Author: Charles Arthur StansfieldPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Retail trade
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
An Analysis of Retail Trade Districts Within Selected British and American Seaside Resorts
Author: Charles Arthur StansfieldPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Retail trade
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Geography and Retailing
Author: Peter ScottPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202366278
Category : Central places
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"An important contribution to our understanding of the distribution of retail activities, particularly within cities, this book provides a critical review of the literature on the subject. It points out the major general propositions concerning retailing from the geographical point of view, and identifies key research problems, which need to be examined in order to push forward the frontiers of this sub field of economic geography. It presents a major critique of the central-place model, which has come to hold an important place in the methodology of economic geography, and clearly and decisively shows the model to be static, deterministic, retrospective and of little value for predictive purposes."--Provided by publisher.
Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Developing Patterns of Urbanization
Author: Centre for Environmental Studies (Great Britain). Study Group on Developing Patterns of UrbanisationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Architects' Journal
Author: The Management of Uncertainty: Approaches, Methods and Applications
Author: Luc WilkinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400944586
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
For thirty years, the literature on decision-making and planning has been divided into two camps : work premised on rational models of choice and work designed to discredit such models. The sustained critic of fully rational decision-making theories has al ready a long history and a constant message to deliver : in practice, consequential decision-making hardly fulfills the canons of perfect rationality. There is also evidence that decision-making and planning are not unitary processes. Although the concept of "decision-making" connotes the idea of a single process, making a single choice involves a complex of processing tasks : structuring the problem, finding alternatives worth considering, deciding what information is relevant, assessing various consequences, and a variety of others. The aim of this volume is to bring together and try to inter relate some of the concepts and relevant knowledge from various disciplines concerned with one important aspect of this complex process : the management of uncertainty. It is hardly necessary to reiterate the case made by numerous authors about our changing and increasingly uncertain world. Suffice it to say here that it is uncertainty about the future, and in many cases about the past and the present also, which makes decision-making and planning so difficul t. The management of uncertainty may be defined as the way in which uncertainty is treated and processed in decision-making.
Architectural Record of Design and Construction
Author: The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: The Neoliberal Age?
Author: Aled DaviesPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 178735685X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven highly controversial, within both academia and contemporary political and public debate. Standard accounts of neoliberalism generally focus on the influence of political ideas in reshaping British politics; according to this narrative, neoliberalism was a right-wing ideology, peddled by political economists, think-tanks and politicians from the 1930s onwards, which finally triumphed in the 1970s and 1980s. The Neoliberal Age? suggests this narrative is too simplistic. Where the standard story sees neoliberalism as right-wing, this book points to some left-wing origins, too; where the standard story emphasises the agency of think-tanks and politicians, this book shows that other actors from the business world were also highly significant. Where the standard story can suggest that neoliberalism transformed subjectivities and social lives, this book illuminates other forces which helped make Britain more individualistic in the late twentieth century. The analysis thus takes neoliberalism seriously but also shows that it cannot be the only explanatory framework for understanding contemporary Britain. The book showcases cutting-edge research, making it useful to researchers and students, as well as to those interested in understanding the forces that have shaped our recent past.