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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This book seeks to answer the question: what do we need to know about the success, failure and future prospects of creating walkable, diverse urbanism? Separating out what we already know from what we don't, it advances a research agenda aimed at helping to sustain the New Urbanism movement. As the book clearly demonstrates, there is a lot we still need to learn about creating and sustaining good cities. A wide array of topics are covered, from big picture concerns about the need for more theory development, to more fundamental topics like sustaining urban retail and encouraging multi-modal transportation. The authors explore research needs from the social, environmental, and economic sides of New Urbanism, from small-scale DIY tactics to large-scale policy platforms like the UN's New Urban Agenda, from zoning reform to autonomous vehicles and climate change. New Urbanism is a large topic, and the research needed to sustain it is equally large. We still need to know - in a more rigorous way - whether, and how, New Urbanist principles are ever achieved, whether the outcomes associated with a particular implementation strategy are providing environmental, social and economic benefits as claimed, and what the best strategy might be for fulfilling each goal. This unique book offers profound and intriguing insights into the development and growth of New Urbanism. It will be required reading for students and scholars of urban planning and design, and urban studies more broadly.Trade Review'The New Urbanism's commitment to the simultaneity of theory and evidence in practice presents a rich agenda for research. Examining the movement's intellectual foundations as well as its continuing evolution and capacity to stimulate policy change, these essays represent an invigorating encouragement for its thought leaders to focus on the wicked problems of our time, such as the affordability of dwelling, and keeping communities out of harm's way under intensifying climate conditions.' --Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Co-Founder of DPZ CoDESIGN and University of Miami, School of Architecture, US'Predominantly aimed at arming the next generation of urban planning scholars with highly relevant research questions, this book's revealing dives into the histories, theories and practices that have guided specialized urban discourses will be of great interest to a broad range of urbanists.' --Ellen Dunham-Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Why a New Urbanist Research Agenda is Needed Emily Talen 2. Theoretical Foundations Cliff Ellis 3. DIY Urbanism Donovan Finn and Gordon Douglas 4. Urban Retail Conrad Kickert 5. Transportation Wes Marshall 6. Green New Urbanism V. Kelly Turner 7. Cultural Competency and Racial Inclusion April Jackson 8. Social Goals Sungduck Lee 9. Urban Growth Matthew Hardy 10. The New Urban Agenda Michael W. Mehaffy 11. The Future of Urbanism Ajay Garde Index

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Book SynopsisInfrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy. Proposing a more people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national 'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning, and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors seeking insights into the intersections of financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe and globally.Trade Review'Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure explores the crucial connection between globalised financial flows and the infrastructure that provides the scaffolding for urban development. By following the money, the authors show the interaction of state and capital in shaping urban form and the uneven impacts on particular cities and groups within them.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance 3. Towards city statecraft 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK’s centralised state 5. Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation and the City Deals 6. Sell, hold or buy? Privatising, managing, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets 7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city-region, undermining the rest of the UK? 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisUrban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of the city, rather than how it functions as a place to live and visit. How Great Cities Happen addresses this challenge by developing a wider, all-encompassing agenda for more productive, inclusive and sustainable cities. This book's innovative approach to land use and transport planning covers such issues as: urban planning for productivity growth; social inclusion and wellbeing (including what makes a great city for children); and environmental sustainability. Extensive discussions of affordable housing and analyses of funding opportunities for increased investment in urban public transport are also provided. In addition, the book offers a review of the governance frameworks that can best integrate top-down strategic thinking and bottom-up approaches into a more holistic strategy. The authors adopt a meticulous yet non-technical approach, grounded in a blend of academic and real-world experience of cities. The work will appeal to students in urban planning, policy, economics, transport economics and social and environmental policy. Professional planners and urban policymakers will also benefit from the strong policy orientation.Trade Review'This book is a must read for anyone interested in the future and sustainability of cities whether they are planners, urban and transport researchers or politicians.' -- Richard D Knowles, Journal of Transport Geography'A must-read for charting sustainable urban futures, How Great Cities Happen is chock full of illustrative and inspiring international examples, highlighting experiences in two of the world's most liveable cities - Melbourne and Vancouver. Key steps for creating great cities, informed by some of best research to date, are offered throughout. Here the authors stress good governance, reliable funding, affordable housing, and what so far has received scant attention in the literature, socially just and child-friendly communities.' --Robert Cervero, University of California, Berkeley, US'This fine volume on cities draws from the considerable stock of wisdom accumulated over many years by its three authors, all of whom have leading international reputations and experience in the fields of city planning and management. It mixes hard empirical analysis with a sensitive appreciation of human needs, including those often neglected in urban decision-making, notably that of children and young people. It is a timely and important addition to the urban canon.' --Brendan Gleeson, The University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why this Book? 2. What Constitutes a ‘Good City’: Some Case Studies 3. Economic Influences on Strategic Land Use Transport Policy and Planning 4. Land Use and Transport Designed to Meet Social Needs 5. A Neighbourhood Structured for Children and Youth 6. Housing Affordability: a Major Problem for Many Cities 7. The Interface with Land Use, Transport and Communities and the Environment 8. Governance 9. Funding 10. Putting an Integrated Land Use Transport Strategy Together Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and economic shocks, Resilience and Urban Disasters explores a large range of tumultuous events and key case studies to thoroughly cover these core areas. Chapters explore novel contributions on urban evolution and adjustment patterns based on studies from across the globe. Both causal mechanisms and policy responses to the high social costs of urban disasters are addressed. In particular, the book explores the socio-economic impacts on urban systems that are subject to disasters, including migration due to large earthquakes in Japan, the economic impact of terrorist attacks in Istanbul and labour market changes as a result of natural disasters in Italy. Urban planning and urban economics scholars will greatly benefit from the multidisciplinary analyses of a variety of case studies in the book. City planners and urban administrators will also find the exploration of potential paths of resilience for cities to be an invaluable tool for future planning.Contributors include: K. Borsekova, M. Dobrík, K. Fabián, R. Fabling, D.l. Felsenstein, R. Goncharov, A. Grimes, A.Y. Grinberger, T. Inal-Çekiç, Y. Ishikawa, M. Morisugi, K. Nakajima, P. Nijkamp, M.D. Özügül, F. Pagliacci, M. Russo, L. Rýsová, N. Sakamoto, E. Seçkin, M. Taheri Tafti, L. Timar, N. ZamyatinaTrade Review'This book evidences an era where cities and disasters become larger and resilience becomes more difficult to manage.' --Roger Stough, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Part I Methodology and disaster impact analysis 1. Blessing in Disguise – Long-Run Benefits of Urban Disasters Kamila Borsekova and Peter Nijkamp 2. Natural selection: Firm performance following a catastrophic earthquake Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Levente Timar 3. What Factors Determine Economic Strength in the Restoration Process from Extreme Disasters? Masafumi Morisugi, Kazunori Nakajima and Naoki Sakamoto 4. Population Change and Economic Impacts on the Affected Region: The Case of Massive Earthquakes in Japan Yoshifumi Ishikawa Part II Case studies on resilience 5. An AHP Based Methodology Towards Resilient Tourism Strategies: The Istanbul Case Ebru Seçkin 6. Resilience of Urban Systems in the Context of Urban Transformation: Lessons from Beykoz-İstanbul Tuba Inal Çekiç and Mehmet Doruk Özügül 7. Arctic urbanization: resilience in a condition of permanent instability. The case of Russian Arctic cities Nadezda Zamyatina and Ruslan Goncharov Part III Policy prevention and recovery analysis – simulations and scenario building 8. Urban Resilience and the politics of scale Mojgan Taheri Tafti 9. Multi-hazard, exposure and vulnerability in Italian municipalities Francesco Pagliacci and Margherita Russo 10. Urban Disasters Crisis Management Scenario Design and Crisis Management Simulation Karol Fabián, Lucia Rýsová and Michal Dobrík 11. Emerging Urban Dynamics and Labor Market Change: An Agent-Based Simulation of Recovery from a Disaster A. Yair Grinberger and Daniel Felsenstein Index

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Book SynopsisEncompassing a broad range of innovative studies on planning support science, this timely Handbook examines how the consequences of pressing societal challenges can be addressed using computer-based systems. Chapters explore the use of new streams of big and open data as well as data from traditional sources, offering significant critical insights into the field. Contributions from key scholars from around the world demonstrate how mature the field of planning support science has become in providing support for practitioners to confront diverse problems. The Handbook analyses a carefully selected range of case studies looking at digitization, big data, geodesign, applied modelling, smart city instruments and planning support systems. It addresses key urban challenges including traffic congestion, neighbourhood gentrification and urban heat-island formation, providing examples of how planning practitioners can improve modern urban conditions. Scholars of urban and regional studies as well as human geographers will find this to be a critical reference on the topic. With examples of planning applications from across the world, this will also be a key resource for urban and regional planners and policy-makers. Contributors include: J. Barton, R. Behrens, C. Biderman, M. Birkin, S. Blanchard, P. Boden, M. Campagna, Y. Chen, H. Chou, J. Claassens, C. Daniel, C. de Boer, B. Deal, Z. Deng, S. Eagleson, F. Fernandez, F. Figari, J. Flacke, Q.-L. Gao, S. Geertman, X. Goldie, R. Goodspeed, P. Greenwood, Y. Gu, S. Guhathakurta, J.D. Hamerlinck, N. Hood, R. Hughes, W. James, E. Janowicz, R. Janssen, M. Kahila-Tani, R. Kingston, B.W. Koo, E. Koomen, P. Krause, H.R. Kwon, M. Kyttä, S.Z. Leao, J. Li, S. Li, X. Li, S. Lieske, J. Liu, L. Liu, Z. Liu, O. Lock, N. Lomax, Y. Long, R. Lovelace, I. Luque-Martín, J. Martinez, S. Maurer, T. Moyo, W. Musakwa, A. Newing, H. Niu, P. Pelzer, C. Pettit, K. Pfeffer, S. Pinnegar, E. Punt, B. Rijken, R. Sieber, E.A. Silva, A.P. Smith, A. Staffans, I. Sterland, J. Stillwell, B. Stimson, T. Su, D.C. Swiatek, Z. Tomor, F. van den Bosch, V. Vlastaras, P. Waddell, S. Wang, M. Wegener, C. Whitcomb, P. Witte, A.G.O. Yeh, Y. Yue, G. Zhang, X. Zhang, N. Zhao, Z. Zheng, X. Zhou, M. ZuidgeestTrade Review'The editors and authors put together this seminal volume at the cross-roads of geospatial technologies, systems and (big and small) data science. Long-term PSSers and the newly initiated will enjoy this state of the art volume which builds on the past and looks into the future trajectory of PSS.' --Zorica Nedovic-Budic, University of Illinois at Chicago, US, and University College Dublin, Ireland'The Handbook of Planning Support Science provides an important, up-to-date review of innovative methods, tools, techniques, and case studies on the development and use of planning support systems (PSS), computer-based tools that support planning and policy-making. This essential international collection describes state-of-the-art applications using big data and data analytics, smart cities, cloud-based computing, and geodesign.' --Richard E. Klosterman, University of Akron, US'Read on. Enter a cornucopia of intelligent applications and reflections on PSS. Enjoy.' --Michael Batty, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: planning support systems in a connected world by Michael Batty xiii Preface xix 1 Planning support science: challenges, themes and applications 1 Stan Geertman and John Stillwell PART I DATA INTEGRATION AND LINKAGE 2 Data linkage and its applications for planning support systems 22 Mark Birkin, William James, Nik Lomax and Andrew Smith 3 Hard and soft data integration in geocomputation: mixed methods for data collection and processing in urban planning 37 Elisabete A. Silva, Lun Liu, Heeseo Rain Kwon, Haifeng Niu and Yiqiao Chen 4 Open access, open source and cloud computing: a glimpse into the future of GIS 56 Christopher Pettit, Bob Stimson, Jack Barton, Xavier Goldie, Philip Greenwood, Robin Lovelace and Serryn Eagleson PART II METHODS FOR SPATIAL PLANNING 5 Spatial planning and geodesign 73 Michele Campagna 6 Methodology and application of data augmented design: a case study of urban redevelopment design for the Panyu-Xinhua Area, Shanghai 87 Tianyu Su, Shihui Li, Jing Li, Hungyu Chou and Ying Long 7 Geodesign, resilience and planning support systems: the integration of process and technology 110 Yexuan Gu and Brian Deal 8 Spatial modelling and forecasting 132 Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Ge Zhang and Bon Woo Koo 9 Are urban land-use transport interaction models planning support systems? 153 Michael Wegener 10 Automated monitoring of planning policy: an overview of the journey from theory to practice 161 Claire Daniel PART III PLANNING SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND THE SMART CITY CONCEPT 11 Big data, urban analytics and the planning of smart cities 179 Anthony G.O. Yeh, Yang Yue, Xingang Zhou and Qi-Li Gao 12 Planning support systems and science beyond the smart city 199 Zhibin Zheng and Renée Sieber 13 The achievements and challenges of planning support science in e-planning in China 213 Shifu Wang, Zhaohua Deng, Zheng Liu, Nannan Zhao, Xiaoyang Zhang and Jie Liu 14 Smart governance in the making: integrating ‘smart’ in local spatial planning 226 Patrick Witte, Eline Punt and Stan Geertman 15 The influence of political context on smart governance initiatives in Glasgow, Utrecht and Curitiba 238 Zsuzsanna Tomor and Stan Geertman 16 Challenging the conventional wisdom: the case of MobiLab, S.o Paulo, Brazil 257 Ciro Biderman and Daniela Coimbra Swiatek PART IV PARTICIPATION AND ENGAGEMENT IN PLANNING 17 Transcending the exemplars of utility and implementation in planning support science 270 Scott N. Lieske 18 Limitations and potential of planning support systems application in planning in southern Spain: bridging academia and practice 281 Irene Luque-Martín and Karin Pfeffer 19 Interactive planning support systems with citizens: lessons learned from renewable energy planning in the Netherlands 294 Johannes Flacke, Cheryl de Boer, Frans van den Bosch and Karin Pfeffer 20 Participatory urban planning in the digital era 307 Aija Staffans, Maarit Kahila-Tani and Marketta Kyttä 21 Local government web-based services for neighbourhood planning 323 Richard Kingston and Vasileios Vlastaras 22 Organizing, facilitating, and evaluating planning support system workshops 338 Robert Goodspeed and Peter Pelzer 23 Using geodesign for collaborative planning: development planning in the Lower Zambezi Valley 353 Ron Janssen 24 Perspectives on planning support systems and e-planning in southern Africa: opportunities, challenges and the road ahead 366 Walter Musakwa and Thembani Moyo PART V SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR LAND-USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING 25 Linking socio-economic and physical dynamics in spatial planning 383 Jip Claassens, Eric Koomen and Bart Rijken 26 Cellular automata modelling for urban planning in fast-growth regions 397 Xia Li and Anthony G.O. Yeh 27 UrbanCanvas: a collaborative platform for informed planning 416 Paul Waddell, Edward Janowicz, Samuel Blanchard and Samuel Maurer 28 The making of a mega-region: evaluating and proposing long-term transport planning strategies with open-source data and transport accessibility tools 442 Oliver Lock, Simon Pinnegar, Simone Z. Leao and Christopher Pettit PART VI SECTORAL PLANNING SUPPORT 29 Planning support systems for retail location planning 459 Andy Newing, Nick Hood and Iain Sterland 30 Planning support systems for school-place forecasting 471 Peter Boden, Rebecca Hughes and John Stillwell 31 Penciler: a web-based affordable housing development feasibility analysis tool 486 Paul Waddell, Christiana Whitcomb, Francisco Figari, Federico Fernandez and Justin Martinez 32 A GIS-based planning support system for inclusionary housing profitability optimization in Cape Town, South Africa 506 Philip Krause, Mark Zuidgeest and Roger Behrens 33 Applying planning support science in rural environments 524 Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck Index 539

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Book SynopsisThis book provides new dimensions and a contemporary focus on sustainable transport, urban regeneration and development in eight countries spanning four continents at different stages of development. It examines the role of transit oriented development (TOD) in improving urban sustainability and providing different transport choices, exploring how these can be implemented in modern cities. Establishing a new agenda for TOD, experts in the field critically evaluate the links between urban transport investment and economic, social and environmental sustainability, introducing new methods of analysis. Chapters explore international dimensions of TOD, providing crucial insight to issues such as uneven development, transport emissions, global warming, car dependence and the challenge of powering vehicles with sustainable fuels. Urban and regional planning, transport studies and environmental management scholars seeking to understand urban sustainability issues will benefit from this timely book. It will also prove to be a valuable read for urban planners and research consultants looking to widen their knowledge of the role of TOD in enhancing urban sustainability.Trade Review'As TOD practice matures, executing the concept remains fraught with challenges and complexities. Knowles and Ferbrache advance theory and practice by synthesizing a large volume of literature and showcasing case studies from around the globe that examine economic development, sustainability, social development, and methods. This book serves as a foundation for students and practitioners across a variety of disciplines interested in enhancing their understanding of the multiple dimensions of TOD and how it remains a tangible method of advancing sustainable cities.' --John L. Renne, Florida Atlantic University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Transit Oriented Development and Sustainable Cities: Economics, Community and Methods Richard D. Knowles and Fiona Ferbrache PART I: TOD, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY 2 New stations and transit oriented development in three United States rail corridors Matthieu Schorung 3 Development of transit oriented development in Dubai City and the Gulf States Nasma Hannawi, Peter Jones and Helena Titheridge 4 Exploring the potential of light rail transit to encourage urban regeneration and support more sustainable commuting to and from Valletta Maria Attard 5 Funding public transport in Turin with transit oriented development land value capture Gualtiero Bonvino 6 Transit oriented development in Montr.al: past, present and future Pierre Barrieau 7 Effects of transit oriented development in Denver, Colorado, USA Andrew R. Goetz PART II: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY 8 Neighbourhood change around heavy rail transit stations: the case of three US cities Adam Miner, Elizabeth C. Delmelle and Isabelle Nilsson 9 Planning an effective transport system: learning from resident transit use behaviour and perspectives Devon McAslan 10 Transit oriented development in Buenos Aires, Argentina: comparing Puerto Madero and the Microcentro David Keeling PART III: TOD METHODS 11 The assessment of transit oriented developments using microsimulation models Tara Tanoz-Sargeant 12 Implementing transit oriented development in Greater London Enrica Papa 13 Paratransit as a feeder to mass transit in Manila, Philippines Daniel Mabazza PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 14 Conclusions Richard D. Knowles and Fiona Ferbrache Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the importance of megacities and megacity-regions as one of the defining features of the 21st century, this Handbook provides a clear and comprehensive overview of current thinking and debates from leading scholars in the field. Highlighting major current challenges and dimensions of megaurbanization, chapters form a thematic focus on governance, planning, history, and environmental and social issues, supported by case studies from every continent. Analysing vital questions for contemporary urban research, this Handbook looks at: what place megacities and megacity-regions occupy in a world of cities; how they interrogate current thinking about urban society, theory, and policy; and what role these largest of urban areas will play in shaping humanity's future. Key contributions reveal that research needs to further focus a critical and analytical lens on the particularities and distinctive issues associated with megaurbanization. A timely and essential read for urban studies, urban geography, and public policy students, the interdisciplinary nature of this Handbook provides a thorough view into the features and importance of megacities and megacity-regions. Public policy-makers and planners will also benefit from the wide-ranging case studies included.Trade Review'What remains to be said about cities when the planet is completely urbanized? This astonishing new Handbook seeks answers in the megacity-regions of the world, especially in the burgeoning urban constellations of eastern Asia. The book's diverse and topical chapters help planners and decision-makers, and ultimately inhabitants, to ''find their bearings'' in the unmoored vastness of a planet of megacities.' --Roger Keil, York University, Canada'The book fulfills a very timely mission: to reveal just how complex, varied, and multi-scaled the global urban reality has become - and is still becoming. The authors provide an antidote to simplifying notions about cities and megacities, updating our understanding of urban forces and dynamics, so that we might act upon them more effectively.' --Jeb Brugmann, Founder, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Germany and author, Welcome to the Urban RevolutionThe Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions provides a much needed assessment of 21st century urbanization, especially with its attention to the scale and density that characterizes todays cities. Its nuanced discussion of how to define megacities and megacity-regions is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the most critical megatrends of our times.' --Eugenie L. Birch, University of Pennsylvania, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Megacities, megacity-regions, and the endgame of urbanization 1 André Sorensen and Danielle Labbé PART I THE CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES OF MEGACITIES 2 Thinking about mega-conurbations and planning 21 John Friedmann 3 City limits: bounding and unbounding in conceptualizing the megacity 33 Michael Leaf 4 Urbanization and developmental pathways: critical junctures of urban transition 47 André Sorensen 5 El Monstruo : reflections on catastrophic metaphors about Mexico City 65 Julie-Anne Boudreau and Felipe de Alba PART II MEGA-URBAN GOVERNANCE 6 Urban governance of megacities: searching for the collective actor 78 Christian Lefèvre 7 Powerful states, weak states: understanding coercion and neglect in the governance of Marcos-era Manila 92 Nancy Kwak 8 Actors and shifting scales of urban governance in India 101 Loraine Kennedy 9 The incomplete and paradoxical ‘neoliberal turn’ in Mumbai 119 Marie-Hélène Zérah 10 Nurturing neighbourhoods to sustain quality of life in megacities and large city regions: an interdisciplinary reflection on planning for sustainable and socially just cities from Chile 134 Lake Sagaris, María Inés Arribas, María Inés Solimano, Sonia Reyes-Paecke and Juan Carlos Muñoz PART III MEGA-URBAN PATTERNS, FORMS AND PLANNING APPROACHES 11 Urban containment policies for megacities: the case of Beijing 153 Haoying Han 12 East Asian megacities: the view from the periphery 169 Douglas Webster and Jianyi Li 13 On the road again: the geography and characteristics of American commuter megaregions 188 Alasdair Rae and Garrett Dash Nelson 14 The West African corridor from Abidjan to Lagos: a megacity-region under construction 206 Armelle Choplin and Alice Hertzog 15 Cities: growing threats, growing opportunities 223 Daniel Hoornweg and Kevin Pope PART IV MEGA-URBAN LIFE SPACES AND LIVEABILITY 16 Navigating the extensiveness of Jakarta 234 AbdouMaliq Simone 17 Poverty in a wealthy megacity: stories from Tokyo’s alleys after the bubble burst 245 Heide Imai 18 Flooding as emotional politics in the Mexican megacity-region 261 Felipe de Alba PART V MEGA-URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES 19 Measuring progress toward sustainable megacities 278 Iain D. Stewart, Chris A. Kennedy and Angelo Facchini 20 Megacities at risk: the climate–energy conundrum 292 William E. Rees 21 Future megacity-regions and heatwave exposure 309 Peter J. Marcotullio, Carsten Keßler and Balázs M. Fekete 22 Megacity in the delta: managing water in Jakarta 327 Christopher Silver PART VI MEGA-URBAN ECONOMICS, REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY 23 Rethinking megacity-region development: the land–infrastructure– finance nexus as political project 345 Gavin Shatkin 24 The process of metropolization in megacity-regions 360 Rodrigo Cardoso and Evert Meijers 25 The emergence and economic restructuring of two global super megacity-regions in China: comparing the Pearl River and Yangtze River Deltas 376 Anthony G. O. Yeh, Xingjian Liu, Jili Xu and Mengdi Wu 26 The financialization of real estate in megacities and its variegated trajectories in East Asia 395 Natacha Aveline-Dubach Index 411

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Book SynopsisAt a time when Asia is rapidly growing in global influence, this much-needed and insightful book bridges two major current policy topics in order to offer a unique study of the latest smart city archetypes emerging throughout Asia. Highlighting the smart city aspirations of Asian countries and their role in Asian governments' new development strategies, this book draws out timely narratives and insights from a uniquely Asian context and policymaking space. Each carefully curated chapter studies a national or local government-led smart city project and how it specifically relates to local institutions, political dynamics and development challenges in a region that is rapidly urbanising and growing economically. Collectively, these pressing contributions offer a comparative look at the policies and practices of smart cities, seen through the lens of local scholars and experts. Thoughtful and engaging, this book will prove valuable reading for students and scholars of public policy and Asian studies, as well as those with a specific interest in urban studies and planning, and science and technology policy. Policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from the rich information and up-to-date analysis on offer. Contributors include: T. Chatterji, M.-Y. Foo, J.-S. Hwang, S.A. Imawan, Y.-M. Joo, C.K. Khoo, K.C. Lee, X. Li, M. Manning, K.-M. Nam, J.-i. Noh, O.-o. Poocharoen, A.B. Pratama, S. Roy, T.-B. Tan, J.L. Tao, P. Thiengburanathum, S.-s. Wu, X. Yang, M. Yarime, L. YeTrade Review‘This volume is a handy resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to identify relevant smart city policies, their evolution trajectories, and the government actors or agencies involved in their development in a particular country, just as the editors intended. The book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Asian urbanism as well as those in public policy seeking to learn from the process of smart city policy developments outside the West.’ -- Nidhi Subramanyam, Journal of Urban Affairs‘Many cities have already started transitioning to smart cities as described in Smart Cities in Asia and will continue to emerge following the path of the cities explored in this informative and insightful collection of case studies containing valuable lessons for a smart city future to come.’ -- Balazs Laki, Progress in Development Studies‘Smart Cities in Asia is a timely addition to the ongoing debate about the local manifestation of this globally circulating policy idea.’ -- Christian Dimmer, Pacific Affairs'This book is a timely and welcome addition to the growing body of knowledge on smart cities in Asia. Covering major smart cities in East, Southeast and South Asia, it thoughtfully examines the reasons why these conurbations are eagerly jumping onto the smart cities bandwagon, their progress so far and the key policies introduced. Focusing on an increasingly important region in the global economy, this edited volume is not only an important contribution to the literature but also an essential read for anyone interested in smart cities in Asia.' --Kwok Yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: 1 Smart cities in Asia: an introduction 1 Yu-Min Joo and Teck-Boon Tan SMART CITIES OF THE FOUR ASIAN TIGERS AND JAPAN 2 The Smart Nation: unpacking Singapore’s latest mega-digitalisation push 19 Yu-Min Joo, Teck-Boon Tan and Ming-Yee Foo 3 Smart-city vision and strategy in Hong Kong 38 Xin Li, Kyung-Min Nam and Chee Keong Khoo 4 Smart Taipei City: understanding policy motivations, approaches and implementation 61 Shang-su Wu 5 The evolution of smart city in South Korea: the smart city winter and the city-as-a-platform 78 Jong-Sung Hwang 6 Facilitating innovation for smart cities: the role of public policies in the case of Japan 93 Masaru Yarime SMART CITY INITIATIVES OF TWO ASIAN GIANTS 7 The smart city policy of India and its governance implications 108 Souvanic Roy and Tathagata Chatterji 8 Smart cities in China: development background, policy measures and implementations 127 Xinhui Yang and Lin Ye SECOND-TIER CITIES AND SMART CITY DEVELOPMENT 9 Bureaucratic readiness for smart city initiatives: a mini study in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia 148 Arif Budy Pratama and Satria Aji Imawan 10 The smart city as a complex adaptive system: the ebbs and flows of humans and materials 162 Ora-orn Poocharoen, Poon Thiengburanathum and Kian Cheng Lee 11 ‘Green’ and ‘smart’ in South Korea: conceptions from the state to the citizen 180 Michael Manning, Jill L. Tao and Jae-in Noh Index 199

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking Research Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the impact of international law on cities. It sheds light on the growing global role of cities and makes the case for a renewed understanding of international law in the light of the urban turn.Written by a group of scholars from a wide range of different geographical and theoretical backgrounds, this Research Handbook contributes to a better understanding of the practice of cities in various fields of international law ranging from climate change over human rights and migration to security governance. Additionally, it offers reflections on how to account for this urban turn in the light of historical and cross-cutting theoretical perspectives from legal and non-legal scholarship alike.Combining doctrinal work and analysis of international practice with critical historical and theoretical contributions, this Research Handbook will be a must-have reference book for researchers and students in the field of international law as well as other disciplines, including human geography, urban studies, sociology and political science.Trade ReviewAwarded the 2022 ESIL Collaborative Book Prize'Research Handbooks tend to be just that – a book for reading selected contents one is interested in. Not this Handbook – it is fascinating from the beginning to end. Research Handbook of International Law and Cities, edited by Helmut Philip Aust and Janne E. Nijman, is an innovative collaborative work because it draws light at the growing importance of cities in international legal frameworks. Traditionally, cities have had relatively little to do with international law as the law of nations was constructed around the nation state and its sovereignty. The book invites us to rethink this proposition as it demonstrates how cities have become active in areas traditionally thought to be relating to international law. It thus raises awareness of a blind spot in international law, filling a research gap – adding more actors to the multiplicity of actors relevant in international law. […]‘This is an essential read for all of those studying or working at the intersection of International Relations and urban policy. The volume is a treasure trove of legal and international nuance critical to unpack the challenges that confront the internationalization of cities in the multilateral arena.’ -- Michele Acuto, International Affairs‘I would commend this book to all lawyers practising in the field of public international law and to students of the subject. It is a useful and innovating reference book and contributes to a better understanding of the role of cities in various fields of international law.’ -- Stephen D Sutton, The Law Society Gazette'Aust and Nijman's Research Handbook on International Law and Cities captures the complexity, and the controversy, of the relationship between cities and international law in all its splendour. This is a skilfully designed and executed - and coherent - work from the leading legal scholars in the field. The reader is led through the history, structure and many of the current issues in what is an increasingly well-established field, both academically and in practice. There will be many more thematic avenues to explore but the principles and the path are set out here. This book will become a dear friend for many historians, political scientists and lawyers, to name but a few.' -- Robert Lewis-Lettington, UN-Habitat'Walter Benjamin - foremost among writers on cities - once observed (to paraphrase) that crafting a good piece of writing entails making, at once, a musical composition, an architectural construction, and a woven textile. The Research Handbook on International Law and Cities that Helmut Aust and Janne Nijman have assembled, working with Miha Marcenko and a superb array of contributors, succeeds in all these ways. Combining historical, conceptual, practical and critical takes on the role of cities in global phenomena, and on various manifestations of the global in the urban, it sounds provocative notes for future work. Its construction is at once magisterial and replete with intriguing openings. Its fabric is rich in theoretical and empirical threads of value to international law and cognate disciplines. As one sometimes does in a city, I lost myself in its pages, in the most pleasurable way. Regardless of their disciplinary or geographic starting point, all those who read it - or should I say, visit this volume’s many cities - are sure to emerge newly informed and inspired.' -- Fleur Johns, UNSW Sydney, Australia'This Research Handbook offers a rich array of insightful analyses about the way that international law is being shaped, interpreted, and implemented by cities. After exploring historical antecedents, the volume dives into structural aspects of cities within international law, before tackling the role of cities in reshaping particular subject matter areas, such as climate change, human rights and refugees. For those captivated by States and international organizations as the only actors that count, this volume will change your mind.' -- Sean D. Murphy, George Washington University, US and Member, U.N. International Law CommissionTable of ContentsContents: 1 The emerging roles of cities in international law – introductory remarks on practice, scholarship and the Handbook 1 Helmut Philipp Aust and Janne E. Nijman PART I INTERNATIONAL LEGAL HISTORIES OF CITIES 2 Silk Road cities and their co-existing legal traditions 17 Valerie Hansen 3 Legitimizing interurban cooperation in the Middle Ages: the legal system of the Hanse 29 Tobias Boestad 4 The legal system among Italian city republics 41 Susanne Lepsius 5 Cities and international law: an imperial perspective 52 Luigi Nuzzo 6 Invisibility of cities in classical international law 64 Mirko Sossai 7 Cities, post-coloniality and international law 77 Luis Eslava and George Hill 8 Global city networks and the nation-state: rethinking a false tradeoff 90 Boris Vormann PART II CITIES AND FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 9 International legal personality/subjectivity of cities 103 Yishai Blank 10 Sources and law-making 121 Yukiko Takashiba 11 Responsibility 135 Katja Creutz 12 Dispute settlement 147 Moritz Baumgärtel 13 International organizations and cities 158 Jacob Katz Cogan 14 Sovereignty 173 Anouche Beaudouin PART III PRACTICE AREAS: HOW CITIES ARE RESHAPING INTERNATIONAL LAW 15 Climate change law and sustainable development 187 Anél du Plessis 16 The role of transnational city networks in environmental governance 201 Jolene Lin 17 The global insecure counterterrorism city 214 Alejandro Rodiles 18 Finding international law ‘close to home’: the case of human rights cities 227 Martha F. Davis 19 Cities, refugees and migration 240 Barbara Oomen 20 Development cooperation and the city 251 Michael Riegner 21 The role of cities in the global governance of health 265 Christian Iaione and Elena de Nictolis 22 The law of economic globalization and cities 279 Jorge E. Viñuales and Lucy Lu Reimers 23 From global city to Olympic city: the transnational legal journey of London 2012 293 Antoine Duval 24 City diplomacy: experience from the ground 305 Mauricio Rodas PART IV CROSS-CUTTING PERSPECTIVES ON CITIES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 25 An international relations perspective 321 Simon Curtis 26 Urbanizing political concepts for analyzing politics in the city 329 Nir Barak and Avner de Shalit 27 Cities as democratic representatives in international law-making 341 Samantha Besson and José Luis Martí 28 Cities, the Anthropocene and earth system law 354 Louis J. Kotzé 29 City networks and the glocalization of urban governance 368 Sheila R. Foster and Chrystie Swiney 30 The relationship between the state and the city from a comparative (constitutional) perspective 381 Geneviève Cartier 31 How domestic legal systems respond to international local government law: between accommodation, resistance and transformation 398 Carlo M. Colombo and Martijn L.P. Groenleer 32 Global administrative law and cities: the perfect couple that never was 411 Edouard Fromageau 33 Inter-legality, cities and the changing nature of authority 419 Jan Klabbers 34 International lawyers and the city 430 Daniel Litwin 35 The hidden city in international legal thought 443 Karen Knop Appendix 457 Helmut Aust and Janne E. Nijman Index

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Book Synopsis'Having been one of many collaborating with Charles on this journey, I believe this publication is valuable in bringing together the many streams of thinking, exploration and practice behind the notion of a truly ''Creative City''.' - Richard Brecknock, Brecknock Consulting, Australia 'At last the comprehensive story of the creative city and the many streams of thought it inspires - by the most significant author and thinker in this space. As Charles argues, thinking with imagination and creativity is no longer a choice for cities, it's essential for them to thrive.' - Margie Caust, Urban Strategist 'Now that the ''shock and awe'' of claim and counterclaim has blown over; an inspiring reflective synthesis of both the practices and the potentials for the Creative City.' - Andy C. Pratt, City University of London, UK Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Written by the leading authority Charles Landry, inventssor of the concept of the creative city, this timely book offers an insightful and engaging introduction to the field. Exploring the development of the concept, it discusses the characteristics of cities, the qualities of creativity, the creative and regeneration repertoires and the gentrification dilemma. Other key topics of this definitive work include ambition and creativity, cities and psychology, digitization and the creative bureaucracy. Key features include: clear and compact style a unique survey of contemporary developments in the field provides a theoretical base for evaluating the concept of creative cities considerations of the urban-sociological context of creative cities sets an agenda for future research in the field. The Advanced Introduction to the Creative City will be an indispensable guide for scholars and students working in urban geography, urban sociology, urban planning and urban studies. Trade Review'Creative city' remains one of the most globally influential policy ideas. Landry's Advanced Introduction presents an intellectual landscape of the most compelling policy ideas, creative proposals, models of practice, and frameworks of reflection, that the creative city imaginary facilitates around the world. This is an essential companion to cultural policy in relation to cities and creative economy, place-making and any form of sustainable community worth living in.' --Jonathan Vickery, University of Warwick, UK'It is always impressive and inspiring how Charles Landry manages to tap into the big questions for our common future. His innovative approach to culture and creative industries as a mind and game changer developed a movement that is constantly growing. This book is again an eye opener on how to work on central issues - multi-layered, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral - bringing life and perspectives into the cities of tomorrow - where people have the power.' --Claudia Jericho, Creative Human Relations/ CREATIVE.NRW, Nord Rhein Westfalen Government, Germany'Yes I love this book and find it very helpful as it describes for the first time the history of creative cities in a comprehensive way.' --Emeritus Professor, Masayuki Sasaki, Osaka City University, JapanTable of ContentsContents: 1. Setting the scene 2. Highlights and summary 3 Uncreative and creative places 4. Waves of change 5. Objective and subjective: My story 6. A timeline and trajectory 7. The characteristics of cities 8. The qualities of creativity 9. The creative repertoire 10. The regeneration repertoire 11. The gentrification dilemma 12. Ambition and creativity 13. Psychology and the city 14. Digitization - The Game Changer 15. The Creative Bureaucracy 16. Measuring the pulse of places Index

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Book Synopsis'Having been one of many collaborating with Charles on this journey, I believe this publication is valuable in bringing together the many streams of thinking, exploration and practice behind the notion of a truly ''Creative City''.' - Richard Brecknock, Brecknock Consulting, Australia 'At last the comprehensive story of the creative city and the many streams of thought it inspires - by the most significant author and thinker in this space. As Charles argues, thinking with imagination and creativity is no longer a choice for cities, it's essential for them to thrive.' - Margie Caust, Urban Strategist 'Now that the ''shock and awe'' of claim and counterclaim has blown over; an inspiring reflective synthesis of both the practices and the potentials for the Creative City.' - Andy C. Pratt, City University of London, UK Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Written by the leading authority Charles Landry, inventssor of the concept of the creative city, this timely book offers an insightful and engaging introduction to the field. Exploring the development of the concept, it discusses the characteristics of cities, the qualities of creativity, the creative and regeneration repertoires and the gentrification dilemma. Other key topics of this definitive work include ambition and creativity, cities and psychology, digitization and the creative bureaucracy. Key features include: clear and compact style a unique survey of contemporary developments in the field provides a theoretical base for evaluating the concept of creative cities considerations of the urban-sociological context of creative cities sets an agenda for future research in the field. The Advanced Introduction to the Creative City will be an indispensable guide for scholars and students working in urban geography, urban sociology, urban planning and urban studies. Trade Review'Creative city' remains one of the most globally influential policy ideas. Landry's Advanced Introduction presents an intellectual landscape of the most compelling policy ideas, creative proposals, models of practice, and frameworks of reflection, that the creative city imaginary facilitates around the world. This is an essential companion to cultural policy in relation to cities and creative economy, place-making and any form of sustainable community worth living in.' --Jonathan Vickery, University of Warwick, UK'It is always impressive and inspiring how Charles Landry manages to tap into the big questions for our common future. His innovative approach to culture and creative industries as a mind and game changer developed a movement that is constantly growing. This book is again an eye opener on how to work on central issues - multi-layered, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral - bringing life and perspectives into the cities of tomorrow - where people have the power.' --Claudia Jericho, Creative Human Relations/ CREATIVE.NRW, Nord Rhein Westfalen Government, Germany'Yes I love this book and find it very helpful as it describes for the first time the history of creative cities in a comprehensive way.' --Emeritus Professor, Masayuki Sasaki, Osaka City University, JapanTable of ContentsContents: 1. Setting the scene 2. Highlights and summary 3 Uncreative and creative places 4. Waves of change 5. Objective and subjective: My story 6. A timeline and trajectory 7. The characteristics of cities 8. The qualities of creativity 9. The creative repertoire 10. The regeneration repertoire 11. The gentrification dilemma 12. Ambition and creativity 13. Psychology and the city 14. Digitization - The Game Changer 15. The Creative Bureaucracy 16. Measuring the pulse of places Index

