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  • La ville durable au secours de la ville nouvelle

    Maire centriste de Bussy Saint-Georges depuis 1998, Hugues Rondeau est avant tout un homme de culture et d’écriture. Découvrez son nouveau livre « La Ville durable au secours de la ville nouvelle » Ce livre retrace l’histoire de Bussy Saint-Georges, des évolutions de la ville passant d’une ville nouvelle à une ville durable, en prenant l’exemple de l’éco-quartier du Sycomore. Il est déjà l ... Read more

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  • Evolution of New Working Spaces

    Changing Nature and Geographies

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing dynamics of new working spaces, with insights from various European countries and observing critical theoretical approaches. Divided into two main parts, the first part focuses on the different typologies of new working spaces, identifying the changing nature of these spaces and associated concepts, taxonomies, and ... Read more

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  • New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

    by Mark Fossett ...
    Series Book 42 - The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular segregation indices in the “difference of group means” framework wherein index scores can be obtained as simple differences of group means on individual-level residential attainments scored from area racial composition. Drawing ... Read more

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  • Housing Market Dynamics in Africa

    This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy ... Read more

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  • Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Engine of Economic Development

    This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international ... Read more

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  • The Economy as a Complex Spatial System

    Macro, Meso and Micro Perspectives

    Series series Springer Proceedings in Complexity
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”.Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Land Management in a European Context

    A Co-Design Approach

    Series Book 8 - Human-Environment Interactions
    This open access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land.Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven years ... Read more

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  • Blick nach Osten: Eine regionale Betrachtung

    Series Book 14 - Big Ideas
    Die Länder und Regionen Mittel- und Osteuropas mussten zahlreiche Herausforderungen bewältigen. Sie haben totalitäre und autoritäre kommunistische Regimes erlebt, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts ihre Unabhängigkeit erlangt, wirtschaftliche und politische Umwälzungen gemeistert und schließlich mit der Aussicht auf gemeinsame Entwicklung den Weg nach Europa zurückgefunden.Bei allen Unterschieden und trotz ... Read more

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  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Working Spaces

    Series series Regions and Cities
    This edited volume presents a compendium of emerging and innovative studies on the proliferation of new working spaces (NeWSps), both formal and informal (such as coworking spaces, maker spaces, fab labs, public libraries, and coffee shops), and their role during and following the COVID-19 pandemic in urban and regional development and planning. This book presents an original, interdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Energy Access for Communities

    Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities

    Edited by Aminata Fall, Reinhard Haas ...
    This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goal ... Read more

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  • Ensaios sobre a economia do Sertão de Alagoas

    Em "Ensaios Sobre a Economia do Sertão de Alagoas" encontraremos estudos de docentes e discentes do curso de Economia do campus do Sertão (UFAL). Os ensaios apresentam temas que contribuem para análise do desenvolvimento da região sob novas perspectivas que podem contribuir com as políticas públicas educacionais e locais. A obra se destaca por vincular conceitos e aspectos geográficos, ... Read more

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  • Industry 4.0 and Regional Transformations

    Edited by Lisa De Propris, David Bailey ...
    This edited volume brings together a group of expert contributors to explorebthe opportunities and the challenges that Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing) is likely to pose for regions, fi rms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and empirical cases, it considers emerging issues like servitization, new innovation models for local production systems and the increase in reshoring.Industry 4.0 and ... Read more

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  • European Narratives on Remote Working and Coworking During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective regarding the immediate and long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on coworking spaces in the European Region. The current pandemic has imposed several effects on work and spaces for work. Some are immediate effects and will last for a short time (such as the closing down of the space), some will last longer (namely ... Read more

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  • Hot Property

    The Housing Market in Major Cities

    This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban housing. In many cities this demand is out-pacing supply, which causes house prices to soar and increases the pressure on rental markets. These developments are posing major ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Co-housing in Europe

    Towards Sustainable Cities?

    This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development.Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co-housing and ... Read more

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  • The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods

    Renaissance and Resurgence

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000. The book provides a framework for contemplating the future form and function of gay ... Read more

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  • The eastern horizon – A regional perspective

    Series Book 14 - Big Ideas
    Countries and regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have gone through several challenges. They went through totalitarian and authoritarian communist regimes, gained independence at the end of the 19th century, faced new economic and political challenges and rejoined Europe in a perspective of mutual development.As different as they may be, despite recent populist movements, the CEE countries ... Read more

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  • New Metropolitan Perspectives

    Transition with Resilience for Evolutionary Development

    Series Book 639 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
    This open access book conveys attention to the theme of transition towards resilience and sustainability and its evolutionary perspective that emphasizes the complexity and uncertainty that governments and society are called to address in response to the ongoing challenges. "New Metropolitan Perspective Post COVID Dynamics: Green and Digital Transition, between Metropolitan and Return to Villages’ ... Read more

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  • Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

    Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

    Series series Green Energy and Technology
    This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals.Innovation processes ... Read more

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  • Renewables for Energy Access and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Energy
    This short open access book investigates the role of renewable energy in East Africa to provide policy-relevant inputs for the achievement of a cost-effective electrification process in the region. For each country, the authors review the current situation in the domestic power sector, adopt a GIS-based approach to plot renewable energy resources potential, and review currently planned projects ... Read more

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  • Charting Literary Urban Studies

    Texts as Models of and for the City

    Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts ... Read more

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  • Family Business and Regional Development

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development.Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that these ... Read more

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  • Innovation and Regional Technological Convergence

    Theory and Evidence

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Regional Science
    This open access book explores the role of innovation in technological convergence processes in the EU regional space and shifts the focus from absolute and conditional income convergence to technological convergence and its determinants. Presenting new theoretical and empirical evidence on the determinants and trajectory of the EU region’s development and convergence, this book will appeal to ... Read more

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  • Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

    Results of SSPCR 2022

    Series series Green Energy and Technology
    This open access book includes a selection of innovative contributions presented at the 4th international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2022”, held in Bolzano, Italy in July 2022. Featuring 10 papers by academics and consultants, strongly rooted in practical experiences and international projects, it discusses current ground-breaking research in innovative and ... Read more

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