This book pays special attention to municipal variations within the same prefecture, presenting a completely unique approach from what other researchers have pursued. Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan)...Loe edasi...
This book traces the Alaska Public Offices Commission’s turbulent history and examines what happens after elections, how laws are implemented, how violators fare, and how voters respond when elected officials attempt...Loe edasi...
This book examines why Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) young people continue to face homelessness and intersectional disadvantages, even as legal and social attitudes appear to improve. Drawing on seventeen years of ethnograph...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 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 book offers an exploration of how cities can become engines of equity and well-being. As urbanization accelerates globally, this book argues, the future of truly sustainable, resilient cities depends on making them more equitable by design. It...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...
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...
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...
This book examines how media shapes the publics perception of migration, exploring the framing strategies that dominate coverage and policy debates across Europe, with Italy as a focal case. Analyzing thirty years of media narratives, it delves int...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...
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 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 open access book explores the dynamic interface of urban practice, transformation, and cities and climate change science. Beginning with the landmark 2018 Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, moving through the Innovate4Cities Conferen...Loe edasi...
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 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...
