Urban communities

Cities are experiencing unprecedented times.

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.

This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain.

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

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

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.

This book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice.

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 is a collection of works written by young scientists involved in the Integrated Disaster Risk Research (IRDR).

This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China.

This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities.

The book aims to provide city administrators and planners with a tool to accompany them in experimenting with the regeneration of no longer used parts of the built heritage, called leftovers, by adopting an innovative approach.

This book presents fundamental and applied research in developing geospatial modeling solutions to manage the challenges that urban areas are facing today.

This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades.

This book examines place and place-making in London's Borough Market.

In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result.

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

This book is based on the author's 33 years of intensive fieldwork.

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

This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housing Rights Movement Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, and progressively reconverted into the house and museum spaces that form the Citta Meticcia (the mestizo city).

This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility.

This book provides an interdisciplinary lens for exploring, assessing, and coming to new understandings of smart cities and regions, focusing on the six dimensions of sensing, awareness, learning, openness, innovation, and disruption.

This publication aims to investigate the nature of social life in public and urban spaces in the cities of the Middle East, considering the value of environmental approaches.

This Handbook presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the state-of-the-art on Smart Cities.

This book provides the first comparative assessment of the energy-efficiency retrofit programs in the social housing sector of Canadian cities, focusing on program efficiency and effectiveness.

This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in urban and regional planning processes and science, as presented by international researchers at the 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT), held in Catania, Italy, on September 8-10, 2021.

Against the background of unprecedented rates of urbanisation in the Global South, leading to massive social, economic and environmental transformations, this book engages with the dire need to understand the ecology of such settings as the foundation for fostering sustainable and resilient human settlements in contexts that are very different to the Global North.

This book has been produced as a part of the project 'Social-Ecological Systems at the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition'.

This book features original scientific manuscripts submitted for publication at the International Conference - The Science and Development of Transport (ZIRP 2020), organized by University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Zagreb, and held in Sibenik, Croatia, from 29th to 30th September 2020.

This book is about the relation between scientific research and professional practice on the built environment.

This book investigates the production of public space in contemporary urban contexts as conditioned by the suffusion of urban life with digital technologies.

This book adds to the research of urban informality in the Global South with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe.

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This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to describe appropriately.

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing.

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing.

This book explores the innovative workplaces, namely coworking spaces and makerspaces, that are emerging as a consequence of digital innovations and the related development of the knowledge economy and society in the wake of deindustrialization.

This book discusses the critical contemporary issues of sustainability and integration of physical and information flow.

This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development.

This book focuses on territorial policies as instruments for local development in Europe's periphery.

This book presents a thorough discussion of utility cycling, cycling in the urban environment, and everyday mobility.

This volume discusses recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in smart, internet-connected societies, highlighting three key focus areas.

This book follows on previous works addressing sustainable development research in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book advances the reflexion into how temporary urbanism is shaping cities across the world.

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding the inclusive city.

Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present analyses the representation of rural migration to Istanbul in literature, placing Henri Lefebvre's concept of the right to the city at the centre of the argument.

This book presents an accessible overview of the seven key concepts of city diplomacy (development cooperation, peacekeeping, economy, innovation, environment, culture, and migration).

This book is about ageing in Bulgaria.