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Book SynopsisAs the Internet develops, on top of earlier urban communications, facilities and media, it is becoming the site of urban communications on an unprecedented scale. Exploring the history of the Internet, from pre-conception to the possibilities of an internet-based future, The Internet City explores ways in which the Internet and urban life intersect. The book interprets how the contemporary city is becoming fully based on Internet technologies in all of its major dimensions: the daily activities of urbanites and urban companies, the operations of urban systems, and the functioning of upcoming driverless vehicles. With particular focus on the ways in which people routinely consume urban services via the Internet, Aharon Kellerman examines how they are simultaneously present in physical and digital spaces. Urban geographers and urban planners will benefit from the detailed information on how the cityscape will be altered in the near future by the introduction of internet-based autonomous vehicles. City policy makers will also find this a useful tool to explore how and why policies may need to be updated in accordance with the rising importance of the Internet in the urban sphere.Trade Review‘This is a fascinating book which opens to the reader a wide view of the Internet development, applications and potential impacts on urbanities.’ -- Eran Ben-Elia, Geography Research Forum<>‘Those looking for an introduction to the impacts of the Internet on society and within cities will find the book useful. Kellerman has provided a public service in marshalling the basic historical and contemporary data about how the Internet has become embedded in our lives in multiple ways, and in showing us in an organized fashion some of the main concerns about how AVs may change cities.’ -- Daniel G Chatman, Journal of Urban Technology‘For more than 30 years Aharon Kellerman has chronicled the spatial implications of evolving communications and internet technologies culminating in his current volume The Internet City. . . The book is accessible to a wide audience and would find a place in undergraduate and graduate courses on information geography or urban planning, as well as be useful for urban planners, city managers and policy makers.’ -- Mark Wilson, Urban Analytics and City Science'As the internet revolution continues to reverberate through the global economy and daily life, urban life has become progressively more constituted around digital transactions. Kellerman has long been one of the most astute observers of this transformation. This volume not only covers the basics of how cyberspace has become woven into the contemporary world, such as cell phones and digital divides, it also breaks new ground by addressing topics that have received scant attention, such as autonomous vehicles. It offers a fecund series of insights into how people, firms, and places have been restructured by the ever-growing use of digital technologies. This volume will be useful to students and faculty alike, and of interest to anyone interested in how cyberspace and the analogue world have become shot through with each other.' --Barney Warf, University of Kansas, US'Computer networks and autonomous technologies continue to rapidly redefine the geography of the city. Kellerman has spent a lifetime reflecting on what this might mean and his recent book presents one of the most insightful pictures of this future to date. Essential reading for all those interested in how our future cities will be organised.' --Michael Batty, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I URBAN CONNECTIVITY AND INFORMATIONAL ACTIVITIES 1. Introduction 2. Pre-Internet urban connectivity and informational activities 3. The Internet PART II URBAN INTERNET APPLICATIONS 4. The Internet for Individual users 5. The dual-space society 6. The Internet and companies 7. The Internet for urban systems 8. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the Internet PART III IMPLICATIONS OF URBAN INTERNET APPLICATIONS 9. Urban perspectives for the Internet-based city 10. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which the EU features overlapping spheres of authority. Using territorial ideas prevalent in the Medieval Period, Andreas Faludi offers ways to rethink the current debates surrounding territorialism in the EU.Challenging contemporary European spatial planning, this book explores how modern planning puts the democratic control of state territories and their development in question. The notion of democracy in an increasingly interconnected world is a key issue, and as such Faludi advocates a Europe where national borders are questioned, and ultimately transgressed.Progressive and timely, this book is an invaluable read for academic and practicing planners concerned with European planning and co-operation. Critical social and political geographers will also benefit from the revolutionary insights Faludi offers.Trade Review'Andreas Faludi's book is original and inspiring. In his enquiry about ''territorialism'', he develops a concrete pedagogy of the irrelevance of national borders. Andreas, a leading expert in the field of spatial planning, modestly claims to stick to planning as his legitimate field, but has sufficient knowledge to think out of the box, and look at the big picture. Andreas is one of those rare people with the sufficient vision and systemic approach required to plan an interdependent world.' --Jean Peyrony, Mission opérationnelle transfrontalière, France'In his latest book, Andreas Faludi engagingly interweaves an academic discussion on territorialism and its challenges for spatial planning with his personal reflections on the history and possible future of the EU integration project.' --Stefanie Dühr, University of South Australia'In The Poverty of Territorialism Andreas Faludi challenges key concepts that the spatial planning community has come to love. Faludi's thoughts offer highly valuable inspiration to all those dealing with the future of regions, the nation state or even the European Union. Cutting edge planning literature!' --Jörg Knieling, HafenCity University Hamburg, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Part I POSITIONING MYSELF 1. Territorialism: A First Approximation 2. Where the Journey Goes PART II TERRITORY AS AN ORDERING PRINCIPLE 3. Territorialism Explained 4. The Case For Territorialism 5. The Case Against Territorialism PART III THE UNION AND ITS TERRITORY 6. Territorialism and European Spatial Planning 7. Territorialism and a Union in Crisis PART IV A UNION WITHOUT A TERRITORY 8. The Union a Neo-medieval Empire 9. The European Archipelago PART V TO CONCLUDE 10. The Valley of Tears 11. Epilogue: Spatial Planning Outside the Box Index

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Book SynopsisArguing that traditional approaches to planning are insufficient to address the complexities of transforming cities and regions in contemporary society, this innovative book makes the case for training planners in new and creative ways as coordinators, enablers and facilitators.An international range of teaching case studies offer a wide and distinctive set of ideas for the future of planning education along with practical tips to assist in adapting pedagogical approaches to various institutional settings. Additionally, the book promotes a stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue with contributions by leading educational specialists that situate the new and emergent approaches in planning education within the context of urban and regional challenges and the broader framework of contemporary pedagogical debates.This original book will be a valuable resource for academic scholars in urban, regional and spatial planning, and all those concerned with the future of higher education in relevant subjects. Chapters provide food for thought on making responsible choices while training planning professionals to act in a socially responsible manner and to support communities to think, design and deliver change in qualified ways.Trade Review‘This is a well-written international engagement with pedagogical innovation and change in planning education. I agree with the authors that right now, spatial planning is crucial to planetary survival but that there are profound challenges to overcome. The book provides a range of case studies that will provide the planning educator, or any other reader, an opportunity to examine how context interfaces with pedagogical approaches, and ultimately to learn from them.’ -- -- Nancy Odendaal, University of Cape Town, South AfricaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xv Daniel Galland 1 Introduction: transformational change in planning education pedagogy? 1 Andrea I. Frank and Artur da Rosa Pires PART I PEDAGOGICAL DEBATES 2 Education for 21st century urban and spatial planning: critical postmodern pedagogies 20 Terry Lamb and Goran Vodicka 3 Planning education and planning the university: a becoming-symbiosis 39 Ronald Barnett PART II TEACHING AND LEARNING IN, FOR AND WITH COMMUNITIES 4 Pedagogy built on working with communities: a first semester core course 57 Ayse Yonder, Mercedes Narciso and Juan Camilo Osorio 5 Planning with the community: engaged professional education in ethno-nationally contested city 74 Rachel Kallus 6 Challenges in education of participatory planning: collaborating with patients and physicians to plan mental health facilities 94 Elsa Vivant 7 Beyond the classroom: new skills through community– university outreach 108 Camila D’Ottaviano and João Farias Rovati 8 Collaborative and innovative participatory planning pedagogies: reflections from the Community Participation in Planning project 125 Gavan Rafferty, Grazia Concilio, José Carlos Mota, Fernando Nogueira, Emma Puerari and Louise O’Kane PART III DEVELOPING NEW CLASSROOM-BASED COMPETENCIES 9 Urban design studio as a critical learning space within the architecture curriculum: the evolving pedagogical approach to “PROJECTO 5” 142 Teresa Calix 10 Addressing the interplay of design-based disciplines and social sciences in urban development education 157 Lukas Gilliard, Nadia Alaily-Mattar and Alain Thierstein 11 Using theatre and performance for greater reflexivity in planning and design education 174 Marleen Buizer and Iulian Barba Lata 12 MIKROAKADEMIE: peer learning to enrich the curriculum and enhance participation and self-reflection 188 Andreas Brück and Angela Million PART IV FURTHER EDUCATION AND LIFE-LONG CAPACITY BUILDING 13 Online, but not isolated: addressing a key challenge of digital distance learning 204 Adam Sheppard 14 A problem-based and process-oriented curriculum in continuing education 221 Anita Grams 15 Professional training for social responsibility: fundamentals and practice of a residency programme in architecture and urbanism 236 Maria L. Refinetti Martins and Paula Custódio de Oliveira 16 A student workshop on tactical urbanism: one day to change the 100th year neighbourhood? 251 Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro 17 Conclusion: nurturing new learning landscapes and pedagogies 267 Artur da Rosa Pires and Andrea I. Frank Index 281

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Book SynopsisThis timely and thought-provoking book examines the contemporary struggle of communities over land ownership and use rights in rapidly urbanising areas. Analysing 12 key case studies from across four continents, it demonstrates changes in land and housing tenancy systems, showing how communities have revolted against the land hunger of speculators, agrobusiness and technocratic local authorities. Contributions from an international team of researchers, policy analysts and experts explore both neoliberal urban development policies and socially innovative initiatives, discussing different modes of solidarity action and commons building to ensure both access to land and housing security. Chapters also introduce a critical governance perspective to land tenure dynamics and examine the increasingly prominent hybridisation of land use rights systems and land markets, providing a state-of-the-art reflection of the field and contributing to an agenda for future research, policy and practice. Academics studying urban and regional planning, social innovation, and commoning will find this book to be essential reading. It will also interest policy makers and civil society organisations looking for a stronger understanding of land dynamics and urbanisation in order to set up new forms of land governance. Contributors include: P. Abramo, A.M. Brown, N. Busscher, N. Carofilis, C. Collado Solís, V. d'Auria Anitha, C.E. Estrada, L.A. Flores Hernandez, E.T. Gbeckor-Kove, A. Hasan, I. Hiergens, R. Krueger, A. Mehmood, L. Miranda, F. Moulaert, O.A. Nyapala, B. Pak, C. Parra, G. Payne, O. Peek, M. Quintana Molina, A. Sadiq, K. Scheerlinck, A. Suseelan, PVK Rameshwar, C. Tavares e Silva, G. Testori, S. Ud Din Ahmed, P. Van den Broeck, H. VerschureTrade Review‘The important and welcome contribution of the book is in enriching the studies of the politics of urbanization with multiple new case-studies from under-studied locations. The research locations presented in the book are abundant. Such a diversity enables us to explore various points along the spectrum of issues of community, housing, and land that characterize so much of the current urban processes.’ -- Tomer Dekel, Geography Research Forum'This interesting book offers a diversity of understandings of how joint efforts to access land and land tenure enable communities and empower them to be part of their own governance, not only through the official land development and planning processes but also through informal, collective and complex community social innovations. A must read for those who are interested in understanding the processes of land development through a new, community focussed lens.' --Tuna Tasan-Kok, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1 The hybrid of land taking and land making 1 Pieter Van den Broeck, Asiya Sadiq, Ide Hiergens, Monica Quintana Molina, Han Verschure and Frank Moulaert 2 The COMP-FUSE city: informal land market and urban structure in Latin American Metropolises 18 Pedro Abramo 3 Options for intervention: increasing tenure security for community development and urban transformation 41 Geoffrey Payne 4 Analysing the governance of land grabbing from a combined political ecology and environmental justice perspective 59 Nienke Busscher, Robert Krueger and Constanza Parra 5 What we learned from HABITAT 1976 to HABITAT 2016 77 Han Verschure 6 The changing nature of informal settlements in the megapolis in South Asia: the case of Karachi, Pakistan 91 Arif Hasan 7 The hillside poor at risk? Land trafficking in Jose Carlos Mariátegui at the outskirts of Lima, Peru 109 Carlos Escalante Estrada and Liliana Miranda 8 Addressing the housing shortage without building cities: The Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, Brazil 125 Carolina Tavares e Silva 9 Urban planning, land management and the stubborn realities of informal urbanisation in peri-urban areas around Accra, Ghana 136 Eden Tekpor Gbeckor-Kove 10 Vulnerability of urban ecology of Bangalore: an examination of its contention with the politics of land administration 153 Anitha Suseelan and PVK Rameshwar 11 Co-producing alternative urban imaginaries in the contested riverbank settlements of Guayaquil, Ecuador 166 Olga Peek, Nelson Carofilis and Viviana d’Auria 12 Revisiting the Mexican Ejido: envisioning alternative land tenures in Guadalajara, Mexico 181 Luis Angel Flores Hernandez 13 Informal power structures: towards provision of services and security of tenure 195 Saeed Ud Din Ahmed, Abid Mehmood, Alison M. Brown 14 Self-government and social innovation in Atucucho, Quito 214 Giulia Testori 15 Community management of the waterfront: exploring the significance of social and cultural identity 228 Okoko Anita Nyapala 16 Challenging the agro-industrial governance of land use rights: the experience of community-supported agriculture in peri-urban Flanders 246 Carmen Collado Solís and Pieter Van den Broeck 17 Studying the interrelationship of the formal and informal processes in the making of collective spaces: the case of Place Liedts and environs, Schaerbeek, Brussels 263 Asiya Sadiq, Kris Scheerlinck and Burak Pak Index 282

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Book SynopsisThis timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalue public planning, sensitive to the social context in which it takes place. Aiming to define the social and political basis of planning, the book highlights how our neo-liberal world has lost touch with the importance of a well-resourced, impartial, professional and permanent public service to democracy. It does so by exploring the role of planning in long-term social and economic change, different understandings of social power and class and how human-nature relationships might influence ecological governance. Planning scholars, particularly those focusing on urban and environmental planning, will find this book an inspiring and accessible read, integrating a wide range of social theories with social and ecological justice.Trade Review'This book provides a treasure chest of theoretical and political insights about what it means to be a planner and what is entailed in the planning process. Developed over a lifetime of research and teaching, Nick Low connects planning to the major debates going on in the critical social sciences and humanities, and in the world. If you are a student of public planning in need of theoretical inspiration, this book is for you!' --Robyn Eckersley, The University of Melbourne, Australia'For more than forty years, Nicholas Low has been writing with depth and lucidity on the challenging intersections of power, policy, justice, and the environment. Being a Planner in Society provides a culmination of this work in a sweeping, passionate, and compelling narrative that is mandatory reading for all those seeking to safeguard the planet.' --Robert W. Lake, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, US'In our current crises of climate change and rising inequality, the need for action is key, but it must be underpinned by understanding. This book provides a fresh, accessible and rigorous account of key theoretical perspectives that planning students will need to become informed, critical practitioners, able to tackle these challenges.' --Katy McClymont, University of the West of England, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. People, planet and place PART 1 The Planner’s Role 2. Planners construe their worlds 3. The mirror of planning theory 4. Mapping the terrain of power 5. Being and planning Part 2 Structures and Institutions 6. Neoliberal worlds 7. Class, power and planning 8. Planning and the regulation of capitalism 9. Institutional inertia and evolution 10. Feminist Insights into social structures and values Part 3 Values 11. Justice and society 12. Ecological justice: the self, society and nature 13. Global regulation of environmental exploitation 14. What matters: revaluing planning Bibliography On-line Companion Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This insightful Research Agenda examines the multidimensional relationship between heritage planning and pressing current societal challenges around climate, identity and development. Mapping future avenues for the field, it suggests new approaches to executing, studying and reflecting on heritage planning. Expert international contributors raise key questions that challenge practice and research to push for structural and institutional change, highlighting how heritage planning, conservation, and adaptive reuse have transformative potential - and the responsibilities that come with such potential. Chapters explore central topics including industrial heritage and conservation planning, digital reconstruction methods and remote sensing technologies, rural tourism, participation and heritage-led regeneration, as well as issues around contestation and politicization, and the conceptualisations of heritage planning.Spanning the domains of theoretical and empirical insights, from academic outlooks to professional challenges, this Research Agenda will be a vital resource for academics and students of urban and human geography, heritage studies, planning, urban design and architecture. Its examination of particular heritage projects will also be useful for policy makers and professionals working in the heritage planning field.Trade Review‘A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe the book by Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus brings new dialogues and bridges the dichotomy of an “east” and “west” understanding of heritage that has been taken for granted as two different dichotomies. This book offers an insight on how the western world itself is also not homogenous in the understanding of what heritage is and heritage is not always tangible in the “west”. This book shows readers that there is no universal European understanding of heritage and planning. Only in specific divisions of European countries and mostly in urban contexts does so-called European heritage understanding dominate the discourse and planning. This book aims to not only elaborate on heritage planning and research in Europe, but also push beyond a Eurocentric approach, and examine the research this approach produces and the foundation on which it is developed, as well as give funding to the projects and people who work in this field.’ -- Cut Dewi, Built Heritage‘A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning offers an ambitious reflection on the complex articulation of research, practice and policy that inform the uses of heritage in Europe today. Editors Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus gather a coherent, wide-ranging selection of cases, successfully stressing heritage’s decisive role in solving Europe's current identity, climate and developmental challenges. As an extensive recount of the latest research advancements, this book will exceed the expectations of those exploring the frontiers of heritage, and enlighten readers about the profound transcendence of its planning in contemporary societies.’ -- Plácido González Martínez, Tongji University, China‘This edited volume by Stegmeijer and Veldpaus provides a ground-breaking Research Agenda for heritage planning and would be useful not only for practitioners, but also for academics, students and politicians.’ -- Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: some key challenges for heritage science research xix PART I SETTING THE SCENE FOR HERITAGE PLANNING: PERSPECTIVES FROM EUROPE 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: the state of heritage planning in Europe 31 Eva Stegmeijer, Loes Veldpaus and Joks Janssen 2 Heritage research in the 21st century: departing from the useful futures of sustainable develoment 49 Višnja Kisić 3 The value of heritage in sustainable development and spatial planning 67 Koenraad Van Balen and Aziliz Vandesande PART II CURRENT RESEARCH IN HERITAGE PLANNING: PROJECTS FROM EUROPE SECTION A HERITAGE AND IDENTITY 4 Introduction to heritage and identity: from planning and policies to communities, and back 85 Remi Wacogne 5 Exploring archaeology’s place in participatory European cultural landscape management: perspectives from the ‘REFIT’ project 89 Tom Moore and Gemma Tully 6 Industrial heritage and conservation planning, changing governance practices, examples from Europe 103 Loes Veldpaus and Remi Wacogne 7 Developing participation through digital reconstruction and communication of ‘lost’ heritage 115 Laura Loredana Micoli, Gabriele Guidi, Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Diego González-Aguilera 8 Cultural heritage and European identity in European Union law and policy 127 Francesca Fiorentini, Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski SECTION B HERITAGE AND CLIMATE 9 Introduction to heritage and climate change: current gaps and scientific challenges 143 Claudio Margottini 10 New uses for old waterways 149 Francesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin 11 Satellite monitoring of geo-hazards affecting cultural heritage 161 Daniele Spizzichino and Claudio Margottini 12 Archaeological site monitoring and risk assessment using remote sensing technologies and GIS 171 Stefano De Angeli and Fabiana Battistin SECTION C HERITAGE AND DEVELOPMENT 13 Introduction to heritage and development: the agency of heritage in rural and urban development practices 183 Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist 14 Cultural heritage and improvised music in European festivals 189 Tony Whyton and Beth Perry 15 Cultural heritage at work for economy and society 201 Stefano Della Torre and Rossella Moioli 16 Gastronomy and creative entrepreneurship in rural tourism: encouraging sustainable community development 213 Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Anna de Jong, Romà Garrido Puig, Giuseppa Romeo and Wilhelm Skoglund PART III RESEARCH AGENDA FOR HERITAGE PLANNING. PERSPECTIVES FOR EUROPE (AND BEYOND) 17 Towards a more just world: an agenda for transformative heritage planning futures 227 Loes Veldpaus, Višnja Kisić, Eva Stegmeijer and Joks Janssen Index

