Cities Of Dragons And Elephants

Author : Guanghua Wan,Ming Lu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192564573

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Cities of Dragons and Elephants by Guanghua Wan,Ming Lu Pdf

Urbanization is one of the most important phenomena in economic development. In the past three decades, Asian urban populations expanded by almost one billion, a figure expected to double in the next three decades. Clearly, both the scale and pace of urbanization in Asia is unprecedented in human history and will dominate the global urbanization landscape. Asia's urbanization, in turn, is dominated by what is happening in China and India, the two most populous, fastest growing economies in the world. Cities of Dragons and Elephants: Urbanization and Urban Development in China and India aims at addressing the two most fundamental issues of urbanization: why and where to urbanize. Contributed by a team of top experts from both countries, it uses original research to explore both the speed and scale of urbanization and urban systems or spatial distribution of urbanities in different-sized citites. It examines various drivers of urbanization alongside the benefits and costs and the role of markets, governments, and NGOs. Cities of Dragons and Elephants presents evidence-based policy suggestions regarding the labor market, the land and housing market, FDI and the capital market, education, environment, poverty, and inequality. It uses the similarities betwen India and China to draw conclusions and implications of enormous relevance to many governments and institutions in Asia and beyond.

Author : OM PRAKASH MATHUR
Publisher : Institue of Social Sciences
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788192104133

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State of the Cities India by OM PRAKASH MATHUR Pdf

India’s urban transition has, of late, acquired multiple narratives. It is said to be rapid, moderate, slow, messy, and hidden. What underpins such multiple narratives is the central theme of the study, State of the Cities: India. Making use of an analytical framework that permits an examination of the shifts in the pace and pattern of India’s urbanisation over a period of time, this study takes an in-depth look at the evidence on three of its key dimensions: the demographics, the economy, and the status of infrastructure and the environment. Some of the key questions that this study seeks responses to are: Is India’s in the post-libarlisation period any different? Does it show the effect of the changes in the macroeconomic parameters of the post-1991 period? Is it more or less productive and inclusive and environmentally secure? Is it spatially more equal or unequal? Does it in any way signal an inflection point in India's urban transition? Drawing from the analysis of the evidence comparable over time, the study spotlights several interesting questions: what would, for example, explain the acceleration in the pace of urbanisation under conditions of low economic growth and its moderation under conditions of high economic growth? What factors would explain a fall in the rate of growth in the urban share of gross domestic product (GDP) at such a low level of urbanisation, especially the GDP accruing from the manufacturing sector? This study makes a strong case for evidence-based assessment of India’s urban transition, rather than to continue to commit, as many of us do, to the long-held, but specious narrative that India is in the midst of rapid urbanisation.

Author : Kala S Sridhar,George Mavrotas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000426366

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Urbanization in the Global South by Kala S Sridhar,George Mavrotas Pdf

This book examines the challenges of urbanization in the global south and the linkages between urbanization, economic development and urban poverty from the perspectives of cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It focuses on various aspects of urbanization ranging from food security and public services like sanitation, water and electricity to the finances of cities and externalities associated with the urbanization process. The volume also highlights the importance of participatory urban governance for cities in India with comparative perspectives from other countries. It further focuses on the urbanization of poverty, livelihood in urban areas, overconsumption and nutrition and ecology. Based on primary data, the chapters in the volume review trends, opportunities, challenges, governance and strategies of several countries at different levels of urbanization, with several case studies from India. This multidisciplinary volume will be of great interest to researchers and students of development studies, sociology, economics and urban planning and policy. It will also be useful for policymakers, think tanks and practitioners in the area of urbanization.

Author : Yong Heng
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649750983

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Super Sneering System by Yong Heng Pdf

Young Wang Xiaoshan had crossed worlds and obtained the King's Glory System. As long as he had enough points, he could exchange them for all his heroes and skills. Joe: Hope and miracles exist! Li Bai: One poem, one drink, one song, one sword. Wang Zhaojun: Those guys who covet my beauty, they all calmly reflect under the ice plains. A-Ke: I don't know your name, but I know when you're going to die! Ruban: I tested the other person's IQ, so I can't use my full strength. Zhuge Liang: Bow to your heart's content so that you can die. — — The whole army will attack!

Author : Sara Kuehn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004209725

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The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art by Sara Kuehn Pdf

This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures.

Author : James Joseph Walsh
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465520494

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The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries by James Joseph Walsh Pdf

