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  • Hospitality in Asia

    A New Paradigm

    by Kaye Chon ...
    In a rapidly advancing era, a fresh look at the concept of hospitality from socio-cultural perspectives is needed. This book proposes that a new paradigm in hospitality has been developed in Asia due to its unique culture, social values and traditions.Based on Kaye Chon’s extensive field research and experience teaching in hospitality over three decades, this book provides a historical review of ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific

    Edited by Bruce Prideaux, Dallen Timothy, Kaye Chon ...
    The Asia Pacific region’s enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated with the incorporation of cultural and heritage experiences in tourist itineraries (such as authenticity verses commodification, exploitation of national cultures, impacts on local communities, and the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Shape of the City

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    Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.In this far-ranging review, Sewell recounts the arrival ... Read more

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  • Public Housing Myths

    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... Read more

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  • High-Risers

    Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

    by Ben Austen ...
    A Booklist Best Book of the Year: "The definitive history of the life and death of America's most iconic housing project," Chicago's Cabrini-Green (David Simon, creator of The Wire).Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000—all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Eventually, ... Read more

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  • Food and Urbanism

    The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future

    by Susan Parham ...
    Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process – how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of – it ... Read more

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  • Planning Politics in Toronto

    The Ontario Municipal Board and Urban Development

    by Aaron Alexander Moore ...
    The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including city planners, developers, neighbourhood associations, and local politicians.Moore’s findings draw on a ... Read more

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  • Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways

    From Words to Housing

    by Jay S. Levy ...
    Series series New Horizons in Therapy
    On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless peopleresiding in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?"Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: OldMan Ray, the World War II veteran who resents the VA system andregards himself as the de facto night watchman at Port Authority;Ben who claims to be a prophet disowned in his own country, crucifiedby the ... Read more

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  • Children, Nature, Cities

    by Ann Marie F. Murnaghan, Laura J. Shillington ...
    Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising the city as a socio-natural space, the book illustrates how children and youth's relations ... Read more

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    California’s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It

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  • Regional Governance and Power in France

    The Dynamics of Political Space

    by R. Pasquier ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In the shadow of a French national narrative which demonises and rejects local specificities, highly differentiated territorial political spaces have been created, shaped by identity, decentralisation, and public policy. This book analyses regional power in France and paints a picture of a controversial central state undergoing fundamental changes. ... Read more

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