Télécharger le livre :  From Indians in Trinidad to Indo-Trinidadians
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This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians. It combines social history with...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Regenerative Territories
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This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material waste as resources, this work aims to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume II
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This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China. It argues that sustainable urban design and mobility should be “people-centered” and concerned about “place-making” in the new era of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-11-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume I
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This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization.  Sustainable urban and rural planning should be “people-centered” and concerned about...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-11-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Tourism in the Global South
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This book examines and addresses the particular character of urban tourism occurring in the global South. It presents research essays on tourism in urban areas of South Africa, a country which is associated with big 5 nature tourism but where urban areas are also major...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-07-13
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Télécharger le livre :  South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid
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This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe
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This book provides insight into the topic of place and territorial identity, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. It considers the social, economic and political effects of territorial...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Networks and Food Security in the Urban Fringe
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This book explores how social groups in the urban fringe of Abuja, Nigeria, engaged with a series of development projects spanning 15 years (2003 to 2018) which focused on the enhancement of food security for farming households. The groups were at the heart of these...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Geographies of Behavioural Health, Crime, and Disorder
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This book focuses on the intersection of place and overall community health thereby focusing on some of the most critical contemporary social problems, including the opioid crisis, suicide, socioeconomic status and ethnicity, mental illness, crime, homelessness, green...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Geography in South Africa
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This book embraces South Africa and its place in the Global South, providing a succinct theoretical and empirical analysis and discussion of urban issues in the country. There have been sporadic calls from the Urban Geography community for the development of an...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-08-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Corruption from a Geographic Perspective
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This monograph explores the nature of corruption around the world from a geographic perspective. It focuses on historical context and cultural factors. Readers will learn that though corruption is pervasive, geography greatly shapes its character.This book will offer a...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-12-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Agrourbanism
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This book provides a much needed overview of the agrourbanism topic in the context of territorial studies. It carefully looks at rural, urban, periurban farming in both professional and unprofessional capacities as one of the main sustainable forms of land use and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-08-03
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Télécharger le livre :  CyberGIS for Geospatial Discovery and Innovation
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This book elucidates how cyberGIS (that is, new-generation geographic information science and systems (GIS) based on advanced computing and cyberinfrastructure) transforms computation- and data-intensive geospatial discovery and innovation. It comprehensively addresses...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions
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This book addresses the South African Space Economy and its stark disparities and dualisms through an assessment of the Gauteng City-Region – the largest economic agglomeration in the country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad of development challenges. The...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe
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This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development. It focuses on the multidimensionality of potential and actually observed interactions between artists and cities and their impacts on urban space, its...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Smart Growth and Sustainable Development
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This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies. As readers will discover, smart growth offers an approach to urbanization with the aim to: improve the efficiency of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-12-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Alternative Tourism in Turkey
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This book takes inventory of and evaluates the available resources for the development of alternative tourism in Turkey. It examines the role of alternative tourism in future tourism development plans and proposes public policies necessary to assure sustainability....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-12-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Development and Planning in Seven Major Coastal Cities in Southern and Eastern China
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This book analyzes the recent growth of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, seven major Chinese coastal cities. The authors detail theoretical mechanisms, spatial and non-spatial models of development, all while exploring possible...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities
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This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning. It radically reverses the official version of the history of world cities as narrated during decades: slums are not at the margin of the contemporary process of urbanization; they...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Geospatial Analysis to Support Urban Planning in Beijing
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This book describes a comprehensive framework of novel simulation approaches, conventional urban models, and related data mining techniques that will help develop planning support systems in Beijing as well as other mega-metropolitan areas. It investigates the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-10-14
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