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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Urbanization"
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Leading cities :a global review of city leadership
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Rapoport, ElizabethAcuto, MicheleGrcheva, Leonora

Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in which this lead…

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9781787355453
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xiii, 119p. ill;
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320.85 LEA E
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New Islamic urbanism :the architecture of public and private space in Jeddah,…
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Maneval, Stefan

Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and the increasing popularity of Western lifestyles, a distinct style of architecture and urban planning has emerged. Characterised by an emphasis on privacy, expressed through high enclosures, gates, blinds, and tinted windows, ‘New…

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9781787356429
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xvii, 239 p. ill;
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720.9538 NEW S
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Shaping urban futures in Mongolia :Ulaanbaatar, dynamic ownership and economi…
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Plueckhahn, Rebekah

What can the generative processes of dynamic ownership reveal about how the urban is experienced, understood and made in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia? Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia provides an ethnography of actions, strategies and techniques that form part of how residents precede and underwrite the owning of real estate property – including apartments and land – in a rapidly changing city. I…

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9781787351523
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xv, 167 p. ill;
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307.7609517 SHA R
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Aspects of urbanization in China
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Bracken, Gregory

China's rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China's massive wave of urbanization - the largest the world has ever seen. The various papers in the book, written by academics from different disciplines, represent ongoing research and exploration and give a useful snapshot in a rapidl…

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9789048513062
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208p : ill.
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307.760951 ASP a