Of all the epochs of effort after a new life, that of the age of Aquinas, Roger Bacon, St. Francis, St. Louis, Giotto, and Dante is the most purely spiritual, the most really constructive, and indeed the most truly philosophic. … The whole thirteenth century is crowded with creative forces in philosophy, art, poetry, and statesmanship as rich as those of the humanist Renaissance. And if we are accustomed to look on them as so much more limited and rude it is because we forget how very few and poor were their resources and their instruments. In creative genius Giotto is the peer, if not the superior of Raphael. Dante had all the qualities of his three chief successors and very much more besides. It is a tenable view that in inventive fertility and in imaginative range, those vast composite creations—the Cathedrals of the Thirteenth Century, in all their wealth of architectural statuary, painted glass, enamels, embroideries, and inexhaustible decorative work may be set beside the entire painting of the sixteenth century. Albert and Aquinas, in philosophic range, had no peer until we come down to Descartes, nor was Roger Bacon surpassed in versatile audacity of genius and in true encyclopaedic grasp by any thinker between him and his namesake the Chancellor. In statesmanship and all the qualities of the born leader of men we can only match the great chiefs of the Thirteenth Century by comparing them with the greatest names three or even four centuries later. Now this great century, the last of the true Middle Ages, which as it drew to its own end gave birth to Modern Society, has a special character of its own, a character that gives it an abiding and enchanting interest. We find in it a harmony of power, a universality of endowment, a glow, an aspiring ambition and confidence such as we never find in later centuries, at least so generally and so permanently diffused. … The Thirteenth Century was an era of no special character. It was in nothing one-sided and in nothing discordant. It had great thinkers, great rulers, great teachers, great poets, great artists, great moralists, and great workmen. It could not be called the material age, the devotional age, the political age, or the poetic age in any special degree. It was equally poetic, political, industrial, artistic, practical, intellectual, and devotional. And these qualities acted in harmony on a uniform conception of life with a real symmetry of purpose.

Author : Andrew Dalby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0520236742

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Dangerous Tastes by Andrew Dalby Pdf

"Dangerous Tastes offers a fresh perspective on these exotic substances and the roles they have played over the centuries. The author shows how each region became part of a worldwide network of trade - with local consequences ranging from disaster to triumph."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Si MaShengJie
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636890265

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Agent In Amorous City by Si MaShengJie Pdf

Li Shaoguang was an ordinary university student. Before graduating from university, he had accidentally saved Zhang Wuji and obtained his soul and the Nine Yang Divine Technique. His illusory martial arts combined with his declining martial arts caused a huge change in his world. Of course, it would be accompanied by a beautiful woman.

Author : Mo Zun
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648463808

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The Devil Sovereign by Mo Zun Pdf

This was a mysterious continent. It was a completely different continent from Hua Xia. The Buddha of the West, the demons and demons from the Oasis of Hanhai, and the cultivators of Hanzhou ...The several factions were originally living in harmony with each other, but all of this was broken by a person called Beacon Zhang Yan. Han Feng, who crossed over from China, possessed Beacon Zhang Yan and also received the inheritance of the ancient cultivation technique. Would he be able to make a name for himself on this continent? Let everyone know that the sigil of the beacon was Han Feng, and that the Han Feng was the sigil of the beacon!

Author : Joy Y. Zhang,Saheli Datta Burton
Publisher : Inscriptions
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 152615952X

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The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences by Joy Y. Zhang,Saheli Datta Burton Pdf

This book demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in China's and India's rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Manufactures
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066400130

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Special Agents' Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ralph Milton Odell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : IND:30000104304203

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Cotton Goods in British East Africa, Uganda, Zanzibar, and German East Africa by Ralph Milton Odell Pdf

Author : Timothy J. Burbery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000407723

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Geomythology by Timothy J. Burbery Pdf

Gold-guarding griffins, Cyclopes, killer lakes, man-eating birds, and "fire devils" from the sky—such wonders have long been dismissed as fictional. Now, thanks to the richly interdisciplinary field of geomythology, researchers are taking a second look. It turns out that these and similar tales, which originated in pre-literate societies, contain surprisingly accurate, pre-scientific intuitions about startling or catastrophic earth-based phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and the unearthing of bizarre animal bones. Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events provides an accessible, engaging overview of this hybrid discipline. The introductory chapter surveys geomythology’s remarkable history and its core concepts, while the second and third chapters analyze the geomythical resonances of universal earth tales about dragons and giants. Chapter 4 narrows the focus to regional stories and discusses the ways these and other myths have influenced legends about griffins, Cyclopes, and other iconic creatures. The final chapter considers future avenues of research in geomythology, including geohazard management, geomythology databases, geomythical "cold cases," and ways the discipline might eventually set, rather than merely support, research agendas in science. Thus, the book constitutes a valuable asset for scientists and lay readers alike, particularly in a time of growing interest in monsters, massive climate change, and natural disasters.

Author : Harold Robbins
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429956857

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Sin City by Harold Robbins Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Predators For more than five decades, bestselling author Harold Robbins has thrilled millions of readers with tales heavy in action, ruthless characters, international intrigue, and the sexiest people ever captured in print. Now in Sin City, he takes us to a town famous for all these, Las Vegas. Jack "Lucky" Riordan is anything but lucky. The illegitimate son of Howard Hughes, he and his mother are cast out of Las Vegas when Hughes learns of the pregnancy, only for Jack to return years later to make his fortune. Jack might not have luck. But he has an eye for a quick con. His skills soon allow him to climb the ladder as head of security for one of Glitter Gulch's most ruthless casinos, where cheating will get you jail, if you're not crippled by security first. Jack sees it all: the corruption of fast money, the ways his friends will stab in the back for a shot at a jackpot, and the allure of women who will do anything to hit the big time. But the big time in Vegas always comes at a cost . . . and Jack is about to learn the price of life in Sin City. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Mac Flynn
Publisher : Crescent Moon Studios, Inc.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Myths Beyond Dragons: Maiden to the Dragon #8 (Alpha Dragon Shifter Romance) by Mac Flynn Pdf