The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S. and throughout the world. Edited by Rachel Weber and Randall Crane, professors at two leading planning institutes in the United States, this handbook collects together over 45 noted field experts to discuss three key questions: Why plan? How and what do we plan? Who plans for whom? These three questions are then applied across three major topics in planning: States, Markets, and the Provision of Social Goods; The Methods and Substance of Planning; and Agency, Implementation, and Decision Making. Covering the key components of the discipline, this book is a comprehensive, discipline-defining text suited for students and seasoned planners alike.
This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning.
This is part of a ten volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science.
Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholar, this is the first detailed survey of the world's cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.
This text is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies.
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This Handbook therefore offers a valuable resource for graduate students and faculty new to networks looking to learn new approaches, scholars interested in an overview of the field, and network analysts looking to expand their skills or ...
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations offers the most authoritative and comprehensive overview to date of the field of international relations.
The role of play in human development has long been the subject of controversy. This book examines the development of children's play through a rigorous and multidisciplinary approach.
This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond.
This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.