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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
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
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-33894-6
- Collation
- 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
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- 978-3-031-29515-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 320
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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- 978-3-319-75328-7
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- X, 310
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 13)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
Adaptive Urban Transformation
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-89828-1
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 307
Knowledge and Action
This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes. Readers will gain insight int…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-44588-5
- Collation
- X, 300
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 9)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
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