Human geography

Development's current focus - poverty reduction and good governance - signals a turn away from the older neoliberal preoccupation with structural adjustment, privatization and downsizing the state.

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

This book aims to promote the synergistic usage of advanced computational methodologies in close relationship to geospatial information across cities of different scales.

The development of defensive strategies encompassing the fortification and privatization of the city has attracted significant attention during recent years, and has become particularly relevant in the aftermath of September 11th.

In recent years a new participatory governance dynamic has been redefining relationships and responsibilities in the planning and implementation of policies and programs.

Originally published in 1985, Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning looks at the crucial social relationships associated with land ownership, and how these have played a crucial role in the economic development of many societies.

Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out in the field of international development assistance, at theoretical, international legislative and policy levels, donor and national policy levels and programme levels.

This book addresses the issues in an empirical fashion after examining different sociological and geographic perspectives.

City authorities in recent years have competed vigorously to gain the right to host international festivals.

This book explains the variation and determinants of residential quality and housing preferences in urban private housing markets.

Researching Human Geography is an essential new text for any geography student about to embark on a research project.

Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe towards affective forms of dominance exercised by customer-oriented neo-bureaucracies and public service providers.

Branding is a profoundly geographical type of commodification process.

This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene.

Are migrant workers needed to 'do the jobs that locals will not do' or are they simply a more exploitable labour force?

This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "e;quantity"e; to "e;quality"e; growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization.

This book discusses several topics regarding different vocabularies, such as sacred architecture, heritage buildings, open spaces, landmarks, and street escapes, all of which have a direct influence on the city form.

Contemporary Urban Planning, 12e provides students with an unvarnished and in depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today.

Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting zoos.

This book studies how transnationalisation, Europeanisation and migration processes intersect with football fandom, through an analysis of the transnational narratives and practices of Fenerbahce and Galatasaray football fans in Vienna, Austria.

Clubbing explores the cultures and spaces of clubbing.

This book analyzes the different topics which highlight the relevance of communication within markets.

The term "e;market"e; originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea.

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation.

Originally published in 1991, Reform in New York City provides an interpretive synthesis of urban progressivism and provides a comprehensive historical look at progressivism in New York City.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression.

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power?

Originally published in 1986, this volume brings together geographical modelling of population change and demographic analysis of population structures and pattern.

This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019.

This third book in the GISDATA series focuses on the widespread use of geographical information systems GIS in European local government.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

This study examines the account of Jesus'' ascension in Acts 1 from the perspective of geographical theory.

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'.

This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies.

How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city?

Migration is one of the driving forces of economic and social change in the modern world.

During the last two decades, the European Union has come under increasing existential threat.

The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian.

Interdisciplinary contributors from across Europe and the USA join together in this book to provide a timely overview of the latest theories and policies related to transport networks.

This text covers Bauman's contribution to sociology and social theory.

The world's largest democracy has experienced strife since its inception in 1947.

Changes of residence are common in contemporary Western societies.

When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country's historical demography.

The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local  -  labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus.

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched.

Using ethnographic materials and documents from East Tibetan villages, this book addresses the impact of modernization on everyday life and the ways in which it melds with traditional forms of knowledge to create a new Tibetan identity and scientific rationality.

This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places.

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability.