Chapter 1. Introduction (Xinyue Ye) -- Chapter 2. Planning as Computational Intelligence (Shih-Kung Lai) -- Chapter 3. Towards a Spatio-Socio-Semantic Analysis Framework (Wei Luo) -- Chapter 4. Hub location and network design with considerations of flow delay and point-point connection (Guoqiang Shen) -- Chapter 5. Spatial Characteristics of Social Networks (Lingqian Hu) -- Chapter 6. A social …
Introduction -- I. Principles and theoretical and methodological basis of landscape-ecological planning -- 1. Change or preservation of landscape structure? -- 2. Ecologisation of landscape management -- 3. Institutional instruments for integrated landscape management in Slovakia -- 4. Landscape as a geosystem -- II. Landscape-ecological planning LANDEP - a tool for the ecologisation of spatial…
Introduction: Defining a Symbiotic Field -- Metropolitanism, Its Filiations, and Its Consequences -- The Geographic Prospects of Human Habitat and the Attributes of a Novel Urbanity -- The Symbiotic Field in Ten Behaviors -- Miscegenation: Culture- and Region-Forming -- Gardens Grown Wild: In-Between Topography and Its Mythology -- Reconciling Cultural with Cognitive -- Tests for a Symbiotic Ma…
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…
1. Forward -- 2. Preface -- 3. Introduction: Framing the Issue by Belinda Yuen and Špela Močnik -- 4. Surveying Older Adults’ Perceptions and Aspirations, by Belinda Yuen, Chathura Withanage and Parvathi Nair -- 5. Focusing on Older Residents Views, by Belinda Yuen and Parvathi Nair -- 6. Sharing Key Informant Views, by Belinda Yuen and Cheong Sue Wei -- 7. Housing Audit by Belinda Yuen and…
Introduction -- Sustainable Spatial Planning in Democracies -- Democratic Acceptance of Spatial Planning Policies -- Determinants of Democratic Acceptance: A Two-Level Analysis -- The Motivation behind Democratic Acceptance: A Case Study -- Framing Effects on Democratic Acceptability: An Experimental Approach -- Discussion.-Conclusions.This book examines the democratic acceptance of spatial pla…
Chapter 1. Al Alamein New City, A Sustainability Battle To Win -- Chapter 2. Productive Urban Development: Linking Planning And Economy In Al-Alamein New City, Egypt -- Chapter 3. The Story Of Neom City Opportunities And Challenges -- Chapter 4. King Abdullah Economic City: The Growth Of New Sustainable City In Saudi Arabia -- Chapter 5. Land Value Capture As A New Sustainable Financing Mechani…
The concept and practice of Smart Metropolitan Regional Development -- Metropolitan Region of Abuja, the New Capital of Nigeria -- Surat Metropolitan Region Gujarat, India -- Kozhikode Metropolitan Region, Kerala, India -- National Capital Metropolitan Region Delhi, India -- Metropolitan Region of Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa -- Metropolitan Region Naples, Italy -- Metropolitan Region of Chan…
Part I: Introduction to the Geomorphological Landscapes and Landforms of Georgia -- Chapter 1. Long Term Geomorphological History of Georgia -- Chapter 2. Climate, hydrography and soils of Georgia -- Part II: Landscape Types of Georgia -- Chapter 3. Coastal (Abrasive) Landscape of Georgia -- Chapter 4. Karst Landscape of Georgia -- Chapter 5. Nival-Glacier Landscape of Georgia -- Chapter 6. Urb…
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from on…