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Book SynopsisEncouraging older people to age in place in their own homes is a common response internationally to the economic and social demands of population ageing. It is recognized that the nature of the built environment at various scales is critical to optimizing the social participation and wellbeing of older people and hence in facilitating ageing in place. This insightful book showcases a range of design, planning and policy responses to ageing populations from across the rapidly changing and dynamic Western Asia-Pacific region. Ageing in Place considers diverse cultural, political and environmental contexts and responses to show that regional governments, industries and communities can gain, as well as offer, important insights from their international counterparts. With significant changes in caring, family dynamics and the supporting roles of governments in both Eastern and Western societies, the chapters demonstrate a clear and increasingly convergent preference for and promotion of ageing in place and the need for collaborative efforts to facilitate this through policy and practice. The unique geographical focus and multi-disciplinary perspective of this book will greatly benefit academic researchers and students from a variety of backgrounds including architecture, urban planning, sociology and human geography. It also provides a unique entry point for practitioners seeking to understand the principles of design and practice for ageing in place in homes, neighbourhoods and care facilities.Trade Review‘Ageing in Place focuses on policies, practices and design in the Western Asia-Paci?c, speci?cally Japan and China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) in the northern hemisphere and Australia and New Zealand in the southern. The countries each face their own realities and challenges with ageing populations. They potentially have much to learn from each other, notwithstanding their very di?erent cultural contexts. Much of the East Asian literature on ageing in place is not translated into English, while the focus of English-language scholarship is heavily Eurocentric. An English language book dedicated to documenting and sharing experiences from the Western Asia-Paci?c is therefore novel, welcome and timely.’ -- Tony Matthews, Urban Policy and Research‘In bringing together a range of perspectives on ageing in place from across disciplines, Ageing In Place represents an insightful contribution to understandings of this phenomenon. The authors highlight that much of the English-language academic literature to date has a Eurocentric focus. Through its geographical focus on China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, this book marks a departure from this trend, and thus provides a valuable opportunity to draw comparisons and lessons from a broader multitude of local economic, political and cultural contexts in which this policy trend is variously embedded.’ -- Hannah Holmes, International Journal of Housing Policy'This comprehensive book provides a unique offering to our understandings of ageing in place. It is particularly valuable in highlighting the differences and similarities in supporting and assisting ageing in place across countries with varying levels of ageing, different cultural norms and political systems but also in its approach from a detailed micro level analysis of housing design to the macro influences of policy. This is an important contribution to the scholarship on enabling older populations to age well.' --Debbie Faulkner, University of South Australia'Tackling an important and growing challenge for countries throughout the world Ageing in Place provides a much-needed multi-country dialogue on ageing with dignity. Chapters grounded in empirical work and project examples investigate how China, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand are addressing the crucial connections between older people, their homes, and quality of life. This is a valuable and timely book.' --Ann Forsyth, Harvard University, US'In this volume the editors have compiled some of the most important research on the housing situation of older people in the Western Asia-Pacific region. In particular, the term ''ageing in place'' is discussed, a condition much favoured by governments across the globe. With its focus on population ageing and the built environment in this geographical region the book is a most welcome contribution to the literature in this field of research.' --Marianne Abramsson, Stockholm University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: ageing in place in the Western Asia-Pacific 1 Bruce Judd, Edgar Liu and Kenichi Tanoue PART I DESIGN 2 Housing typology and ageing in place in Australia 14 Bruce Judd 3 Ageing in place: Japan struggles toward its realization 34 Satoshi Kose 4 Community opposition to embedded facilities for the elderly in Chinese urban communities 39 Zhang Song and Lei Jing-Wen 5 A field survey on the environmental characteristics of day care centres for the demented elderly in Taiwan 48 Hwang Yao-Rong 6 Preferable home environment for the independent elderly to prevent falls and maintain activities of daily living 60 Satoshi Muraki PART II PLANNING 7 Ageing in sprawl: urban form and the challenges for age-friendly planning 70 Mariana Atkins 8 Ageing and depopulation in the mountains of Japan and Spain 84 Masakazu Tani, Tomo Inoue, Kazuo Asahiro, Naoyuki Oi and Kenichi Tanoue 9 The Livability App: older and vulnerable users’ perspectives on space design, access provision and services 97 Catherine Bridge 10 Planning for the milieu of older people in a post-disaster environment 111 Kenichi Tanoue 11 Older people’s use of outdoor spaces and factors that influence place selection: a survey of old urban communities in Nanjing, China 126 Li Xiang-Feng, Zhang Meng, Li Xiao-Ming and Fan Hao PART III POLICY 12 A review of ageing in place: policies and initiatives in Hong Kong since 2010 139 Ernest Wing-Tak Chui 13 Ageing in multigenerational households: the case of Australia 153 Edgar Liu 14 From vicious to virtuous: repositioning New Zealand’s housing to sustain better later lives 165 Kay Saville-Smith 15 Ageing and the concept of fair housing in the Japanese context 180 Yasushi Sukenari 16 Conclusion: ageing in place, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives 194 Edgar Liu and Bruce Judd Index 196

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Book SynopsisUsing case studies from the UK and Europe, Chris Couch examines the nature and achievements of the expanded towns programmes that emerged in the mid-20th century to accommodate population growth and overspill from densely populated urban areas. Thought-provoking insights into lessons to be learnt are provided, alongside arguments for further planned expansion of smaller towns today. This timely book investigates how development pressures caused by rapidly growing populations, have led to some disregard for health and housing standards, and how a fresh look at the relationship between urban form and public health is necessary, particularly in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. The author raises the importance of strong planning and public land acquisition, concluding with a strong case for a new programme of planned expansion in smaller towns. Written in an accessible style, this book is an excellent resource for students and researchers in urban planning, geography and history as well as housing policy, estate management and the built environment. Practitioners and policy makers within town planning and urban development would also find this an invaluable read.Trade Review‘This book offers valuable insight into the UK and European experience of planning for growth and pressure on existing settlements. By examining the development and implementation of several UK and European urban expansion policies the reader is provided with a balanced insight into approaches to planning for urbanization. This book will be particularly valuable to academics with an interest in urban design, planning, regeneration and economic development grappling with planning for future needs and demands.’ -- Katherine Pollard, Journal of Urban Affairs'Chris Couch provides a detailed overview of the modern history of urban extension schemes in Britain. Discussions of broader trends are combined with in-depth chapters on individual localities, including international comparative case studies in France and the Netherlands. The book contains rich empirical material throughout and is illustrated by original masterplan sketches, recent images and data visualizations. The lessons from Couch’s historical analysis will be valuable for planners managing urban expansion and sprawl in a variety of contemporary contexts across the world.' -- Matthew Cocks, Principia College, Illinois, US'Planned Urban Development: Learning from Town Expansion Schemes in the UK and Europe is an important and timely contribution to planning literature. The analysis provided in this book confirms the centrality of the broad vision and applied practice of planning for balanced urban development. Through a series of national and international case studies, each of which is documented in great detail, Chris Couch provides a meticulously researched account of one of the most significant planning initiatives of the 20th century - the town expansion scheme.' -- Cathal O'Connell, University College Cork, Ireland'By threading different time periods of different town expansion plans, Chris Couch has written a must-read text for anyone who is interested in learning from how planning policies and decisions since the 1950s have impacted on housing supply and shaped our everyday life in the UK and Europe. It is a very well-researched book and serves as a mirror to remind us what to do and what not to do in our planned urban development.' -- Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Planned Urban Development 2. The origins and evolution of expanded towns policy 3. The geography and planning of town expansion 4. Big beasts: pioneering developments in Bletchley and Swindon 5. Other expanded towns serving London 6. Planning for overspill in North-West England 7. Using the New Towns Acts for larger town expansion schemes 8. Comparative experiences from the Netherlands and France 9. Overall achievements and future possibilities 10. Conclusion: learning from town expansion schemes in the UK and Europe Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage relationally in a material world, within which we are inter-dependent and reliant, and governed by laws in a dynamic process. It advances novel insights into the numerous intersections of space, place and law in our lives.International contributors offer a range of activity-orientated analyses, focusing on methodology, embodied experience, legal pluralism, conflict and resistance, and non-human and place agency. The Handbook examines a number of cross-cutting themes including social inequality, environmental justice, sustainability, urban development, Indigenous legal systems, the effects of colonialism and property law. Representing a diversity of locales from all around the world, the chapters encompass both urban and rural, terrestrial and marine areas, agential and storied spaces, and fictional as well as ''real'' places.Taking a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates law, human and legal geography, planning, sociology, political ecology, anthropology, and beyond, this comprehensive Handbook will be critical reading for scholars and students of these and cognate areas. Its discussion of empirical examples will also be beneficial for practitioners and policymakers interested in these fields. Trade Review‘The editors make a distinct contribution to legal geography, shaping a diverse, expansive, and future-focused collection of essays which finely balance being critically attuned to unequal formations of law and power whilst offering optimistic approaches of how to do things with legal geography. The range of topics and breadth of imagination is undoubtedly impressive.’ -- Jessica Smith, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies'A must-have for readers paying attention to space, place and law. This edited book is a journey along a braided river, with 32 chapters on Indigenous issues, non-human others, cyberlaw, the sea, cities, energy, the underground and much more. Highly readable and packed with important insights, you will need to put this book down, but you will soon pick it up again.' -- Phil McManus, University of Sydney, Australia'The contributors, refreshingly, are diverse and differently situated. Intellectually, they also come from many worlds -- geography, law, planning, anthropology, and so on. Their work speaks to the crucial challenges, tied to systemic inequality, that we confront, while also reminding us of the diverse forms that legal geography takes. It insists that legal geography is needed now, more than ever.' -- from the Foreword by Nicholas Blomley'Legal geography has much promise in deepening our understanding of the linkages between societies, their governance, and the world we live in. The Handbook on Space, Place and Law offers not only a major consolidation of the field, but a significant extension. Bartel, Carter and colleagues scope widely across socio-legal contexts, policy sectors and environments, and offer deep insights of great value to geographers and lawyers alike, and indeed to anyone concerned with the conditions of people and their environments.' -- Stephen Dovers, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: What is legal geography? Why, and why now? xvii Nicholas Blomley Introduction to space, place and law xx Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter PART I WAY FINDING 1 How to make 1500 holes in the ground: accounting for law alongside other place-shaping factors in the making of an exceptional Cold War network 2 Luke Bennett 2 Legislative tenure and spatial economic analysis: an illustrative example of papaya production in Nadroga province, Fiji 14 Chethna Ben 3 In the eyes of the law: stalking and the legal (mis)construal of scopic relational spaces 26 David Delaney and Päivi Rannila 4 All the land was stolen: investigating the aporia of justice through countertopographies of Indigenous land rights and settler colonialism across the Americas 38 Joel E. Correia PART II JOURNEYING 5 Neighbourhoods for an ageing population in Singapore 50 Belinda Yuen 6 Sexual offences and to have done with the courtroom 61 Victoria Brooks 7 Performing law: space and the unfolding of gender and violence in India 72 Kalindi Kokal and Werner Menski 8 Place: sacrifice and property law in extra-territorial nation spaces 86 Lee Godden PART III BORDER CROSSINGS 9 Understanding the impact of customary land tenure and reform in Papua New Guinea 99 Flora Kwapena 10 The spatial management of sex work: placing marginality through formal and informal practices 109 Caitlin Neuwelt-Kearns, Tom Baker and Octavia Calder-Dawe 11 Collision between two ‘public interests’ in housing demolition and relocation in Dalian, China 118 Chen Li, Min Jiang and Mark Yaolin Wang 12 Law, place and maps 129 Antonia Layard PART IV DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS 13 Activating rural spaces in the pursuit of unconventional energy and justice 142 Meg Sherval 14 Land territorialisation, contestation and informal place-laws of Indigenous peoples in Phuket and Phang Nga, Thailand 156 Daniel Robinson, Danielle Drozdzewski and Jaruwan Kaewmahanin Enright 15 Indigenous land conflict and the underlying life of laws: lessons from the Ipperwash Crisis 170 Nicole Latulippe 16 Extracting Indigenous jurisdiction on private land: the duty to consult and Indigenous relations with place in Canadian law 182 Estair Van Wagner PART V INTERSECTIONS 17 Paying attention to the spaces in between: the social production of space and Indigenous presence in cities 196 Melissa Nursey-Bray and Stephen Muecke 18 Negotiating privacy in the ‘vertical city’: regulating the gentrification of the skies 207 Phil Hubbard 19 Landscapes of colonial Australian entanglement: authorities, self-definition and cultural pedagogy 217 John Ryan and Baden Offord 20 Reclaiming land, reclaiming the ‘nomos’: towards a geography of emerging rights 229 Benno Fladvad, Silja Klepp and Florian Dünckmann PART VI FELLOW TRAVELLERS 21 Pets, pests and humane humans 241 Jennifer Carter and Mandy Paterson 22 Apples and oranges? Exchanging offsets for a place agency-based approach 254 Wendy Beck and Robyn Bartel 23 A case for ‘place’ in governing the energy–environment nexus 268 Amanda Kennedy and Cameron Holley 24 Dephysicalised property and shadow lands 281 Nicole Graham PART VII NEW HORIZONS 25 Territorializing Arrakis: competing for water and melange at the edge of the galactic empire – between desert gatherers and the spacefaring 293 Allan Charles Dawson and Ismael Vaccaro 26 Law underground: the legal geographies of gas transmission pipeline risk regulation 304 Brad Jessup 27 Place, space, and cyberlaw 316 Barney Warf 28 Freedom and constraint in sailing: exploring a gendered attachment to sea-places 327 Shelley A. Wright PART VIII WAYS FORWARD 29 Tackling corruption in urban development and planning: from compliance to integrity in Africa and beyond 339 Dieter Zinnbauer and Stephen Berrisford 30 Land, people and places: double visions and corporate land ownership 350 Radha D’Souza 31 Making there like here: is the impossible possible? 365 Robyn Bartel and Christopher Stone 32 Where to from here? From law to place and back again 382 Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks: knowing, engaging, prescribing, and executing. In doing so, Beauregard explores how a basic concern with the relationship between knowledge and action has evolved into a complex discussion of democracy, inclusion, and justice. Key features include: a cross-national approach to the topic a unique overview of key concepts centred on the profession of urban and regional planning coverage of historical planning theory as well as recent developments in the field an accessible writing style suitable for both those studying urban and regional planning, as well as practicing planners. Trade Review'The ultimate introduction to planning theory by one of its most prominent voices: selective and demystifying. By outlining a clear map of relevant theories of knowing, engaging, prescribing and executing, Beauregard paves the way for very different readers to advance their understanding of what planning theory is, does and can do.' --Davide Ponzini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy'In this book, Robert A. Beauregard provides a critical review of the developments in planning theory from the original point of view of how they address the situated realms of planning practice; how knowledge is gained and validated in planning, how humans (and non-humans as well) are engaged in it, how its normative aims are prescribed in a justifiable manner, and how plans are executed. His eloquent coverage of the various strands of planning theory, and insights on bridging the persistent theory-practice gap, make this book an essential read to academics and practitioners alike.' --Raine Mäntysalo, Aalto University, Finland'With his customary clarity, Robert Beauregard has used his encyclopaedic knowledge of planning theory to provide a completely fresh perspective on planning practice. In doing so, he has turned most accounts of planning theory inside out, and put the planner and planning organisations at the heart of his book. It should find a place on every planning student's bookshelf.' --Yvonne Rydin, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Knowing 3. Engaging 4. Prescribing 5. Executing 6. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks: knowing, engaging, prescribing, and executing. In doing so, Beauregard explores how a basic concern with the relationship between knowledge and action has evolved into a complex discussion of democracy, inclusion, and justice. Key features include: a cross-national approach to the topic a unique overview of key concepts centred on the profession of urban and regional planning coverage of historical planning theory as well as recent developments in the field an accessible writing style suitable for both those studying urban and regional planning, as well as practicing planners. Trade Review'The ultimate introduction to planning theory by one of its most prominent voices: selective and demystifying. By outlining a clear map of relevant theories of knowing, engaging, prescribing and executing, Beauregard paves the way for very different readers to advance their understanding of what planning theory is, does and can do.' --Davide Ponzini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy'In this book, Robert A. Beauregard provides a critical review of the developments in planning theory from the original point of view of how they address the situated realms of planning practice; how knowledge is gained and validated in planning, how humans (and non-humans as well) are engaged in it, how its normative aims are prescribed in a justifiable manner, and how plans are executed. His eloquent coverage of the various strands of planning theory, and insights on bridging the persistent theory-practice gap, make this book an essential read to academics and practitioners alike.' --Raine Mäntysalo, Aalto University, Finland'With his customary clarity, Robert Beauregard has used his encyclopaedic knowledge of planning theory to provide a completely fresh perspective on planning practice. In doing so, he has turned most accounts of planning theory inside out, and put the planner and planning organisations at the heart of his book. It should find a place on every planning student's bookshelf.' --Yvonne Rydin, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Knowing 3. Engaging 4. Prescribing 5. Executing 6. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements within systems, but as deliberative actors with ambitions, desires, strategies and objectivesDeepening the scholarly debate on leadership in cities and regions, the Handbook combines theoretical discussion and empirical evidence within methodological development to present a state-of-the-art view of a rapidly emerging field of study, highlighting paths for future research. Chapters explore power, politics, policy-making, social corporate responsibility and international city diplomacy through the lens of leadership, covering leadership in different countries from a broad range of theoretical perspectives.This Handbook is a valuable resource for academics and students of regional studies, human and economic geography, and policy studies. The conceptual discussion and case studies from different parts of the world will provide valuable examples for scholars, policy-makers and practitioners seeking a better understanding of what it takes to mobilise and co-ordinate complex multi-actor constellations for improvement of their respective places.Trade Review‘I consider this edited volume to be more than a welcome contribution and a notorious collection for all scholars, keen to understand the theoretical grounding, practices, patterns and types of leadership, as well as the manifestation of that leadership in local and regional socio-economic development and policy.’ -- Eduardo Oliveira, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The Handbook on City and Regional Leadership is the first comprehensive overview of place leadership in urban and regional research, edited by pioneers of the concept, Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer. Publication of the Handbook is very timely with the significant growth of research on the importance of agency in regional development in recent years. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics ranging from theoretical issues and empirical studies to methodological questions. It contains a rich and stimulating compilation of chapters and is a must-read for researchers as well as policy makers interested in promoting place leadership.’Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I THE SETUP AND THE PLOT 1 Introduction to city and regional leadership 2 Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer 2 Place, city, regional, rural … leadership: a review 19 Andrew Beer, Markku Sotarauta and Karen Ayles PART II THEORETICAL AND THEMATIC AREAS 3 Old wine in a new bottle: Revisiting organisational conceptions of leadership to understand what place leaders ‘actually’ do to make things happen 41 Alyson Nicholds 4 Place leadership, policy-making and politics 57 Alessandro Sancino, Leslie Budd and Michela Pagani 5 Re-imagining place leadership as social purpose 71 John Gibney and Alyson Nicholds 6 Roles of formal and informal leadership: civil society leadership interaction with political leadership in local development 91 Oto Potluka 7 Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities 108 Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala 8 Place-based leadership ‘beyond place’: the rise of international city diplomacy 131 Robin Hambleton 9 Combinatorial power and place leadership 152 Markku Sotarauta PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES 10 From coal-mining to data-mining: the role of leadership in the emergence of a regional innovation system in an old industrial region 168 Jiří Blažek and Viktor Květoň 11 The supporting and hampering role of place leadership in Italian industrial districts 187 Marco Bellandi, Monica Plechero and Erica Santini 12 Patterns of place leadership: institutional change and path development in peripheral regions 203 Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, and Jari Kolehmainen 13 Universities and place leadership: a question of agency and alignment 226 Liliana Fonseca, Lisa Nieth, Maria Salomaa and Paul Benneworth 14 Establishing leadership in a ‘busy’ governance structure 248 Martin Quinn 15 Inclusive leadership and local economic development: perspectives from Latin American peripheral regions 266 Sergio Montero and Andrés M. Medina-Garzón PART IV METHODOLOGY 16 Theory, methods and innovation in the study of place leadership: a review of the opportunity 281 Andrew Beer and Jacob Irving 17 Investigating agency: methodological and empirical challenges 302 Markus Grillitsch, Josephine V. Rekers and Markku Sotarauta 18 Action research as a methodology for the construction of territorial leadership 324 James Karlsen and Miren Larrea 19 Narrative and leadership: lessons for policy and place leadership 343 Helen Dinmore and Andrew Beer Index

