Territory and Function

Territory and Function
Author: John Friedmann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1979
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780520041059

Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning

Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning
Author: Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134238118

This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of territory, identity and space in a devolved UK, through the lens of spatial planning. It draws together leading internationally renowned researchers from a variety of disciplines to address the implications of devolution upon spatial planning and the rescaling of UK politics. Each contributor offers a different perspective on the core issues in planning today in the context of New Labour’s regional project, particularly the government’s concern with business competitiveness, and key themes are illustrated with important case studies throughout.

Territory Vs Function

Territory Vs Function
Author: Jozef Gijsbertus Maria Hilhorst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1981
Genre: Interorganizational relations
ISBN:

Optimal Districting and Territory Design

Optimal Districting and Territory Design
Author: Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 303034312X

This book highlights recent advances in the field of districting, territory design, and zone design. Districting problems deal essentially with tactical decisions, and involve mainly dividing a set of geographic units into clusters or territories subject to some planning requirements. This book presents models, theory, algorithms (exact or heuristic), and applications that would bring research on districting systems up-to-date and define the state-of-the-art. Although papers have addressed real-world problems that require districting or territory division decisions, this is the first comprehensive book that directly addresses these problems. The chapters capture the diverse nature of districting applications, as the book is divided into three different areas of research. Part I covers recent up-to-date surveys on important areas of districting such as police districting, health care districting, and districting algorithms based on computational geometry. Part II focuses on recent advances on theory, modeling, and algorithms including mathematical programming and heuristic approaches, and finally, Part III contains successful applications in real-world districting cases.

The Confines of Territory

The Confines of Territory
Author: John Agnew
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Geopolitics
ISBN: 9780367560706

The word 'territory' has taken on renewed significance in a world where its close association with state sovereignty has made a serious comeback, invoked alike by proponents of Brexit in the UK, 'Making America Great Again' in the USA, and myriad populists from India to Brazil by way of Italy and Hungary. The word has had a contentious history in social science and political theory. In its first seven years, the journal Territory, Politics, Governance has published numerous articles examining the ways in which territory figures into contemporary political debates and its limits as a concept when applied to a world in which sovereignty never has simply pooled up within self-evidently distinctive blocs of space named as 'territories.' Among other things, the limits of territory are apparent in terms of the history of a global capitalism that always bursts beyond established boundaries, the fact that some states are much more powerful and exercise much more spatial reach than do others, and that the political uses of territory in its current usage date back predominantly to seventeenth century Europe rather than being historically transcendental or worldwide. The articles in this book are selected from Territory, Politics, Governance to survey many of the dilemmas and questions that haunt the concept of territory even as its current efflorescence in political discourse ignores them.