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Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume I
This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization. …
Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science
Globalisation has not led to the ‘death of geography’. Intensified relations between communities in different parts of the world have only highlighted the need for understanding …
CyberGIS for Geospatial Discovery and Innovation
This book elucidates how cyberGIS (that is, new-generation geographic information science and systems (GIS) based on advanced computing and cyberinfrastructure) transforms …
Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography
The intellectual renaissance of human geography has included a widespread engagement between its economic and cultural subdisciplines. This volume adopts a variety of conceptual …
Australia's Arc of Instability
The idea for this book emerged from a conversation between Vivian Forbes and Charles Eaton following two seminars held in the Department of Geography at the University of Western …
Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning
This book argues that the concepts of ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘neoliberalisation,’ while in common use across the whole range of social sciences, have thus far been generally …
Neural Nets: Applications in Geography
Neural nets offer a fascinating new strategy for spatial analysis, and their application holds enormous potential for the geographic sciences. However, the number of studies that …
Japanese Urban System
This book is an attempt to explain Japanese regional structure and associated dynamism in terms of urban systems. It is extremely effective to use the urban systems approach to …
Geography, History and Social Sciences
Georges Benko «Societies are much messier than our theories of them» Michael Mann The Sources of Social Power 1 Towards a unified social theory Why are there communication problems …
Fields of Battle
Terrain has a profound effect upon the strategy and tactics of any military engagement and has consequently played an important role in determining history. In addition, the …
Dynamic Trip Modelling
The thesis of this book is that there are one set of equations that can define any trip between an origin and destination. The idea originally came from work that I did when …
The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation
Inevitably, at a panel discussion not too long ago comparing planning cultures the discussion turned on the issue of globalisation. As a member of the panel, this author asked …