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Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human by Edward Glaeser
RRP: £10.99£7.99Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners... -
GO BIG: How To Fix Our World by Ed Miliband
RRP: £10.99£7.99How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?How do we tackle the climate crisis? How can all of us play a part in making change happen? For the past four years, Ed Miliband has been discovering and interviewing brilliant people all around the world who are... -
Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives by Thalia Verkade
RRP: £14.99£10.06Our dependence on cars is damaging our health - and the planet's. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities. Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain James Bloodworth 9781786490162
£13.85Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of... -
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future - Lessons from the World's Limits by Richard Davies
RRP: £11.99£8.66*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019**Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019*'Extreme Economies is a revelation -... -
Levelling Up Left Behind Places: The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge by Ron Martin
RRP: £35.99£31.94This book aims to understand the predicaments of 'left behind places' and the scale of the policy challenge of 'levelling up' their economic prosperity. Drawing out lessons of wider international significance, it examines how places (cities, towns and... -
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown 9780333753446
£90.27Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations examines the crucial contribution of Chinese business groups to the rapid growth of South-East Asia. This study examines major Chinese firms and their increasingly important networks in this era of... -
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
RRP: £10.99£7.99'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLondon is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New... -
India: The Emerging Giant by Arvind Panagariya 9780199751563
RRP: £32.99£22.77India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant. But to date there has been no comprehensive account of India's remarkable growth or the role policy has played in fueling this expansion... -
City Planning: A Very Short Introduction by Carl Abbott
RRP: £8.99£6.82City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that... -
Modern Urban and Regional Economics by Philip McCann 9780199582006
RRP: £71.99£68.13Modern Urban and Regional Economics explains the spatial economic underpinnings of the behaviour of urban and regional economies in order to highlight the differences between the two types of economy. The explicitly spatial approach enables the author to... -
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles 9780241470923
RRP: £25.00£21.79'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial Times'A wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme... -
Economics and Property Danny Myers (University of Bath, UK) 9781138359987
RRP: £47.99£42.13Economics and Property provides a clear and easy-to-read introduction to any property economics module in a degree leading to a profession in real estate, surveying, construction and related courses in the built environment. It focuses on the core... -
High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis by David Rudlin
RRP: £40.00£33.18The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became... -
The Public Wealth of Cities: How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity by Dag Detter 9780815729983
RRP: £25.00£18.74Mobilizing existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and other social services. These are common themes in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much... -
Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East by Christopher M. Schroeder 9780230342224
£18.09Despite the world's elation at the Arab Spring, shockingly little has changed politically in the Middle East; even frontliners Egypt and Tunisia continue to suffer repression, fixed elections, and bombings, while Syria descends into civil war. But in the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics by Karen Mossberger 9780199385553
RRP: £52.00£47.62The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies. The editors are all recognized experts, and are well connected to the... -
The Economy of Ireland: Policy Making in a Global Context by John O'Hagan
RRP: £44.99£40.08The Economy of Ireland (14th edition) takes a holistic examination of the Irish Economy in light of events including the Celtic Tiger boom, recession, recovery and a global pandemic. The textbook considers the evolution of the Irish economy over time;... -
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities Alain Bertaud 9780262550970
RRP: £33.00£22.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262550970Author Alain BertaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Global Cities: A Short History by Greg Clark
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815728917Author Greg ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 180mm... -
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation: Ecosystems for Inclusion in Europe Mario Biggeri 9780815375791
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book provides comprehensive and advanced analysis of the characteristics of social entrepreneurship in Europe. It offers innovative, up-todate research on the ecosystems of social entrepreneurship, the behavior of social entrepreneurs, their ability... -
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity Charles L. Marohn, Jr. 9781119564812
RRP: £20.00£13.95A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in... -
Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered by Cecilia Rikap 9780367750299
RRP: £39.99£35.06In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies. The book's unique perspective focuses on how private ownership and control of knowledge and data have become a major source of rent and power... -
Urban Economics and Urban Policy: Challenging Conventional Policy Wisdom Paul C. Cheshire 9781783475254
RRP: £30.95£28.43In this bold, exciting and readable volume, Paul Cheshire, Max Nathan and Henry Overman illustrate the insights that recent economic research brings to our understanding of cities, and the lessons for urban policy-making. The authors present new evidence... -
Bishop Auckland: The growth of a historic market town Clare Howard 9781802078381
RRP: £14.99£13.94Nestled within the rolling hills and tree-filled landscape of Weardale, Bishop Auckland is an attractive market town with a rich collection of buildings dating from many centuries and an archaeological legacy spanning two millennia. This is a place... -
Decarbonizing Logistics: Distributing Goods in a Low Carbon World Prof Alan McKinnon 9780749483807
RRP: £44.99£37.90Logistics accounts for around 9-10% of global CO2 emissions and will be one of the hardest economic sectors to decarbonize. This is partly because the demand for freight transport is expected to rise sharply over the next few decades, but also because it... -
Smart Cities For Dummies Jonathan Reichental 9781119679943
RRP: £25.99£17.64Become empowered to build and maintain smarter cities At its core, a smart city is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban... -
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
RRP: £17.99£13.08In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of... -
The Preston Model and Community Wealth Building: Creating a Socio-Economic Democracy for the Future by Julian Manley
RRP: £35.99£31.69Through a deep examination of what has become known as the 'Preston Model', this book explores an innovative approach to local economic development that utilises economic democratisation to realise both social and economic objectives. The first part of... -
She Who Wins by Renée Bauer 9781953027085
RRP: £25.00£18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953027085Author Renee BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Urano WorldPublisher Urano WorldWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 154mm * 18mm -
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems by Luis M a Bettencourt
RRP: £43.00£30.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046008Author Luis M. A. BettencourtFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Global Urban Value Chain in History of Human Civilization: Global Urban Competitiveness Report (2020-2021) Pengfei Ni 9789819714018
RRP: £109.99£108.67This study was designed and the book prepared by the National Academy of Economics Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. By applying the indicator system and objective data, it... -
Africa Reset: A New Way Forward by Dr. Theodore Ahlers 9780199485024
RRP: £99.00£91.21Charting a renewed course for Africa, this work looks at the immediate challenges resulting from the global changes and the priority medium-term policy agenda essential to achieve the long-term aspirational vision for the continent till 2065. It... -
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Volume 5B by Gilles Duranton 9780444595317
RRP: £121.00£111.23Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and... -
Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America by Robert P. Inman 9780691131054
RRP: £45.00£40.41Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean... -
Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis by David W. Jones
RRP: £19.99£10.48Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The book's historical... -
The Wealth and Poverty of Cities: Why Nations Matter by Mario Polese
RRP: £44.99£37.68That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent. In The Wealth and Poverty of Cities, Mario Polese argues that focusing on city attributes is too narrow. Cities do not control the basic conditions that determine their success... -
Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium by Edward L. Glaeser 9780199290444
RRP: £78.00£77.43220 million Americans crowd together in the 3% of the country that is urban. 35 million people live in the vast metropolis of Tokyo, the most productive urban area in the world. The central city of Mumbai alone has 12 million people, and Shanghai almost... -
Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals): Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment Linda Clarke (University of Westminster, UK) 9780415688024
RRP: £43.99£38.84First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism. Linda Clarke's vital work argues that: Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in... -
Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development by Michael Storper 9780691202952
RRP: £35.00£27.95Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should...