Urban communities

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs-innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices.

The book brings together high-quality research articles on advanced hydrological analysis, advanced computational methods, and the ecological and sociological aspects of urban watershed management under one umbrella.

This book provides readers with two major practical insights.

This book examines the planning of cities in global transition, looking at Australia's Greater Sydney as a case example.

This book is on urban resilience - how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from them.

This book presents a detailed study on Aligarh's urban fringe, focusing on the livelihood of the villagers who have lived there for generations, and on that of the migrants residing in the villages.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Beijing's urban structure in the 20th century, analyzing essential social and economic changes in the housing sector.

This book examines the phenomenon of the "e;digital city"e; in the US by looking at three case studies: New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle.

This essential reference guide to strategies and solutions for urban planning in hot arid environments reflects the journey toward many cities, towns and villages in Iran, which are documented and presented in the form of case studies and comparative analysis.

This book examines a range of practical developments that are happening in education as conducted in urban settings across different scales.

This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City.

This book focuses on peri-urban development processes in Africa, with special emphasis on Zimbabwe.

Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves?

This book introduces the readers to the new concept of cognitive cities.

This book critically examines the link between guns and violence.

Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains' theories and practices.

This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability.

This book takes a bold epistemological approach to address the fundamental questions that urban design has faced since its inception - questions concerning its legitimacy, definition, nature, content, purpose, theory, methods, jurisdiction and above all its knowledge base.

This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines - complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist - addresses various issues regarding cities.

This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place.

This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities.

This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning.

This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports.

This book examines the energy dimension of the smart city from the perspective of urban planning, providing a complete overview that ranges from theoretical aspects to practical considerations and projects.

This book aims to identify ways of overcoming the limitations of the communicative tradition in understanding participatory spatial planning.

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps.

This book discusses that disasters, whether natural or man-made, are essentially a human phenomenon.

This book provides a significant new interpretation of China's rapid urbanization by analyzing its impact on the spread of Protestant Christianity in the People's Republic.

This book examines wayfinding from a broad public health perspective and articulates what needs to be done to create better wayfinding for all people regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation.

This book studies the transformation of modern maritimity practices in coastal areas (such as swimming, navigation and tourism) and their implications to the development of Brazilian coastal cities, with an emphasis on the Northeast part of the country.

This book is devoted to the modeling and understandingof complex urban systems.

This volume provides visionary approaches within the multi-disciplines engaged with informal settlements covering three main themes; 'Innovative Policies and Strategies to Informal Urbanism'; 'Production, Operation and the Life-World of Urban Space' and finally 'The Dynamics of Informal Settlements'.

This bookreviews contemporary research on urban infrastructure in 76 Ethiopian cities.

This book contains all refereed papers thatwere accepted to the second edition of the Asia-Pacific conference on  ComplexSystems Design & Management Asia (CSD&M Asia 2016) that tookplace in Singapore from February 24  toFebruary 26, 2016 (Website: http://www.

This book analyzes how climate change adaptation can be implemented at the community, regional and national level.

This book presents the results of empirical research conducted by the authors, who personally surveyed the people they met on each and every street, square and public space in Budapest.

This book explores the microsensing technologies and systems now available to monitor the quality of air and water within the urban environment and examines their role in the creation of sustainable cities against the background of the challenges posed by rapid urbanization.

This book presents an analysis of why some large infrastructure projects are delayed or compromised and offers important insights into the better delivery of future projects.

This book presents a new paradigm of knowledge and action withrespect to urban waterfronts and the fluid city paradigm, explaining its methodological framework and describing an integrated andcreative planning approach in which waterfront regeneration is pursued as a keyurban-renewal strategy.

This book presents atheory as well as methods to understand and to purposively influence complexsystems.

This book critically explores the interconnections between tourism and the contemporary city from a policy-oriented standpoint, combining tourism perspectives with discussion of urban models, issues, and challenges.

This book explores the environmental, economic, and socio-political dynamics of sustainability from a geographic perspective.

This book, based on conference excerpts, investigates various aspects of contemporary Iranian urbanism.

This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact.

Utilizing the results of a case study on the Gare-Lac sector in the city of Yverdon-les-Bains - the site is currently a large urban brownfield, intended to host ca.

This book will seek to close the gaps on the role of France in exporting Eurocentric spatial and environmental design principles and practice.

This book explores expertise relevant for two working groups of NeDiMAH, a European Science Foundation (ESF) funded Research Networking Programme.

This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis.

This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context.

This book seeks to enhance the cultural dimension of sustainable development and particularly focuses on minor historic centers and their natural and rural landscapes.