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New Labour's Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain Since 1997
ISBN: 9781861349323 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural policy has presented some of the most difficult and unexpected challenges to the New Labour government. From the Foot and Mouth crisis to the rise of the Countryside Alliance, from farm protests to concerns about rural crime, rural issues have frequently seized headlines and formed the basis of organized opposition to the government. Yet, the same government, elected with a record number of rural MPs, has also proactively sought to reform rural policy.This book critically reviews and analyses the development and implementation of New Labour's rural policies since 1997. It explores the...
Rural policy has presented some of the most difficult and unexpected challenges to the New Labour government. From the Foot and Mouth crisis to the ri...
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Sustainable by 2020?: A Strategic Approach to Urban Regeneration for Britain's Cities
ISBN: 9781861341044 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty years of short-term initiatives have not reduced a pressing need for urban regeneration. If deprived households, polarised sink estates and derelict city landscapes are not to be with us 20 years hence, a broader, long-term approach is required. Sustainable by 2020? describes this strategic approach to city-wide regeneration, developed in a major research programme with case studies in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The report sets out an agenda of innovation as a first step to sustainable cities. It provides a better understanding of how cities can shift away from the...
Thirty years of short-term initiatives have not reduced a pressing need for urban regeneration. If deprived households, polarised sink estates and der...
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Urban Competitiveness: Policies for Dynamic Cities
ISBN: 9781861343574 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following publication of the government's White Paper on cities (2000), the question of what makes some cities more successful than others has become an increasingly important policy issue. This topical book tackles this question from differing perspectives.Although previous work has explored particular facets of competitiveness, this volume is the first to do so in a systematic way that combines theory, evidence and policy implications. Bringing together leading experts on urban economic performance, it provides a new look at the issue of urban competitiveness and offers new insights into...
Following publication of the government's White Paper on cities (2000), the question of what makes some cities more successful than others has become ...
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City Matters: Competitiveness, Cohesion and Urban Governance
ISBN: 9781861344458 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council's 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion programme'. Leading experts present the findings of this wide-ranging programme organised around themes of competitiveness, social cohesion and the role of policy and governance. The book develops our understanding of key processes, issues and concepts critical to cities and urban change and examines a large body of evidence on a wide range of policy issues at the heart of current debates...
This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social R...
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Best Practice in Regeneration: Because It Works
ISBN: 9781861344557 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The report highlights the key practical themes of successful regeneration - what works and where - and effective ways of learning from the experiences of others. It charts a supportive project that linked four diverse regeneration programmes in different parts of the UK. By working closely together at all levels, the groups involved in the project improved their strategic understanding and operational approaches. This report is aimed at decision makers in regeneration partnerships, particularly social housing providers. It demonstrates the potential gains when managers and service delivery...
The report highlights the key practical themes of successful regeneration - what works and where - and effective ways of learning from the experiences...
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Urban Transformation and Urban Governance: Shaping the Competitive City of the Future
ISBN: 9781861345295 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report addresses key challenges facing policy makers, practitioners and academics in their efforts to understand and impact on the changing nature of urban environments today.Combining a detailed case study of the city of Bristol with wide-ranging information and analysis from other sources, the report looks at: the dynamics of employment and population change including the challenges of household growth, urban expansion and new patterns of edge-city development; urban renaissance, urban renewal and the prospects for a turn-around in the fortunes of urban areas;patterns and processes of...
This report addresses key challenges facing policy makers, practitioners and academics in their efforts to understand and impact on the changing natur...
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Developing Locally: An International Comparison of Local and Regional Economic Development
ISBN: 9781861345462 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the developed world governments have invested substantial sums in local and regional economic development. Many have spent heavily on local development agencies and strategies to bolster competitiveness within world markets. What has been the impact of these actions? How effective are the strategies and processes employed by development agencies? How well funded are development efforts in one nation compared to another, and how are their objectives defined?This book addresses these questions. It: . vbTab]explores the impact and functioning of economic development agencies;....
Throughout the developed world governments have invested substantial sums in local and regional economic development. Many have spent heavily on local...
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Developing Coalfields Communities: Breathing New Life Into Warsop Vale
ISBN: 9781861345530 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing coalfields communities examines the impact of government investment in Warsop Vale, a village which has starkly emphasised the negative consequences of coalfield decline.Based on over 100 in-depth interviews between 1998 and 2003, the report provides a revealing insight into the often frustrating but ultimately fruitful attempts by residents and professionals to ensure government policy worked to the community's advantage. Distinctive features of the report are that it: adopts a rarely-used longitudinal approach to understanding the effects of community decline and regeneration;...
Developing coalfields communities examines the impact of government investment in Warsop Vale, a village which has starkly emphasised the negative con...
