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1. Spatial-Economic Metamorphosis of a Nebula City

   Schiphol and the Schiphol Region During the 20th Century

   By Abderrahman El Makhloufi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It study the origins and course of urban development process by identifying and explaining...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Locating Right to the City in the Global South

   Edited by Tony Samara, Shenjing He, Guo Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Producer Services in China

   Economic and Urban Development

   Edited by Anthony Yeh, Fiona Yang

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development. It’s economy is now transforming from one based on manufacturing industries towards the producer services, with the importance of these services in the national and regional economy being...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

   Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia

   Green Sprawl

   Edited by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Ecologies and Politics of Health

   Edited by Brian King, Kelley A. Crews

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy

   Global Perspectives

   Edited by Carl Grodach, Daniel Silver

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity....

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Rural Governance

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. The New Regulation and Governance of Food

   Beyond the Food Crisis?

   By Terry Marsden, Robert Lee, Andrew Flynn, Samarthia Thankappan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Cities, Regions and Flows

    Edited by Peter Hall, Markus Hesse

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to...

    Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge