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Book SynopsisThis engaging book addresses the question of how diverse communities, whether in a nation, city or organization, can live together and prosper whilst retaining and enjoying their cultural differences. This is a particularly pertinent issue in the context of the modern world where mass migration and immigration are pervasive global phenomena. This volume brings together a series of contributors from various disciplines and cultural settings to address two central questions: how does cultural diversity contribute to or hamper central notions of sustainability such as human welfare, social cohesion or socio-economic development? how can cultural diversity unfold in a positive way through particular forms of interactions, processes and structures? The authors offer a conceptual discussion on the meaning and operationalization of sustainability within various contexts and settings. They provide concrete examples of the contribution of sustainable diversity to prosperous nations, communities and companies, but also identify a number of tensions which may undermine this positive potential. They highlight recognition, empowerment and inclusion as the three fundamental pillars on which policies should be built in order to create the necessary trust and legitimacy that provide the foundations for truly sustainable diversity Combining extensive theory and practice, this unique volume will be required reading for post-graduate students and researchers in a wide range of subjects connected to cultural diversity such as economics, sociology, anthropology, public policy and organization studies.Trade Review‘In the global context of mass migration, this book is a timely and valuable contribution to urban policy and organization studies. . . Recommended’ -- D.A. Chekki, Choice‘This is a very useful book on a very important subject. The preservation of the rich and diverse body of cultures that history and continued diversity provide is of great significance for humanity and the welfare of society. The failure to appreciate, and even to hate other cultures, is surely a threat to world peace and civilization. I particularly value the chapters that focus on policy and provide evidence indicating what policy approaches are effective and which are not.’ -- William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Introduction PART I: CONCEPTUAL INTRODUCTION 1. Sustainable Diversity Selma van Londen and Arie de Ruijter 2. An Historical Perspective on Sustainable Diversity: Market and Nation as Catalysts of Diversity in Modern Europe (1800–1950) Francesco Chiapparino and Roberto Giulianelli PART II: SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY AT THE LEVEL OF THE NATION 3. Sustainable Diversity and Inequality: Race in the USA and Beyond Phillip J. Bowman and John J. Betancur 4. The Republic Against Republicanism: The French Debate on Cultural Diversity (1983–2005) Olivier Rousseau and S. Romi Mukherjee 5. Cultural Diversity in Bolivia: From Liberal Interculturalism to Indigenous Modernity J. Fernando Galindo 6. Diversity in European Regions: Lessons from Germany Elena Bellini, Iskra Christova-Balkanska, Tonia Damvakeraki, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Edith Pichler, Dino Pinelli, Giovanni Prarolo, Max Steinhardt and Lena Tsipouri 7. Diversity and Tolerance: Rhetoric versus Reality Yilmaz Esmer PART III: SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY AT THE LEVEL OF THE CITY 8. Material Culture in the City: Consumption, Diversity and Sustainability in City Neighbourhoods Susanne Küchler and Rossella Lo Conte 9. From Uniformity to Sustainable Diversity: Transformations of a Post-Socialist City Alexandra Bitušíková and Daniel Luther 10. Cultural Diversity-Based Projects and their Effects on Sustainable Development Milena Dragićević Šešić, Ljiljana Simić and Jean Pierre Deru 11. Cultural Capital, Local Identities and Ethnic Diversity: A Study of Amsterdam Cultural Tourism Trends Patrizia Riganti 12. Migration in the Czech Republic: A Source of Social Diversity and Formation of New Social Networks in the Urban Environment Zdenek Uherek PART IV: SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY AT THE LEVEL OF THE ORGANIZATION 13. Towards Sustainable Diversity in Organizations: Lessons from Good Diversity Management Practices Patrizia Zanoni, Angela Nilsson, Maddy Janssens and Nils Wåhlin 14. Managing Diversity Conceptually: Shifting Conceptualizations of Diversity in the Context of Immigrant Organizations in Sweden Kiflemariam Hamde and Nils Wåhlin 15. Ethnicity and Sustainability in Organizations: Does Organizational Identification Matter? Hans Siebers and Anne-Marie Poels 16. Migrant Entrepreneurship in a Diverse Europe: In Search of Sustainable Development Tüzin Baycan-Levent and Peter Nijkamp Index

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Book SynopsisThe global economy has transformed during the last few decades. Though the changes have benefited some, many mature industrial economies (MIEs) have not been treated well by the changes they have seen and have been forced to adapt to dramatically changed circumstances. In this collection of original papers, economists and geographers from Asia, North America and Europe examine the policy initiatives that have succeeded in their countries. The analyses address issues such as local, state and federal governance, aging populations, inter-city cooperation and loss of dominant firms. Additionally, the authors discuss policy issues such as industrial tourism, the roles of education, knowledge and culture, and repositioning a regions place in the global economy. The volume also includes an empirical estimation of the competitiveness of major cities. The contributors to this book hold that it is possible for the overwhelming majority of MIEs to shape their policy in such a way that many of the objectives that will yield the most prosperity will fall within their reach. In that spirit, this book offers the elements for generating economic strategies for mature industrial economies. Suggesting frontier polices to help cities chart a course for future developmental success, this stimulating work is ideally suited to economists, policymakers, city planners, students and scholars of business, economics, urban studies and public policy, and all those concerned with creating equity for the cities of tomorrow.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Peter Karl Kresl 2. Global Competitiveness and the Role of Higher Education/Community Partnerships David J. Maurrasse 3. Montreal’s Technological and Cultural Clusters Strategy: The Case of the Multimedia, and Film and Audiovisual Production Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 4. The Knowledge Base, Research and Development and Regional Economic Policy: The US and UK Experience William F. Lever 5. Government and Governance – How to Build and Sustain a Consistent Focus: The Case of Three Italian Cities Stefano Mollica, Marco Lucchini and Giovanna Hirsch 6. Economic Structure and Business Organization in the Central Region of Mexico Jaime Sobrino 7. Cooperation and Competition Between Cities: Urban Development Strategies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen Jianfa Shen 8. A City Loses its Major Industry – What Does it Do? The Case of Turin Daniele Ietri 9. Northeastern US Cities and Global Urban Competitiveness Ni Pengfei 10. Industrial Tourism: Opportunities for City and Enterprise Leo van den Berg, Alexander Otgaar, Christian Berger and Rachel Xiang Feng 11. An Aging Population and the Economic Vitality of Pennsylvania’s Cities and Towns Peter Karl Kresl 12. The Repositioning of Cities and Urban Regions in a Global Economy Saskia Sassen Index

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Book SynopsisDescriptions in literature of premodern Indian cities have included a diversity of peoples found in the streets and markets, evoking a sense of wealth and abundance, and connection to regional and global networks of trade and production. But they also raise questions on how the residents lived together and negotiated their differences: which differences mattered, when and to whom? How did state actions and policies affect urban society and the lives of various communities? How and why did conflict occur in urban spaces? In considering these questions, this book explores the histories of urban communities in the three cities of Ajmer, Nagaur and Pushkar in Rajasthan, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The focus of this study is on everyday life and contextualising religious practices and conflicts by considering patterns of patronage and looking at conflict more broadly within society. Various archival documents are examined, from family and institutional records to state registers, and the findings demonstrate the complex and sometimes contradictory ways religion intersected with the political, economic and social realms. Negotiations and shared norms meant that many patronage patterns and processes persisted, albeit in altered forms, and it was the robustness of these structures that contributed to the resilience of urban spaces and society in precolonial Rajasthan.Trade Review‘This book is an outstanding contribution to early modern Indian social history. It masterfully interprets ethno-religious encounters through lenses of political economy, uncovering the interplay between kingships, religious institutions, and community politics and governance.’ Milinda Banerjee, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews; ‘Through comparative readings of Rajasthani and Persian sources, Elizabeth Thelen presents Persianate South Asia via quotidian provincial practice rather than cosmopolitan courtly ideals. By eschewing literary texts in favour of everyday documents – wills and contracts, petitions and grants – she reveals the criteria of conflict between different communities no less than the mechanisms of coexistence that promoted urban stability. This is a subtle yet penetrating reappraisal of major themes in Mughal social history.’ Nile Green, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, UCLA; ‘Thelen mines the bureaucratic archive in the Marwari language to excavate histories of patronage, competition, and conflict on the ground. Her equal felicity with Persian documents, deeds and narratives allows her to build on this history of urban life by highlighting parallel hierarchies of patronage across the Marwari and Persian archives. The result is an extraordinary first book on everyday coexistence and conflict between various urban groups in the early modern era, that are rarely studied together even though they inhabit the same urban environment’. Ramya Sreenivasan, Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisThe urbanization rate in China soared from 29.4% in 1996 to 52.6% in 2012 following an upsurge in the construction of development zones, new urban districts and international metropolises.China’s urbanization is one of the two major events that will affect the development of human society in the 21st century, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the acclaimed American Nobel prize-winning economist, the other being the next round of the US-led new technological revolution.Urbanization, an inexorable trend of economic and social development, can act as a benchmark to gauge the economic and societal progress of a country. Since the founding of the PRC, and especially since the reform and opening-up process was launched in 1978, China has witnessed a marked upward spike in the size of its urban population. This trend has accelerated in recent decades, with small towns and cities emerging in large numbers. The authors of this textbook explore the evolution of the economy, society, ecology and culture associated with urbanization, to reveal the distinctive characteristics of urbanization in contemporary China. They examine the changes taking place in towns and cities since the start of reform and opening up, and investigate how the Chinese government has been working to establish an institutional framework to guarantee that urbanization develops in a sustainable way.

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Book SynopsisThe most exciting high-tech startups are escaping the expensive and inbred environment of Silicon Valley. Welcome to the future. Entrepreneurs know they must embrace innovation to excel--starting with where they locate their new venture. Fortunately, budding companies seeking fertile ground have more options today than ever before. Screw the Valley calls on today's entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners to forget California and explore other options across the country--cities that offer more room to breathe, easier access to funding and talented workers, fewer heads to butt, and less money down the drain. Timothy Sprinkle visits seven areas that offer a superior landscape for tech startups: Detroit New York City Las Vegas Austin Kansas City Raleigh-Durham Boulder Sprinkle gives readers a window into the startup potential in each city, detailing which industries are thriving where, and highlighting the unique appeal and character of each location. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first coherent quantified assessment of the economy of the Roman Empire. George Maher argues inventively and rigorously for a much higher level of growth and prosperity than has hitherto been imagined, and also explains why, nonetheless, the Roman Empire did not achieve the transition which began in Georgian Britain. This book will have an enormous impact on Roman history and be required reading for all teachers and students in the field. It will also interest and provoke historians of the medieval and early modern periods into wondering why their economies failed to match the Roman level. Part of the problem in assessing the Roman economy is that we do not have much in the way of numerical data, but Roman historians, who rarely have much statistical expertise, have not always recognised the potential of the data we do have. Dr Maher's reassessment of the economy of the Roman Empire has to use the same data as everyone else, but he is able to draw strikingly novel conclusions in two ways: first, by more statistically sophisticated use of a few crucial datasets and, second, by correlating and drawing a coherent picture across the whole economy. On grain yields, firstly, instead of getting bogged down in details of individual cases, George Maher shows how there is a remarkably consistent pattern from which outliers can be excluded, showing yields were much higher than normally assumed. He then demonstrates that high yields are in fact necessary to explain the exceptional urbanization of the Empire. Urbanization at this level in turn, as George Maher shows, has implications for consumption and commerce. He takes this further to show how high levels of trade imply high levels of sophistication in economic practices and mentality. In one of his most methodologically novel chapters, George Maher develops a new and simpler way of assessing average life expectancy and argues for a life expectancy almost double the traditional view. This book, Dr George Maher's doctoral thesis, is the theoretical underpinning of his book Pugnare: Economic Success and Failure.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The agricultural sector and comparisons to other economies Chapter 3: Levels of urbanization and economic output Chapter 4: The extent of trade and why it changed over time Chapter 5: The expectation of life as a measure of economic progress Chapter 6: Productive knowledge and the potential for growth Chapter 7: The money system and its weaknesses Chapter 8: The system of state finances and fiscal incompetence Chapter 9: Conclusions Appendices Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Using a combination of game-theoretic, statistical, and qualitative approaches, this project explicates when civilians within nondemocratic states will mobilize against the ruling elite, and when such mobilization will result in mass killing. In doing so, it illustrates the important role urbanization and food insecurity historically played, and will continue to play, in generating extreme forms of civilian victimization.Table of Contents1. Chapter 1: Introduction2. Chapter 2: Food Crises, Urban Development, and Mass Killing InNondemocratic States3. Chapter 3: Urban Development and Mass Killing: A First Look at the Data4. Chapter 4: Statistical Analysis of Food Crises and Mass Killing5. Chapter 5: Urban Development, Food Shortages and Mass Killing InAuthoritarian Pakistan6. Chapter 6: Food Riots, Urbanization and Mass Killing Campaigns: IndonesiaAnd Malaysia7. Chapter 7: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public land policy and the innovative urban instruments developed in that region to promote social and territorial inclusion. Critical reflections throughout the pages of this book shed light into the local context of each case-study in order to understand their specific set of challenges and opportunities. Relevant lessons are extracted from the three cities here analyzed, the medium-scale city of Medellin, the large-scale city of Bogota, and the megacity of Sao Paulo, as well as from local innovative experiences in Argentina and Uruguay. These cities underwent promising transformation processes over two decades, applying planning and financing instruments of land policy which have produced significant shifts in the urban development paradigm in the region. The quest for social inclusion has emerged as the common denominator in these cities, awakening growing interest across several fields of urban studies, from public policies and city management to urban law, city financing, urban development, and innovative community participation processes. The book brings implications on urban land policy for transition cities in the Global South. The question of social inclusion in Global South cities is however far from being solved; the analysis presented in this book shows advances and hope, besides a long path still ahead, which can only be faced through a continuous and challenging incremental process. May this book be an incremental step.Table of ContentsPreface PART I: Concepts and Context 1. Social Urbanism in Latin America PART II: Cases 2. Medellin 3. Bogota 4. Sao Paulo PART III: Instruments of Planning, Promotion and Financing 5. Instruments of Planning and Promotion 6. Instruments of Financing Conclusion Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public land policy and the innovative urban instruments developed in that region to promote social and territorial inclusion. Critical reflections throughout the pages of this book shed light into the local context of each case-study in order to understand their specific set of challenges and opportunities. Relevant lessons are extracted from the three cities here analyzed, the medium-scale city of Medellin, the large-scale city of Bogota, and the megacity of Sao Paulo, as well as from local innovative experiences in Argentina and Uruguay. These cities underwent promising transformation processes over two decades, applying planning and financing instruments of land policy which have produced significant shifts in the urban development paradigm in the region. The quest for social inclusion has emerged as the common denominator in these cities, awakening growing interest across several fields of urban studies, from public policies and city management to urban law, city financing, urban development, and innovative community participation processes. The book brings implications on urban land policy for transition cities in the Global South. The question of social inclusion in Global South cities is however far from being solved; the analysis presented in this book shows advances and hope, besides a long path still ahead, which can only be faced through a continuous and challenging incremental process. May this book be an incremental step.Table of ContentsPreface PART I: Concepts and Context 1. Social Urbanism in Latin America PART II: Cases 2. Medellin 3. Bogota 4. Sao Paulo PART III: Instruments of Planning, Promotion and Financing 5. Instruments of Planning and Promotion 6. Instruments of Financing Conclusion Notes

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Book Synopsis​This book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020.Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools in connection with urban–rural area networks and metropolitan centers. The respective papers focus on six major tracks: Innovation dynamics, smart cities and ICT; Urban regeneration, community-led practices and PPP; Local development, inland and urban areas in territorial cohesion strategies; Mobility, accessibility and infrastructures; Heritage, landscape and identity;and Risk management,environment and energy. The book also includes a Special Section on Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in issues concerning metropolitan and marginal areas.Table of ContentsDisposal of Bergamot By-products by Animal Productions.- Sustainable Attitudes of Local People on the Purchase of Local Food. An empirical investigation on Italian products.- Transhumance Routes in the Perspective of Tourist Use: Case Studies in Calabria, Italy.- Italy Testing the Place-based Approach: River Agreements and National Strategy for Inner Areas.- The "blue vision" of Ionian Coastal Rural Area.

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Book SynopsisThis open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a step-by-step approach for its application in urban planning and design. This textbook aims to increase the accessibility of the space syntax method for the first time to all graduate students and researchers who are dealing with the built environment, such as those in the field of architecture, urban design and planning, urban sociology, urban geography, archaeology, road engineering, and environmental psychology. Taking a didactical approach, the authors have structured each chapter to explain key concepts and show practical examples followed by underlying theory and provided exercises to facilitate learning in each chapter. The textbook gradually eases the reader into the fundamental concepts and leads them towards complex theories and applications. In summary, the general competencies gain after reading this book are:– to understand, explain, and discuss space syntax as a method and theory;– be capable of undertaking various space syntax analyses such as axial analysis, segment analysis, point depth analysis, or visibility analysis;– be able to apply space syntax for urban research and design practice;– be able to interpret and evaluate space syntax analysis results and embed these in a wider context;– be capable of producing new original work using space syntax.This holistic textbook functions as compulsory literature for spatial analysis courses where space syntax is part of the methods taught. Likewise, this space syntax book is useful for graduate students and researchers who want to do self-study. Furthermore, the book provides readers with the fundamental knowledge to understand and critically reflect on existing literature using space syntax. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Urban Space as a Generator for Societal Processes.- Chapter 1: Introduction to the relevant spatial units.- Chapter 2: Spatial Relationships: Measuring integration and potential through movement.-Chapter 3: Orientation and Wayfinding: Measuring visibility.- Chapter 4: Private and Public space: Measuring the relation between buildings and streets.- Chapter 5: Linking Space Syntax to Socio-Economic Data.- Chapter 6: Space Syntax’s Contribution to the Discourse in Urban Theory.- Chapter 7: Make the Urban Work: Application of Space Syntax in international research and practice.- Chapter 8: Get Started: How to undertake a Space Syntax analysis.- Chapter 9: Space Syntax Glossary and Useful Literature.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000. The book provides a framework for contemplating the future form and function of gay neighborhoods. Social and cultural shifts within gay neighborhoods are used as a framework for understanding the decades-long struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and equality.Resulting from gentrification, weakening social stigma, and enhanced rights for LGBTQ+ people, gay neighborhoods have recently become “less gay,” following a 50-year period of resilience. Meanwhile, other neighborhoods are becoming “more gay,” due to changing preferences of LGBTQ+ individuals and a propensity for LGBTQ+ families to form community in areas away from established gayborhoods. The current ‘plateau’ in the evolution of gay neighborhoods is characterized by generational differences—between Baby Boom pioneers and Millennials who favour broad inclusivity—signaling various possible trajectories for the future ‘afterlife’ of these important LGBTQ+ urban spaces.The complicating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provides a point of comparison for lessons learned from gay neighborhoods and the LGBTQ+ community that bravely endured the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines—including sociology, social work, anthropology, gender and sexuality, LGTBQ+ and queer studies, as well as urban geography, architecture, and city planning—and to policymakers and advocates concerned with LGBTQ+ rights and social justice.Trade Review“This book will likely find appeal … among social scientists, planners, and architects seeking insights into the shifting character of post-pandemic urban living in the twenty-first century. … considering the disparaging and supercilious comments from a few ostensibly cisgender colleagues … encountered by the editors in the early stages of The Life and Afterlife, Professors Bitterman and Hess are to be commended for their commitment to producing an informative and courageous study.” (Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Planning Education and Research, September 13, 2022)“The book is scholastic … and serve as impetuses for future research. … The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods provides methodologies and concept grounds for this approach and is an invaluable resource for planners, sociologists and designers to both confront and integrate notions of diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice into education, research, scholarship and practice.” (Michael A. Richards, Town Planning Review, Vol. 94 (1), January, 2023)“The volume is a stimulating and enjoyable anthology, which is on the whole well written and richly illustrated. Notably, it remains low on jargon and thus accessible to audiences beyond academia or the professional realm. … The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods will find-and reward-multiple audiences, a process aided by its democratizing open-access availability.” (Manish Chalana, Journal of the American Planning Association, June 9, 2022)Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction.- Who are the people in your gayborhood? Understanding population change and cultural shifts in LGBTQ+ neighborhoods.- Part II: Context and composition.- Breaking down segregation: Shifting geographies of male same-sex households within desegregating cities.- A queer reading of the United States census.- Why gayborhoods matter: The street empirics of urban sexualities.- Part III: Identity and evolution.- The rainbow connection: A time-series study of rainbow flag display across nine Toronto neighborhoods.- Wearing pink in Fairytown: The heterosexualization of the Spanish town neighborhood and carnival parade in Baton rouge.- A tale of three villages: Contested discourses of place-making in Central Philadelphia.- Are “Gay” and “Queer-friendly" neighbourhoods healthy? Assessing how areas with high densities of same-sex couples impact the mental health of sexual minority and majority young adults.

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Book SynopsisThe book explores approaches, methods and best practices related to health promotion in urban areas. Thanks to the increasingly tight connection among urbanism, architecture, bioethics, anthropology, sociology and medicine, we are now reaching an “ecological” health perspective. This new viewpoint has pushed the study of social health determinants and their unequal distribution in the population, resulting in the study of the generation of structurally-determined differences in health and healthcare. There is the need to make use of a unitary framework in order to understand the intertwining of multidimensional dynamics that define the urban context and the need to disseminate, enhance, and improve existing interventions in the field. This volume consequently results in the discussion and comparison of contents and methods to be implemented in multidisciplinary interventions related to the promotion of community-based healthcare and health in the urban setting. The book represents a useful opportunity for scientific growth and international sharing of methodologies that can help develop a common language and approach to be shared across different academic spheres. This is not only an exchange of knowledge among different fields of study, but also the creation of foundations for creating an increasingly complex network of scientific culture and operational collaborations to transfer knowledge and attract academic and public attention, influencing decision-makers and gaining advocacy accordingly.Table of ContentsUrban Regeneration Between Well-Being, Social Determinants and Sustainable Development Goals.- Public Health Approach to Outdoor Urban Health.- Security, Health and Social Exclusion In Urban Contexts. A Sociological Perspective.- From the Phenomenological Redefinition of Body to Inequalities in Health.- Pathways for Therapy and Urban Health in the Field of Mental Suffering. Illness Narratives from a Residential Complex for Public Housing Assistance in Rome, Italy.- Does Urbanization Correlate with Health Service Assistance? An Observational Study in Rome, Italy.- A Walkable Urban Environment to Prevent Chronic Diseases and Improve Wellbeing, an Experience of Urban Health in the Local Health Unit Roma.- Housing and Health in Urban Areas.- Health, Well-Being, Good Living. Architectural Attempts with Acupuncture-Type Regenerations for Quito, Cairo and the Baghère Region.- We For Us: Collective Action In The Favelas During The Pandemic.- Empower Shack Housing.- Measuring Disability Among Migrant People in Urban Area.- Conclusions. From a Multidisciplinary Cultural Approach to an Integrated Organization of the City, to Build Health Capabilities.

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Book SynopsisThis book reports on a large research project on community regeneration, which integrated the spatial, social, economic and organizational factors with the dimensions of sustainability, resilience and participation. Upon providing a detailed review on concepts of community and urban regeneration, it analyses a set of successful case studies from 30 European cities, which were selected by the authors from different rankings and awards. Fifty-seven key performance indicators and the results of self-assessment questionnaires are here introduced to allow a comparative study of best practices and eventually to outline 20 guidelines and 100 strategic actions for future community regeneration projects. All in all, this book offers extensive information and a source of inspiration for urban planners, economists, sociologists, public administrators, stakeholders and all those involved in the development and management of sustainable cities.Table of ContentsDesigning the regeneration of urban communities.- Sustainable Urban Regeneration: a literature review.- The research Design: the definition of the Key Performance Indicators and the choice of the analysis sample.

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Book SynopsisTwo contrasting terms are joined to conjugate the traditional idea of metropolis (the centre of a vast territory, hierarchically organised, dense, vertical, produced by polarization) with horizontality (the idea of a more diffuse, isotropic urban condition, where centre and periphery blur). Beyond a simplistic centre vs periphery opposition, the concept of a horizontal metropolis reveals the dispersed condition as a potential asset, rather than a limit, to the construction of a sustainable and innovative urban dimension. Around 1990, Terry McGee, an urban researcher at the University of British Columbia, coined the term "desakota", deriving from Indonesian "desa" (village) and "kota" (city). Desakota areas typically occur in Asia, especially South East Asia. The term describes an area situated outside the periurban zone, often sprawling alongside arterial and communication roads, sometimes from one agglomeration to the next. They are characterised by high population density and intensive agricultural use, but differ from densely populated rural areas by more urban-like characteristics. The new book The Horizontal Meteropolis investigates such areas alongside examples in the US, Italy, and Switzerland. The study highlights the advantages of the concept and its relevance in economical, ecological, and social aspects. The concept reflects a vision of global urbanisation that no longer allows for "outside" areas and that will test the urban ecosystem to its limits.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations. By focusing especially on the southern European cities of Palermo and Lisbon, the book also aims to expand upon recent studies on urban geopolitics, enriching them from the perspective of ordinary, as opposed to global, cities. Readers will find enlightening analysis of the ways in which urban fear is (re)produced, including by misinformative discourses on security and fear and the political construction of otherness as a means of exclusion. The spatialization of fear, e.g., through fortification, privatization, and fragmentation, is explored, and the ways in which urban planning is informed by and has in turn been shaping urban fear are investigated. A concluding chapter considers divergent potential futures and makes a call for action. The book will appeal to all with an interest in whether, and to what extent, the production of ‘fearscapes’, the contemporary landscapes of fear, constitutes an emergent urban political economy.Table of ContentsLiving in a fearscape?.- Western paradoxes of security and fear.- Us and Them: otherness and exclusion.- Fear and space.- Planning, fear and power.- Thinking future.

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Book SynopsisEine funktionierende leitungsgebundene Energieversorgung ist Voraussetzung für die industrielle Entwicklung eines Landes. Das Buch gibt einen fundierten Überblick über die Strom-, Gas- und Fernwärmeversorgungssysteme in den Ländern der Visegrad-Gruppe, des Baltikums sowie Russlands, Belarus und der Ukraine. Gleichzeitig werden Ansatzpunkte zur Modernisierung der Energienetze offengelegt. Nationale Besonderheiten und Entwicklungsstände werden aufgezeigt. Durch die abgestimmte Struktur der Beiträge ist ein Vergleich der Systeme möglich. Die Länderberichte sind von ausgewiesenen Fachleuten der betreffenden Staaten verfasst. Sie spiegeln die seit 25 Jahren bestehende Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen des Zittauer Energieseminars zur energiewirtschaftlichen Situation in Mittel- und Osteuropa wider. Jeder Beitrag beinhaltet eine technisch-ökonomische Sachstandsanalyse und geht auf Entwicklungsperspektiven ein. Das Werk zeigt Verbesserungspotentiale bzgl. Infrastrukturausbau und Energieeffizienz auf.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Grundlagen der leitungsgebundenen Energieversorgung.- Visegrad-Gruppe: Polen, Tschechische Republik, Slowakei, Ungarn.- Baltikum: Littauen, Lettland, Estland.- Russland, Belarus, Ukraine.- Schlussbetrachtung.

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Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch bildet das Modul Methoden, Netzwerke, Steuerung ab und zeigt wesentliche Grundlagen für die Ausgestaltung einer Wirtschaftsförderungstätigkeit auf. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen steigenden Anforderungen von Seiten der Wirtschaft, durch zunehmenden Standortwettbewerb und nicht zuletzt Ressourcenbegrenztheit der öffentlichen Haushalte, muss die Wirtschaftsförderung ihre Aufgabenwahrnehmung definieren. Eine besondere Rolle nimmt die Netzwerkarbeit der Wirtschaftsförderung ein. Vernetzung ist für eine effiziente und effektive Leistungserbringung vielfach erforderlich, in Beratung und Projekten. Sie ist Rahmenbedingung, da die Arbeit der Wirtschaftsförderung von vielen externen Strukturen und Akteuren abhängig ist, und Grundlage für neue Strategien der Wirtschaftsförderung zugleich. In dem beschriebenen Spannungsfeld hat auch die Steuerung der Wirtschaftsförderung eine zunehmend bedeutende Rolle. Die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Steuerung werden praxisnah und systematisch aufgezeigt, um Möglichkeiten der Weiterentwicklung einer Wirtschaftsförderungseinheit systematisch anzugehen. Den Abschluss eines jeden Bausteins des Moduls bilden Kontrollfragen, die den Leser beim Erarbeiten des Lernstoffes unterstützen und den Lernerfolg zu überprüfen helfen.Table of ContentsBeratungsarbeit.- Projektarbeit.- Grundlagenarbeit.- Marketing.- Vernetzung, Unternehmensnetzwerke, Interkommunale Netzwerke.- Steuerung durch Zielsetzung.- Steuerung durch Erfolgskontrolle.- Neues Steuerungsmodell.- Steuerung mit Standards.

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Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch führt in die Module Verwaltung und Wirtschaftsförderung ein und beleuchtet die sich hier ergebenden Möglichkeiten von Serviceorientierung und Qualitätsmanagement. Bestehende Entwicklungen werden analysiert und im theoretischen und historischen Gesamtkontext erörtert. Weiterhin wird den interkommunalen Kooperationen auf den Gebieten Verwaltung und Wirtschaftsförderung breiter Raum geschenkt.Auf dem langen Weg hin zu einer Serviceorientierung von Verwaltung und Wirtschaftsförderung haben einige bundesdeutsche Kommunen bereits eine beachtliche Strecke zurückgelegt. Attraktivität und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit dieser Kommunen konnte mittels der bislang umgesetzten Maßnahmen erheblich gesteigert werden.Die erfolgreiche Implementierung serviceorientierter Denk- und Verhaltensweisen setzt eine intensive Beschäftigung mit dieser Thematik voraus, idealerweise in Form einer institutionalisierten Aus- und Weiterbildung. Auch hierbei liefern die Autoren wertvolle Unterstützung und praxiserprobte Hilfe. Table of ContentsVerwaltung.- Wirtschaftsförderung.- Serviceorientierung und Qualitätsmanagement.- Interkommunale Kooperationen.

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Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch zeigt die für die Wirtschafts- und Regionalförderung erforderliche Bandbreite des Informationsmanagements auf. Mit der Darstellung dieser Grundlagen wird vermittelt, dass die Verfügbarkeit über Informationen die entscheidende Basis für Entscheidungen und die strategische Ausrichtung der Wirtschaftsförderung bilden wird. Daher stehen folgende Fragestellungen im Fokus: Welche Daten werden in der Wirtschaftsförderung benötigt? Welche Informationen liegen bereits in der Verwaltung bzw. bei anderen Akteuren vor? Welche dieser bereits vorhandenen Informationen können von der Wirtschaftsförderung abgerufen werden?Zum anderen soll mit diesem Modul das Verständnis dafür entwickelt werden, welche Bedeutung den neuen Technologien (CRM-Systeme, Web 2.0, regionale Wissenssysteme) zukommt, um eine neue Qualität der Partizipation zu erreichen. Regionalwissenschaftliche Studien haben den hohen Stellenwert betont, der funktionierenden Netzwerken, schnellerer Informationsbereitstellung und hoher Wissensverbreitung beigemessen werden kann. Wenn die Möglichkeiten der neuen Technologien erkannt worden sind und in der Praxis erfolgreich angewendet werden, bieten sich der kommunalen Wirtschaftsförderung enorme Potenziale für die Vernetzung der relevanten Akteure und zur Erfüllung ihrer neuen Aufgabenfelder.Den Abschluss eines jeden Bausteins des Moduls bilden Kontrollfragen, die den Leser beim Erarbeiten des Lernstoffes unterstützen und den Lernerfolg zu überprüfen helfen.Table of ContentsInformationsgrundlagen der Wirtschaftsförderung.- Einsatz von Informationssystemen in der Wirtschaftsförderung.- Einführung von CRM-Systemen.- Mögliche Wege zur Verbesserung des Kontaktmanagements.- Kennziffern in der Wirtschaftsförderung.- Ämterübergreifende Zusammenarbeit.- Regionales Wissensmanagement.- Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Social Media.

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Book SynopsisDieses Fachbuch beschreibt die zentralen Herausforderungen, mit denen sich Städte konfrontiert sehen und zeigt Ansätze, welche Handlungsoptionen sich den Städten aus Sicht des Städtemanagements bieten. Angesichts der in Deutschland und weltweit zu beobachtenden steigenden Urbanisierung ist die Auseinandersetzung mit Smart Cities ein zentrales gesellschaftspolitisches Thema. Zur Erhaltung der Zukunftsfähigkeit von Städten wird erörtert, welche zentralen Themenfelder am dringendsten zu berücksichtigen sind. Hierzu zählen ebenso nachhaltige Verkehrskonzepte wie auch innovative Formen des Verwaltungshandelns mit Blick auf die Einbindung der Bürger. Dieses Fachbuch ist für Führungskräfte in Stadtverwaltungen interessant, gleichermaßen aber auch für Studierende mit Studienschwerpunkten in den Bereichen Nachhaltigkeit, Logistik, Controlling, Vernetzung, Digitalisierung und Innovation in urbanen Kontexten.Table of ContentsLeistungsdimensionen von Smart Cities.- Strategieentwicklung für Smart Cities.- Regionale Abhängigkeiten trotz Smartness?.- Zentrale Akteure von Smart Cities.- Handlungsfelder (Urban Production & Logistics, Innovation und Digitalisierung, Risikomanagement, Megaprojekte).- Smarter Cities – Best Practice Beispiele von IBM (städtische Leitzentrale in Rio de Janeiro, Connected Car-Initiative, Verkehrsmanagement Stockholm, Stadionmanagement Miami).

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Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch bildet das Modul Standortmanagement ab und bietet fundiertes und nachhaltiges Wissen zu den Wechselwirkungen zwischen Standortgegebenheiten und Wirtschaftsentwicklung. Dabei werden die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven von Standortmanagement beleuchtet und in Beziehung zueinander gebracht. Die Autoren vermitteln die Fertigkeiten zur Analyse von Wirtschaftsräumen durch die Vorstellung zahlreicher darauf abstellender Instrumente. Ebenso werden Standortfaktoren, Flächen- und Immobilienmanagement vorgestellt und in Beziehung zur tagtäglichen Arbeit von Wirtschaftsfördererinnen und Wirtschaftsförderern gesetzt. Den Abschluss eines Themenbereichs bilden jeweils Kontrollfragen, die den Leser beim Erarbeiten des Lernstoffes unterstützen und den Lernerfolg zu überprüfen helfen.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Standortmanagement und Standortentwicklung.- Standortfaktoren für Unternehmen.- Infrastrukturmanagement.- Flächen- und Immobilienmanagement.

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Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch bildet das Modul Innovationsmanagement ab und zeigt wesentliche Grundlagen auf. Die Autorin erklärt zunächst wichtige Begriffe und geht anschließend auf das Innovationsmanagement im Unternehmen ein. Dabei werden der Innovationsmanagementprozess erklärt, die Merkmale einer erfolgreichen Innovationskultur benannt und innovationsspezifische Erfolgsfaktoren thematisiert. Anschließend wird Wissensmanagement als wichtige Grundlage des Innovationsmanagements vorgestellt und im Themenkomplex Kommunikation und Innovation verdeutlicht, welche Rolle der Kommunikation im Innovationsprozess zukommt. Hierbei wird auch erklärt, wie ein erfolgreiches Innovationsmanagement die Unternehmenskommunikation unterstützen und die Arbeitgebermarke des Unternehmens stärken kann. Im Kapitel Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit werden die Chancen von nachhaltigen Innovationen für die langfristige Wertschöpfung des Unternehmens thematisiert. Fallbeispiele aus der Praxis runden die Themengebiete ab. Jeder Baustein endet mit Kontrollfragen, die den Leser beim Erarbeiten des Lernstoffes unterstützen und dabei helfen, den Lernerfolg zu überprüfen.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Begriffsdefinitionen: Innovation, Innovationsmanagement und Innovationsprozess.- Innovationsmanagement in Unternehmen.- Erfolgsfaktoren im Innovationsmanagement.- Praxisbeispiele.- Wissensmanagement als Grundlage für Innovationsmanagement.- Kommunikation für Innovationen.- Innovationen und Nachhaltigkeit.- Zusammenfassung und Abschlusskontrolle.

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Book SynopsisDas Thema Urbane Mobilität rangiert sehr hoch in nahezu allen Gesellschaftsbereichen. So ist es nicht zwingend ein alleiniges Automobilthema, sondern betrifft Branchen wie Immobilien, Handel, Hospitality, Energie und Finanzen. Die Coronakrise hat nochmals unterstrichen, wie wichtig Mobilität im Sinne von Logistik und Fortbewegung für den wirtschaftlichen Wachstumsgedanken ist. Mobilität im Sinne von geistiger Beweglichkeit stellt einen wichtigen Kulturfaktor dar, Mobilität als Synonym für Freiheit.Das vorliegende Buch fokussiert Urbane Mobilität unter den Gesichtspunkten Technologie, neue Lebensformen, neue Wirtschaftssysteme und Gesellschaft. Mobilität muss nicht nur branchenübergreifend neu gedacht, sondern als ein kultureller Veränderungsprozess in seiner Gesamtheit verstanden werden. Urbane Mobilität vereint Themenwelten von Generationenkonflikt, über Nachhaltigkeit und Klimawandel bis hin zu einem neuen Politikverständnis. Unterstützt wird die Diskussion durch Beiträge von Experten aus unterschiedlichsten Branchen. Table of ContentsKultur und Zeitgeist.- Urbane Mobilität.- erlebnisRAUM Stadt - neue Lebensmodelle.- Umparken im Kopf - zukunftsorientiertes Handeln.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the relationship between urban amenities and real estate prices is a key for the future of our cities. Location choices depend on a variety of urban amenities that eventually determine demand for a specific location. Identifying the impact of these urban amenities on the people’s preferences allows policy makers and developers to increase quality of life. Jan de Graaff therefore quantifies the impact of crime and migration on residential real estate prices and identifies the location choice preferences of Germans by applying innovative methodologies to unique German data sets.Table of ContentsThe Concept of Urban Amenities.- Germans’ Location Choice Preferences.- The Relationship Between Residential Prices and Migration.- Crime in a Large German City and the Impact on Residential Real Estate.

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Book SynopsisDas Buch analysiert umfangreiche Literatur zum Konflikt um die Erdgaspipeline Nord Stream 2 und zeigt auf, dass praktisch alle geführten Argumente innerhalb weniger Jahre nach Baubeginn obsolet wurden. Das Festhalten an den Argumenten auch nach Entfall ihrer Gültigkeit zeigt, dass eher die erhoffte Wirkung (pro oder contra) als die Argumente selbst für die Akteure ausschlaggebend sind. Nach einem Überblick über die Rahmenbedingungen werden die Argumente pro und contra Nord Stream 2 besprochen, gegliedert nach den Dimensionen des erweiterten Zieldreiecks der Energiepolitik, also Bezahlbarkeit im Wechselspiel von Angebot und Nachfrage, Umweltschutz, Versorgungssicherheit sowie neu einer außenpolitischen Dimension. Als extrem schwierig zeigt sich die Abschätzung von Angebot und Nachfrage, angesichts der Schiefergas-Revolution, dem drastischen Rückgang der eigenen Förderung und der laufenden Dekarbonisierung der EU. Den eigentlichen „Game-Changer“ bildet indes die Einrichtung des EU-Binnenmarktes für Erdgas sowie die Wirksamkeit der damit verbundenen Maßnahmen, was die einseitige Abhängigkeit drastisch verringert. Die umweltpolitische Diskussion übersieht vielfach den Vorteil von Erdgas wegen der schadstoffärmeren Verbrennung, v.a. aber die Gefahren durch Leckagen (80-fach höhere Klimawirksamkeit gegenüber CO2). Die submarine Nord Stream 2 ist hier unbedenklich, anders als viele russischen Zuläufe, dem maroden ukrainischen Korridor, und dem Flüssiggas aus unkonventionellen Förderungen der USA. Das Buch schließt mit einer Diskussion der Faktoren und von geostrategischen Aspekten.Table of ContentsRahmenbedingungen und Problematisierung.- Förderung von und Konflikte um Erdgas im postsowjetischen Raum.- Energiebeziehungen im Wandel.- Regulierung der EU.- Dimension Bezahlbarkeit im Wechselspiel von Angebot und Nachfrage.- Dimension Umwelt- und Klimaschutz.- Dimension Versorgungssicherheit.- Außenpolitische (geopolitische) Dimension im erweiterten Zieldreieck der Energiepolitik.- Diskussion.

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Book SynopsisWeltweit entwickeln sich immer mehr Städte zu Smart Cities. Sie wollen technologisch fortschrittlicher, effizienter und vernetzter sein, um sich den Herausforderungen unserer Zeit – dem Klimawandel, der zunehmenden Urbanisierung und den demografischen Veränderungen unserer Gesellschaft – zu stellen. Dafür werden zahlreiche Maßnahmen in der Stadtentwicklung initiiert, die die Lebensräume der Menschen verbessern. Dieses essential zeigt, wie die Vision einer zukünftigen Stadt, die für die Bürgerinnen und Bürger entwickelt wird, nachhaltig erfolgreich sein kann. Und es erläutert, welche Rolle die Partizipation der Bewohnenden, die Stadtverwaltung sowie der Einsatz von Technologie und Daten dabei spielen. .Table of ContentsZeigt Herausforderungen und Potenziale der Partizipation von Bewohnenden bei der digitalen Transformation von Städten auf.- Liefert konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für Politik & Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft & Forschung und alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger.- Basiert auf wissenschaftlichen Studien und wertvollen Hinweisen von Expertinnen und Experten.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a fundamental contribution to the literature on the creative industries and the knowledge-based economy by focusing on three aspects: urban spaces as key sites of capitalist restructuring, creative industries' policies as state technologies aimed at economic exploitation, and the role of networks of aesthetic production in inflecting these tendencies. It simultaneously goes beyond these debates by integrating a concern with the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of the creative industries. As such, the book is relevant to researchers interested in the transdisciplinary project of a cultural political economy of creativity and urban change.

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Book SynopsisHow did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and History. The essays range from negotiations of the "ethnic city" in US literature and media, to studies of recent urban phenomena and their representations: gentrification, re-appropriation and conversion of urban spaces in the USA. These interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on American cities provide unique points of access for studying the complex narratives of urban transformation.Trade Review"The volume features different case studies and combines essays that both thematically and methodologically make for a very valuable and readable contribution to the field of urban studies." Nico Völker, KULT_online, 48 (2016)

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Book SynopsisTokyo's urban landscape is full of contradictions: as a densely packed megalopolis it affords thousands of vacant spaces. While creative design practices and informal appropriations activate the urban voids in European and Northern American cities, an understanding of integrating this spatial capital in to the public realm remains largely overlooked in Tokyo. Tokyo Void describes Tokyo's void spaces through their distinct morphology and explores possibilities for rethinking these spaces in creative practice such as space agencies and design interventions. Tokyo Void questions the notion of a finished ideal in the urban landscape and aims to establish an understanding of a continuous and dynamic landscape that could renew the urban discourse with an appreciation of the imperfect and flexible.

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Book SynopsisHow can an urban community revitalise dormant empty spaces in the long term? Since 2009, the ZwischenZeitZentrale (ZZZ) in Bremen has been opening windows of opportunity. They explore experimental space usage through short-term collaborations that serve as trial runs for the development of longer-term projects. Interim usage, which makes use of the shortcomings of urban planning, can therefore become an effective urban development tool. Building Platforms creates an overview of factors for success, to be taken into consideration when implementing interim usages. Based on illuminating examples, the process of an interim usage is explained from the first vague enquiry to its successful realisation. Building Platforms is therefore a handbook for doers and decision-makers, as well as an encouraging appeal for communities to participate in urban development.

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Book SynopsisHome to more city dwellers than any other region, and the locus of many of the world’s most populous metropolitan areas, Asia is moving to centre stage in popular and academic debates about planetary urban futures. Among diverse urban Asias are landscapes, images, visions and aspirations that conjure new forms of the future. This volume comprises essays examining intersections of the urban and futurity. While attentive to emergent forms of urban Asia, contributors also examine futures past, the afterlives of historical projects, and archaeologies of the future. While authoritative forms of future city-making feature in several essays, others focus on everyday engagement with futurity. Many essays provide ethnographic and field-based empirical insights into urban lifeworlds that are coming into being, while others explore the theoretical and political implications of urban futures from Asia.

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Book SynopsisThis report is an important resource to explore critical and emerging policy opportunities to realize urban sustainability for the Asian and Pacific region. It informs policies and actions from a sustainable development perspective, putting cities at the centre of development policy debates. It identifies future policy pathways for urban decision makers and stakeholders to reimagine the built and natural environments in Asian and Pacific cities and offers policy solutions across different types of cities to achieve the global development agendas. The solutions address four major development challenges - natural resource management, climate change, disaster risk and inequalities - through a focus on the key means of implementation to accelerate the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

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Book SynopsisFor many decades, cities in the Asia Pacific region have followed unsustainable patterns of transport development: worsening congestion and traffic safety, deteriorating air quality, high consumption of fossil fuels, and rising greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, many city governments are now developing sustainable transport strategies to target these issues and promote more sustainable modes, such as public transport and non-motorized transport. To date, however, their efforts to design effective strategies have been thwarted by their limited capacity to collect and analyze data. The Sustainable Urban Transport Index (SUTI) was developed by ESCAP to address this gap. The SUTI is a tool that summarizes, tracks and compares the performance of cities in sustainable urban transport and related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SUTI is a composite index made up of ten indicators, each measuring different aspects of sustainable urban transport. In addition, the data which make up the SUTI can be collected by city officials at low cost and on a regular basis, thereby allowing them to continuously monitor their city's performance over time. The main aim of this report is to demonstrate how SUTI can be used by policymakers to monitor progress towards sustainable urban mobility, as well as to identify those policies which will move urban transport systems towards sustainability. It contains the results of SUTI assessments conducted in 24 cities of the Asia and Pacific region between 2017 and 2021

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Book SynopsisThis synthesis report acknowledges the many existing and cross-cutting opportunities to achieve development goals through the transformative force that urbanization represents. It also discusses the elaboration of targets, baselines and overall progress for selected indicators, placing special emphasis on partnership arrangement and opportunities for financing and scaling up activities and programmes. The report presents fresh data and new findings that help us understand our urban transitions and trends in these early years of the SDGs.

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