Introduction -- Early Days -- Visions of Clean and Green -- Water Resources and Independence -- Gardens, Parks and Green Reserves -- Ways Forward -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.Open AccessThis open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and …
1. Introduction -- 2. The Family and the City – a Historical Overview -- 3. The Contemporary Inner City and Families -- 4. Why Are Families Staying in the City? -- 5. Parenting Practices in the City -- 6. Urban Parents and the Changing Consumption Landscape in Helsinki -- 7. New Urban Figures in Contemporary Urban Reality? -- 8. Conclusion: The Domesticfication of Neighbourhoods -- 9. Researc…
1. Polarisation -- 2. Prestige -- 3. Networks -- 4. Diversity -- 5. Mobilisations -- 6. Densification -- 7. Thoroughfare -- 8. Contradictions.Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods – Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful citizens. The book expl…
Living in a fearscape? -- Western paradoxes of security and fear -- Us and Them: otherness and exclusion -- Fear and space -- Planning, fear and power -- Thinking future.This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear,…
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Infusing Educational Practice with Three Implementations of Web GIS -- Chapter 2 Implementing geospatial thinking in education -- Chapter 3 Computer games in support for spatial learning purposes: lessons learned from two project based school projects on sustainable spatial planning with Minecraft in the Netherlands -- Chapter 4 Youthmetre -- Chapter 5 Brain as GIS mak…
Chapter 1. Differences and inequalities in contemporary cities: a spatial perspective -- Chapter 2. Understanding social exclusion -- Chapter 3. Keyword of social inequalities -- Chapter 4. Identities, exclusions and space -- Chapter 5. Participation in policies against urban social exclusion.The book explores social inclusion/exclusion from a socio-spatial perspective, highlighting the active …
1. Growth of U.S. Good Jobs -- 2. Low Costs and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 3. Winning Industries and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 4. Human Capital and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 5. Small Businesses and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 6. Technology and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 7. Amenities and the Growth of Good U.S. Jobs -- 8. New Products, Residents and Housing—and the Gr…
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction-. 1. Water -- 2. Natural and Cultural Landscapes -- 3. Natural Resources -- 4. Energy, Environmental Pollution and Policy -- 5. Demography -- 6. The Netherlands, Europe and the World -- 7. Cultural and Electoral Geography -- 8. Governance -- 9. Economic Geography -- 10. Cities, Suburbs, Villages -- 11. Infrastructures -- 12. Social Map -- 13. Prospect…
Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Big Questions About Sustainability and Viability in Small-Scale Fisheries -- Chapter 2. Overview of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Prospects -- Part 2. Issues Challenges and Threats -- Chapter 3. Adaptive Capacity to Coastal Disasters: Challenges and Lessons from Small-Scale Fishing Communities in Central-Southern Chil…
Chapter 1. Mediterranean Mobilities and Europe’s Changing Relationships -- Part 1: Viewpoints on the Mediterranean and Europe -- Chapter 2. EU Elite Representations of Mediterranean Space: Arab Student Perspectives -- Chapter 3. The EU and the Symbolic, Territorial and Institutional Organisation of the Mediterranean as a Global Mobile Space: Moroccan Student Perspectives -- Part 2: Narratives…