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Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces
ISBN: 9781861346599 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a close look at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, the book explores the origins of Britain's acute urban decline and sprawling exodus; the reasons why 'one size doesn't fit all' in cities of the future and the potential for smart growth, mixed communities and sustainable cities. Based on live examples and hands-on experience, this extremely accessible book offers a unique 'insider' perspective on policy making and practical impacts. It will attract policymakers in cities and government as well as students, regeneration bodies, community organisations and...
Through a close look at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, the book explores the origins of Britain's acute urban decline and spr...
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Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe: Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry
ISBN: 9781861347756 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All over Europe post-Second World War large-scale housing estates face physical, economic, social and cultural problems. This book presents the key findings of a major EU-funded research programme into the restructuring of twenty-nine large-scale housing estates in Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe. Policy and practice between and within the ten countries studied - UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, and France - is compared. While existing literature focuses on the negative aspects of large-scale housing estates, this book starts from...
All over Europe post-Second World War large-scale housing estates face physical, economic, social and cultural problems. This book presents the key fi...
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Securing an Urban Renaissance: Crime, Community, and British Urban Policy
ISBN: 9781861348159 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilize, pacify and regulate crime and disorder in urban areas, contributing to a vision of an urban renaissance which is perhaps as much about control as it is about the broader physical and social renewal of our towns and cities. The book has three key themes: the theories, strategies and assumptions underpinning the securing of 'Urban Renaissance'; the agendas of current urban policy in the field of crime control; and, thirdly, the...
This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an at...
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Rural Tourism Development: Localism and Cultural Change
ISBN: 9781845410995 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption and transportation patterns are reshaping leisure behaviour and travel. For those concerned with both the nature of change in rural areas and tourism development, the dynamics and impacts of integrating these two dramatic shifts are not well known but yet are becoming increasingly... Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of eco... |
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Rural Tourism Development: Localism and Cultural Change
ISBN: 9781845411008 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption and transportation patterns are reshaping leisure behaviour and travel. For those concerned with both the nature of change in rural areas and tourism development, the dynamics and impacts of integrating these two dramatic shifts are not well known but yet are becoming increasingly... Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of eco... |
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Moving People: Sustainable Transport Development
ISBN: 9781848130029 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title provides an introduction to sustainable transport development through a series of case studies. It offers a practical way into the complexities of post-development theory and demonstrates that achieving equity and sustainability will require profound transformation.
This title provides an introduction to sustainable transport development through a series of case studies. It offers a practical way into the complexi...
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Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780754649595 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twentieth century. As yet, no collection has gathered these experiences together to consider their contribution to planning. Juxtaposing examples of green belt implementation worldwide, this book adds to understanding of how green belts can be effected in theory and how practitioners have adapted them in practice. The book provides a typology of green belt implementation and reform, enabling planners to grasp why these policies are employed and...
Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twent...
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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects
ISBN: 9780815702979 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects," the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. The chapters analyze responses to six key policy challenges that most metropolitans areas and local communities face: - Creating quality neighborhoods for families - Governing effectively - Building human capital - Growing the middle class - Growing a competitive economy through... "Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects," the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effect... |
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Geographical Information Systems for Urban and Regional Planning
ISBN: 9780792307938 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1989, a Summer Institute was held at the Academie van Bouwkunst, the seventeenth century home of Amsterdam's School of Architecture, Town Planning and Landscape. The meeting brought together experts in Geographical Information Systems from throughout the world to address an international audience of planners. The contents of this book reflect many of the themes that were presented and discussed at the conference. The Summer Institute, let alone this volume, would not have been possible without the support of the International Association for the Development and Management of...
In August 1989, a Summer Institute was held at the Academie van Bouwkunst, the seventeenth century home of Amsterdam's School of Architecture, Town Pl...
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Community Quality-Of-Life Indicators: Best Cases II
ISBN: 9781402046247 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. This volume builds on the goal of the series and includes eleven cases describing communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements included are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, and the planning of community indicators. This book is the second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume is a compilation of cas... |
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602,40 |
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New Regionalism and the European Union: Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions
ISBN: 9780415563727 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The debates on regionalism have been polarized between European Union (EU) scholars and non-EU scholars, with the assumption being that regionalism within the EU and other regions of the world are quite distinct, with little to be learnt from dialogue with each other. This book challenges such assumptions and calls for a genuine debate between scholars of regionalism. This book demonstrates that more can and needs to be learned about regional integration all over the world through comparison and reflection on specific regional trends. Beginning with a theoretically driven... The debates on regionalism have been polarized between European Union (EU) scholars and non-EU scholars, with the assumption being that regionalism... |
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Developmental State and the Dalit Question in Madhya Pradesh: Congress Response: Congress Response
ISBN: 9780415563130 / Angielski / Twarda / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness and identity-based lower-caste parties. The present study focuses on the different political response of the Congress party to identity assertion in Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of Digvijay Singh. In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in response to the strong wave of Dalit assertion that swept the region, parties such as the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) used strategies of political mobilisation to consolidate...
Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness an...
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