Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. An Overview of Japanese Tourism-Based Community Development: Definitions and Successes
Yukio Yotsumoto, Junwoo Han and Nobuyuki Hatada (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan, and others)
Chapter 2. Theory and Reality of Rural and Urban Perspectives in the Context of Territorial Cohesion and Regional Development in the Czech Republic
Martin Pelucha (Department of Regional Studies, University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic)
Chapter 3. Development Pressures on Urban and Rural Traditional Fishing Communities in Brazil: A Case of Tropical Mollusk Gatherers
Simone Ferreira Teixeira, Anna Carla Ferreira Feitosa de Souza, Daniele Mariz and Susmara Silva Campos (University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 4. Urban Growth and Rural Development: The Nigerian Case
Wapwera Samuel Danjuma and Daniel Maren Mallo (Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Jos, Nigeria)
Chapter 5. Bridging the Gaps in Infrastructure for Urban Housing in Nigeria: New Thinking, New Strategies
Daniel Maren Mallo and Wapwera Samuel Danjuma (Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Jos, Nigeria)
Chapter 6. Re-thinking Landfills as Asset: Empirical Evidence from Urban Ghana
Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere (Department of Development Studies, University for Development Studies WA, Ghana)
Chapter 7. Professional Sports Franchises and City Status: Los Angeles and the National Football League
Chen Chen and Daniel S. Mason (University of Alberta, Canada)
Chapter 8. Soccer in North-America, the Planning Implications of an Edge Sports Complex in Scottsdale, Arizona
Carlos J.L. Balsas (Geography and Planning, University at Albany, NY, USA)
Index
