Chapter 1: Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: A Framework Smitha Kanekanti Chandrasekhar -- Part I: Urban Governance and Institutions -- Chapter 2: Introducing Urban Entrepreneurialism in India: An Analysis of Programmatic Interventions Debolina Kundu -- Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial Governance in a resilient city: Bengaluru, India Sudhira H.S. -- Part II: Political Economy of Urbanisation -- Chap…
This volume brings together the world’s leading experts on urban and transport planning, environmental exposures, physical activity, health and health impact assessment to discuss challenges and solutions in cities. The book provides a conceptual framework and work program for actions and outlines future research needs. It presents the current evidence-base, the benefits of and numerous case …
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Precarity -- Chapter 3: Propinquity -- Chapter 4: Conflict -- Chapter 5: Serendipity -- Chapter 6: Fear -- Chapter 7: The Urban Commons.Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a ‘world as design’ over the natural world. For more than half of the global population, this environment is also thoroughly urban. But what does a global urban…
Chapter1: Introduction- The practice of spatial analysis -- Chapter2: Pavlos Kanaroglou, his McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics and Research Contributions to the City of Hamilton (2007-2016) -- Chapter3: An ontological framework for spatial socioeconomic units -- Chapter4: Spatial microsimulation and agent-based modelling -- Chapter5: Spatial Patterns of Accessibility between I…
Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Foundations For Land-Use Planning Projects Determines Sustainability -- Chapter3: Site Selection With Attention To Susceptibility To Natural And Human Caused Hazards -- Chapter4: Strategic Palnning For Urban Centers: Present and Future -- Chapter5: Planning For Existing Polluting Industries And Parks Zoned For Industrial Development -- Chapter6: Curtailing Ag…
Section 1 Problems of SUITMA diagnostic and classification -- Section 2 Spatial temporal variability of urban soils features and processes -- Section 3 Urban soils' functions and ecosystem services: from concepts to application -- Section 4 Bioremediation and reclamation of soils contaminated with oil products, heavy metals and radionuclide -- Section 5 Genesis, geography, soil features and pro…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Location and Methods of Investigation -- Chapter 3. Research of Aerosol Optical Depth and Urban Heart Island in Lanzhou City by Means of Earth Remote Sensing -- Chapter 4. Study of Air Pollution in Lanzhou City in 2003-2012 -- Chapter 5. Level of Pollutants Concentration in the Atmosphere of Lanzho -- Chapter 6. Analysis of the Causes of Influencing Factors…
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: The Complex Process of City Regeneration -- CHAPTER II: Reconnecting Cities with Nature, Building Resilience at the Urban Scale -- CHAPTER III: Understanding the Benefits of Urban Density -- CHAPTER IV: Activating the Food-Water-Energy Nexus -- CHAPTER V: The Ten Strategies for an Urban Regeneration -- CHAPTER VI: Examples of the Ten Urban Regeneration Strategies in Prac…
Introduction -- Part 1 The Theoretical Critique of the Sustainable Urbanism Narrative -- Of Tesla and Eco-City: Urban Sustainability as Territorial Local Trap? -- Making an Urban Ecotopia in China: Knowledge, Power, and Governmentality -- Political Ecology of Chinese Smart Eco-Cities -- Part 2 The Dynamics of “Glocal” Governance and Policy Mobility of Sustainable Urbanism -- City Branding i…
This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment. It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different …