Producer Services in China: Economic and Urban Development (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

Producer services in China : economic and urban development

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In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development. In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. Recording studios are the most insulated, intimate and privileged sites of music production and creativity.

Yet in a world of intensified globalisation, they are also sites which are highly connected into wider networks of music production that are increasingly spanning the globe. This book is the…. This book brings together research working at the boundary between design knowledges and mobilities, offering a novel collection for both theorists and practitioners.

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Virani The economic geography of music is evolving as new digital technologies, organizational forms, market dynamics and consumer behavior continue to restructure the industry. Global flows of people bring together cultural practices from distant places and urban dwellers in global cities interpret the signs of collective identity in ascribing particular places as "… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography.

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Releasing the Commons Rethinking the futures of the commons, 1st Edition Edited by Ash Amin , Philip Howell This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography.

Although the relationship between migration and risk is widely acknowledged, it has long… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. This book discovers and describes these relationships of new geographies,… Hardback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space 1st Edition Edited by Julie Cidell , David Prytherch The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy.

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Migration Borders Freedom 1st Edition By Harald Bauder International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. Cutchin Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes.

Crisis Spaces Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe, 1st Edition By Costis Hadjimichalis The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe — Spain, Portugal, Italy and, in its most extreme case, Greece — has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations.

This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship between… Hardback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. Hall , Markus Hesse Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography.

Locating Right to the City in the Global South 1st Edition Edited by Tony Roshan Samara , Shenjing He , Guo Chen Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. Crews Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography.

Yang In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development. Place, Diversity and Solidarity 1st Edition Edited by Stijn Oosterlynck , Nick Schuermans , Maarten Loopmans In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population.

Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio 1st Edition By Allan Watson Recording studios are the most insulated, intimate and privileged sites of music production and creativity. Mobilising Design 1st Edition Edited by Justin Spinney , Suzanne Reimer , Philip Pinch This book brings together research working at the boundary between design knowledges and mobilities, offering a novel collection for both theorists and practitioners.

Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds 1st Edition Edited by Michelle Bastian , Owain Jones , Niamh Moore , Emma Roe Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants. The Geography of Names Indigenous to post-foundational, 1st Edition By Gwilym Lucas Eades This book examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives.

Geographical name-tracking-networks Geo-NTNs are posited as tools for tracking names through time and across space, and for making sense of how names evolve both temporally… Hardback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. The book expands and explores a widened conceptualization of citizenship and sets out a range of examples where citizenship, at different scales, has been expressed in and over the rural… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography.

Spaces of Vernacular Creativity Rethinking the Cultural Economy, 1st Edition Edited by Tim Edensor , Deborah Leslie , Steve Millington , Norma Rantisi Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century.

Concepts such as the creative class, the creative industries and bohemian cultural clusters have come to… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. Glass , Reuben Rose-Redwood Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades.

At the same time, there has also been a growing recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to assertions of political authority and the practices… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource… Hardback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography.

The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy Global Perspectives, 1st Edition Edited by Carl Grodach , Daniel Silver The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity. In practice, the field of transnational learning has been dominated by various… Paperback — Routledge Routledge Studies in Human Geography.

Spatial-Economic Metamorphosis of a Nebula City Schiphol and the Schiphol Region During the 20th Century, 1st Edition By Abderrahman El Makhloufi This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world.

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