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  • Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison

    Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues

    Edited by Thibauld Moulaert, Suzanne Garon ...
    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

    $179.39 CAD

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  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Household and Living Arrangement Projections

    The Extended Cohort-Component Method and Applications to the U.S. and China

    by Yi Zeng, Kenneth C. Land, Danan Gu, Zhenglian Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country. The ProFamy method uses demographic rates as inputs to project detailed distributions of household ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • A Practical Approach to Planning Law

    by Victor Moore, Michael Purdue ...
    Series series A Practical Approach
    Despite repeated attempts in recent years to simplify the planning system, planning law has continued to be so complex that practitioners and students alike have found it difficult to disentangle the issues and principles involved. The twelfth edition of this popular and accessible book aims to remove the mystery which planning law has for so many people. A Practical Approach to Planning Law ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Housing: Where’s the Plan?

    by Kate Barker ...
    Series series Perspectives
    Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a ‘housing crisis’ in the UK. The housing market has worked well for many people (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of their homes), which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for increasing numbers it now works less well, as home ownership is out of reach. Government finds it easier ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers

    Current Reality, Future Solutions

    Edited by Patricia Brownell, James J. Kelly ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book promotes an understanding of ageism, discrimination and mistreatment of older adult workers, incorporating an international human rights perspective. The impact of ageism on the mistreatment of older adult workers has not to date been examined in depth through the lens of international human rights instruments, nor has discrimination against older adults in the workplace been framed as a ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

    Edited by Ayda Eraydin, Tuna Taşan-Kok ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Arts and Culture for Older People in Singapore: An Annotated Bibliography

    by Belinda Yuen, Penny Kong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book combines in a single volume numerous studies concerning the use of arts and culture to enhance quality of life, health and wellbeing among older people, especially in Singapore. The bibliography covers not only research conducted in Singapore (both published and grey literature), but also a global body of work encompassing the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America. In addition to ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    by Mark Pelling ...
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Municipalities and Community Participation

    A Sourcebook for Capacity Building

    by Janelle Plummer ...
    Series series Municipal Capacity Building Series
    'Among all the literature on participation, this is the first book I know that focuses on municipal authorities. It... also has particular importance both for higher levels of government (at national or provincial/state level) and for international agencies. Firstly, it is a reminder of the importance of well-functioning municipal governments for reducing poverty. Secondly, it is a rich source of ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning

    Beyond the Flatlands

    Edited by Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up new possibilities in planning practices, processes, pedagogy and research. The authors document the ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Conceptual and Methodological Issues on the Adjustment to Aging

    Perspectives on Aging Well

    by Sofia von Humboldt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book approaches the concept of adjustment to aging and endeavors to build reader understanding of this construct through a critical review and discussion. Once the reader understands the origins and nature of adjustment to aging, a second innovation encompasses the development of a proposed empirical model of adjustment to aging and the analysis of its components and correlates. Measures to ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD