This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban spaces of possibilities and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships through...Lasīt vairāk
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghanas small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and th...Lasīt vairāk
Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth explores social sustainability in neighbourhood design, with a particular focus on providing practical design recommendations to improve the lives of children and youth. This...Lasīt vairāk
This book illuminates the implications of the USAs final phase of colonial rule in the Philippine Islands. It explores the Filipino side of decolonisation and the management of the built environment in the years immediately prior to self-rule....Lasīt vairāk
Appealing to a broad audience, this book bridges different issues, from landscape to ecosystems, planning to implementation, and policies to local community willingness. This book outlines a methodology for defining Green Infrastructure (GI) in ru...Lasīt vairāk
The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coast...Lasīt vairāk
Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation focuses on how higher education institutions are adapting to the challenges of the digital age in a world increasingly influenced by technology and sus...Lasīt vairāk
This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes are closely interlinked, and they can change urban politics. This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and pa...Lasīt vairāk
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners equitable placekeeping efforts. Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examinati...Lasīt vairāk
This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide. This book critically interrogates dominant narra...Lasīt vairāk
As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities. Resilient Urbanism critically examines how cities, towns, and informal settlements adapt to these mult...Lasīt vairāk
Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about. One issue is the possibility of generating various types of exclusion. For this reason, this book will develop principles for assessing the inclusiv...Lasīt vairāk
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion. Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in...Lasīt vairāk
This book carefully examines the constraints and possibilities for participatory governance under capitalism. Bridging critical urban studies and democratic theory, it will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of democratic inn...Lasīt vairāk
This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different parts (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving...Lasīt vairāk
This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities.The Smart City concept has been gaining popularity in recent yea...Lasīt vairāk
This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africas post-apartheid capital, Pretoria. Viewing the city through its most vulnerable people and places, it reco...Lasīt vairāk
Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South. Empirical studies provide nuanced analysis of social-economic, administrative and political dynamics on the land beyond the airport grounds, such as...Lasīt vairāk
This book unravels the paradox of gentrification in Helsinki where housing and welfare policies work well under certain conditions to prevent the worst outcomes of residential gentrification. Yet other forms of gentrification have proliferated and...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the city of Istanbul in Turkey, this book examines the citys informal urban settlements, the need for affordable shared housing and what changes have taken place during the age of globalisation and urban development. Th...Lasīt vairāk
