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Hot property : the housing market in major cities
This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban housing. In many cities this demand is out-pacing supply, which causes house prices to soar and increases the pressure on rental markets. These developments are posing major chall…
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- 9783030116743
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- xvi, 221p. : ill.
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- 330.91732 HOT h
Food anxiety in globalising Vietnam
This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the eating bo…
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- 9789811307430
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- xix, 320p. : ill.
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- 307.76 FOO f
Innovation capacity and the city : the enabling role of design
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasible answers to …
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- 9783030001230
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- ix, 101p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 INN i
The places where community Is practiced : how store owners and their business…
In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the concrete places wher…
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- 9783658253936
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- xiii, 325p. : ill.
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- 307.33 STE p
Science of societal safety : living at times of risks and disasters
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement …
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- 9789811327759
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- xv, 227p. : ill.
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- 363.348 SCI s
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