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We all want cities, where more than half of the world's population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy and affordable. Will 'smart cities' help achieve these aspirations or undermine them in the time of COVID-19? Phil Allmendinger, a world expert on cities, development, and urban governance, takes a critical approach to the role of 'smart' in future cities and the relationship with city development....
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À la tombée de la nuit, Montréal scintille de mille feux. Le pont Jacques-Cartier, le Quartier des spectacles, la Biosphère et bien d'autres repères urbains bénéficient d'une mise en lumière qui magnifie leur présence dans l'obscurité. La constellation que forment ces illuminations confère à la ville une apparence « magique et féérique ». Or, serait-il possible que cet éclat camoufle, voire alimente, une réalité moins séduisante...
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La territorialidad latinoamericana reciente, fundamentada por la demanda de nuevas lógicas de recomposición de los territorios rurales y urbanos, y dependiente de alteraciones y cambios concretos, ha determinado la generación de nuevas perspectivas y maneras de analizar y proyectar el territorio contemporáneo. Desde una postura transdisciplinar, este segundo volumen de la colección Transiciones Territoriales comienza a estructurar un nuevo discurso...
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Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics. The contributors present a range of ideas and recommendations that might improve the performance of the United States in responding to the energy...
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With an ever increasing proportion of the world's population inhabiting urban environments, the management of cities remains a perennial challenge for governments and policymakers. This concise, but wide-ranging text makes sense of the multiple ways in which urban issues and problems have been defined and addressed in different places at different times. From initiatives that focus on social tensions within the urban realm, to those which seek to...
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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC license. Reporting on the innovative, transdisciplinary research on sustainable urbanization being undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures, a highly influential research center based in Sweden, this book builds on the Policy Press title Rethinking Sustainable Cities to make a significant contribution to evolving theory about comparative urban research. Highlighting important methodological experiences from across a...
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This book focuses on local government's role in increasing city competitiveness through planning, governance, and finance, particularly in small to medium-sized cities in South Asia. Existing studies on city competitiveness tend to focus on megacities, and yet smaller cities house an increasingly large portion of South Asia's population. This study seeks to initiate a more systematic thinking on the role of planning, governance, and finance to overcome...
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Cities across the globe face unprecedented challenges as a result of ever-increasing pressure from climate change, migration, ageing populations and resource shortages. In order to guarantee a sustainable global future, these issues demand radical new approaches to how we govern our cities. Providing new research and thinking about cities, their governance and innovative models of planning reform, this timely and important book compares the UK with...
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While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized databases, wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues, legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting those with...
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For vulnerable older, disabled, or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed – whether hostels, group homes, extracare housing or retirement villages. But do these settings effectively improve the wellbeing of those who live in them? This important book explores the impact of different forms of policy and practice on the lives of vulnerable people, arguing for a flexible policy approach that...
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El presente libro busca analizar la experiencia urbana y la religiosa para comprender su interacción fluida y compleja. Por medio de la geografía de ciudades de Argentina, Brasil, España, Estados Unidos, Francia y México establece sus coordenadas analíticas en el espacio público de la ciudad industrial, de las periferias, el barrio y la frontera. Las diversas formas de creer en la ciudad que se emplazan en esta obra ponen en juego las identidades,...
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When the first community land trusts (CLTs) began appearing in the United States during the 1970s, all were located in rural areas. By the 1980s and 1990s, this innovative form of tenure was spreading into cities, suburbs, and towns. Homeownership remained a priority for urban CLTs, but other applications got added to the mix: revitalizing distressed neighborhoods; preventing displacement in gentrifying neighborhoods; and developing multiple types...
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Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focusing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions...
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Sustainable urbanization has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanization throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally at a time when urban areas worldwide are threatened by climate/environmental change. This compact book is designed to make a signal contribution to the sustainable urbanization agenda through...
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Este libro recopila varios capítulos, resultado de investigación de cuatro universidades que integran la Red de Resiliencia y Sostenibilidad, en ellos se reconocen diferentes formas de relacionamiento entre conceptos, formas de entender y prácticas de resiliencia, sostenibilidad e informalidad, evidencia de variadas posturas académicas e investigativas en territorios urbanos y rurales de Colombia. Los capítulos presentan metodologías teórico-prácticas...
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The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and unintended consequences of the policy? How are the proposals to extend the policy in England likely to affect future housing provision and what alternatives are there? In The Right to Buy, Alan Murie...
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The American Dream turned into a nightmare when the housing bubble burst, and people have been trying to figure out who to blame- Greedy bankers? Corrupt politicians? Ignorant homeowners? In American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership, Randal O'Toole explores the forces at play in the housing market and shows how we can rebuild the American dream of homeownership by eliminating federal, state, and local policies that distort...
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East London has undergone dramatic changes over the last 30 years, primarily as a result of London's large scale de-industrialisation and the rise in its financial sector. Large parts of inner East London remain deprived, but a once overwhelmingly white working class area is now home to a more complex and mobile class and ethnic mix. This topical book focuses on the aspirations of these different groups and the strategies they have pursued about where...
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