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Geographies of Schooling
This open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from different disciplinary perspectives. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, pedagogy, educational and social sciences in Germany, the United…
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- 978-3-030-18799-6
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- XII, 359
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 14)
- Call Number
- 334 GEO
Knowledge for Governance
This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of …
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- 978-3-030-47150-7
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- XIII, 469
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 15)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
Geographies of the University
This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, and expertise with significant economic, social, and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer origina…
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- 978-3-319-75593-9
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- XIV, 676
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 12)
- Call Number
- 900 GEO
Cycling Through the Pandemic
This open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public space in order to develop means of transport that are both efficient and adapted to the health context and their effects on cycling practices in Europe, North, and South Americ…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-45308-3
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 324
Post Un-Lock
This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local vulnerabilities, to the use of modern survey techniques to support planning. What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-33894-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 324
Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition
This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digit…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-29515-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 320
Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration
This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the pl…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-19748-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 550
Knowledge and Networks
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepren…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-45023-0
- Collation
- XII, 386
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 13)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
Planning Cities in Africa
This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice an…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-06550-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 324
Knowledge and Institutions
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepren…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-75328-7
- Collation
- X, 310
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 13)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
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