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Soils in Urban Environments is a concise book explaining how urban soils develop, change and erode. Soils provide the foundation for buildings and infrastructure, and the medium for plant growth in fields, parks and gardens. They can act as a sink for waste, and can be contaminated in urban areas by heavy metals, organic chemicals and other contaminants. Soil properties such as water retention, salinity and acidity can cause environmental and structural problems for buildings and other engineering works. This text recognises and draws attention to the particular nature of soils in urban environments and discusses their distinctive management needs. Since the first edition was published in 2011, it has been used across a wide range of disciplines, many of which require an understanding of urban soil and specific soil properties that cause environmental concern. Urban soils are now recognised as much more important now than they were ten years ago, when they were seen as a poor relation to agriculture. The need for better understanding of all aspects of this topic has become evident especially at conferences in the last 5 years in Australia and internationally, where urban soils are now included as specific sections, not just as subsets such as contamination. This new edition updates and expands on the original text, including a specific chapter on the use of manufactured soil for rehabilitation and recreation, and additional case studies in other chapters, particularly contamination. The text is updated throughout to address the increasing importance of soil health for seed banks and parklands, and its implications for planning developments, the legal determination of bioregions, and addressing environmental issues that can arise from mismanagement of urban soils.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Soils in an urban environment Chapter 2: Soil characteristics important for urban soil management Chapter 3: Soils and the hydrological cycle in urban environments Chapter 4: Soil property problems for engineering works Chapter 5: Soil contamination in urban areas Chapter 6: Urban soils and ecosystems Chapter 7: Soils and vegetation: contributing to a more sustainable urban environment Chapter 8: Urban development on coastal soils Chapter 9: Interpretation of soil attributes in an urban environment

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Book SynopsisThe city appears as an artefact, a more or less homogeneous technical ensemble, but also as a production of space, the privileged place where social relations in all historical forms take place. The city, which is crossed by all socialities and their contradictions, is directly influenced by them and is even their privileged vector. Introducing the technical developments that are expressed in a multidisciplinary approach into the lived social world facilitates the understanding of the city and the way in which it adapts to the difficulties it faces. We propose the morpho-sociological approach, which gives a representation of the state of the contemporary city and the conditions of its production; the geographical approach with the problems of development and the sharing of these areas; the economic approach with the modalities specific to a development model, making urban composition the answer to the problems of the sustainable city; and the sociological approach when it comes up against the effects of the now dominant digital world.Table of ContentsIntroduction ixJean-Pierre MIGNOT and Marc MÉQUIGNON Chapter 1 Morpho-Sociological Approach to the City 1Marc MÉQUIGNON and Patrizia LAUDATI 1.1 Introduction: socio-morphological analysis as a tool for understanding the city 1 1.2 The city’s modes of production 3 1.2.1 Combining different modes 7 1.2.2 Urban sprawl and morphological changes 8 1.3 Difficulties of apprehension 11 1.4 The city: object or subject? 12 1.5 The shapes and form of the city 13 1.6 Representations of the city: “drawings and designs” 14 1.6.1 Drawings 14 1.6.2 Designs 17 1.7 The constituent elements of the city 18 1.7.1 Limits 18 1.7.2 Structure 19 1.7.3 Layout 22 1.7.4 Plot division and private property 26 1.7.5 The city block 28 1.7.6 The street 34 1.7.7 The square 39 1.7.8 Unique elements 41 1.8 Conclusion 44 1.9 References 45 Chapter 2 Space, Production and Urban Forms 49Jean-Pierre MIGNOT 2.1 General introduction 49 2.2 The city between space and time 51 2.2.1 Back to the concept of space 52 2.2.2 Produced urban space and social production 63 2.2.3 Mode of production, production relationships and urban composition: the weight of history 67 2.3 Forms of accumulation and urban forms 71 2.3.1 Capitalism, regulation and the regime of accumulation 71 2.3.2 Fordist accumulation and urban growth 76 2.3.3 Digitization and service accumulation 83 2.4 Urban space, environment and resilience 91 2.4.1 Demography and urbanization: a major challenge for the environment 94 2.4.2 From the Fordist city to the sustainable city: a gamble? 102 2.4.3 Cities and resilience 107 2.5 The city under the regime of service accumulation 111 2.5.1 From the center to the periphery or the peripheral expansion of commerce 112 2.5.2 Smart city and sustainable city 115 2.6 A provisional conclusion 123 2.7 References 124 Chapter 3 A Territorial Approach to Urban Spaces between Sustainability and Liveability 129Fabrice ESCAFFRE, Mélanie GAMBINO and Sinda HAOUÈS-JOUVE 3.1 Urban diversification and transformation 131 3.1.1 The criteria for necessary urban differentiation 132 3.1.2 Urbanization as a global phenomenon 134 3.2 The urban issue through the prism of housing 137 3.2.1 Urban housing in transformation 137 3.2.2 Housing policies in question 139 3.3 Urban spaces and mobilities 144 3.3.1 Residential mobility 144 3.3.2 Daily and leisure urban mobility 146 3.4 An urban agriculture… 150 3.4.1 Multifunctional urban agriculture 152 3.4.2 … But a diversified agriculture 154 3.4.3 Six types of urban agriculture activities 155 3.4.4 The establishment of food governance 158 3.4.5 The sustainability challenges for urban agriculture 159 3.5 The interface between urban spaces and climate 160 3.5.1 The city and climate change 161 3.5.2 Mobility and buildings: prime urban targets for mitigation 164 3.5.3 The urban microclimate: a new challenge for urban livability 165 3.5.4 Putting the climate issue on the urban policy agenda 168 3.5.5 How does this translate into urban planning practices? 171 3.6 Conclusion 175 3.7 References 176 Chapter 4 The City: A Space for Tensions in Modernity 183Yann FERGUSON 4.1 Living together in urban societies 185 4.1.1 City dwellers: liberated, but with a weakened collective conscience 186 4.1.2 The diversity of the urban population: a threat to the social connection? 192 4.1.3 Producing urban solidarity 196 4.2 The socio-spatial dynamics of the urban population 202 4.2.1 The fragmentation of urban society from above 202 4.2.2 The fragmentation of urban society from below 209 4.2.3 The disunity of the city 214 4.3 The city in search of sustainability 222 4.3.1 City and nature: an unlikely union 223 4.3.2 The sustainable urban project: the city as a solution 231 4.4 References 241 List of Authors 247 Index 249

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Reconstructing Public Housing unearths Liverpool’s hidden history of radical alternatives to municipal housing development and builds a vision of how we might reconstruct public housing on more democratic and cooperative foundations. In this critical urban history, Matthew Thompson brings to light how and why this remarkable city became host to two pioneering social movements in collective housing and urban regeneration experimentation. In the 1970s, Liverpool produced one of Britain’s largest, most democratic and socially innovative housing co-op movements, including the country’s first new-build co-op to be designed, developed and owned by its member-residents. Four decades later, in some of the very same neighbourhoods, several campaigns for urban community land trusts are growing from the grassroots – including the first ever architectural or housing project to be nominated for and win, in 2015, the artworld’s coveted Turner Prize. Thompson traces the connections between these movements; how they were shaped by, and in turn transformed, the politics, economics, culture and urbanism of Liverpool. Drawing on theories of capitalism and cooperativism, property and the commons, institutional change and urban transformation, Thompson reconsiders Engels’ housing question, reflecting on how collective alternatives work in, against and beyond the state and capital, in often surprising and contradictory ways.Trade Review'Reconstructing Public Housing is ideologically inspiring, although politically fluid… characterized by a consistent desire to flit between pragmatism and radicalism.'Hamish Kallin, Space and Polity'This monograph represents a significant advancement in theorizing urban housing commons, alongside a political ambition for both the community-led housing sector and academic Housing Studies. Thompson demonstrates the potential of "centring housing" within political solutions for the multiple, interrelated crises of social reproduction evident in contemporary England, at every scale.' Martha Mingay, Housing StudiesTable of Contents List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgement Prologue Part 1: Introducing collective housing alternatives Part 2: The Housing Question Part 3: The Neighbourhood Question Part 4: The Urban Question Part 5: Reconstructing Public Housing (History) Epilogue: translating between inward, upward and outward languages Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by some of the founders of complexity theory and complexity theories of cities (CTC), this Handbook expertly guides the reader through over forty years of intertwined developments: the emergence of general theories of complex self-organized systems and the consequent emergence of CTC.Examining studies from the end of 1970 through to the current leading approach to urbanism, planning and design, the book provides an up-to-date snapshot of CTC. Insightful chapters are split into five parts covering the early foundations of the topic, the evolution of towns and cities and urban complexity, the links between complexity, languages and cities, modelling traffic and parking in cities, and urban planning and design. The Handbook on Cities and Complexity concludes with the contributors’ personal statements on their observations of COVID-19’s impact upon global cities. This book will be an invaluable resource for those researching cities and complexity and also for scholars of urban studies, planning, physics, mathematics, AI, and architecture.Trade Review'This is a fascinating collection of discussions by leading authors, ranging from philosophical perspectives to conceptual frameworks and mathematical models across many disciplines. A unifying theme is the role of human cognition and decision making, addressed via psychology, uncertainty and risk, evolutionary game theory, behavioral economics and more. The book should be a reference to anyone interested in the history of the field and as a source of ideas for the opportunities (and challenges) of treating cities as complex systems in contrast to less holistic approaches to urban planning and policy.' -- Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Cities and Complexity 1 Juval Portugali PART I FOUNDATIONS 1 Cities, complexity and beyond 13 Juval Portugali 2 The emergence of complexity theories: an outline 28 Hermann Haken 3 City systems and complexity 48 Michael Batty 4 Major transitions in the story of urban complexity 64 Stephen Marshall and Nick Green PART II COMPLEXITY THEORIES OF CITIES 5 Complexity: the evolution and planning of towns and cities 86 Peter M. Allen 6 Synergetic cities 108 Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken 7 Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity 136 Denise Pumain 8 Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planning sustainable cities 154 Pierre Frankhauser 9 Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities 176 Yanguang Chen 10 Cybernetic cities: designing and controlling adaptive and robust urban systems 195 Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo Ratti PART III COMPLEXITY, LANGUAGE AND CITIES 11 New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field of architecture: an overview of the four books of the nature of order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised 210 Christopher Alexander 12 The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems 233 Alan Penn PART IV MODELING COMPLEX CITIES 13 Modelling car traffic in cities 260 Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy 14 Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: a new methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning 274 Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal 15 The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking 295 Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman PART V COMPLEXITY, PLANNING AND DESIGN 16 Complexity and uncertainty: implications for urban planning 319 Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi 17 Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space 331 Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo 18 Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning 349 Sara Encarna..o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali 19 Homo faber, Homo ludens and the city: a SIRNIA view on urban planning and design 370 Juval Portugali Epilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19 391 Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green, Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo Index

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Book SynopsisInnovation and entrepreneurship are often considered two sides of the same coin. But are the links between innovation and entrepreneurship as inextricable as we think? From Innovation to Entrepreneurship questions this seemingly interdependent relationship, highlighting the different requirements of innovation and entrepreneurship. This book disentangles theories of innovation and entrepreneurship, empirically revealing the overlaps and differences between them. Demonstrating that the pursuit of entrepreneurship is the key to economic development, Yasuyuki Motoyama explores the concept that people are at the heart of entrepreneurship ecosystems. Motoyama's provocative and nuanced approach makes this book critical reading for scholars of economic geography, urban planning and business. It will also be of interest to practitioners and policy makers working in government, economic development agencies and non-profit support organizations.Trade Review‘From Innovation to Entrepreneurship is an interesting book by a scholar who has been on the frontlines of practical entrepreneurship research for several years. By focusing on two cities outside the coasts, Motoyama has brought new insights to our understanding of entrepreneurial ecosystems. This is a welcome break from the usual focus on Silicon Valley and Route 128 seen too often in the literature.’ -- Joshua C Hall, The Review of Regional Studies'Yasuyuki (Yas) Motoyama has done a splendid job distinguishing innovation from entrepreneurship and demonstrating that the former does not lead lock step to the latter. In providing an excellent review of the literature on innovation, he explains how knowledge spillovers are assumed to foster entrepreneurship. He presents an empirical analysis of U.S. metropolitan areas and two case studies of entrepreneurship in Kansas City and in St. Louis. With this quantitative and qualitative evidence, he explain how entrepreneurship works in practice. In doing so, he exposes the limitations of the linear and rationalistic model of innovation-led entrepreneurship, and offers sound guidance about how to improve policies and practices designed to promote entrepreneurship. He concludes with ''dos and don'ts'' and an argument for ''human'' instead of technology transfer that could greatly improve entrepreneurship policy. Motoyama's book should be required reading both for scholars interested in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and policy-makers who want to promote entrepreneurship.' --Emil E. Malizia, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US'This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of entrepreneurship, providing detailed empirical evidence on the drivers of entrepreneurial activity in cities and regions which challenges many widely held views on why there are geographical variations in entrepreneurial activity. By clearly demonstrating the locally embedded nature of the entrepreneurial process Yas Motoyama provides a powerful critique of current policies to stimulate entrepreneurship.' --Colin Mason, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Promoting entrepreneurship, but what kind? 2. Why beyond Innovation and why entrepreneurship? 3. What does the nationwide data say? 4. What do entrepreneurs do in the City of Fountains? A case study of Kansas City 5. How did the Gateway City transform its entrepreneurship? A case study of St. Louis 6. What information sources do entrepreneurs follow? Network analysis with Twitter data 7. Conclusion: Beyond innovation to an entrepreneurship model References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook examines the evolution of smart growth over the past three decades, mapping the trajectory from its original principles to its position as an important paradigm in urban planning today. Critically analysing the original concept of smart growth and how it has been embedded in state and local plans, contributions from top scholars in the field illustrate what smart growth has accomplished since its conception, as well as to what extent it has achieved its goals.Providing an overview of the history of smart growth, the book further examines its changing governance over time, and the new horizons for smart growth, exploring ways to confront contemporary challenges in urban planning. Illuminating key issues in the field, from urban sprawl to gentrification, that the original principles failed to address, this insightful Handbook advocates for the expansion of smart growth principles to meet the emerging challenges of the modern world, concluding with an agenda for a “smart growth 2.0”. Informative and comprehensive, this Handbook will prove to be essential reading for researchers, academics and students of urban planning. Its proposals for the future evolution of smart growth will also serve as an accessible and up-to-date reference point for urban planning professionals, activists and policymakers.Trade Review‘Too often when a new and transformational movement emerges, we do not take time to contemplate and evaluate its achievements and shortcomings. This crucial and comprehensive volume on smart growth gives us a much-needed critical reflection on how the movement unfolded and how it continues to impact urbanization as new challenges arrive in the 21st century. A must-read for every urbanist, whether professional or armchair!’ -- Karen Chapple, University of Toronto, Canada‘Full of counter-intuitive and often sobering insights, this volume is not just incredibly timely, it's indispensable as a reference on the past, present and uncertain future of the smart growth ideal.’ -- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Brookings Metro, US‘The Handbook is a sobering assessment of the movement’s progress over its first generation. While its success has been too elusive for many advocates, this book shows that Smart Growth’s progress over just a generation is impressive, nonetheless. Using lessons from the first generation, the Handbook is the platform that will guide research, policy, and practice over the next generation.’ -- Arthur C. Nelson, University of Arizona, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii Introduction xix PART I SMART GROWTH HISTORY, PERFORMANCE, AND GOVERNANCE 1 Smart growth: introduction, history, and an agenda for the future 2 John D. Landis 2 Smart growth governance in historical context: the rise and fall of states 35 Martin A. Bierbaum, Rebecca Lewis, and Tim Chapin PART II SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE LOCATION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT 3 Urban containment as smart growth 60 John I. Carruthers, Hanxue Wei, and Lucien Wostenholme 4 Farmland and forest conservation: evaluation of smart growth policies and tools 75 David A. Newburn, Lori Lynch, and Haoluan Wang 5 Redevelopment and the smart growth movement: definitions, consequences, and future considerations 92 Bernadette Hanlon PART III SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE FORM AND FUNCTION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT 6 Promoting mixed land uses for smart growth: implications and recommendations for research and practice 111 Yan Song 7 The urban design requirements of smart growth 128 Emily Talen 8 Smart growth and housing choice 145 Casey Dawkins and Jinyhup Kim PART IV SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE TRANSPORTATION-LAND USE CONNECTION 9 A step ahead for smart growth: creating walkable neighborhoods 168 Kelly J. Clifton 10 Transportation: a facilitator of and barrier to smart growth 188 Timothy F. Welch and Steven R. Gehrke PART V NEW HORIZONS FOR SMART GROWTH: HEALTH AND EQUITY 11 Planning for opportunity: linking smart growth to public education and workforce development 207 Ariel H. Bierbaum, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Jonathan P. Katz 12 Smart growth and public health: making the connection 228 Andrea Garfinkel-Castro and Reid Ewing 13 Smart growth’s misbegotten legacy: gentrification 245 Nicholas Finio and Elijah Knaap 14 Growing together or apart? Critical tensions in charting an equitable smart growth future 259 Willow Lung-Amam and Katy June-Friesen PART VI NEW HORIZONS FOR SMART GROWTH: CLIMATE, ENERGY, AND TECHNOLOGY 15 Community resilience to environmental hazards and climate change: can smart growth make a difference? 277 Marccus D. Hendricks and Philip R. Berke 16 Tale of two sprawls: energy planning and challenges for smart growth 291 Jacob Becker and Nikhil Kaza 17 Leveraging the promise of smart cities to advance smart growth 307 Robert Goodspeed PART VII UNFINISHED BUSINESS: WHERE DOES SMART GROWTH GO FROM HERE? 18 Toward a “Smart Growth 2.0” 324 Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty and Katy June-Friesen Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an in-depth exploration of the complexities of densification policy and processes, this book brings the important experiences of densification in Johannesburg into conversation with a range of cities in Africa, the BRICS countries and the Global North. It moves beyond the divisive debate over whether densification is good or bad, adding nuance and complexity to the calls from multilateral organisations for densification as a key urban strategy. Using empirical work in a comparative frame, Densifying the City? examines how densification policies and processes have manifested often in unanticipated or contrary ways. It offers important insights into resident-led densification and the processes and motivations that drive these activities. This will be an invigorating read for urban studies and urban planning scholars looking to move beyond a basic understanding of densifying cities to understanding the strategy behind it and its successes. Urban policy makers will also appreciate the use of key case studies throughout the book.Trade Review'Densification is increasingly positioned as vital to cities and the global urban future. This collection of cases, from across the urban world, offers an invaluable critique of the politics and geographies of densification, and provides a set of progressive routes forward.' --Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK'Urban densification has long been one of those enduring ''wicked problems'' which has long perplexed urban planners and policy experts. By offering a balanced analysis that unpacks the costs and benefits of compact cities, the contributors critically engage with the reigning conventional wisdom that densification is a central ingredient for urban sustainability and smart growth.' --Martin J. Murray, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: SECTION A DENSIFICATION IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 1 Thinking density through selected international case cities 2 Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Margot Rubin and Alexandra Appelbaum 2 Thinking densification from and through Johannesburg 17 Alison Todes, Philip Harrison, Margot Rubin and Alexandra Appelbaum 3 Density, informality and the urban premium 40 Ivan Turok 4 The challenges of planning and managing urban density in the city of São Paulo, Brazil 52 Anderson Kazuo Nakano 5 Successes and challenges of densification strategies in Curitiba, Brazil 63 Garth Klein and Priscila Zanon 6 Form, function, density: understanding the legacies of a century of modernist planning and urbanisation in Istanbul 73 Murat Üçoğlu, K. Murat Güney and Roger Keil 7 Densities in Delhi, India: evolution, process and policies 83 PSN Rao 8 Drivers of density change: the case of Beijing, China 93 Philip Harrison and Yan Yang 9 Vibrancy and instability: grappling with tension in the densification trajectory of Nairobi’s multi-storey tenement districts 103 Marie Huchzermeyer 10 Understanding density in unplanned and unregulated settlements of peri-urban Africa: a case study of Maputo, Mozambique 114 Paul Jenkins and Johan Mottelson 11 Government policies and accelerating densification in Sydney 125 Glen Searle SECTION B EXPERIENCING DENSIFICATION IN JOHANNESBURG 12 Densification through intensification: sub-letting in the inner city of Johannesburg 136 Tanya Zack, Sarah Charlton, Rirhandzu Khoza, Kwena Letsoalo and Chloé Malavolti 13 Residential alienation or the right to the city? ‘Rooms’ and ‘spaces’ as a mode of densification in Johannesburg and Cape Town 147 Kayla Brown and Simon Sizwe Mayson 14 Densities, enclaves, and the daily lives of migrants in Johannesburg 159 Khangelani Moyo 15 Urban compounds: densifying bungalows in Johannesburg 168 Kirsten Dörmann 16 Densification processes in comparison: Alexandra and Marlboro South 179 Lindsay Blair Howe 17 Living with strangers: backyarding, density and intimacy in Johannesburg 190 Margot Rubin and Sarah Charlton 18 On the defensive: the residential strategies shaping densification in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs 202 Alexandra Parker and Alexandra Appelbaum 19 Three emerging medium-density housing types in Johannesburg: improving their spatial performance 213 Lone Poulsen and Melinda Silverman SECTION C DENSIFICATION THROUGH TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT: JOHANNESBURG’S CORRIDORS OF FREEDOM 20 Densifying through TOD: international experience with BRT 225 Sylvia Croese 21 Implementing transit-oriented development in Sandton Central: ambitions and realities 235 Miriam Maina 22 Density, access and public transport finance 246 Sean Cooke, Roger Behrens and Mark Zuidgeest 23 The politics of TOD: the case of Johannesburg’s Corridors of Freedom 256 Philip Harrison and Margot Rubin 24 Developers, density and the dreams of the Corridors of Freedom 266 Kirsten Harrison and Alison Todes 25 Proactive rezoning to promote inclusive densification 276 Stuart Denoon-Stevens and Verna Nel Index 284

