Human geography

This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan.

This book is the first comprehensive work on Chinese covered bridges study, covering fields of human geography, historical buildings, and transportation.

This book highlights the challenges and opportunities of (re)constructing a sustainable rural community on the outskirts of the urban community.

This book acquaints the reader with the critical changes in India's economy and society amidst the unprecedented pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating by breaking all prior records of illness and fatality.

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities.

This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions.

The Emergence of Bangladesh analyses and celebrates the first 50 years of Bangladesh as a nation, bringing insights from key scholars in Bangladeshi studies to an international audience, as well as 'bringing home' to a domestic audience the work of some of the nation's greatest intellectual exports, the Bangladeshi scholars who have made a mark in their field of study in academia.

Neural networks as the commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in the GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear and complex geographic phenomena.

This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities.

This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural transformation.

This book identifies and provides reasoning for computed methods of local climate dynamics and the livelihood vulnerability indices assessment in the mountainous region of Himachal Pradesh, India.

This book provides extensive information on craftsmen-built houses in China.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states.

This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict.

In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions of health and immunity that have persisted since the 19th century, and had a formative influence over the design of not only homes, but entire cities.

This book provides readers with fresh new theoretical tools to better understand how sociopolitical actors (from governmental institutions to ecological NGOs; from local residents to multinational companies) clash about transport initiatives.

The central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in the age of the declining population and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the affected regions in Japan.

This book argues for computer-aided collaborative country research based on the science of complex and dynamic systems.

This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales.

This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India.

This book is an original contribution to literary geography and commentaries on the work of David Ireland.

This book reframes commemoration through distinctly geographical lenses, locating it within experiential and digital worlds.

This book documents the practice-led research of painting as a peripatetic art practice through travel and transient life in Australia, India, and Pakistan.

This book traces how naturalism-the idea of a common theory uniting natural social systems-has contributed to major shifts in urban planning.

Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place.

This book provides new roads, perspectives, and a synthesis for tourism and regional science research.

This book focuses on the behavioral interactions among possible stakeholders in carbon labeling practice, brings the attentions of stakeholders' interests to explore the opportunities, and challenges related to carbon labeling practice, thus to provide insight into low-carbon consumption and production.

Winner of the prestigious Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology 2024.

This book provides a novel perspective on networks and innovation in the field of economic geography and presents new findings through theoretical foundations and empirical analyses.

This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia.

This book provides the first synthetic review of the literature on cultural roads and itineraries, providing a template for developing typologies and clarity on existing research.

This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a large-scale data infrastructure interconnecting a multiplicity of state authorities that enact border security and migration management in the European Union.

The book addresses the rapid shifts which have taken place within cartography, and argues that no amount of technological sophistication will lead to neutral representations, and that as such critical cartography provides a solid foundation for questioning the power of maps.

This book explores the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary fields of energy systems, occupant behavior, thermal comfort, air quality and economic modelling across levels of building, communities and cities, through various data analytical approaches.

This book considers the impact of global climate change, advocating to promote sustainable development from the perspective of low carbon and climate resilience, by reducing carbon emissions in different aspects of urban and regional development.

This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring.

This book highlights the sustainable aspects of fashion and textiles in Latin America and discusses how the manufacturing and consumption of textile products and fashion are significant sources of environmental damage.

This book looks at how young people get attracted to the Far Right, especially young white men.

This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis.

This book is a pioneering work to position the creative city concept within Malaysian urban development discourse.

This book divides the history of China's rural-urban relations into three stages: antagonism, integration and re-antagonism, and demonstrates that the two coupled variables i.

This book highlights China's engagement with Africa through trade, investment and financial linkages.

This volume addresses a variety of issues on traffic safety policy, ranging from issues of climate change, urban equity, and transport safety, in a broad global and societal context, while retaining situation-specific details.

As a continuation of 'Identity of Cities and City of Identities', this book covers the arguments around the memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban places.

This book introduces the Japanese urban food desert (FD).

This book presents comprehensive research and analyses on road traffic safety in China, discussing individual, vehicle, road and environmental factors to improve road safety in the country.

This book contributes to the understanding of environment-economy relations from the perspective of economic geography, grounded in the institutional context of China.

This book addresses the mystery and diversity of urbanization in China, especially with regard to urban villages.

This book looks at the Southern question in Antonio Gramsci.