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Rethinking Smart Cities
Zaheer Allam, Yusra Raisah Takun
'Rethinking Smart Cities offers a refreshing and insightful survey of the increasingly popular concept of “Smart Cities” It surveys the concept’s evolution before critiquing the scope and offering contemporary warnings about the biases ... -
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![A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience]()
A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience
Edited by Emmanuel Lazega, Tom A.B. Snijders, Rafael P.M. Wittek
‘A stimulating read that has left me – as any good book on a developing topic should – with more questions raised than answered. Its mix of perspectives is truly inspiring because it is unusually rich and still necessarily incomplete.’ –... -
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The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration
由Saskia Sassen编辑,Natalia Ribas-Mateos
‘The editors, both renowned migration and gender scholars, have assembled a hugely impressive array of authors to rethink the global narratives which structure our understanding of gender and migration. Especially innovative is the focus... -
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Handbook on Global Governance and Regionalism
Edited by Jürgen Rüland, Astrid Carrapatoso
‘Ruland and Carrapatoso have assembled a group of distinguished contributors for this comprehensive survey of regionalism in contemporary global governance. With sections on theorizing regionalism, global institutions, regionalism in mos... -
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Advanced Introduction to Disaster Risk Reduction
Douglas Paton
‘This is valuable work when the world is facing compounded hazards in a complex risk landscape. The book is also timely with countries taking stock of the mid-term review of the Sendai Framework. The book illustrates nicely future aspect... -
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A Research Agenda for Food Systems
Edited by Colin Sage
‘This is a fine and wonderful book. We know that food systems worldwide have been transformed in recent decades. They have made food a raging success, more people fed than ever. They also cause vast ill-health and planetary harm, and lea... -
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Vertical Cities
Edited by Thomas Maloutas, Nikos Karadimitriou
‘This book has a highly original focus on micro-segregation, particularly vertical, revealing forms of housing and urban inequalities and hierarchies that are otherwise hidden in socially mixed neighborhoods. Examples from different citi... -
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Handbook on Shrinking Cities
Edited by Karina Pallagst, Marco Bontje, Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot, René Fleschurz
‘Our cities represent very comprehensive social ecosystems – a mosaic consisting of diverse structures interlinked by the veins of infrastructure shaped by multiple actions of various actors. The Handbook on Shrinking Cities edited by Ka... -
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Handbook on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Edited by Floor Brouwer
‘The evidence is clear that understanding the trade-offs and synergies among the water, energy, food and ecosystems sectors can contribute to socio-economic resilience and environmental sustainability. Floor Brouwer has produced a compel... -
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A Modern Guide to Creative Economies
Edited by Roberta Comunian, Alessandra Faggian, Jarna Heinonen, Nick Wilson
'A Modern Guide to Creative Economies is essential reading for considering and reflecting on how we build healthy, equitable and sustainable conditions for the creation, celebration and exchange of human expression. The book, and its col... -
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Advanced Introduction to Spatial Statistics
Daniel A. Griffith, Bin Li
‘With widespread and increasingly available georeferenced data, this book offers a timely assessment of contemporary methods, models, and metrics—such as the eigenvector spatial filtering approach to handling spatial autocorrelation—in s... -
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Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China
Zhu Qian
“朱钱提供了一个非常全面的应用t of property rights in China. Most importantly, this remarkable book investigates China’s urban transformation corresponding to changing property regimes. His explanations of the pivotal...
