** Apologies for cross posting **
If you are attending this year’s Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, why not visit the Policy Press stand in the RGS-IBG Pavilion, where a wide range of our titles are on sale at heavily discounted conference prices? A selection of those titles, including those just publishing are detailed below:
The social atlas of Europe
By Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig
HB ISBN: 978-1-4473-1354-0 £24.99
Special conference price - £15.00
“Once again this innovative group of academics open our eyes to something hidden in plain sight. This time, with refreshing accessibility, it is the way we see Europe. A must read!” Mary O’Hara, journalist and Fulbright scholar
Launching at this year’s conference. Come and join us at 6.45 p.m. on Wednesday 27th August in the Council Room to celebrate the book’s publication, with authors Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig.
Rebuilding Britain
By Hugh Ellis and Kate Henderson
PB ISBN: 978-1-4473-1759-3 £14.99
Special conference price - £10.00
This unique book asks how Britain can organise itself to build a fairer and sustainable society. It explores the value to society of social town planning and offers a doorway for how planning both morally and practically can help to meet key challenges of the 21st century.
Sustainable London?
Edited by Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees
HB ISBN: 978-1-4473-1060-0 £27.99
Special conference price - £15.00
An exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
Social-spatial segregation
Edited by Christopher Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth and David W. Wong
HB ISBN: 978-1-4473-0135-6 £70.00
Special conference price - £20.00
This edited volume, bringing together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, offers a new approach to conceptualising segregation.
The collaborating planner?
By Ben Clifford and Mark Tewdwr-Jones
NOW IN PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4473-0510-1 £27.99
Special conference price - £15.00
Aims to understand how both specific planning and broader public sector reforms have been experienced and understood by chartered town planners working in local authorities across the UK.
Community action and planning: Contexts, drivers and outcomes
Edited by Nick Gallent and Daniela Ciaffi
HB ISBN: 978-1-4473-1516-2 £70.00
Special conference price - £20.00
This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille.
Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change
By Hannah Jones
Winner of the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2014
HB ISBN: 978-1-4473-1003-7 £70.00
Special conference price: £20.00
Using original empirical data, this book explores how local government officers and politicians negotiate 'difficult subjects' linked with community cohesion policy: diversity, inequality, discrimination, extremism, migration, religion, class, power and change.
If you can’t make it along to the conference, all Policy Press titles are available at 20% discount at www.policypress.co.uk
Don’t forget we also publish a number of respected academic journals, including Policy & Politics, which has just been awarded a new Impact Factor of 1.302
“From its origins in British local government and urban studies to today’s broad vistas, Policy & Politics has grown into an established international journal of high repute”. Professor R. A. W. Rhodes, University of Southampton
You can sign up for a free trial of Policy & Politics here - http://www.policypress.co.uk/journals_pap.asp
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