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Cover The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance
The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance
Innovation, Concepts and Cases
Edited by Matthias Finger and Numan Yanar

A comprehensive overview of the governance of urban infrastructures, this Companion combines illustrative cases with conceptual approaches to offer an innovative perspective on the governance of large urban infrastructure systems. Chapters examine the challenges facing urban infrastructure systems, including financial, economic, technological, social, ecological, jurisdictional and demand. 

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Handbook
Published:
22 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375611
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
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A Research Agenda for Real Estate
Edited by Piyush Tiwari and Julie T. Miao
Offering fresh insights into the key emerging issues in the field, including the changing socio-economic contexts brought about by the rise of the millennial generation and the creative class, the Covid-19 pandemic, and a greater emphasis on social responsibility, this forward-looking Research Agenda critically debates and rethinks theories and practices in the property sector.
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Monograph Book
Published:
08 Mar 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839103933
Collection:
Economics 2022
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Boundaries and Restricted Places
The Immured Space
Edited by Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis
This innovative book defines the concept of immured spaces across time, space and culture and investigates various categories of restricted places such as divided, segregated and protected spaces.
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Monograph Book
Published:
15 Feb 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800884083
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
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City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Edited by Francisco J. Carrillo and Cathy Garner
Exploring the ways that contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted, this multidisciplinary book warns that anthropogenic environmental impacts are on course to challenge the viability of most human settlements. It highlights how, despite increased warnings, most cities appear to be in denial of the potential impending catastrophes and remain ill-prepared to handle major disruptions.
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Monograph Book
Published:
19 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883666
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Integrating Europe’s Infrastructure Networks
Integrating Europe’s Infrastructure Networks
The Political Economy of the European Infrastructure System
Colin Turner
This timely book explores the long-standing process of infrastructural integration across Europe, with a particular focus on the EU member states. It illuminates the main economic infrastructure sectors, including transport, energy and information, examining how the process of infrastructural integration reflects an alignment of the needs of the states that are the main drivers behind this process.
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Monograph Book
Published:
09 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839105487
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Knowledge For The Anthropocene
Knowledge For The Anthropocene
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Edited by Francisco J. Carrillo and Günter Koch
With human-induced environmental impacts disrupting human life in deeper ways and at a wider scale than anything previously experienced, this multidisciplinary book looks at the ways that current knowledge bases seem inadequate to help us deal with such realities. It offers a critical appraisal of the current knowledge infrastructure, including science, technology, innovation, education and informal knowledge systems.
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Monograph Book
Published:
09 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800884298
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Handbook on Cities and Complexity
Handbook on Cities and Complexity
Edited by Juval Portugali
Written by some of the founders of complexity theory and complexity theories of cities (CTC), this Handbook expertly guides the reader through over forty years of intertwined developments: the emergence of general theories of complex self-organized systems and the consequent emergence of CTC. 
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Handbook
Published:
23 Sep 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900125
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Marketing Countries, Places, and Place-associated Brands
Marketing Countries, Places, and Place-associated Brands
Identity and Image
Edited by Nicolas Papadopoulos and Mark Cleveland
This book integrates new thinking on the image, marketing, and branding of places at all levels, from town squares to cities and countries, and of the products and peoples associated with them, thereby bridging the ‘country’ and ‘place’ silos in place-related research and practice. Insightful contributions from top scholars reflect fresh theorizing and provide a critical appraisal of conventional wisdom by juxtaposing intriguing contexts, questioning commonplace practices, and challenging methodologies and theoretical assumptions.
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Monograph Book
Published:
17 Sep 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107375
Collection:
Business 2021
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Planned Urban Development
Learning from Town Expansion Schemes in the UK and Europe
Chris Couch
Using case studies from the UK and Europe, Chris Couch examines the nature and achievements of the expanded towns programmes that emerged in the mid-20th century to accommodate population growth and overspill from densely populated urban areas. Thought-provoking insights into lessons to be learnt are provided, alongside arguments for further planned expansion of smaller towns today.
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Monograph Book
Published:
14 Sep 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976916
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Trophy Cities
Trophy Cities
A feminist perspective on new capitals
Dorina Pojani
Offering a fresh perspective, this timely book analyzes the socio-cultural and physical production of planned capital cities through the theoretical lens of feminism. Dorina Pojani evaluates the historical, spatial and symbolic manifestations of new capital cities, as well as the everyday experiences of those living there, to shed light on planning processes, outcomes and contemporary planning issues.
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Monograph Book
Published:
07 Sep 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100444
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021