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Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling forms part of the humanities tradition by facing one of the fundamental problems since antiquity: how different media represent the world we live in. It intersects also with the digital by addressing the problem with the help of a digital humanities method: computer assisted conceptual modelling. And it acknowledges the spatial turn by investigating the boundary between what has traditionally been the two main media for representation of geospatial

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Contents: Free Economic Zone - Free Trade Zone - Economic Policy of China - Regional Economic Policy - Tianjin Economy - Economic Integration - International Economic Policy..

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed

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ean: 9780195069020, isbn: 0195069021,

A study of the economics of development and urbanization, this book discusses the economic factors that explain the spatial location of populations and industries. It also examines the creation of crowded urban areas in developing countries..

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mpn: 24 black & white illustrations, biograph, ean: 9789400712447, isbn: 9400712448,

Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that cyberspace does not exist in some aspatial void, but is deeply rooted in national and local political and cultural contexts. Toward that end, it will invoke a few major theorists of cyberspace, but apply their perspectives in terms that

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Urban and Regional Economics is the first textbook to provide an integrated framework for the study of urban and regional economics, emphasizing the importance of spatial and geographical factors. Offering a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the main foundational models, principles, and theories--including Classical, Neo-classical, and Keynesian approaches--the book uses a range of international examples to illustrate the ideas it explains. It is ideal for courses in

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ean: 9780199639618, isbn: 0199639612,

This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail? Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is meant by 'modernization' and 'unintended consequences', placing public policy reform within more general intellectual and social trends. It presents eight case study 'modernization' projects. Their

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Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Access to the arts inevitably appears high on that list, but knowledge about how culture and the arts can act as a tool of economic development is sadly lacking. This important sector must be considered not only as a source of amenities or pleasant diversions, but also as a wholly integrated part of local economies. Employing original data produced through both

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Die Autoren charakterisieren die Entwicklung der ostdeutschen Industrieforschung nach 1990 und arbeiten die wachsenden Anforderungen an die Innovationstätigkeit heraus. Auf dieser Grundlage und unter Einbeziehung empirischer Untersuchungen zu Wettbewerbs- und Leistungsfähigkleit von innovativen Unternehmen, FuE-Dienstleistern, externen und institutionell geförderten Forschungseinrichtungen geben die Autoren sowohl Vorschläge für die Erhöhung der Wirksamkeit der industriellen Forschung und

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At no time did Vienna playa greater role in the intellectual and artistic life of the German speaking peoples and of Europe than in the first three decades of the present century. It was the home of Mahler and SchOnberg, of Hofmannsthal and Schnitzler, of Mach and Wittgen­ stein, of Freud and of Austro-Marxism. Less known outside the Ger­ man-speaking world was Karl Kraus, whose whole work was insepa­ rably connected with the Vienna of his time and who, perhaps for this reason, may seem

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ean: 9780199590148, isbn: 0199590141,

By many estimates, the world has recently crossed the point where more than half the global population is urban, a trend driven by rapid urbanization in developing countries. Urban centres offer economies of scale in terms of productive enterprise and public investment. Cities are social melting pots, centres of innovation, and drivers of social change. However, cities are also marked by social differentiation, poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation. These are all issues that not only

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This book is about the renaissance of cities in the twenty first century and their increasing role as centers of creative economic activity. It attempts to put some conceptual and descriptive order around issues of urbanization in the contemporary world, emphasizing the idea of the social economy of the metropolis, which is to say, a view of the urban organism as an intertwined system of social and economic life played out through the arena of urban space.The book opens with a review of some

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4th International Conference on Urban Studies: Border and Mobility focuses on the impacts of urban mobility on issues surrounding borders. It delves into and challenge our preconceptions of order and borders, and about the ways borders create place, space, identity and discourse  – in areas as diverse as the academia, advocacy, politics, socio-economic and security in local, national or international levels. This conference aims to assess how the notions of boundaries continue to shape our

ean: 9780387781709, isbn: 0387781706,

This book addresses the needs of researchers and students using R to analyze spatial data across a range of disciplines and professions. The book is co-authored by a group involved in the Comprehensive R Archive Network..

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ean: 9781402040672, isbn: 1402040679,

Required reading for computational linguists, this work contains a series of important contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length. The book includes an introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three crucial fields of study in linguistics: linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and database design. Together they provide a comprehensive approach to the