The second edition of this training book, which comes with a complementary online course, is designed to help community indicator researchers (and those stepping into this position) enhance their professional knowledge of the subject. The book is di...Loe edasi...
This book examines how proximity-based planning, sustainable mobility, and equitable land use can support more resilient and livable cities. Bringing together international research and case studies, the book offers both conceptual foundations and p...Loe edasi...
This book confronts one of the defining challenges of super-aged societies: the surging number of older adults living alone in Japan, the global leader in population aging. It delivers a rigorous, data-driven exploration of why solitary senior livin...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Water-oriented Design (WoD) principles and practices in the Asian context, presenting an innovative approach to integrating sustainable water management with urban planning and design. It addresses the...Loe edasi...
This open access book is the first of its kind that examines the urban development trajectory, sustainability, and urban policies role across seven different countries in Asia and Africa. It offers theoretical and policy contributions emerging from...Loe edasi...
This book posits that, beyond China’s reform and opening-up policy and various factors of timing, geographical advantages, and popular will, the institutional innovations introd...Loe edasi...
This volume offers an interdisciplinary, spatially grounded analysis of Northern Canadacentring the territories of Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, and the broader geography of Inuit Nunangatto show how climate change, infrastructure,...Loe edasi...
Disrupting traditional notions of urban and city planning, this volume examines the intricate interplay of conflicts, the emergence of new borders for refugees and migrants, colonial legacies and postcolonial policies, and grassroots struggles for...Loe edasi...
This book explores how modern cities are transforming through smart technologies and circular economy principles. The opening chapters introduce the concept of the smart city, explaining digital infrastructure, data-driven decision making, and conne...Loe edasi...
First published in 1982, Approaches in Public Policy is an integrated, purpose-written text on the context, process, and practice of policymaking in the public sector, particularly at the local level. It will be of interest to students and researche...Loe edasi...
This book sheds light on metrics as a key element of power relations in the EU anti-poverty policy, not least because the calculative infrastructure underlying them actively shapes the distribution of power. These metric-based power dynamics are lin...Loe edasi...
This textbook offers an accessible overview of a century of planning theory, bringing a critical perspective rooted in contemporary research that will appeal to lecturers and to their students. Organised thematically, with a focus on institutional...Loe edasi...
Laurie A. Buonanno, Lisa K. Parshall, Frederick G. Floss, Byron W. Brown
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807530)
Explains how New Yorks institutions and policymakers have governed the state through a series of contemporary crises. This volume takes a fresh approach to the study of New York State politics and government through an examination of gov...Loe edasi...
This book addresses an urgent need to rethink the future of human settlement in the context of significant economic, social and environmental changes, arguing that we must look beyond our current paradigm of sustainability to envision a continuously...Loe edasi...
As cities expand massively downward and underground space replaces the urban sub-surface, accurate urban water balances are systematically overlooked. The results are truncated water balance analyses with unforeseen consequences, sometimes costly an...Loe edasi...
This book explores how Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) can be integrated into Indigenous engagement and consultation processes in Canadas natural resource sector. The author critiques the existing regulatory framework, which separates forma...Loe edasi...
In Understanding Urban Politics: Institutions, Representation, and Policies, Timothy B. Krebs and Arnold Fleischmann introduce a framework that focuses on the role of institutions in establishing the political “rules of the game,” the repre...Loe edasi...
A concise primer on urban politics and policy that highlights the ways in which politics and policies are shaped by the many different institutions, actors, and practices that exist in urban communities. In Understanding Urban Politics:...Loe edasi...
