Human Geography

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the im...

Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned econ...

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

In aiming to understand and model peoples out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. ...

Following drastic shifts in the spatial organization of goods production, increasingly fierce competition now forces firms also to look critically ...

Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a ...

There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the...

Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulentstruggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seenas opaq...

Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theore...

Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political impli...

Although there are human geographers who have previously written on matters of media and communication, and those in media and communication studie...

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-e...

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the U...

Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addre...

The existence and persistence of regional disparities between European regions require context-tailored policies to promote structural change. This...

Giulio Verdini, PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Desi...

The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive indu...

Frontiers are wild. The frontier is a zone of interaction between distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies, but how do these...

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, ...

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relation...

First published in 1967, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building. It is composed of five of the chapters fro...

The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all ...

This title was first published in 2003:The advent of the Labour government in 1997 provoked major change in the political landscape of the UK. Prio...

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors ...

As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out ...

The expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have...

Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground jour...

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...

Tourism gentrification is a critical shaping force of socio-economic and contemporary urban landscapes. This book aims to be the first substantive ...

This title was first published in 2002: Human Resource Development (HRD) arguably constitutes the most important aspect of managing resources at wo...

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that th...

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, ass...

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

Analyzing neighbourly relations in multicultural societies, this book develops a concept of good neighbourhood and argues that cultural capital in ...

Originally published in 1923, the following papers contain the results of investigations concerning religion and custom in Borneo and the Malay Pen...

The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and ...

The very routines of our daily life are to a great extent the expression of our vulnerability and dependence on incredibly wide and complex network...

Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeab...

While the spatial turn within the social sciences has already nurtured a broad discussion of the relation between society and space, little attenti...

Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural m...

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for ...

Examine the Prevalence and Geography of Road CollisionsSpatial Analysis Methods of Road Traffic Collisions centers on the geographical nature of ro...

The year 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Land Act in South Africa which legalised the violent dispossession and alienation of the Afr...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multi...

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural repro...

Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, tr...

Revitalizing railways as a major sustainable transport mode in modern societies faces many issues and challenges. This in-depth overview places the...