Introduction -- A Triplet under focus: innovation, design, city -- Cities as enablers of innovation -- Innovation and design -- Design enabled innovation in urban environments.Open AccessThis book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. .
1. Introduction -- 2. Globalization and its Impact on the Italian Fashion Industry -- 3. The Migrant Pathway of Emplacement in Prato -- 4. The Global Low-End Fashion Center -- 5. The Mobile Regime -- 6. The Foundations of the Mobile Regime: Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Ethnicization of the Workplace -- 7. "My City Brought to its Knees": The Downscaling of Prato and the Crimin…
Perspective of Resilient Cities: Introduction and Overview -- Smart Cities: Milestone of New Era -- The Status of Research on Smart Cities: A Review -- Prospect of Faridabad as a Smart City: A Review -- Planning for Healthy and Sustainable Urbanization: A Case Study of NCT, Delhi -- City Size and its Growth Rate: A Case Study of Kerala, India -- Level of Basic Infrastructure in the Slums: A cas…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards Understanding the Social Dynamics of the Urban N. Jayaram -- Chapter 2. Revisiting the City: The Relevance of Urban Sociology Today N. Jayaram -- Chapter 3. Global Flows or Rural-Urban Connections? Temporality, Public Spaces and Heterotopias in Globalising Mumbai D. Parthasarathy -- Chapter 4. Globalisation, Group Autonomy, and Political Space: Negotiating Globa…
1. Introduction: Behind the Scenes in One of the Most Miserable Cities in America -- 2. Detroit Metropolitan Area and Warren -- 3. Warren as a Case Study -- 4. The Shrinking Context of Warren -- 5. Challenges of shrinkage in Warren as a Midwestern First Suburb -- 6. Current Efforts in Warren -- 7. Conclusion: Lessons from Warren.This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shr…
Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 In Search of the Super-rich: Who are they? Where are they? - Ray Forrest, Bart Wissink and Sin Yee Koh -- 2 Elites Without Hierarchies: Intermediaries, ‘Agency’ and the Super-rich - William Davies -- Part I: Real Estate Investments -- 3 Real Estate Holdings among the Super Rich in the United States - Richard A.…