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Book SynopsisExamining the changing nature of cities in the face of smart technology, this book studies key new challenges and capabilities defined by the Internet of Things, data science, blockchain and artificial intelligence. It argues that using algorithmic logic alone for automation and optimisation in modern smart cities is not sufficient, and analyses the importance of integrating this with strong participatory governance and digital platforms for community action. Separated into three parts, the book moves from looking at the academic establishment of the smart city paradigm as an advanced system of innovation, to focusing on major technologies and the governance of smart cities. Chapters explore other sources of intelligence available in cities within both institutions and platforms, including human intelligence, innovation, and collective intelligence, with insights on how to combine algorithmic logic in these areas of competence to become much more effective. Offering a crucial understanding of how cities and regions can adopt the smart city paradigm, this book will be a useful read for policy-makers and stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of smart city strategies. Urban studies and planning scholars, post graduate students, as well as those researching the built environment, will benefit from the blend of theoretical and practical knowledge offered in the book. Contributors include: M. Angelidou, A.-V. Anttiroiko, D. Bechtsis, F. Duarte, C. Kakderi, N. Komninos, I. Kompatsiaris, K. Kourtit, V. Loscri, N. Mitton, L. Mora, V. Moustaka, P. Nijkamp, J. Oskam, A. Özdemir, R. Petrolo, A. Panori, C. Ratti, A. Reid, H. Schaffers, I. Tsampoulatidis, A. Vakali, S. Zhang Trade Review'Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era: Integrating Technologies, Platforms and Governance is a seminal original contribution to the emerging field of smart cities. The book sets out to highlight the pervasive importance of smart technologies, platforms and governance in the urban context. It frames this new challenging field, and offers a wealth of informed conceptual and practical studies. For academics, students, and practitioners, this book offers many novel and useful insights.' --Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'The 21st Century is said to be the Century of Cities. Echoing this sentiment, Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era argues they emerge from collaboration technologies, data science and AI and the algorithmic logic, under which these technologies operate, can be much more effective if such platforms combine with other sources of intelligence available in cities, such as human intelligence, creativity and innovation, collective and collaborative intelligence already embedded in institutions. The constructive alignment and augmentation of these technologies with human, collective and collaborative intelligence and sharing of the knowledge such a synthesis produces, is the object of this latest book from Komninos and Kakderi.' --Mark Deakin, Edinburgh Napier University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Smart cities beyond algorithmic logic: digital platforms, user engagement and data science 1 Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori and Christina Kakderi PART I SMART CITIES, ALGORITHMIC LOGIC AND THE QUEST FOR INTELLIGENCE 2 The current status of smart city research: exposing the division 17 Luca Mora, Alasdair Reid and Margarita Angelidou 3 Towards an algorithmic city: transformation in politics, governance and service provision 36 Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko 4 Shaping ecosystems for collaborative innovation towards fostering urban and regional development 70 Hans Schaffers 5 The creation of city smartness: architectures of intelligence in smart cities and smart ecosystems 101 Nicos Komninos and Anastasia Panori PART II SMART CITIES AT THE CROSSROADS OF IOT, SOCIAL MEDIA AND DATA SCIENCE 6 Cloud, network and sensing in a smart city: toward a cloud of meshed cooperative heterogeneous things 129 Valeria Loscri, Nathalie Mitton and Riccardo Petrolo 7 City dynamics tracking based on citizens’ data and sensing analytics 150 Athena Vakali and Vaia Moustaka 8 Moving from e-Gov to we-Gov and beyond: a blockchain framework for the digital transformation of cities 176 Ioannis Tsampoulatidis, Dimitrios Bechtsis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris 9 A world of data: Underworlds and health challenges in the age of smart cities 201 Snoweria Zhang, Fábio Duarte and Carlo Ratti PART III SMART CITIES, PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS 10 Exploring the relationship between smart cities and spatial planning: star cases and typologies 217 Margarita Angelidou and Luca Mora 11 Social policy in smart cities: the forgotten dimension 235 Akın Özdemir, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp 12 Smart cities, ‘sharing’ and platform impact 262 Jeroen Oskam 13 Smart cities and vision zero: common ground for a generic vision zero methodology 279 Christina Kakderi Index 293

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book explores smaller towns and cities, places in which the majority of people live, highlighting that these more ordinary places have extraordinary geographies. It focuses on the development of an alternative approach to urban studies and theory that foregrounds smaller cities and towns rather than much larger cities and conurbations.Comparative case studies from Australia, Cambodia, India, Korea, the UK and US provide a rich collection of theoretically informed investigations into smaller urban centres that are connected in complex ways to regional, national and international flows of people, goods, ideas and materials. The book further examines policy development and implementation in smaller towns and cities. Chapters analyse core societal challenges, including economic restructuring, urban decline and renewal, and ageing populations.This is a timely and important book for students of human geography, urban studies, planning, and economic geography, particularly those focusing on cities and economic development. It will also appeal to policymakers and planners seeking insights on current debates reframing urban theory to embrace more ordinary towns and cities.Trade Review'Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies is a call for a more inclusive research agenda centering overlooked places often perceived as less important because they are not exceptionally large, or wealthy, or confronted by exceptional circumstances. Bryson, Kalafsky, and Vanchan have assembled both a compelling argument for studying ordinary places and a collection of international empirical examples. The result is an illustration of how and why studying ordinary places is essential to building a more inclusive research agenda for geography (and more broadly social science).' -- Jennifer Clark, The Ohio State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface: ordinary cities – place, space, time and biographical narratives xii Acknowledgements xvi 1 Ordinary cities, extraordinary geographies: parallax dimensions, interpolations and the scale question 1 John R. Bryson, Ronald V. Kalafsky and Vida Vanchan 2 The progressive city in the neighborhood context 23 George R. Frantz 3 The mechanics of small metropolitan labor markets in the U.S. South: does job growth always drive population growth? 43 Jonathan Kozar and William Graves 4 Examining the exports of smaller southern cities and assessing “borrowed size” 67 Ronald V. Kalafsky 5 (Extra) Ordinary Geelong: state-led urban regeneration and economic revival 84 Louise C. Johnson, Sally Weller and Tom Barnes 6 The infraordinary or the ordinary as extraordinary? Expertise (and not global) production networks and ordinary towns and cities 106 Stephen Williams and John R. Bryson 7 An ordinary but extraordinary city: Siem Reap Angkor, Cambodia 133 Vida Vanchan 8 Resilience and development of a small city in India: Dholpur, Rajasthan 151 Suparna Soni 9 Interconnection between ethnic enclaves in a small city and globalization 164 Kamyoung Kim and Ju-Hyun Bae 10 Beside the seaside: vertical dis-integration, demographic imbalance and adaptation in UK coastal communities 190 Jacob Salder 11 Reframing urban theory: smaller towns and cities, forms of life, embeddedplasticity and variegated urbanism 210 John R. Bryson, Vida Vanchan and Ronald V. Kalafsky Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book demonstrates the utility of big data approaches in human geography and planning. Offering a carefully curated selection of case studies, it reveals how researchers are accessing big data, what this data looks like and how such data can offer new and important insights and knowledge.Contributions from key scholars working in the field bring together an international series of case studies on demography and migration, retail and consumer analytics, health care planning, urban planning and transport studies. Chapters also discuss how data sets leveraged from commercial and public agency sources can greatly improve the data traditionally worked with in academic geography, regional science and planning. While addressing the challenges and limitations of big data, the book also demonstrates the usefulness of data sets held by commercial agencies and explores data linkage between big data and traditional public domain data sources.Focusing on the applications of big data to investigate issues in a spatial context, this book will be an essential guide for scholars and students of planning, mobility and human geography, particularly those who specialise in economic and transport geography. Its use of key case studies to demonstrate the applications of big data analytics in planning will also be useful for planners in these fields.Trade Review‘This is a very timely book featuring a collection of contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars working in the equivalent of social science’s ‘‘Wild West‘‘ - the world of Big Data. This book is indeed an essential companion for anyone wishing to understand the breadth of opportunities and challenges presented by data which lie outside of the traditional official statistics disseminated by governments. It will provide inspiration for those willing to take themselves out of their comfort zone and a glimpse of what is possible.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning 1 Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Jonathan Corcoran and Robert Stimson 2 Using social media advertising data to estimate migration trends over time 8 Monica Alexander 3 Estimating household mobility using novel big data 25 Nik Lomax 4 Using linked consumer and administrative data to model demographic changes in London’s city fringe 43 Justin van Dijk, Guy Lansley and Paul Longley 5 Combining large linked social service microdata and geospatial data to identify vulnerable populations in New Zealand 52 Lukas Marek, James Greenwell, Matthew Hobbs, John McCarthy, Jesse Wiki, Malcolm Campbell, Simon Kingham and Melanie Tomintz 6 The changing geography of clinical misery in England: lessons in spatio-temporal data analysis 64 Alexis Comber, Chris Brunsdon, Martin Charlton and John Cromby 7 Utilising smartphone data to explore spatial influences on physical activity 78 Francesca Pontin 8 Spatial extent and classification of retail agglomerations 92 Les Dolega 9 Applications of store loyalty card big data in the location planning process 106 Nick Hood, Graham Clarke, Andy Newing and Tim Rains 10 Online content of local interest and how it attracts individuals online 120 Emmanouil Tranos and Christoph Stich 11 Smart cities, big data: an overview 143 Robert Stimson and Chris Pettit 12 Is Sydney a 30-minute city? Big data analytics assisting to bring political rhetoric into practice 168 Simone Leao, Mohammad Hassan, Taha Rashidi and Chris Pettit 13 Data and public participation in national strategic planning 188 Eliahu Stern, Sheizaf Rafaeli and Arza Churchman 14 Goldmine or minefield? The methodological challenges associated with the analysis of the FixMyStreet neighbourhood problems dataset 205 Alasdair Rae and Elvis Nyanzu 15 Big data applications in urban transport research in Chinese cities: an overview 219 Sui Tao, Min Zhang and Jiangyue Wu 16 Unpacking the weather–transit ridership relationship using big data in Brisbane and beyond 244 Ming Wei, Yan Liu, Thomas Sigler and Jonathan Corcoran 17 Spatial microsimulation models for rail travel: a West Yorkshire case study 255 Eusebio Odiari, Mark Birkin, Susan Grant-Muller and Nick Malleson Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of city logistics and urban freight research, this Handbook offers multidisciplinary insights on the key theories, themes and pressing issues common to urban and metropolitan landscapes. Top scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including economics, engineering, business and management, political science and urban planning, analyse the five most significant areas characterizing urban freight transport: modelling, operations, planning, stakeholder engagement, and innovation. Chapters examine key topics including integrated transport and land-use processes, sustainability in urban freight transport, and the relationship between e-commerce and urban logistics. Fully cross-referenced throughout, the Handbook offers a forward-looking perspective on the topic, discussing the ways to improve urban freight and city logistics, particularly in line with the drive towards sustainable practices. An essential read for urban studies, planning and transport geography students and scholars, this stimulating Handbook showcases a participatory approach to understanding city logistics operations and transport planning. Detailing practical solutions, it will also be beneficial to operations management, researchers and practitioners, economists and transport practitioners and policymakers looking for a deeper understanding of how to improve urban freight and city logistics operations in our modern world.Trade Review'This Handbook is impressive, extensive, and very current. There are many themes that challenge us today, centred on decarbonisation, supply chain constraints and institutional reform, to make us rethink how we might better embed urban freight into the changing fabric of our cities. The contributions to city logistics as seen as a multi-governance structure together with the latest developments in methods through digital twins to focus as much on short-term operational issues in contrast to the longer-term planning and policy issues is impressive.' -- David Hensher, The University of Sydney Business School, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on City Logistics and Urban Freight 1 Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, and Michela Le Pira 1 The challenges of freight transport in cities 11 Genevieve Giuliano 2 Integrated transportation and land-use program to improve metropolitan freight system performance 35 José Holguín-Veras, Carlos Rivera-González, Benjamin Caron, Julia Coutinho Amaral, and Abdelrahman Ismael SECTION I MODELLING AND SIMULATION 3 Overview of urban freight transport modelling 60 Lóri Tavasszy and Michiel de Bok 4 Estimating and forecasting urban freight origin–destination flows 78 Antonio Comi and Paolo Delle Site 5 Evaluating city logistics solutions with agent-based microsimulation 98 Takanori Sakai, Peiyu Jing, André Romano Alho, Ravi Seshadri, and Moshe Ben-Akiva 6 Freight trip generation models: using establishment data to understand the origin of urban freight traffic 115 Ivan Sánchez-Díaz and Juan Pablo Castrellon SECTION II LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS 7 Overview of city logistics and urban freight transport operations 141 Eiichi Taniguchi, Russell G. Thompson, and Ali G. Qureshi 8 Urban freight consolidation and delivery: state of the art 160 Maria Björklund and Britta Gammelgaard 9 Towards more sustainable vehicles for the last mile? Cycle logistics as a part of the solution 178 Philippe Lebeau, Bart Cok, Clarissa Kees, and Cathy Macharis 10 Operations research for planning and managing city logistics systems 190 Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Jesus Gonzalez Feliu, Nicoletta Ricciardi, Frédéric Semet, and Tom Van Woensel SECTION III PLANNING AND POLICY MAKING 11 Overview of urban freight transport planning and European suggestions 225 Francesco Russo and Antonio Comi 12 Land-use planning for a more sustainable urban freight 246 Laetitia Dablanc 13 Assessment of innovative city logistics solutions 267 Paolo Delle Site 14 Planning for the future: urban freight transportation 287 Daniel Haake SECTION IV STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT, PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS 15 Overview on stakeholder engagement 311 Michael Browne and Anne Goodchild 16 Participatory decision-support tools for stakeholder engagement in urban freight transport policy making 327 Michela Le Pira, Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Matteo Ignaccolo, and Giuseppe Inturri 17 Living labs for transitions in urban freight transport systems 346 Hans Quak, Nina Nesterova, and Giacomo Lozzi 18 Urban freight transport and multi-level governance 365 Lisa Hansson SECTION V INNOVATION, DIGITALIZATION, AND DATA 19 Overview of innovations in urban freight 382 M. Jaller, A. Pahwa, C. Otero-Palencia, and E. Pourrahmani 20 Hyperconnected city logistics: a conceptual framework 398 Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Walid Klibi, and Benoit Montreuil 21 E-commerce and urban logistics: trends, challenges, and opportunities 422 Valerio Gatta, Edoardo Marcucci, and Michela Le Pira 22 New technologies and autonomous vehicles for urban goods distribution 444 Daniela Paddeu SECTION VI URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORT SUSTAINABILITY 23 Environmentally sustainable city logistics: minimising urban freight emissions 463 Alan McKinnon Index 483

