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Public Space, Peace, And Everyday Life

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 Public Space, Peace, and Everyday Life delves into the intricate relationships between public spaces, peace, and the rhythms of daily life. The book explores how peace is actively constructed in public spaces through the dynamics of place, community, and environment.
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Exclusion In Smart Cities - Assessment And Strategy For Strengthening Resilience

by Izabela Jonek-Kowalska e Radoslaw Wolniak

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 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 inclusiveness of smart cities and outlines strategies for strengthening urban resistance to exclusion.
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Rebuilding Urban Complexity - A Configurational Approach To Postindustrial Cities

by Francesca Froy

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 This is a book about urban complexity â€" how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different â€˜partsâ€™ (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving â€˜wholeâ€™.
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Reinventing The Chinese City - Urban Regeneration And Governance In Transition

by Zhu Qian

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 Reinventing the Chinese City: Urban Regeneration and Governance in Transition delves into the intricate relationships between space and society within the context of Chinaâ€™s rescaled urban regeneration. It seeks to uncover and critically examine pivotal aspects of these dynamics.
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Health, Diversity, And Temporary Appropriation In Public Space

by Barbora Melis e Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez

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 This book explores how temporary appropriationâ€"the spontaneous and informal use of public spaceâ€"reveals how people actively shape their environments in ways that support health, diversity, and social interaction.
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Infrastructure And Planning In Central And Eastern Europe - Tackling The Challenges Of Major Road Investments

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 The book will compare and contrast the key problems associated with the planning and implementation of major road investments in selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.
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Transitory Urbanism

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 Transitory Urbanism explores how cities are continuously formed and reformed through movement, negotiation, and uncertainty. Rather than viewing transience as an anomaly, it positions instability, mobility, and variation as fundamental to urban life, forces that actively shape cities rather than disrupt them.
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Film And Urbanism

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 Film and Urbanism contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship by investigating the complex and multidimensional relationship between the city and film as a practice.
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The Protection Of Green Spaces For Climate Change Adaptation - Planning Systems, Policies And Instruments

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 The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia.
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Politics Of Road Expansion - Debunking Misled Economic Growth Narratives

by Babar M. Chohan

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 This book investigates how arguments for economic growth are perceived and advanced to promote road investment across the world.
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Contested Airport Land - Social-Spatial Transformation And Environmental Injustice In Asia And Africa

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 Empirical studies conducted in this book provide nuanced analysis of social-economic, administrative and political dynamics on the land beyond the airport grounds, such as the project area of Greenfield development, the airport city, or land resources reserved for future airport expansion.
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Planning Digital Cities - Transforming Public Spaces In The Age Of Technology

by Fatemeh Elnaz Badel

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 This book explores how digital technologies are reshaping urban public spaces, transforming social interactions, civic engagement, and cultural experiences in cities globally.
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De-Siloing Urban Planning

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 This book examines why urban planning continues to fall short of its aspirations for equity, sustainability, and resilience. It argues that contemporary challenges cannot be met without fundamentally reconfiguring how knowledge, power, and action are organized.
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Branded Heritage And Real Estate - The Making Of Urban Value

by Michela Pace

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 Branded Heritage and Real Estate presents a bold and timely investigation into the intersection of two powerful forces reshaping our cities today: the financialisation of space and the strategic use of heritage as a vehicle for profit.
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Mapping - Narratives, Practices And Spatial Inquiry

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 Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and reconfigure urban space.
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Urban Regeneration After Catastrophe - 7 Turning Points In The History Of City Planning

by Mary Ganis

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 This book examines how catastrophesâ€"natural, technological, ideological, biological, and socioeconomicâ€"transform urban design and planning, potentially creating "turning points" in a city's development trajectory.
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The Politics Of Road Expansion - Debunking Misled Economic Growth Narratives

by Babar M. Chohan

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 This book investigates how arguments for economic growth are perceived and advanced to promote road investment across the world.
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Chinese Collaborative Planning In The Digital Era - Institutions, Power Relations, And Public Spheres

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 This book is the first accessible text on theoretical underpinnings and extensive case material on Chinaâ€™s collaborative planning. It questions the validity of agonistic and communicative approaches and lays out a new theoretical framework for collaborative planning in China.
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Gentrification In Helsinki - Urban Planning At The Edge Of The Welfare State

by Kevin Drain

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 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 local urban planning has gained a momentum so as to remake the urban landscape.
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Australia And China Perspectives On Urban Regeneration And Rural Revitalization

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 This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration.
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Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design For Children And Youth

by Parisa Ziaesaeidi

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 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.
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Remodelling To Prepare For Independence - The Philippine Commonwealth, Decolonisation, Cities And Public Works, C. 1935â€“46

by Ian Morley

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 This book illuminates the implications of the USAâ€™s 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.
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Exclusion In Smart Cities - Assessment And Strategy For Strengthening Resilience

by Izabela Jonek-Kowalska e Radosa‚Aw Wolniak

~~56,96€~~ 51,26€ 10% OFF

 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 inclusiveness of Smart Cities and outline strategies for strengthening urban resistance to exclusion.The book will consider the essence, scale and types of exclusion and include analysis of inclusiveness in practice in the assessment and activities of Smart Cities. The research assesses Smart City literature, with particular emphasis on criticism of the Smart City concept and exclusion generated in smart urban structures, critically analyses the principles and indicators used in international inclusive Smart City rankings, highlights case studies on best practices for preventing exclusions in Smart Cities, and uses trend analysis to assess the scale and intensity of exclusion threats.This book can be used as a compendium of knowledge about exclusions in Smart Cities by both researchers and students, as well as all urban stakeholders, in particular city decision-makers.
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Exclusion In Smart Cities - Assessment And Strategy For Strengthening Resilience

by Izabela Jonek-Kowalska e Radoslaw Wolniak

~~56,96€~~ 51,26€ 10% OFF

 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 inclusiveness of Smart Cities and outline strategies for strengthening urban resistance to exclusion.The book will consider the essence, scale and types of exclusion and include analysis of inclusiveness in practice in the assessment and activities of Smart Cities. The research assesses Smart City literature, with particular emphasis on criticism of the Smart City concept and exclusion generated in smart urban structures, critically analyses the principles and indicators used in international inclusive Smart City rankings, highlights case studies on best practices for preventing exclusions in Smart Cities, and uses trend analysis to assess the scale and intensity of exclusion threats.This book can be used as a compendium of knowledge about exclusions in Smart Cities by both researchers and students, as well as all urban stakeholders, in particular city decision-makers.
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