Authors:Hiroaki Suzuki, Arish Dastur, Sebastian Moffatt, Nana
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: cities, economic, ecological, eco2
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-05-26
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 082138046X
ISBN-13: 9780821380468
The Eco2 Cities approach is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development. At the same time case studies are used throughout the book to provide a matter-of-fact and ground-level perspective. The Eco2 framework is flexible and easily customized to the context of each country or city. Based on the particular circumstances and the development priorities of a city – the applicat
Author: UN-HABITAT
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: cities, harmonious, world, state
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2008-11
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 1844076962
ISBN-13: 9781844076963
The world’s urban population now exceeds the world’s rural population. But with the concomitant strain this will place upon current urban infrastructures, what does this mean for the state of our cities? This book adopts the concept of Harmonious Cities as a theoretical framework in order to understand today’s urban world, and as an operational tool to confront the most important challenges facing urbanization and development processes. For the first time, preliminary findings of a global analysis of spatial, socio-economic and environmental dimensions at the city level are presented in
Author: Jennifer Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cities, questioning, development, modernity, ordinary
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01-13
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0415304881
ISBN-13: 9780415304887
With the urbanization of the world’s population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for urban development. It makes the argument that all cities are best understood as ‘ordinary’, and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy between Western and other cities (especially those labelled ‘Third World’). It considers t
Author: Nicos Komninos
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cities, regions, networks, globalisation, intelligent, innovation
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-09-03
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 041545591X
ISBN-13: 9780415455916
Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks combines concepts and theories from the fields of urban development and planning, innovation management, and virtual / intelligent environments. It explains the rise of intelligent cities with respect to the globalisation of systems of innovation; opens up a new way for making intelligent environments via the connection of human skills, institutional mechanisms, and digital spaces operating within a community; and describes a series of platforms and tools for the making of intelligent cities.
Author: Nicos Komninos
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cities, regions, networks, globalisation, intelligent, innovation
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-09-12
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0415455928
ISBN-13: 9780415455923
Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks combines concepts and theories from the fields of urban development and planning, innovation management, and virtual / intelligent environments. It explains the rise of intelligent cities with respect to the globalisation of systems of innovation; opens up a new way for making intelligent environments via the connection of human skills, institutional mechanisms, and digital spaces operating within a community; and describes a series of platforms and tools for the making of intelligent cities.
Author: Karen S. Christensen
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: cities, planning, decisions, making, complexity, intergovernmental
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1998-11-12
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 0761911642
ISBN-13: 9780761911647
Planners hate uncertainty. The objective of their work is to devise a course of action that will reduce uncertainty on a public scale. However, complicated intergovernmental systems often make their work complex and difficult. And the planning profession is founded in quandaries: how can we know the future? What is the relationship between means and ends? The book addresses the mismatch between the assumptions of planning and the actual operations of the intergovernmental system. Basing her work not only on empirical research but also years of personal experience in complex governmental agenci
Authors:Graham Haughton, Colin Hunter,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cities, volume, regions, sustainable
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-04-10
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0117023744
ISBN-13: 9780117023741
Sustainable Cities simultaneously tackles two issues of immediate public concern which also find themselves high on the policy agenda: sustainable environmental development and urban development. The themes of the book - the bringing together of the insights of environmental science, the social sciences and management; the combination of problem analysis with practical application; and a critique of urban environmental problems concentrating on air and water pollution - are illustrated throughout with in-depth material and case studies taken from around the world and are approached from a vari