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Book SynopsisSynthesizing current understandings on the relationship between transport and land use, this timely Handbook proposes an agenda for research and practice that leads toward more human-centered communities within an increasingly urbanized world facing rapid technological change. Leading scholars reframe and expand conventional transport policy holistically with concepts grounded in behavioral, economic, psychological and sociological theories in this fundamental reference work. Chapters explore the role of institutional policies and informal cultural contexts in influencing transport and land use systems, before examining the impacts of transportation and land use decisions across multiple areas, including equity, public health, climate, environment, and lifestyle preferences. The Handbook concludes by emphasizing pathways for human-centered development, planning, and policy in an age of rapid innovation in new mobility technologies. Outlining the fundamental, emerging and developing theories, methods, models and policies across the fields of transportation and land use, this interdisciplinary Handbook will be invaluable to students and scholars of urban planning and transport studies. Setting an agenda for future research and policy initiatives, it will also prove a useful resource to policymakers and practitioners working within transport and land use planning.Trade Review‘Framed around human-centric planning, this edited volume provides fresh insights and interdisciplinary perspectives on the current and emerging issues in transportation and land use. For academics and practitioners alike, the Handbook will be an invaluable resource on the nexus between transport and land development and the urban economic, environmental, and social challenges.’ -- Kelly Clifton, University of British Columbia, Canada‘Getting the connections between transportation and land use right is vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and securing mobility justice. Drawing from multiple disciplines, this volume provides conceptual, empirical, methodological, and practical insights into those connections across both old and new challenges. An indispensable reference for academics and practitioners alike.’ -- Susan Handy, University of California, Davis, US‘A comprehensive, cross-disciplinary tour of the all-important transport-land use connection. The Handbook is highly topical and informed by top-notch research. Its international scope and attention to some of today’s most pressing challenges, like planning in an era of pandemics and automated technologies, are particular strengths. Recommended to transportation professionals and policymakers alike.’ -- Robert Cervero, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: the transport and land use policy cycle 1 Robert J. Schneider, Kristina M. Currans, Veronique Van Acker and João de Abreu e Silva PART I HISTORY AND THEORY 2 Transport planning and spatial planning: two worlds apart 11 Kobe Boussauw 3 A field of practical relevance: evolving trends in how the transport and land-use relationship has been conceptualized and operationalized 31 Bert van Wee 4 Transportation and urban spatial structure 54 Patricia C. Melo 5 The impacts and interventions of land use on travel behavior: sprawl, built environment, and land-use controls 71 Torrey Lyons 6 Exploring diverse and dynamic interactions between land use and transport from a behavioral and psychological perspective 91 Baoxin Zhai and Junyi Zhang 7 Causality and self-selection 107 Petter Næss 8 Sociological approaches to mobilities 129 Vincent Kaufmann 9 Mapping urban transport – land use interactions worldwide, a state of practice 147 Fahimeh Khalaj, Sara Alidoust and Dorina Pojani PART II DATA AND METHODS 10 Measuring travel behavior 168 Catherine Morency and Hubert Verreault 11 Measuring land-use variables in the transport–land-use interaction 192 Steven R. Gehrke 12 Planning for people through the lens of accessibility 207 Geneviève Boisjoly 13 Integrated transport and land-use modeling 232 Ruben Cordera, Esther González-González, Soledad Nogués and Luigi dell’Olio 14 Urban interventions: formulating a strategy for walkable and transit-oriented development 251 John Renne 15 Parking regulation and management 264 Chris McCahill PART III WHAT’S NEXT? 16 Societal changes and their challenges 285 Alexa Delbosc, Laura McCarthy and Rahman Shafi 17 Centering equity and justice in land use-transportation coordination 299 Arlie Adkins, Deyanira Nevarez Martinez and Liliana Salas-Niño 18 Reducing motor vehicle GHG emissions via land-use and transport integration: realistic expectations and essential strategies 314 Elisa Barbour and Gian-Claudia Sciara 19 Public health, active transport, and land use 334 Kevin Manaugh, E.O.D. Waygood and Luc Pellecuer 20 New mobility systems and land use 352 João de Abreu e Silva and Vishnu Baburajan 21 Technology, IoT and automation as tools, not decision-makers: managing disruptive transportation to support sustainability and social justice 370 William Riggs and David Batstone 22 New urban freight developments and land use 385 André Alho, Takanori Sakai and Giacomo Dalla Chiara PART IV CONCLUSIONS 23 Future directions for transport and land-use research and practice 401 Kristina M. Currans, Veronique Van Acker, Robert J. Schneider and João de Abreu e Silva Index 410

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Book SynopsisThis timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in the city and within various organisations responsible for cities. Taking a multidisciplinary approach with a focus on the human scale, expert contributors offer lessons for responsible innovation practices to advance the human scale urban mobility technologies. Chapters also offer new insights into the development of urban and transport planning processes, considering new data, methods and approaches. Drawing on specific examples, the book presents a critical analysis of key topics, including the relationship between transport and wellbeing, the relationship between accessibility and income, the mobility of the elderly and various transport planning and policy questions. Transport in Human Scale Cities will be a critical reading for scholars and students of transport studies, urban economics, and urban and human geography. Its arguments for broadening the discussion on humans in urban mobility systems and necessary actions for the transition out of the current car-dependent mobility regime will also benefit policy-makers and practitioners in these fields.Trade Review‘Nothing short of a paradigm shift can make transport just and sustainable. This book picks up the challenge by putting the human scale at the centre. It convincingly argues why transport policy and research must embrace the multiple dimensions and diversity of human experiences and shows how they can do it. This alone would make the book invaluable. The authors do not stop here however and begin to develop the toolbox of new concepts and methods that such a paradigm shift demands. This book is long due: read it, learn from it, and join the endeavour!’Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Setting the stage for transport in human scale cities 2 Miloš N. Mladenović, Karst T. Geurs, Elias Willberg and Tuuli Toivonen PART II UNDERSTANDING HUMAN SCALE TRANSPORT IN CITIES 2 Urban transport and wellbeing: a critical analysis 14 Tim Schwanen 3 The relationship between the population’s socio-economic status and walkability measures: the context of the Lisbon metropolitan area 27 Mauro F. Pereira, Paula Santana and David S. Vale 4 Avoiding public transport? Assessing the relationship between accessibility, income and commuting mode in Recife, Brazil 40 Geneviève Boisjoly, Ahmed El-Geneidy and Bernardo Serra 5 The quality of life effects of enhancing public transport subsidies for hospitality workers in Vancouver, British Columbia 53 Peter V. Hall, Anthony Perl and Karen Sawatzky 6 Analysing urban mobility in ageing populations: the case of two Portuguese historic centres 68 Anabela Salgueiro Narciso Ribeiro, Fernando Brandão Alves, Ana Maria César Bastos Silva, Sara Santos Cruz, Inês Cunha and João Pedro Martins 7 Car sharing for older adults in Oslo: practices, needs and preferences 80 Tanu Priya Uteng PART III RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION PRACTICES FOR HUMAN SCALE CITIES 8 Issues in the design and application of stated adaptation surveys to examine behavioural change: the example of Mobility-as-a-Service 96 Anna-Maria Feneri, Soora Rasouli and Harry J.P. Timmermans 9 Lessons from the deployment of the world’s first automated bus service on a mixed public road in Stockholm 109 Yusak Susilo, Rami Darwish, Anna Pernestål and Pei Nen (Esther) Chee 10 Smartphone challenges to stimulate cycling: clues from a living lab in Enschede 121 Tom Thomas, Bingyuan Huang, Benjamin Groenewolt and Eric C. van Berkum 11 Integrated mobility concepts in residential areas: challenges and opportunities of measures for sustainable urban mobility 132 Benjamin Heldt, Rebekka Oostendorp and Julia Oehlert PART IV POTENTIALS FOR DEVELOPING PLANNING PROCESSES FOR HUMAN SCALE CITIES 12 Channelling human scaled modes to build repurposed street networks 145 Kevin J. Krizek and David A. King 13 The Gross Potential for Cycling: planning for human scale urban mobility 157 Cecília Silva, Joana S. Marques, Miguel Lopes and Ana M. Dias 14 Comparing spatial data sources for cycling studies: a review 169 Elias Willberg, Henrikki Tenkanen, Age Poom, Maria Salonen and Tuuli Toivonen 15 Urban traffic and health risk: what is the role for citizen participation in transport planning? 188 Marina van Geenhuizen and Anna Berti Suman 16 What could transport planning practice learn from public participation GIS method? 202 Miloš N. Mladenović, Marketta Kyttä, Kirsi Forss and Maarit Kahila-Tani 17 Participatory evaluation in transport planning: the application of Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis in co-creation to solve mobility problems in Brussels 216 Jesse Pappers, Imre Keserü and Cathy Macharis 18 Implementing a metro project: a political economy perspective from Lima 231 Katy Indira Huaylla Sallo and Robin Hickman PART V CONCLUSION 19 On the journey of transforming transport systems for human scale cities 247 Miloš N. Mladenović, Elias Willberg, Tuuli Toivonen and Karst T. Geurs Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which the EU features overlapping spheres of authority. Using territorial ideas prevalent in the Medieval Period, Andreas Faludi offers ways to rethink the current debates surrounding territorialism in the EU.Challenging contemporary European spatial planning, this book explores how modern planning puts the democratic control of state territories and their development in question. The notion of democracy in an increasingly interconnected world is a key issue, and as such Faludi advocates a Europe where national borders are questioned, and ultimately transgressed.Progressive and timely, this book is an invaluable read for academic and practicing planners concerned with European planning and co-operation. Critical social and political geographers will also benefit from the revolutionary insights Faludi offers.Trade Review'Andreas Faludi's book is original and inspiring. In his enquiry about ''territorialism'', he develops a concrete pedagogy of the irrelevance of national borders. Andreas, a leading expert in the field of spatial planning, modestly claims to stick to planning as his legitimate field, but has sufficient knowledge to think out of the box, and look at the big picture. Andreas is one of those rare people with the sufficient vision and systemic approach required to plan an interdependent world.' --Jean Peyrony, Mission opérationnelle transfrontalière, France'In his latest book, Andreas Faludi engagingly interweaves an academic discussion on territorialism and its challenges for spatial planning with his personal reflections on the history and possible future of the EU integration project.' --Stefanie Dühr, University of South Australia'In The Poverty of Territorialism Andreas Faludi challenges key concepts that the spatial planning community has come to love. Faludi's thoughts offer highly valuable inspiration to all those dealing with the future of regions, the nation state or even the European Union. Cutting edge planning literature!' --Jörg Knieling, HafenCity University Hamburg, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Part I POSITIONING MYSELF 1. Territorialism: A First Approximation 2. Where the Journey Goes PART II TERRITORY AS AN ORDERING PRINCIPLE 3. Territorialism Explained 4. The Case For Territorialism 5. The Case Against Territorialism PART III THE UNION AND ITS TERRITORY 6. Territorialism and European Spatial Planning 7. Territorialism and a Union in Crisis PART IV A UNION WITHOUT A TERRITORY 8. The Union a Neo-medieval Empire 9. The European Archipelago PART V TO CONCLUDE 10. The Valley of Tears 11. Epilogue: Spatial Planning Outside the Box Index

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Book SynopsisWith the UN-Habitat estimating that by 2035 the majority of the world’s population will be living in metropolitan areas, this cutting-edge Research Handbook explores the emerging field of urban design and its place in contemporary scholarship.Gathering together a broad spectrum of eminent and up-and-coming scholars across the globe, Marion Roberts and Suzy Nelson demonstrate the depth and rigour of 21st century urban design research. Contributors explore a wide range of topics such as effectively aligning urban design and landscape; reshaping the sustainable city; crisis and temporary public spaces; indigenous urbanism; and designing a healthy neighbourhood. Combining theoretical knowledge with practical application, this erudite Research Handbook analyses key literature in the field supported by an in-depth examination of international case studies.Offering an extensive cross-disciplinary overview of urban design scholarship, this Research Handbook will prove an enlightening read for academics and researchers in urban design, planning, urban studies, landscape architecture, human geography and cultural studies. Its wealth of specialist knowledge will also benefit urban design, city and planning practitioners alike.Trade Review‘Urban design is a critical profession balancing imperatives for beauty, justice, and sustainability in today’s increasingly dynamic cities. The Research Handbook on Urban Design is a detailed, convincing, and broad-ranging look at empirical inquiry across the scales, sites, spaces, and settlements of urban design. Practitioners, scholars, and students will find the Handbook a valuable and attractive addition to their libraries.’ -- Brent D. Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘Bringing together contributions from an international team of urban design academics and professionals, this collection is a welcome addition to the literature on urban design research, enriching a key field in an urbanizing world.’ -- Ali Madanipour, Newcastle University, UK‘This carefully-curated collection demonstrates two things. First, the sheer diversity and interdisciplinarity of urban design as a focus for research. Second, the ingenuity of researchers faced with understanding the multiple wicked urban problems that this throws up. In doing so it offers a valuable guide for researchers in urban design at all levels and internationally.’ -- Matthew Carmona, University College London, UK‘This carefully-curated collection demonstrates two things. First, the sheer diversity and interdisciplinarity of urban design as a focus for research. Second, the ingenuity of researchers faced with understanding the multiple wicked urban problems that this throws up. In doing so it offers a valuable guide for researchers in urban design at all levels and internationally.’ -- Matthew Carmona, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Research for urban design: on becoming an established field 1 Marion Roberts and Suzy Nelson PART I APPROACHES TO URBAN DESIGN RESEARCH 1 The new urban design: implications from spatial political economy 12 Alexander Cuthbert and Gusti Ayu Made Suartika 2 Enquiry by mapping: understanding urban assemblages and morphological capacities 24 Elek Pafka and Kim Dovey 3 Effective alignment of urban design and landscape: barriers and successes for education and practice 40 Philip Black and Ian Mell 4 Shaping smart cities: balancing hardware, software and ‘heartware’ 56 Jason Pomeroy and Denise Lim PART II SETTLEMENTS 5 Indigenous urbanism: determining the future from the past for smaller historic settlements in Jaipur, India 79 Shruti Hemani, Neha Goyal Tater and Mahima Sharma 6 Informal urban design: forms of informal settlement 107 Hesam Kamalipour 7 The politics of urban trees: reshaping the sustainable city 125 Jan Woudstra 8 Extending urban design into the hours of darkness: reflections on research 153 Marion Roberts 9 Shedding light on the dark city: from the light master plan to the trame noir 173 Emanuele Giordano PART III NEIGHBOURHOODS 10 Designing a neighborhood 188 Emily Talen 11 Healthy neighbourhoods: research into the connections between urban design and health and well-being 206 Tim Townshend 12 Heritage-led revitalisation in China: identity and modernity in Shenzhen’s urban villages 225 Tim Heath, Fei Chen, Jing Xie and Pengyu Chen 13 Capitalising on highly connected public transport nodes: exploring the relationship between physical design attributes and experiential qualities 248 Carey Curtis and Anders Larsson 14 Built environment and walkability during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Chile 266 Antonio Zumelzu, Mariana Estrada and Constanza Jara PART IV PUBLIC SPACE 15 Overview of public space: reflections on contemporary research 284 Vikas Mehta 16 Memorials, public space, and urban design 303 Quentin Stevens 17 ‘Cool public spaces for the cities’: a climate-fit approach to the urban design of public streetscapes and squares – a vital contribution to climate-responsive cities 331 Doris Damyanovic, Anna Gabor, Karl Grimm and Florian Reinwald 18 Evolving public spaces in South Africa: moving beyond sustainability and resilience towards regenerative space 349 Karina Landman 19 Crisis and temporary public spaces: reflections from London, UK 367 Krystallia Kamvasinou 20 Time–people–place-based approaches for urban design frame setting 390 Barbara Goličnik Marušić and Damjan Marušić Reflections on research for urban design 405 Marion Roberts and Suzy Nelson Index 411

