An increase in major natural disasters-and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities-has led to heightened concerns about ...
Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the ...
Displacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disruptions in developing or unstable countries. Hurricane Katrina shattered this ...
Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential ...
This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice ...
This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable ...
Some cities avoid change. Others accept it. Atlanta pursues it. More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil ...
Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three to four percent of the world's land ...
A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and ...
Along with globalization, urban transitions have been central in the southward shift in economic power towards the newly emerging economies. As this book shows, ...
The suburbanization of North America has been was one of the most significant social, political, and cultural transformations of the twentieth century. Originally seen ...
Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms ...
The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. The specific ...
Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ...
This book reflects on how the economies, social characteristics, ways of life and global relationships of rural areas of Europe have changed in recent ...
Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech ...
The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge ...
