Advanced Introduction to Cities
Advanced Introduction to Cities

Author: Peter J. Taylor

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-02-26

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1839100133

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This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states. Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities and themes.

Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning
Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning

Author: Kevin J. Krizek

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1800374070

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Insightful and original in its approach, this Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning provides a fresh look at cost-efficiency and casts the craft of transport planning in new light, allowing engineers and urban planners to understand the benefits of breaking mobility-centric systems that favour cars and prioritising multi-modal transport systems that promote access. It features in-depth analysis of traditional methods and how these are changing due to new technologies, financial constraints and evolving environmental trends.

Advanced Introduction to Urban Segregation
Advanced Introduction to Urban Segregation

Author: Sako Musterd

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 180392408X

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This insightful Advanced Introduction deftly explores urban segregation on an international scale, offering expert analysis on pressing and theoretical debates and key contemporary issues relating to this interdisciplinary field of study. It provides detailed insights into the various dimensions and domains of urban segregation, the range of methods used for measuring segregation, and the effects it can have on neighbourhoods and individuals. Recognising variations in the patterns of segregation from country to country, the book further discusses the different approaches and challenges affecting policy interventions.

Advanced Introduction to the Creative City
Advanced Introduction to the Creative City

Author: Charles Landry

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1788973488

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Written by the leading authority Charles Landry, inventor of the concept of the creative city, this timely book offers an insightful and engaging introduction to the field. Exploring the development of the concept, it discusses the characteristics of cities, the qualities of creativity, the creative and regeneration repertoires and the gentrification dilemma. Other key topics of this definitive work include ambition and creativity, cities and psychology, digitization and the creative bureaucracy.

Advanced Introduction to Gentrification
Advanced Introduction to Gentrification

Author: Hamnett, Chris

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-11-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1839106867

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Analysing the causes and effects of widespread gentrification, this Advanced Introduction provides an innovative insight into the global debate instigated by this process. Examining the impact of gentrification on lower income groups and other issues, Chris Hamnett discusses research into the socio-economic causes and effects of gentrification in a variety of cities worldwide.

Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory
Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory

Author: Robert A. Beauregard

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-04-24

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1788978897

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In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks: knowing, engaging, prescribing, and executing. In doing so, Beauregard explores how a basic concern with the relationship between knowledge and action has evolved into a complex discussion of democracy, inclusion, and justice.

Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation
Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation

Author: Frank Moulaert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1785360388

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Social innovation (SI) has, in the last decade or so, become an important idea and concept in policy, practice and scholarship surrounding human development. It is often seen as an antidote to narrowly defined technological and market-oriented modes of innovation. Its historical significance and development, tied to centuries of struggles for social change, remain under-appreciated and unacknowledged. This Advanced Introduction explores the historical and contemporary meanings of social innovation and its relationship with political and social movements. It develops an understanding of SI as a form of ethical practice for meeting needs, transforming social relations, and collectively empowering communities to shape the future. Additionally, it proposes that ethical research should aim to be socially innovative in this sense and provides concrete suggestions of how this concern can be embodied in action-research and community development methodologies.

Advanced Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics
Advanced Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics

Author: Roberta Capello

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1035318989

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Expertly crafted and interdisciplinary in scope, Roberta Capello’s Advanced Introduction navigates the extensive discipline of regional and urban economics. Adopting a diachronic perspective, Capello explores the evolution of various theoretical approaches and novelties, covering theories of location, regional growth, and local development, whilst explaining the many ways in which space influences economic activity.

Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries
Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries

Author: John Hartley

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1839108940

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As the world faces extreme economic, environmental and political crises, this bold and accessible Advanced Introduction argues for a future-facing approach to the creative economy and creative innovation. The book analyses contemporary and historical arts and culture whilst assessing historical shifts from national to global cultures; analogue to digital technologies; and individualist to systems thinking.

Advanced Introduction to Housing Studies
Advanced Introduction to Housing Studies

Author: William A.V. Clark

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-02-26

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1789908329

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This timely Advanced Introduction explores the links between housing and households, including the complex process of how people sort themselves into houses and neighborhoods. It covers the choices that households make, why these choices are made, and the constraints faced in achieving housing aspirations, with a particular focus on the contemporary difficulties facing young adults and those unable to buy a house despite a reasonable income.