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UNINA9910453727403321 |
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Norwood Graham |
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21st century estate agency / / Graham Norwood |
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Oxon [England] : , : EG Books, , 2005 |
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1-138-17820-9 |
1-315-04055-7 |
1-135-32718-1 |
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1 online resource (172 p.) |
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Real property |
Real estate agents |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Cover; Title Page ; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 What Is 21st Century Estate Agency and Why Should We Care?; A world without technology; It's all change for the property market; Gaining the techno edge; Modernising the UK estate agent; 2 Where We Are Now and How We Got Here; Corporates using technology to gain an advantage on independent agents; Is the lack of regulation to blame?; 3 A Different World - How Estate Agents Elsewhere Use Technology; Case study 1: the US - the multi-listing system, technology and qualifications ... a potent mix; Case study 2: the US - e-mail newsletters |
Case study 3: the US - how technology is used to train estate agentsCase study 4: Australia - the estate agent and the conveyancing solicitor come together in the "Real Estate Lawyer"; Case study 5: Australia - mobile telephone technology; Case study 6: Australia - licensing estate agents and technology qualifications; Case study 7: Canada - a (fiercely protected) multi-listing system; Case study 8: The Netherlands - another multi-listing system; Case study 9: The Netherlands - developers meet buyers via online technology; Case study 10: Denmark - yet another multi-listing system |
Case study 11: Mainland Europe - here come the Americans4 The UK Should Not Fall Behind - What Is Available To Us?; Property Portfolio |
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Management and Management Information software; Internet marketing tools; 21st century offices and tools; New media; 5 Case Studies of Adventurous UK Property Pioneers; Case study 1: Virtual estate agencies - Charles Lister, Daniel James and My First Home; Case study 2: Hand-held technology - Winkworth's Miniweb; Case study 3: The extranet - a "secret" service that can be offered by agents |
Case study 4: Small business but big technology - Northumbria & Cumbria Estates, HexhamCase study 5: Internet property auctions - slowly but surely they are working; Case study 6: www.reservathathouse.com - another failure but another warning to agents too?; Case study 7: Mobility-friendly homes - using technology to create a niche market; Case study 8: House Network - the shape of things to come (without estate agents)?; Case study 9: www.email4property.co.uk - technology for the public to contact agents |
Case study 10: Video conferencing - Taylor Woodrow, Bryant Homes and Countryside Properties lead the wayLearning the lessons; 6 E-everything - What Could Be Achieved If Only Agents Embraced New Technology; E-business, e-government, e-future; Home Information Packs and the revolution in estate agency; 21st century electronic infrastructure; 7 Resource Centre: Who Can Provide What?; Software providers for estate agents; Hardware providers for estate agents; Training for estate agents; Internet reference guide; Index |
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UNINA9910798701103321 |
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Chŏng Chae-ho <1960-> |
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Centrifugal empire : central-local relations in China / / Jae Ho Chung |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Central-local government relations - China |
Decentralization in government - China |
Chinese autonomous regions - Government policy |
Local government - China |
China Ethnic relations Political aspects |
China Politics and government 2002- |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1. China as a Centrifugal Empire: Size, Diversity, and Local Governance -- 2. China Goes Local (Again): Assessing Post- Mao Decentralization -- 3. The Subnational Hierarchy in Time: Institutional Changes (and Continuities) -- 4. The Center's Perceptions of Local Bureaucracy in China -- 5. The Center's Instruments of Local Control -- 6. Determinants of Local Discretion in Implementation: Exploring Policy- Contingent Variations -- 7. The Political Economy of Vertical Support and Horizontal Networks -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By analyzing Beijing's strategies for maintaining control even in the reformist post-Mao era, Centrifugal Empire reveals the unique thinking behind China's approach to local governance, its historical roots, and its deflection of divergent interests.Centrifugal Empire examines the logic, mode, and instrument of local governance established by the People's Republic, and then |
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compares the current system to the practices of its dynastic predecessors. The result is an expansive portrait of Chinese leaders' attitudes toward regional autonomy and local challenges, one concerned with territory-specific preoccupations and manifesting in constant searches for an optimal design of control. Jae Ho Chung reveals how current communist instruments of local governance echo imperial institutions, while exposing the Leninist regime's savvy adaptation to contemporary issues and its need for more sophisticated inter-local networks to keep its unitary rule intact. He casts the challenges to China's central-local relations as perennial, since the dilution of the system's "socialist" or "Communist" character will only accentuate its fundamentally Chinese-or centrifugal-nature. |
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