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Book SynopsisInfrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy. Proposing a more people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national 'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning, and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors seeking insights into the intersections of financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe and globally.Trade Review'Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure explores the crucial connection between globalised financial flows and the infrastructure that provides the scaffolding for urban development. By following the money, the authors show the interaction of state and capital in shaping urban form and the uneven impacts on particular cities and groups within them.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance 3. Towards city statecraft 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK’s centralised state 5. Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation and the City Deals 6. Sell, hold or buy? Privatising, managing, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets 7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city-region, undermining the rest of the UK? 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Insightful and original in its approach, this Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning provides a fresh look at cost-efficiency and casts the craft of transport planning in new light, allowing engineers and urban planners to understand the benefits of breaking mobility-centric systems that favour cars and prioritising multi-modal transport systems that promote access. It features in-depth analysis of traditional methods and how these are changing due to new technologies, financial constraints and evolving environmental trends.Key features include: Discussion of advantages of urban areas in terms of transport service provision Clear distillation of priorities for a new era of transport planning Concise coverage of predominant concepts and theories Application for both urban planners and engineers Future oriented, cost-effective strategy. This Advanced Introduction will be invaluable for students of urban planning, transport geography, environmental studies, urban studies and civil engineering. It will also provide a useful update for urban planners, elected officials and civil engineers alike.Trade Review‘What a great book! Krizek and King bring the discipline of transport planning up-to-date with a keen eye on cities of the future. A holistic overview is provided, underpinned by social justice and accessibility thinking, considering all modes of transport and the relationship with the built environment. This book should be mandatory reading for all transport planners, not just students. I hope that it will promote new and inspirational practices that improve our ways of living.’Table of ContentsContents: 1. The premise of cities and its relation to urban transport planning 2. Considering justice in the design of transport systems 3. Past and emerging foundations for transport planning: access 4. Economics of supplying and using urban transport systems 5. Planning and design interplay: regions, districts, neighborhoods 6. Planning and design interplay: street space and how it is used 7. Engineering standards for streets: evolution and significance 8. Finance and institutional interplay 9. Data and models used in transport planning 10. Interdisciplinary sciences as applied to urban transport and opportunities 11. Visions, new currents and altered processes for transport planning Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Insightful and original in its approach, this Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning provides a fresh look at cost-efficiency and casts the craft of transport planning in new light, allowing engineers and urban planners to understand the benefits of breaking mobility-centric systems that favour cars and prioritising multi-modal transport systems that promote access. It features in-depth analysis of traditional methods and how these are changing due to new technologies, financial constraints and evolving environmental trends.Key features include: Discussion of advantages of urban areas in terms of transport service provision Clear distillation of priorities for a new era of transport planning Concise coverage of predominant concepts and theories Application for both urban planners and engineers Future oriented, cost-effective strategy. This Advanced Introduction will be invaluable for students of urban planning, transport geography, environmental studies, urban studies and civil engineering. It will also provide a useful update for urban planners, elected officials and civil engineers alike.Trade Review‘What a great book! Krizek and King bring the discipline of transport planning up-to-date with a keen eye on cities of the future. A holistic overview is provided, underpinned by social justice and accessibility thinking, considering all modes of transport and the relationship with the built environment. This book should be mandatory reading for all transport planners, not just students. I hope that it will promote new and inspirational practices that improve our ways of living.’Table of ContentsContents: 1. The premise of cities and its relation to urban transport planning 2. Considering justice in the design of transport systems 3. Past and emerging foundations for transport planning: access 4. Economics of supplying and using urban transport systems 5. Planning and design interplay: regions, districts, neighborhoods 6. Planning and design interplay: street space and how it is used 7. Engineering standards for streets: evolution and significance 8. Finance and institutional interplay 9. Data and models used in transport planning 10. Interdisciplinary sciences as applied to urban transport and opportunities 11. Visions, new currents and altered processes for transport planning Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together transnational perspectives on urban narration, this innovative book analyses how a combination of tales, images and discourses are used to brand, market and (re-)make cities, focusing on the actors behind this and the conflicts of power that arise in defining and governing city futures.Reflecting theoretically on the role of storytelling in urban contexts, an international range of leading scholars analyse how the re-making of cities is governed. Undertaking detailed empirical case studies across France, Hong Kong, the UK and the US, chapters provide comparative perspectives on a broad range of urban narratives, including alternative narratives within and across cities. Cases examined include the smart city of Hong Kong, the multi-city economy of England’s Northern Powerhouse, and resistance and resilience in Lyon and Pittsburgh. Ultimately, this insightful book underlines the importance of urban narratives in the government and governance of cities.With global scope, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of urban affairs, politics, geography and public administration who are interested in narrative approaches, alongside various stakeholders and policy makers working in city governance.Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the role of urban narratives: governing the (re)making of cities 1 Alistair Cole, Aisling Healy and Christelle Morel Journel 2 Confronting the Pittsburgh narrative: renaissance, renewal and the tension of authenticity 17 Sabina Deitrick and Michael R. Glass 3 Saint-Étienne: from the modest to the creative city or the ongoing search for a convincing urban narrative 31 Christelle Morel Journel and Georges Gay 4 Rescaling urban entrepreneurialism: England’s Northern Powerhouse as a multi-city economic narrative 48 Danny MacKinnon 5 ‘Braddock America’: building a narrative on a mayor’s charisma 64 Christelle Morel Journel and Aisling Healy 6 Socio-genesis of a private government: Greater Lyon’s narrative of the ‘metropolitan governance’ of economic development policies 82 Aisling Healy 7 The ‘Smart City’ between urban narrative and empty signifier: the case of Hong Kong 100 Alistair Cole, Calvin Lai Ming Tsun, Dionysios Stivas and Emilie Tran 8 “Witness to history”: narratives of resistance and resilience in Lyon and Pittsburgh 123 Dan Holland References 137 Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This book seeks to answer the question: what do we need to know about the success, failure and future prospects of creating walkable, diverse urbanism? Separating out what we already know from what we don't, it advances a research agenda aimed at helping to sustain the New Urbanism movement. As the book clearly demonstrates, there is a lot we still need to learn about creating and sustaining good cities. A wide array of topics are covered, from big picture concerns about the need for more theory development, to more fundamental topics like sustaining urban retail and encouraging multi-modal transportation. The authors explore research needs from the social, environmental, and economic sides of New Urbanism, from small-scale DIY tactics to large-scale policy platforms like the UN's New Urban Agenda, from zoning reform to autonomous vehicles and climate change. New Urbanism is a large topic, and the research needed to sustain it is equally large. We still need to know - in a more rigorous way - whether, and how, New Urbanist principles are ever achieved, whether the outcomes associated with a particular implementation strategy are providing environmental, social and economic benefits as claimed, and what the best strategy might be for fulfilling each goal. This unique book offers profound and intriguing insights into the development and growth of New Urbanism. It will be required reading for students and scholars of urban planning and design, and urban studies more broadly.Trade Review'The New Urbanism's commitment to the simultaneity of theory and evidence in practice presents a rich agenda for research. Examining the movement's intellectual foundations as well as its continuing evolution and capacity to stimulate policy change, these essays represent an invigorating encouragement for its thought leaders to focus on the wicked problems of our time, such as the affordability of dwelling, and keeping communities out of harm's way under intensifying climate conditions.' --Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Co-Founder of DPZ CoDESIGN and University of Miami, School of Architecture, US'Predominantly aimed at arming the next generation of urban planning scholars with highly relevant research questions, this book's revealing dives into the histories, theories and practices that have guided specialized urban discourses will be of great interest to a broad range of urbanists.' --Ellen Dunham-Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Why a New Urbanist Research Agenda is Needed Emily Talen 2. Theoretical Foundations Cliff Ellis 3. DIY Urbanism Donovan Finn and Gordon Douglas 4. Urban Retail Conrad Kickert 5. Transportation Wes Marshall 6. Green New Urbanism V. Kelly Turner 7. Cultural Competency and Racial Inclusion April Jackson 8. Social Goals Sungduck Lee 9. Urban Growth Matthew Hardy 10. The New Urban Agenda Michael W. Mehaffy 11. The Future of Urbanism Ajay Garde Index

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Book SynopsisTaking a comprehensive approach to two central, closely intertwined themes in the field of transport economics, this illuminating Handbook recognizes the critical socioeconomic importance of transport pricing and financing.The expert contributors provide insights into how pricing goes beyond fulfilling pure financial requirements, and may help pursuing economic efficiency. The Handbook also devotes attention to new technologies such as digital payment channels, information provision, and dynamic pricing techniques. The authors cover the challenges and opportunities caused by the appearance of new modes of transport such as ride-hailing and automated vehicles. Furthermore, this timely Handbook also helps to address ongoing global issues such as climate change and sustainable development, explicitly recognizing challenges faced in regions across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.This immersive Handbook will provide undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics, environmental science, transport, political science and urban planning studies with a useful introduction to the topics and the necessary tools to undertake research in transport pricing and financing. Practitioners wishing to understand the theory behind transport pricing and financing decisions will also find this Handbook a useful resource.Trade Review‘The advent of electric vehicles, which won’t pay fuel taxes, and autonomous vehicles, which may not even have passengers, puts front-and-center the need to revisit how road transport is funded. This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of transport funding around the world, and serves as a necessary foundation for the emerging new mobility.’ -- David Levinson, University of Sydney, Australia‘This new Handbook is a timely and impressive set of surveys of what theory and practice across continents can teach us about transport pricing and financing. Its systematic coverage of the concepts and tools used in transport policy as well as their relevance in the context of specific modes should help anyone working on the many challenges the sector is likely to face in the foreseeable future in a tense environmental, political and social context.’ -- Antonio Estache, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium‘Huge amounts of money are spent on transport infrastructure, while the transport sector generates large volumes of greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, the efficiency of transportation means is critical for both the global and the local economy. This Handbook is a welcome contribution that will shed light on important and heated debates about transport pricing and financing.’ -- Jacques-François Thisse, Université Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing 1 Daniel Hörcher, Alejandro Tirachini and Erik T. Verhoef PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 1. History of transport pricing Roger Vickerman 9 2. Transport pricing: theory and methodologies Achim I. Czerny and Stefanie Peer 24 3. Transport pricing beyond the social optimum Erik T. Verhoef 39 4. Pricing and other instruments for climate change mitigation in private transport Henrik Andersson, Davide Cerruti and Cristian Huse 59 5. Urban form and the pricing of transport and parking Sofia F. Franco 73 6. Equity and distributional issues in transport pricing Christophe Heyndrickx and Inge Mayeres 107 7. The political economy of transport pricing and investment Bruno De Borger and Antonio Russo124 PART II TRANSPORT MODES 8. Road pricing and provision of capacity Se-il Mun and Daisuke Fukuda 146 9. Public transport: design, scale, and pricing Sergio Jara-Díaz, Antonio Gschwender and Daniel Hörcher 171 10. From taxis to ride-hailing: market equilibrium analysis and implications for regulations Xiaolei Wang and Fangfang Yuan 190 11. The economics of airports’ pricing Tiziana D’Alfonso, Martina Gregori, Hugo E. Silva and Leonardo J. Basso 207 12. Pricing in freight transport 229 Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Michele Simoni and Ila Maltese 13. Connected and automated vehicles: effects on pricing 252 César Núñez and Alejandro Tirachini PART III TRANSPORT FUNDING AND FINANCING 14. Transport funding and financing: a conceptual overview of theory and practice 273 José Manuel Vassallo and Laura Garrido 15. Investment appraisal: links between finance and economics 295 Georgina Santos, Iven Stead and Tom Worsley 16. The regulation of public–private partnerships 311 Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic 17. Financing sustainable transport infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies 330 José C. Carbajo 18. Transport financing and regional development 348 Javier Asensio and Anna Matas PART IV REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 19. Road transport pricing and financing in Africa 364 Leonard Mwesigwa, Moez Kilani and Matti Siemiatycki 20. A review of selected transport pricing, funding and financing issues in Asia 380 Wei Liu, Fangni Zhang, Xiaolei Wang and Yili Tang 21. Transport pricing in Europe 394 Chris Nash and Heike Link 22. Pricing urban transport in Latin America 417 Andrés Gómez-Lobo and Tomás Serebrisky 23. Road pricing applications in North America 436 Mark Burris, John Brady and Sruthi Ashraf 24. Transport pricing and financing in Oceania 452 John Stanley and David A. Hensher Index 472

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Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive overview of the governance of urban infrastructures, this Companion combines illustrative cases with conceptual approaches to offer an innovative perspective on the governance of large urban infrastructure systems. Contributions by leading scholars in the field present a transdisciplinary approach to the topic, with a global scope.Chapters examine the challenges facing urban infrastructure systems, including financial, economic, technological, social, ecological, jurisdictional and demand. Using novel conceptualizations of urban infrastructure, and examining global cases of specific energy, mobility, water, housing, green and telecommunication systems, the Companion further illustrates how these challenges are interrelated with their governance. Finding efficiency, sustainability, and resilience to be key governance performance indicators, it concludes by highlighting the role that digitalization plays in making cities smarter and argues for the potential of digitalization for large urban infrastructure governance.With global significance, this Companion will be an invaluable read for students and scholars of urban studies, governance and infrastructure. The informative case studies will be an excellent resource for city practitioners, officials and policymakers.Trade Review‘The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance is an impressive collection of contributions on a variety of highly relevant topics. The editors have managed to produce a volume that covers timely issues in infrastructure governance and planning (such as digitalization, climate resilience, metropolitan governance and urban mobility). Remarkably, authors and cases are from all over the globe and the chapters are grounded in new scholarship. This is one of the most complete statements on urban infrastructure and enhances substantially our knowledge on urban governance and the provision of urban infrastructures.’ -- Karsten Zimmermann, Dortmund University, Germany‘Finger and Yanar have introduced today’s urban analyst to a treasure trove of case studies, data and “how-tos” from around the globe; rich country, poor country – all are faced with the mega challenge of the 21st century: sustainability. Each case study is unique in presenting the impacts of local governance, addressing critical issues (from Detroit to Nairobi). 21st century tools of analysis and modern technology –carefully presented throughout – make this a volume that is a must read for everyone in the urban infrastructure world, from practitioner to academic to citizen.’ -- Robert E Paaswell, City College of New York, US‘Defined broadly or narrowly, infrastructure is critical to economic productivity and people’s quality of life in all societies. Infrastructure discourse is multidisciplinary. These authors amplify the discourse on lessons that can be learned as the world strives to make all facets of infrastructure ‘smart,’ equitable, resilient, affordable and sustainable.’ -- Jerry Kolo, American University of Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction 1 Matthias Finger and Numan Yanar PART I CASES 2 Detroit: A history of financial challenges for the motor city government 16 Eric A. Scorsone 3 Cities facing economic development challenges: The case of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area 32 Alejandra Trejo Nieto 4 Deciphering the complex structure of large urban systems through the case study of Istanbul 51 Başak Demireş Özkul 5 Housing urbanism: Collective representation and its impact in the city 68 Armando Tetsuya Hashimoto Hongo 6 Sustainable community design amidst social challenges: Insights from Nairobi, Kenya 87 Cherie Enns 7 Metropolitan governance: The challenge for the metropolitan area of Mexico City 109 Edgar O. Tungü. Rodríguez PART II CONCEPTUALIZATIONS 8 Urban energy systems: Municipal utilities and the case of Switzerland 129 Christian Opitz 9 Digitalization in urban mobility: An assessment through the IGLUS framework 148 Umut Alkım Tuncer 10 Brownfield infrastructures 165 Francesco Gastaldi and Federico Camerin 11 A sociotechnical perspective on integrated urban water systems 181 Janice A. Beecher and James F. Burton 12 Telecommunication systems 200 Ezatul Faizura Mustaffa Kamal Effendee 13 Urban waste management: The case of Turkey and Istanbul 218 Fatih Hoşoğlu 14 Well-connected urban green infrastructures for more livable and resilient urban systems 238 Andréa Finger-Stich PART III GOVERNANCE 15 Efficiency in urban systems 264 J. Ernst Drewes 16 Large urban systems: Towards a sustainability framework 284 Mariske Van Aswegen and Francois Pieter Retief 17 Resilience of urban systems: Perspective for the integration of climate resilience actions in the resilient cities network 308 Arnoldo Matus Kramer, Rodríguez-Izquierdo Emilio, and Abril Cid 18 Central–metropolitan government relations over urban infrastructure governance: The case of Istanbul 329 İnan İzci 19 Citizen participation 350 İmge Akçakaya Waite 20 Planning 365 Ignazio Vinci 21 Digitalization 383 Matthias Finger 22 Urban infrastructures implemented in public–private partnerships 400 Nicolas Hatem Index 419

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Book SynopsisNature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being adopted to address climate change, health, and urban sustainability, yet ensuring they are effective and inclusive remains a challenge. Addressing these challenges through chapters by leading experts in both global south and north contexts, this book advances the science of NBS in cities and discusses the frontiers for next-generation urban NBS.NBS are fundamentally inter- and transdisciplinary approaches that require systems thinking and multilevel governance. With a focus on the multiple challenges that cities face, from heat and air pollution to storm water and threats to human health, this book puts forward a diversity of ideas for embracing complexity in mainstreaming NBS and inspiring new approaches to create the ecological urban futures we need.Speaking to the need for cities around the world to employ ecological, nature-based design, this book will be essential reading for early career professionals, practitioners, scholars, and students across multiple disciplines engaging with nature-based solutions including urban ecology, design, architecture, landscape architecture, geography, urban planning, policy, and management. Trade Review‘In this urban century, the period of the fastest urban growth in human history, humans still need nature to survive and thrive. In this crucial book, some of the best urban scientists in the world give us a guide for how nature can be a solution to the pressing needs of our time, including climate resilience and equity. For anyone planning, implementing, or monitoring nature-based solutions in cities, this is an essential book.’ -- Robert McDonald, Lead Scientist for Nature-based Solutions at The Nature Conservancy‘A lot has been written about nature-based solutions for cities, but this book by some of the leading experts in this field is a must read. It provides a systematic and highly accessible overview of what nature-based solutions are and (can) do for cities, while also offering great examples of making these solutions work, from governance approaches to mobilising art.’ -- Cecil Konijnendijk, University of British Columbia, Canada‘This comprehensive book describes in accessible fashion nature based solutions for cities. It brings together the latest knowledge and experiences and is essential reading for researchers, policy makers and practitioners.’ -- Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, ISGlobal - Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Spain‘This book captures a wonderful diversity of knowledge on the multitude of solutions that nature presents to the growing challenges of our urban world. It offers inspiring ideas and practical insights for making the transition to more liveable, peaceful and resilient cities for all living creatures, in every part of the world. The book presents great examples of nature-friendly and inclusive design and cost-effective nature-based solutions that improve quality of life, climate resilience and equitable and regenerative business opportunities.’ -- Chantal van Ham, Arcadis, Belgium‘For too long, cities were thought of as the opposite of nature. Now scientists and planners understand that nature is in fact present in cities. This excellent new book shows how cities can enhance the work of nature within their boundaries to improve people's lives and the biodiversity of our urban world.’ -- Steward T.A. Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies‘Cities are facing unprecedented challenges with an urgent need to adapt to a rapidly changing climate and to address accelerating levels of social and economic inequality. This thought provoking and stimulating book gives us exciting pathways forward for regions and residents to transform toward cities that are liveable, just and equitable, but in an inclusive way and inspired by nature. It's an inspiration for us all.’ -- Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm University, Sweden‘Cities around the world are employing ecological, nature-based designs to provide a variety of urban services for urban residents. How can we ensure that they are effective, equitable, and will last? This book is essential reading for graduate students and practitioners alike on the state of the art in how to harness the power of nature for transformational change.’ -- Gretchen Daily, Stanford University, US‘As the international community is urgently called to put the lofty goals of the UN’s Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into practice in an increasingly urban planet, this book offers valuable insights based on tested approaches to make urban sustainable consumption and production a transformative force for human well-being and ecosystem health in challenging times. Recognized by the UN’s Environmental Assembly, NBS has become an essential tool for resilience to climate change, and for mainstreaming nature and human rights into urban planning, development, and governance.’ -- Oliver Hillel, urban development specialist and officer in the UN’s Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity from 1996 to 2023Table of ContentsContents: Foreword I xiv Dagmar Haase Foreword II xv Karen C. Seto Sonja Knapp and J. Scott MacIvor 1 Nature-based solutions for sustainable, resilient, and equitable cities 1 Timon McPhearson, Nadja Kabisch, and Niki Frantzeskaki PART I NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR WHAT AND FOR WHOM? 2 Nature-based solutions and climate change resilience 14 Nancy B. Grimm, Yeowon Kim, Jason R. Sauer, and Stephen R. Elser 3 Towards just nature-based solutions for cities 30 Laura Tozer, Harini Nagendra, Pippin Anderson, and Jessica Kavonic PART II THE NATURE OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS 4 Urban ecological resilience: ensuring urban ecosystems can provide nature-based solutions 50 Timon McPhearson, Erik Andersson, Filipa Grilo, Bianca Lopez, and Nour Zein 5 Nature-based solutions and biodiversity: synergies, trade-offs, and ways forward 83 Sonja Knapp and J. Scott MacIvor PART III THE MULTIPLE BENEFITS OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS 6 Just, nature-based solutions as critical urban infrastructure for cooling and cleaning airsheds 106 Paul Coseo and Zoe Hamstead 7 Nature-based solutions as critical urban infrastructure for water resilience 147 Lauren McPhillips, Hong Wu, Carolina Rojas Quezada, Bernice Rosenzweig, Jason R. Sauer, and Brandon Winfrey 8 Human physical health outcomes influenced by contact with nature 168 Lilah M. Besser and Gina S. Lovasi 9 Nature-based solutions and mental health 193 Nadja Kabisch, Sukanya Basu, Matilda van den Bosch, Gregory N. Bratman, and Oskar Masztalerz PART IV NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS GOVERNANCE, PLANNING, AND VALUE 10 Planning and maintaining nature-based solutions: lessons for foresight and sustainable care from Berlin, Jakarta, Melbourne, and Santiago de Chile 215 Rieke Hansen, Judy Bush, Didit Okta Pribadi, and Emanuel Giannotti 11 Governance of and with nature-based solutions in cities 241 Niki Frantzeskaki, Katinka Wijsman, Clare Adams, Nadja Kabisch, Shirin Malekpour, Melissa Pineda Pinto, and Paula Vandergert 12 Mapping, measuring, and valuing the benefits of nature-based solutions in cities 260 Anne D. Guerry, Eric V. Lonsdorf, Chris Nootenboom, Roy P. Remme, Rob Griffin, Hillary Waters, Stephen Polasky, Baolong Han, Tong Wu, Benjamin D. Janke, Megan Meacham, Perrine Hamel, and Xueman Wang PART V ENGAGING ART AND DESIGN FOR AND WITH NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS 13 Urban designs as social-natural resolutions 296 Brian McGrath, Danai Thaitakoo, Nithirath Chaemchuen, and Tommy Yang 14 Ecological art in cities: exploring the potential for art to promote and advance nature-based solutions 317 Christopher Kennedy, Ellie Irons, and Patricia Lea Watts 15 1 + 1 = 3: stories of imagination and the art of nature-based solutions 341 Patrick M. Lydon, David Maddox, Robin Lasser, Baixo Ribeiro, and Carla Vitantonio 16 Towards mainstreaming nature-based solutions for achieving biodiverse, resilient, and inclusive cities 364 Timon McPhearson, Nadja Kabisch, and Niki Frantzeskaki Index 376

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