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This book provides information and resources to city planners and other public policy officials on the importance of smart sustainable cities and their relationship with urban knowledge-based economy.

This book provides information and resources to city planners and other public policy officials on the importance of smart sustainable cities and their relationship with urban knowledge-based economy.

Una historia crítica de Los Ángeles, la metrópolis que mejor encarna la doble naturaleza utópica y distópica del capitalismo avanzado.

En el mundo actual todo lo que pasa, pasa en las ciudades.

This book illustrates how the advanced technology developed for smart cities requires increasing interaction with citizens to motivate and incentive them.

This book illustrates how the advanced technology developed for smart cities requires increasing interaction with citizens to motivate and incentive them.

WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.

Almost everyone agrees that America's urban schools are a mess.

Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas.

This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective.

Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition.

A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race.

Leading architect E.

Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one.

In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics.

A colourful showcase of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture.

Originally published in 1960, the authors of Family and Kinship in East London then made an intensive study of a middle-class dormitory suburb.

Smart City Assessment: A Novel Framework for Development and Evaluation of Smart Cities outlines a new assessment model for smart cities, including energy, environmental, and economic factors.

Smart City Assessment: A Novel Framework for Development and Evaluation of Smart Cities outlines a new assessment model for smart cities, including energy, environmental, and economic factors.

This comprehensive volume is an indispensable resource for researchers as well as general readers interested in the geography, history, and culture of London, examining all aspects of life in the United Kingdom's capital city.

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.

The outbreak of plague in Surat in September 1994 brought to the fore the lopsided urban growth, inefficiency of the delivery system for basic services and incompetence of civic administration in urban India.

In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city's status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations.

This book presents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technological Research - RITAM 2021.

This book reviews the recent evolutions of cities in the world according to entirely revised theoretical fundamentals of urban systems.

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An acclaimed history of Harlem's journey from urban crisis to urban renaissanceWith its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today's Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis.

China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980.

Nation's Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy.

Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan.

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth.

A partir del turismo, se han proyectado ciudades que nacieron prácticamente en lugares deshabitados, como la ciudad de Cancún, que nace después del boom mundial de los destinos de sol y playa (García de Fuentes, Jouault y Romero, 2019), como parte de las políticas de desarrollo regional del Estado mexicano para atraer inversiones en zonas poco desarrolladas del país e impulsar su proceso de colonización, lo que trajo como consecuencia su urbanización, así como el crecimiento de ciudades costeras de litoral, con impactos ambientales que acompañan al proceso (Bunicontro, 2019).

This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities.

Weiße Kreidefelsen mit rauschenden Buchenwäldern über smaragdgrüner Ostsee; Rapsfelder vor Boddenufern und endlose Sandstrände mit Strandkörben: Mit 1500 Küstenkilometern lädt Rügen, »Deutschlands größte Insel«, zur Mythenbildung ein.

Völlig aktualisierte NeuausgabeWissen Sie, wo die beste Köchin Österreichs zu finden ist?

This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "e;healthy cities"e; and "e;urban planning"e;, examining various best practices in Europe.

Moskau für Einsteiger und Fortgeschrittene: Matthias Schepp zeigt uns, wie Russen ihre Kinder erziehen.

Viele Städte haben ihren ganz besonderen Reiz.

Washington ist das Zentrum der Macht.

Er ist so fahrrad- und umweltfreundlich wie sonst keiner, hat eine spannende Geschichte und wird von 50 000 Studenten jung gehalten: der Bischofssitz Münster.

This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time.

This book studies the production of urban culture in Tehran after 1979.

Sustainable development within urban and rural areas, transportation systems, logistics, supply chain management, urban health, social services, and architectural design are taken into consideration in the cohesive network models provided in this book.