Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century
Author: Richard E. Hanley
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415281218
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Author: Richard E. Hanley
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415281218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard E. Hanley
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415281201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Hanley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1134461682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines cutting-edge infrastructures, details their importance to cities and their regions, and addresses the obstacles to creating those infrastructures.
Author: New York Academy of Sciences
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0415281210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores all the issues behind the creation of new infrastructures and examines the effects they will have on the shape of the cities in the twenty-first century.
Author: Russell W. Robbins
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 91
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicholas A. Phelps
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0199668221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch of the world's economic activity takes place in between cities and nations - the geographical containers that we have taken for granted for hundreds of years now. In this book Nicholas Phelps provides a guide to this uncharted territory within urban and economic geography. He highlights the importance of intermediary actors and processes in shaping this economy in between. From the airports, shopping malls, and office parks that have sprung up on the road between cities, to work done on the move in cars and trains, to the decisions made by internationally mobile networks of experts in conferences and negotiations. The geography of the economy in between is revealed as one involving four recurring and coexisting economic geographical formations - the agglomeration, the enclave, the networks, and the arena. Phelps sets out a multidisciplinary perspective and agenda on the question of the how, why, and where much contemporary economic activity takes place.
Author: Edward J. Malecki
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-12-07
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1134154186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an up-to-date account of the technologies, organizations and dynamics which constitute the digital economy, and assesses the impacts they have on regions and communities.
Author: Bulu, Melih
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2011-10-31
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1613501757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities are becoming the wealth producing centers of national economies. Increasing the operational efficiency of the city will bring a competitive edge to the whole system. Yet, many city subsystems cannot work together, creating significant problems and inefficiencies. City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications uses information science perspectives to improve working subsystems in transportation, sewage, electricity, water, communication, education, health, governance, and infrastructure since their efficient and synchronized operation is vital for a competitive city. This pioneering approach will interest researchers, professionals, and policymakers in urban economy, regional planning, and information science disciplines who wish to improve the competitiveness of their cities.
Author: Jennifer Johung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1317108078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows. Comparing case studies from across the world, including those from Benin, the United States, India, Mali, Senegal, Japan, Haiti, and Romania, this book focuses on quotidian landscapes of mobility. Despite their seemingly familiar and innocuous appearances, these spaces exert tremendous control over our behavior and activities. By examining and mapping the politics of place and motion, this book analyzes human beings’ embodied engagements with their built world and provides diverse perspectives on the ideological and political underpinnings of landscapes of mobility. In order to describe landscapes of mobility as a historically, socially, and politically constructed condition, the book is divided into three sections-objects, contacts, and flows. The first section looks at elements that constitute such landscapes, including mobile bodies, buildings, and practices across multiple geographical scales. As these variable landscapes are reconstituted under particular social, economic, ecological, and political conditions, the second section turns to the particular practices that catalyze embodied relations within and across such spaces. Finally, the last section explores how the flows of objects, bodies, interactions, and ecologies are represented, presenting a critical comparison of the means by which relations, processes, and exchanges are captured, depicted, reproduced and re-embodied.
Author: Richard Gilbert
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1849773459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts.Transport Revolutions synthesizes engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology, and draws extensively on current data to present important conclusions. The authors argue that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. They go on to discuss marine transport, whose future is less clear, and aviation, which could see the most dramatic breaks from current practice.With its expert analysis of the politics and business of transport, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for professionals and students in transport, energy, town planning and public policy.