Human geography

The chaotic proliferation of skyscrapers in many cities around the world is contributing to a decline in placemaking.

This book discusses the protection, planning, and design of sustainable urban water environments.

This book explores how and why Tokyo has been divided over time in terms of living conditions.

This is the first book on global teachers and the increasingly important phenomenon of 'brain circulation' in the global teaching profession.

This book uniquely bridges the conceptual gap between the history of geographic, cartographic thought, and film theory with the technological and cultural shifts that shaped the emergence of cameras and cinema.

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.

This book is the first work to comprehensively investigate the enclaves of non-Japanese residents in Japan.

This book presents the latest research results related to urban center and urban center.

Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes.

We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences.

This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society.

This book weaves a social, economic and cultural history of Australia with rare first-hand accounts of the lived experience of change related to farming and agriculture.

This book uses the concept of the region to introduce traditional Chinese villages in ten typical areas.

This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.

The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities.

This book explores the relationship between rivers and ethics in China, with a particular focus on the health of the Yellow River and China's sustainable development.

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan.

Japan's fisheries sector is undergoing a major restructuring.

Major changes are taking place in the Chinese countryside as China rushes to modernizes and urbanizes its rural fabric.

This book discusses the concepts and technologies associated with the mitigation of urban heat islands (UHIs) that are applicable in hot and humid regions.

Wildness and Wellbeing explores the dynamic relationships between urban nature and mental health, offering practical strategies for urban design.

This book highlights the significance of urban agricultural production, the technologies and methods for supplying organic materials to the farmland, recovering plant nutrients and energy in cities, and systems for sustaining farmlands in order to produce agricultural crops and supply safe food to citizens.

This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.

This book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and organisational logics of digital platforms.

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Richard Lowenstein's 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational.

This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues.

This book is for all those actively working in the built environment.

This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia, and the way they are represented in the media.

This book draws together analysis of  class, gender, ethnicity and processes of migration in the context of family-school relationships.

This book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline.

This edited volume contains sixteen chapters by eminent scholars on one of the largest migration corridors in the world i.

This book is a product of the joint efforts of interdisciplinary academic fields under the integrative framework of human geoscience.

It is not possible to ignore the fact that cities are not only moving, vibrant and flourishing spaces, promising hope for better quality of life, but that they also accumulate and reflect significant problems.

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral.

This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu's development into a global city.

This book pursues both narrative and analytic approaches to better understand China's spatial economic development and its implications for Tibet.

Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together case studies and examples from around the world to discuss the role that urban interfaces, citizen action, and city making play in the quest to create and maintain not only secure and resilient, but productive, sustainable and viable urban environments.

The book selects Guangzhou, which has the highest crime rate in China, as a research site to study patterns of crime and social disorganization.

The book addresses conceptual issues around urban transportation policy and practice in selected west African cities.

This book is a collection of work by migration scholars and researchers who are actively conducting fieldwork in Southeast Asia.

This edited volume focuses on how multiculturalism, as statecraft, has had both intended and unintended consequences on Singapore's various ethnic communities.

This edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia's urban populations from a governance perspective.

This book highlights the electronic governance in a smart city through case studies of cities located in many countries.

This volume demonstrates the multiple ways that space, place and environment interact with children and young people's lives.

Children's and young people's geographies is one of the most recent sub-disciplines within human geography.

This book broadens debates on violence, conflict and peace by examining the crucial role played by children and youth.

The volume provides an overview of recent research (within geography and allied disciplines) around the overarching concept of 'safe and accessible places of encounter'.

This volume addresses children and young people's relationships both within and beyond the context of the family.

This volume incorporates ground-breaking new academic perspectives on the contributions that children and young people make to societies around the world, with a particular focus on learning and work.