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  • The Infrastructural South

    Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization

    by Jonathan Silver ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.The Infrastructural South represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure’s role in the third wave of urbanization centered on Africa. Based on over a decade of empirical research, Silver’s sweeping examination ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid

    Geographies of the Electric City

    Edited by Jonathan Silver, Andres Luque-Ayala ...
    Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of global cities, this ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Other Side

    by Heather Camlot ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Silver ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 47 min

    "Twelve-year-old Liam finds a dead body along the shore at his grandfather's cottage. He can't erase what he's seen and can't focus on anything else, not even the upcoming opportunity of a lifetime to try out for an elite soccer team. Liam believes there is more to the girl's story than her "accidental death" and decides to investigate.When Liam visits his grandfather, living in palliative care, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative

    Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road

    by Ratchada Arpornsilp, Orlando Woods, Caixia Mao, Patrick Bond, Simone Veglio, Evelina Gambino, Xiaofeng Liu, Hannes Langguth, Ksenija Hanacek, Bowen Gu, Alberto Valz Gris, Kanchana Ruwanpura, Loritta Chan, Barnabas Mah, Francesca Governa, Leonardo Ramondetti, Astrid Safina, Angelo Sampieri ...
    EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US$8 trillion and impact more than 65% of the world’s population.This book explores the unequal ways this ... Read more

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  • Infrastructuring Urban Futures

    The Politics of Remaking Cities

    by Mimi Sheller, Nate Millington, Kafui Attoh, Meredith Whitten, Mark Usher, Michael Glass, Prince Guma, Andres Luque Ayala, Patrick Bigger, Jonathan Rutherford, Jen Nelles, Jean-Paul Addie ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and ... Read more

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  • The Power of Cities in International Relations

    Edited by Simon Curtis ...
    Series series Cities and Global Governance
    Cities have become increasingly important to global politics, but have largely occupied a peripheral place in the academic study of International Relations (IR). This is a notable oversight for the discipline, although one which may be explained by IR’s traditional state centrism, the subjugation of the city to the demands of the territorial state in the modern period, and a lack of conceptual and ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Urban Studies

    by Leslie Budd, Panu Lehtovuori, Mark D. Gottdiener ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies. Drawing examples from different parts of the world, this authoritative resource exposes students to the diverse forms that cities take, and the social, spatial and temporal dimensions of urban living. It is an essential resource for students across disciplines ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edited by Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class

    Corporate Power in the 21st Century

    by William K. Carroll ...
    Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Economic Geography

    Places, Networks and Flows

    by Andrew Wood, Susan Roberts ...
    The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world’s economic geographies. The scale and scope of such changes require urgent attention. With intellectual roots dating to the nineteenth century, economic geography has traditionally sought to examine the spatial distributions of economic activity and the principles that account for them. More recently, the field has turned ... Read more

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    Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of how the field has evolved and the concrete impacts of this on the ground on the lives of people in the Global South.Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World covers the major theories of development, such as modernisation and dependency, in ... Read more

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