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Place and Placemaking
Place and Placemaking, edited by Conrad Kickert, Camden Miller, and Robert G. Shibley, explores the significance of place and the multifaceted processes involved in creating meaningful and enduring urban environments. The book examines how places are positioned, envisioned, co-created, and communicated through interactions among designers, planners, communities, civic leaders, and other stakeho…
Cities for Talent: Good Practices for Internationalisation in Medium-Sized Eu…
Cities for Talent: Good Practices for Internationalisation in Medium-sized European Cities explores how medium-sized European cities can attract, facilitate, and integrate skilled migrants while maintaining social cohesion and serving local populations. The book combines academic research with policy reflections and thematic case studies to examine challenges related to internationalisation, ta…
Urban Lives: An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century
Urban Lives: An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century, by Martin Dribe, explores the social and demographic development of an industrial city and the experiences of its population throughout the twentieth century. The book examines how industrialization, urbanization, economic transformation, and changing social conditions shaped the lives, residential patterns, family str…
Air Pollution at the Urban and Regional Level Sources, Sinks, and Transportation
Air Pollution at the Urban and Regional Level: Sources, Sinks, and Transportation, by Elena Hristova, Manousos Ioannis Manousakas, Anikó Angyal, and Maria Gini, examines the generation, distribution, transport, and accumulation of air pollutants across urban and regional environments. The book explores the major sources of atmospheric pollution and the processes through which pollutants are em…
Making Policies Work: First - and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design
Making Policies Work: First- and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design examines how policy tools and actions produce policy effects and contribute to successful policy outcomes. The book develops a mechanistic perspective that focuses on the causal processes linking policy actions to their effects. It introduces the concepts of first-order and second-order policy mechanisms and explores how …
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