Urban communities

This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions.

This edited volume informs readers about changing norms and meanings of borders and underlines recent scenarios that shape these borders.

This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city.

This book looks at the New Urban Agenda and prospects of its implementation.

Water is an essential element in the future of cities.

This book investigates the new urban geographies of "e;smart"e; metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility.

This book provides the main findings of a ground-breaking survey on immigrants and the second generation in France.

In an era of big data and smart cities, this book is an innovative and creative contribution to our understanding of urban energy use.

This book reconsiders the fundamental principles of zoning and city planning over the course of the past one-hundred years, and the lessons that can be learned for the future of cities.

This book comprises a selection of the top contributions presented at the second international conference "e;Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2017"e;, held in March 2017 in Bolzano, Italy.

This book examines and addresses the particular character of urban tourism occurring in the global South.

Improving the relationship between archaeology and local government represents one of the next great challenges facing archaeology -specifically archaeology done in urban settings.

The fateful year 2020 brought dramatic challenges to American cities.

This book discusses how smart cities strive to deploy and interconnect infrastructures and services to guarantee that authorities and citizens have access to reliable and global customized services.

The book is a study of intra-urban inequality in quality of life (QOL) in Aizawl city.

This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.

For decades, Milton Santos (1926-2001) has been considered one of the most influential thinkers in Brazilian and Latin American social sciences and geography.

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 constitutes the proceedings of this year's Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories International Conference (SSCt 2021), held in Doha, Qatar, from the 27th to the 29th of April 2021.

Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York.

This edited volume compiles a set of papers that present various applications of spatial analysis, both traditional and contemporary, on diverse subjects in a wide range of contexts.

The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning.

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The edited volume explores the topic of experiential walks, which is the practice of multi- or mono-sensory and in-motion immersion into an urban or natural environment.

This book investigates small town tourism development in South Africa taking into account the most common strategies: branding, promotion, festivals and theming.

This book examines the neighborhoods of New York City to determine to what extent planning in New York addresses Sustainable City Principles (SCPs).

Today, cities are being intensively reshaped by unexpected dynamics.

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manilas dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes.

Wie kommt es, dass heute die Hälfte der Menschheit in Städten lebt?

Exploring locales such as city streets, bus stops, parking lots, bars, retail establishments, and discussion groups, Together Alone ventures into what is often thought of as the realm of passing strangers to examine the nature of personal relationships conducted in public spaces.

Stadtischer Raum ist ein Gemeingut, ein commons"e;: ein Ort der Zusammenarbeit und des Verhandelns von Menschen und zugleich deren Ergebnis.

Mit "e;Porositat"e; benannten Walter Benjamin und Asja Lacis einst Neapels Eigenschaften: Raume gehen ineinander uber, bieten Spielraume fur Unvorhergesehenes, Improvisation ist Alltag.

In an era in which the individuality and vitality of small towns are under threat from globalization, and city planning discussions tend to center on topics like metropolitan regions, megaregions, and global cities, the authors of this volume see a need to reflect critically on the potential of small towns.