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1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Disciplines, contexts, and categories; Certain assumptions and hypotheses; Plan of the book; 1 History and typology of capital cities; Preliminary definition; Functions of capital cities; Typology of capital cities; Historical types of capitals; History and arrangement of national capitals; 2 Capital city relocation experience; Principles of capital city siting; Capital city relocation in empires; Disembedded capitals: despotic states of the ancient East |
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3 Capital city relocations and debates of this topic in different world regionsGenerations of national capitals; Post-colonial nation-building in Africa; Post-colonial nation-building in Asia; Southeast Asia; South Asia; The Far East; The Middle East; Post-colonial nation-building in Latin America; Post-Soviet countries; Europe; 4 Strategies of capital city relocations and their critics; The common themes in capital city relocations; Six integrative strategies for capital city relocations; Three strategies of an exclusive capital city |
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The budgets and the appraisals of the relocation total costsAdministration and timetables of capital city shifts; "The brilliant mistakes" at best: the critique of capital city transfers; Some counter-arguments in defense of capital city shifts; Success factors: the good, the bad, and the ugly; 5 Three standards to assess the effectiveness of a capital city; Methodologies to assess the role and location of a capital city; Three standards to assess the effectiveness of a capital city; Capitals and global cities; Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Appendices; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317562849 |
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1317562844 |
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9781317562856 |
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1317562852 |
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