Helps to understand the landscape as an important element of national heritage and provides a basis for landscape conservation and planning. This book examines the complex assemblages of features, physical and human, which gives landscapes their distinctive regional character.
Presents general readers with information on various topics around the world. This book shows major developments in the world as well as in the discipline of World Regional Geography that range from the collapse of Russia's Post-Soviet transformation to the impact of globalization and from the rise of Asia's Pacific Rim to the war in Iraq.
Introduces and contextualises the UK urban regeneration agenda. This book brings together research around key themes in governance, sustainability, competition, and design. It uses case studies of UK contemporary regeneration projects. It combines academic and theoretical explorations whilst linking theory and practice.
This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the countryside has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of life.
With aerial and ground photographs of 20th-century landscapes, this work highlights the impact the developments of the 20th-century have had on the landscape and gives us a different angle on the industrial, military, domestic and agricultural influences at work around us.
Motorways, airports, power stations, windfarms, TV, the internet, and shrinking distances - all of these helped define the later 20th-century world. This title highlights the impact the developments of the last century have had on the landscape, and covers the industrial, military, domestic and agricultural influences at work around us.
At the southern tip of Africa lies one of the most spectacular paradoxes of nature - the proximity of the lush rainforest belt known as the Garden Route and the semi-desert known as the Little Karoo. This book explores the intricacies of each of these natural worlds.
* Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. * This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks - the world city network framework and the global commodity chain framework.
Offers an introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in urban geography. This book includes an introductory chapter providing a succinct overview of the developments in the field. It covers 20 key concept entries with comprehensive explanations, definitions and evolutions of the subject.
Cornwall is almost surrounded by sea. Some 300 miles of coast includes majestic cliffs, sheltered harbours, creeks and estuaries, and magnificent beaches. This book focuses on the different types of coastal habitat - their geography, geology and wildlife.
This book applies the latest thinking and techniques of systematic conservation planning to the issues that arise in protecting ecosystem pattern and process in human-dominated landscapes such as seascapes, multiple countries and conservation targets.