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  • Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison

    Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The supportive role of urban spaces in active aging is explored on a world scale in this unique resource, using the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities and Community model. Case studies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere demonstrate how the model translates to fit diverse social, political, and economic realities across cultures and continents, ways age-friendly programs promote ... Read more

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  • Social Innovation and Territorial Development

    The concept of social innovation offers an alternative perspective on development and territorial transformation, one which foregrounds innovation in social relations. This volume presents a broad-ranging and insightful exploration of social innovation and how it can affect life, society and economy, especially within local communities. It addresses key questions about the nature of social ... Read more

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  • The Value of Place

    Exploring Regional Development and Land Use Strategies

    Edited by Frank Moulaert, Abid Mehmood ...
    This perceptive book explores the complex relationship between land use and regional development. It emphasizes the importance of land as a host for ecological, social, and cultural values, challenging the conventional view that it is exclusively an economic commodity or tradeable asset.Inspired by Professors Pavlos Delladetsimas’ and Flavia Martinelli’s innovative research, leading experts ... Read more

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  • Atlas of Two-Dimensional Echocardiography in Congenital Cardiac Defects

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In a relatively short period of time two-dimensional echocardiography has become the most important non-invasive diagnostic tool in the daily practice of a pediatric cardiologist who predominantly deals with congenital structural heart disease in neonates and infants. Consequently, one-dimensional M-mode echocardiography has lost most of its importance particularly in this field. Therefore, an ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Strategic Spatial Projects

    Catalysts for Change

    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and administrative activity. There is an urgent need to develop a mode of planning that aims to innovate in ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Framing Age

    Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology, ... Read more

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  • Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?

    Community Development and Social Innovation

    Series series Regions and Cities
    For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within a globalized world. The main argument put forward is that current mainstream analyses of urban and regional development have forgotten this rich heritage and fail to address the ... Read more

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  • Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation

    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.In this Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation, Frank Moulaert and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Local and Regional Development

    The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional development, encouraging dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between notions of ‘local and ... Read more

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  • Migration and Domestic Work

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level, in the past as well as in present time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach. The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating the feminization of migration, ... Read more

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