Regional, state and other local government

Politics of Socio-Spatial Transformation in Pakistan analyses the relationship between socio-spatial transformation, styles of leadership and nature of constituents in Pakistan.

This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real estate sectors and how they align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book starts with detailed community-based poverty-alleviation cases and focuses on several important aspects in this field to demonstrate the intervention methods, theoretical paradigms, and intervention models of poverty-alleviation social work.

State and local governments are at a financial crossroads.

This research aims to uncover new insights into minority housing strategies and their impact on densely populated urban areas.

This book examines the campaign communication of political candidates in parliamentary democracies, set within the broader trends of globalization and political personalization.

This book examines the campaign communication of political candidates in parliamentary democracies, set within the broader trends of globalization and political personalization.

Located a mere fifteen minutes from Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley is an incubator for California's new ethnic politics.

Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested.

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future.

This book examines lived experiences of making, inhabiting and appropriating space, in relation to the upscale commercial gentrification of the Milan Chinatown.

This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka.

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future.

This book examines lived experiences of making, inhabiting and appropriating space, in relation to the upscale commercial gentrification of the Milan Chinatown.

This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka.

Public opinion polls consistently reveal the lack of confidence, disillusionment, and mistrust that citizens feel toward government.

Public broadcasting has changed dramatically since its founding in 1967.

This book aims to explore how sustainability transitions can be explored in current and future cities and how research and policy approaches can be applied to change urban life as we know it, hence aligning the two thematic of urban science and future science, for achieving deep decarbonization.

This book studies poverty issues by using social work theories and methods.

This book aims to explore how sustainability transitions can be explored in current and future cities and how research and policy approaches can be applied to change urban life as we know it, hence aligning the two thematic of urban science and future science, for achieving deep decarbonization.

This book studies poverty issues by using social work theories and methods.

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

Political polarization among 'red' and 'blue' states in the United States is reflected in major divides that exist along social, economic, educational, geographic, and demographic lines, but nowhere is polarization and political divide more evident than in the field of American healthcare.

This book is the second installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music.

Although Tennessee has a rich history of political scandals dating back to the founding of the state, the last fifty years have been a confusing, confounding, and sometimes ludicrous period of ne'er-do-welling.

Although Tennessee has a rich history of political scandals dating back to the founding of the state, the last fifty years have been a confusing, confounding, and sometimes ludicrous period of ne'er-do-welling.

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

This book is the first installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music.

This book is the first installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music.

In einer Welt, die von Gewohnheiten und vorgefertigten Denkmustern geprägt ist, wagt ›Die Erfindung einer anderen Welt‹ einen mutigen Schritt hinaus in das Unbekannte.

This book offers a unique perspective on urban processes affecting tourist spaces and city centres.

This book offers a unique perspective on urban processes affecting tourist spaces and city centres.

First published in 1967, Field Administration provides a useful introduction to a much-neglected aspect of administration.

First published in 1967, Field Administration provides a useful introduction to a much-neglected aspect of administration.

This book investigates the politicization process of social dispute resolution and its unintended consequences, under the context of over 70 percent of China's public hospitals have experienced hospital violence, with patients acting violently toward medical workers to express anger, protect their rights, or monetary reasons.

A troubling portrait of democracy in US state legislatures.

First published in 1985, Decentralization provides an analytical framework for the comparative study of decentralization in contemporary systems of government.

First published in 1985, Decentralization provides an analytical framework for the comparative study of decentralization in contemporary systems of government.

This volume considers how local, national, and global crises with differing durations, sizes, and impacts challenge the public sector to respond.

This book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life.

The book addresses the situation of the urban world in Spain and Portugal in the first quarter of the 21st century.

The framers of the U.

Today, the new Indonesian capital city, Nusantara, planning is being anticipated as "e;representing national identity,"e; "e;a model city,"e; or "e;a gift to the world,"e; and many other extraordinary labels.