, WILLIAM S.W. - In: Public Space in Urban Asia
Across different cultural practices, the perception and meaning of public space varies significantly. ‘Public space’ has dominated discourse on the nature of space with community and state ownership, its counterpart being ‘private space’. Traditionally, they have been viewed as polar...
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