Böcker i Routledge Studies in Human Geography-serien

This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for "nature" brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape-of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace-and where many of the central features of exurbia-very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing-contribute to the very problems that the social and environmental aesthetic of exurbia attempts to avoid. The volume shows how this contradiction-to live in the green landscape, and to protect the green landscape from urbanization-gets caught up and represented in the ideology of nature, and how this ideology, in turn, constitutes and is constituted by the landscapes being urbanized.

Explores the social causes and consequences of the International Rural Governance arrangements. This book seeks to move beyond questions of empowerment in governance debates and to consider how new kinds of power relations arise between the various actors involved.

This book critically explores the social causes and consequences of emerging governance arrangements. In particular, the book moves beyond questions of empowerment in governance debates to consider how new kinds of power relations arise between the various actors involved.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet.

Throughout the world¿s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource frontier ageing, to understand the diverse experiences of and responses to rural population ageing in the early 21st century. The book explores the resource hinterland as a new frontier of rural ageing and examines three central themes of rural population change, community development and voluntarism that characterize ageing resource communities. By investigating the links among these three themes, the book provides the conceptual and empirical foundations for the future agenda of rural ageing research. This timely contribution contains 15 original chapters by leading international experts from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland and Norway.

This edited collection brings together leading scholars to explore cutting edge research on British migrants in an international range of settings. This book explores the diversities which exist within and between British migrants, and the importance of spatial context.

This volume traces the spatialities and politics of mobility, critically examining the articulation of urban space through transportation infrastructure and everyday flows, exploring connections in spatial theory and practice between transport geographies and new mobilities in the production of networked urban places.

Neoliberalism's market revolution has had tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. This title provides a comparative treatment and examination of how new approaches in governance and planning are reshaping mega-city regions around the world. It includes case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives.

Argues for a rethinking of what constitutes creativity, foregrounding non-economic values and practices, and the often marginal and everyday spaces in which creativity takes shape.

Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development. This has led to a feeling that transnational learning strategies are more and more desirable.This book lays out a set of methods which can further enhance the experience of transnational learning, starting from the sociological ideas promoted by Charles Sabel of learning through monitoring, and by Marie Laure Djelic and others of the ¿translation¿ of experiences between different countries. Case studies and examples are collected from three fields: industrial development, tourism and local government.

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities offers a vivid contribution to our understanding of the ongoing transformation of Asiäs urban system, including the critical intersections of global and local-regional dynamics in processes of new industry formation and the relayering of space in the Asian metropolis. The synthesis of empirical profiles, normative insights, and theoretical reference points enhances the book¿s interest for scholars and students in such fields of Asian studies, urban and cultural studies, and urban and economic geography, as well as for and policy specialists and urban/community planners.

Presents a review of theoretical arguments about agricultural structures, and defines family farming. This book analyses the conditions of access to land and water, labour, livestock, tools and seed and reviews marketing arrangements and how they have changed since 1900. It explores issues of the farmer as steward of the environment.

What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow political context, this thought-provoking new approach argues that we need to harness work beyond employment to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism.

Presents an analysis of the role of cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. This book combines insights from the fields of urban studies and technological transitions to examine how, why, and with what implications cities bring about low carbon transitions.

Offers an account of the relationship between innovation, design, corporate competitiveness and place. This book explores design economies through an analysis of corporate strategies, the relationship between product and designer, copying and imitation including nefarious learning, design and competitiveness, and design-centred regional policies.

Deals with issues surrounding post-development which is one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book explores the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory, drawing on empirical studies of movements and communities in several continents.

This work defines citizenship in relation to the rural environment. It expands and explores a widened conceptualization of citizenship and sets out a range of examples where citizenship has been expressed in and over the rural environment.

This book provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Cities and Low Carbon Transitions presents a ground-breaking analysis of the role of cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. Insights from the fields of urban studies and technological transitions are combined to examine how, why, and with what implications cities bring about low carbon transitions. The book outlines the key concepts underpinning theories of socio-technical transition and assesses its potential strengths and limits for understanding the social and technological responses to climate change that are emerging in cities. It draws on a diverse range of examples including world cities, ordinary cities and transition towns, from North America, Europe, South Africa and China, to provide evidence that expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake purposive socio-technical transitions are emerging in different urban contexts.

This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia.

The desire of city governments for a 'renaissance' of their inner-cities has become a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. This book expands understandings of who participates in and benefits from the 'urban renaissance'. It focuses on the policies driving the urban regeneration process and their effects.

Engaging with the theory and policy of regional competitiveness, this title provides an integrated critique of the concept that is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics interested in regional development and policy.

Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable. This title explores how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers an assessment of the diverse forms that mapping now takes.

With case studies and co-authored commentaries, this work presents a thematic collection of articles that advances debates about rural childhood. Based on international research and theoretical innovation, it examines the socio-cultural contexts faced by the young.

From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis.

A study of the millions of migrants in China, their experiences, and their impacts on the city and the countryside.

If geography is the study of how human beings are stretched over the earth's surface, a vital part of that process is how we know and feel about space and time. This book explores how various social institutions and technologies historically generated enormous improvements in transportation and communications.

Examines the justification, theorization, practice and implications of participatory action research approaches and methods in the social and environmental sciences.