Global Shift is - quite simply - the definitive work on economic globalization. The extensive use of graphics, lack of jargon, and clear definition of terms has made it the standard work for the soc……続きを見る
In recent years, the contemporary social sciences have again turned their attention to space and places. The hypothesis is that these are not accidental episodes but a full-blown revolution in the w……続きを見る
Rising social, political and economic inequality in many countries, and rising protest against it, has seen the restoration of the concept of 'class' to a prominent place in contemporary anthropolog……続きを見る
Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is ……続きを見る
As coastal populations burgeon, problems of erosion, pollution and coastal change are becoming ever more serious and necessitate scientifically informed management strategies. This authoritative new……続きを見る
This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to religion, including nature, ethics, secular……続きを見る
2 society would be a free, anarchic society [an - without, archos - ruler], a society in which each individual is responsible for the relationship between himself and the society. By inner persuasio……続きを見る
In August 1989, a Summer Institute was held at the Academie van Bouwkunst, the seventeenth century home of Amsterdam's School of Architecture, Town Planning and Landscape. The meeting brought togeth……続きを見る
著者:Dan Stanislawski
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年11月11日
Many map users have wondered why Portugal, sharing with Spain the Iberian Peninsula, ever became a separate nation. That question is answered with remarkable clarity by Dan Stanislawski. This book a……続きを見る
著者:Dan Stanislawski
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年11月17日
In this book, Dan Stanislawski studies the geography of various small towns in one Mexican state. He discusses the factorsーlandscape, buildings, culture groups, and so forthーthat create a unique p……続きを見る
著者:Dan Stanislawski
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年11月06日
A land of long ago on the brink of tomorrow. That is the Algarve, the southernmost province of Portugal, a land that knew the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Moslemsーand yet ……続きを見る
Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness. However, there is considerable confusion around what ex……続きを見る
著者:Robert Potter
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年08月06日
First published in 1985, this book reconsiders the whole question of urbanisation and planning in the Third World. It argues that public involvement, which is now an accepted part of Western plannin……続きを見る
著者:Marco Percoco
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2014年07月31日
The evaluation of public policies is of paramount importance for modern policy making, especially in a period of severe budget constraints. The literature has proposed several methods to deal with t……続きを見る
The world has vowed "Never again" in memory of the 800,000 Rwandans and other groups slaughtered by génocidaires. Yet, ever since the Holocaust, the international community has repeatedly betrayed i……続きを見る
Drawing on three case studies of K-12 public schooling in London, Sydney and Vancouver, this book examines the geographies of neoliberal education policy in the inner city. Gulson uses an innovative……続きを見る
著者:Jane Tormey
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年01月17日
Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photograph……続きを見る
In The Asian City the Asian urbanisation processes, nature and characteristics of the 1990s have been analyzed by countries, by comparing different countries and in an international context. The aut……続きを見る
著者:Gilberto Seravalli
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2015年02月11日
This book introduces the reader to local development economics and policy, with a special focus on the place-based paradigm that covers its justification, its difficulties and the types of public in……続きを見る
著者:Steven Miles
出版社: SAGE Publications
発売日: 2015年02月09日
In Spaces for Consumption Steven Miles develops a penetrating critique of a key shift characterising the contemporary city. Theoretically informed, the other strength of the volume lies in the wealt……続きを見る
"Voyage d'un faux musulman à travers l'Afrique est un récit de voyage captivant écrit par René Caillié, un explorateur français du XIXe siècle. Dans ce livre, Caillié relate son incroyable périple à……続きを見る
Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and……続きを見る
Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics. Typically it involves clearing land (often forest) for th……続きを見る
This book provides undergraduates with a step-by-step guide to successfully carrying out an independent research project or dissertation. The book addresses each stage of the project by answering th……続きを見る
In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the ……続きを見る
Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and infl……続きを見る
This book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources. These complex contemporary……続きを見る
著者:Kath Woodward
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年02月26日
There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social. The bringing together of affect, emotion and feeling with social, political and cultural forces offer……続きを見る
Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces. While literature on food soverei……続きを見る