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…
INTRODUCTION. Still Paying Homage to Barcelona -- PART 1. IN THEORY -- Chapter 1. The Subject of Culture -- PART 2. TAMING THE POLITICAL CITIZEN -- Chapter 2. Culture is to the Social Materialization of Democracy as the Critical Subject is to Democratic Citizenship -- Chapter 3. Building Participatory Measures -- PART 3. THE OLYMPIC FRAMEWORK -- Chapter 4. Working for the City Image -- Chapter …
Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Three Waves That Are Changing Cities Forever -- Urban Design Responses to the Three Great Waves -- Rule One: See the City as a System -- Rule Two: Recognize Patterns in Urban Environments -- Rule Three: Apply Lighter, Greener, Smarter Infrastructure -- Rule Four: Strengthen Social Resilience through Affordable Housing Design -- Rule Five: …
Note from the Publisher -- Foreword by Andrés Duany -- Preface by Lynn Richards -- Part 1. My Kind of Town -- Part 2. The Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads -- Part 3. Continuity and Context -- Part 4. Bouquets and Brickbats -- Part 5. Sustainability and Tradition -- Part 6. On Christopher Alexander’s Athena Award -- Part 7. Urbanism in Late Stage Capitalism -- Part 8. Lean Urbanism: Making Small …
Chapter One -- 1.1.Industrial expansion, globalization and population health – The cases of England and Panama -- 1.2 Comparative measurement of health and development -- 1.3 A century’s worth of global change in development and health -- 1.4 What accounts for the difference in regional change? -- 1.4.1 Standard of living -- 1.4.2 Public investment, health infrastructure, and public health …
Part I. London 2012: the Mega-event in Context -- Chapter 1. East London’s Post Olympic Economy -- Chapter 2. Hollow Sovereignty and the Hollow Crown? -- Part II. The 2012 Legacy Story: Views from East London -- Chapter 3. Legacy for Whom? -- Chapter 4. A Place Beyond Belief< -- Chapter 5. The Best New Place to Live? -- Chapter 6. Expert Knowledge and Community Participation in Urban Planning…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Reclaiming small towns Marie-Hélène Zérah & Eric Denis -- Part I Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of cities -- Chapter 2. Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India Kanhu C. Pradhan -- Chapter 3. The substantial share of small towns in India's system of cities Elfie Swerts -- Chapter 4. The Income Ranking of Indian States and …
1. Introduction–Negotiating Place, Non-Place, and No-Place -- 2. From Megachurches to the Invisible Temple: Placing the Protestant “Church” in the Seoul Metropolitan Area -- 3. No-Place, New Places: Death and its Rituals in Urban Asia -- 4. Alone Together: Global Gurus, Cosmopolitan Space, and Community -- 5. On Daoism and Religious Networks in a Digital Age -- 6. Losing the Neighborhood …
1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review and Theoretical Setting -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Local Setting and Institutional Norms -- 5 Interpretations and Situations -- 6 Facility of Power: on the Part of Land-lost Farmers -- 7 Facility of Power: on the Part of Local Government -- 8 Conclusion & Discussion -- 9 Appendices.The study is set against the backdrop of the urbanization trend in present-day Ch…
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…