The global city and the holy city

narratives on knowledge, planning and diversity

The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the ...

La emergencia de las nuevas ciudades en la Era Global

¿Cuál es la lógica del crecimiento de las ciudaddes en unas circunstancias de globalización económica y cultural?

Gobierno y gestión de las ciudades:una visión desde las dos orillas del Atlántico

IX Seminario sobre Gestión Pública Social

Los gobiernos locales en España tendrán que afrontar en los próximo años imporantes retos derivados de los cambios legales que se están produciendo, de las crecientes exigencias sociales en cuanto a eficiencia y calidad en los servicios públicos, y de la necesidad de incorporar las ...

Los nuevos principios de urbanismo

el fin de las ciudades no está a la orden del día

¿Qué hacer hoy con la noción de límite y cómo concebir los espacios cuando la distinción entre ciudad y cambio, entre público y privado, entre interior y exterior desaparece? ¿Qué ocurre con las nociones de distancia, continuidad, densidad, diversidad, hibridez, cuando la velocidad del desplazamiento ...

Local industrial clusters

existence, emergence, and evolution

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common -specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both econimsts and geographers.

Los principales instrumentos de financiación procedentes del urbanismo

(aspectos jurídicos y económicos)

Obra que conjuga dos de las materias de mayor repercusión en el mundo local, la urbanística y la económica, a través del estudio jurídico y económico de los distintos aspectos que rodean los principales instrumentos actuales de financiación municipal del urbanismo. En primer lugar, parte ...

Cities and natural process

a basis for sustainability

Cities and Natural Process is a discussion of the fundamental conflict in the perception of nature and an expression of the essential need for an environmental view when approaching urban design. Whilst retaining the existing structure, each of the chapters has been revised to take ...

The network society

a cross-cultural perspective

Manuel Castells # one of the world#s pre-eminent social scientists # has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies ...

Economia regionale

localizzazione, crescita regionale e sviluppo locale

L'economia regionale è quella branca dell'economia che include la dimensione spaziale nello studio del funzionamento del mercato, inserendola in schemi logici, leggi, modelli che spiegano, regolano e interpretano la formazione dei prezzi, della capacità produttiva, i livelli di produzione e di sviluppo, la ...

Knowledge spillovers and knowledge management

This book reveals the key importance, in terms of international competitiveness, of firms# capability to adapt to, and develop, new technologies. At the same time, the authors argue that the sheer complexity of emerging technologies is such that the knowledge involved in their creation is ...

Housing and welfare in Southern Europe

Chapter One: IntroductionThe Scope of this bookStructure of the bookSupplementary bibliography Chapter Two - Are southern housing systems different? IntroductionTenure patterns in southern EuropeCountries of homeownersOne home in two houses: high proportion of secondary homesHousing access, family cycles and residential mobilityProduction and promotion of housingConclusions Chapter ...

Making public transport work

People have always traveled, but over the last century there has been an unprecedented increase in mobility. Hundreds of millions commute daily between home and work, relying more and more on cars and less on urban and intercity public transport. Faced with environmental concerns and ...

Cities and sociology

This distinctive anthology contains classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban studies. The expert and well-known scholars who have written these essays cover central topics that have evolved over the past 25 years. Brings together 20 ...

World cities beyond the west

globalization, development and inequality

Josef Gugler brings together leading authorities from four continents to provide the first dedicated study of major cities in countries outside the industrialized West: Bangkok, Mumbai, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore. Fourteen contributors from diverse backgrounds ...

Exploring sustainable development

geographical perspectives

Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is vital ...

Urban governance voice and poverty in the developing world

Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world#s poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto little-studied ...

Las cooperativas agrarias

instrumento de desarrollo local

Las cooperativas agrarias son estructuras asociativas dotadas de una amplia base social, y que se caracterizan por ser importantes agentes generadores de actividad capaces de contribuir decisivamente al desarrollo sostenible de numerosas zonas rurales, tanto desde la perspectiva económica como social y medioambiental. Su génesis ...

Geografía de los transportes

El presente libro pretende ofrecer,desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar propia del siglo XXI,una muestra de la diversidad de enfoques,métodos de análisis y temáticas existentes en el seno de la Geografía de los Transportes,al propio tiempo que plantea cuáles son los retos actuales ...

Market economy and urban change

impacts in the developing world

Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of #market enablement# and structural adjustment, which now form the dominant development ...

Industrial districts

a new approach to industrial change

This remarkable book outlines the historical framework and the main concepts of the literature on industrial districts. It illustrates a new approach to the study of industrial development, based on well-known industrial districts analysis. Giacomo Becattini has written an authoritative volume which, starting with the ...