City of gold

an apology for global capitalism in a time of discontent

INDICE Part One: Desire's Constitution 1. Conception 2. Money as Communication 3. Finance and the War Against Time 4. Urban Renewal 5. Governance Part Two: Constitutional Critique 6. Alienation 7. Inauthenticity 8. Identity, Tense Part Three: Exhausted Philosophies 9. The Reformation of Economics 10 ...

Sustaining agriculture and the rural environment

governance, policy and multifunctionality

The city as an entertainment machine

This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities. But it reverses the "normal" causal process. That is, many chapters analyze how consumption and entertainment drive urban development, not vice versa. How? People both live and work in cities. And where they choose to live ...

The sustainable urban development reader

The Sustainable Urban Development Reader brings together classic readings from a wide variety of sources to investigate how our cities and towns can become more sustainable. Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use and ...

Scheduled-based dynamic transit modeling

theory and applications

Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling: Theory and Applications outlines the new schedule-based dynamic approach to mass transit modeling. In the last ten years the schedule-based dynamic approach has been developed and applied especially for operational planning. It allows time evolution of on- board loads and travel ...

Global metropolitan

globalizing cities in a capitalist world

Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities. The book explores the meaning of the globalizing project in cities ...

Unmaking Goliath

community control in the face of global capital

In an effort to counter the argument that cities and communities are always powerless in the face of footloose corporations who think nothing of leaving localities in the lurch, "Unmaking Goliath" asks two key questions: What can localities do in the face of heightened capital ...

Making european space

mobility, power and territorial identity

Making European Space crystallises and critically examines the key policy ideas emerging in the new field of European spatial planning, and explores the arguments surrounding policy themes such as polycentric development, sustainability, mobility and peripherality. It develops a theoretically informed critique based on discourse analysis ...

Economics, Real State and the supply of land

Espacios y desarrollos rurales

una visión multiple desde Europa y Latinoamérica

Coords. Román Rodríguez González, Edelmira Pérez Correa

Informe sobre los indicadores locales de sosteniblidad

Estrategias de consumo y estilos de vida en la sociedad navarra del siglo XXI

Las empresas rurales malagueñas

la respuesta de las mujeres al mercado laboral

Spatial interaction modelling

a regional science context

In this book, the author's strong commitment to the multi-disciplinary field of regional science emerges to provide a unifying framework between spatial modelling traditions from quantitative geography and those from spatial economics, whereby each is enhanced. Starting with a detailed discussion of each field ...

Deslocalització i localització d'empreses a Catalunya

Anuario estadístico del mercado inmobiliario español, 2004

Unión monetaria europea y disparidades regionales en España

Urban and regional transportation modeling

essays in honor of David Boyce

Honoring David Boyce for his legendary contributions to the fields of transportation modeling and regional science, the chapters in this festschrift highlight and analyze state-of-the-art and state-of- the-practice methodologies and theories in transportation modeling, regional and urban planning. Authors from academia and industry, all experts ...

Small change

about the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities

Urban governance and democracy

leadership and community involvement