Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three to four percent of the world's land ...
A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and ...
Along with globalization, urban transitions have been central in the southward shift in economic power towards the newly emerging economies. As this book shows, ...
The suburbanization of North America has been was one of the most significant social, political, and cultural transformations of the twentieth century. Originally seen ...
Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms ...
The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. The specific ...
Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ...
This book reflects on how the economies, social characteristics, ways of life and global relationships of rural areas of Europe have changed in recent ...
Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech ...
The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge ...
As a single source of information for researchers and professionals, Traffic Simulation and Data: Validation Methods and Applications offers a complete overview of traffic ...
This book is the long awaited sequel to "Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities". "Second Nature Urban Agriculture" updates and ...
Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, ...
Religion and Urbanism contributes to an expanded understanding of the notion of 'sustainable cities' in the context of South Asia by demonstrating that religion ...
