Geography

This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner.

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography.

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa.

Set within the context of ASEAN integration, this book considers how Capitalism from China interacts with the ASEAN Economic Community, considering the issue from a variety of sociological, cultural and economic perspectives.

For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries.

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

This pivot considers the use of porcelain vessels within multi-dialect cultural spaces in the consumption of cooked food in Singapore.

Representation of geographical data using graphs, diagrams and mapping techniques is a key for geographers and for researchers in other disciplines to explore the nature of data, the pattern of spatial and temporal variations and their relationships, and formulation of principles to accurately understand and analyze features on or near the earth's surface.

This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia.

In this book, leading architects and landscape architects provide their perspectives on the design of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts that can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced liveability in future cities.

This book strategically focuses upon the feasibility of positioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems into tertiary built environment education and research in Australia.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018).

This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in the metropolis of Melbourne.

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

This book explores the core value of Gulangyu's historical environment, using outstanding universal value and Sino-foreign cultural exchange as the framing aspects, based on the requirements for Gulangyu being recognized as a World Heritage Site.

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

This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis.

This book presents distinct perspectives from both geographically-oriented creative practices and geographers working with arts-based processes.

This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities.

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

This book is about urban infrastructuring as the processes linking infrastructural configurations and their components with other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in the Global South.

Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods - Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful citizens.

This book is the first compilation of the experiences of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia.

Understanding Urbanism presents built environment students with the latest approaches to studying urbanism.

This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles.

Advances in Coastal Hydraulics contains twelve papers that report on recent developments in several areas of coastal hydraulics.

Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place.

This book highlights the importance of outdoor thermal comfort for improving urban living quality in the context of urban planning and urban geometry design.

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 discusses the design and practice of environmental resources management for smart cities.

Modern design of berm breakwaters began about thirty years ago.

This book is a collection of research articles that deal with three aspects of simulation and gaming for social design: (1) Theory and methodology, including game system theory and agent-based modeling; (2) Sustainability, including global warming and the energy-food nexus);; and (3) Social entrepreneurship, including business, ethnic, and ethical understanding.

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 examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Explore the intricacies of UAV technology, components, autonomous systems, and applications in various industries.

This book focuses on the robustness analysis of high accuracy surface modeling method (HASM) to yield good performance of it.

This book is about the institutional disrespect experienced by refugee immigrants at the hands of the state and its institutions.

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China s rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand.

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

This book highlights the new urban-rural relationship that has emerged under the influence of e-commerce in China.

Geospatial technology is a combination of state-of-the-art remote sensing and technology for geographic information systems (GIS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for the mapping and monitoring of landscapes and environment.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

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

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

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

This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses.

This book explores contemporary tourism and coastal developments in Hyogo, Japan-the nation's only non-peninsular prefecture bordering two oceans.

This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the town's intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi Delta.

Why do we love and hate airports at the same time?