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Urban Ecosystems
This textbook on urban ecosystems answers important questions about the ecological structure, functions and socio-ecological development of cities worldwide. Based on how cities are developing today in an increasingly urbanized world, it explains ecological challenges for cities of the 21st century such as resource efficiency, climate change, moderation of quality of life and resilience. The bo…
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- 978-3-662-63279-6
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- xii, 331p.:ill
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- -
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- 577.56 Urb
Resilient and Responsible Smart Cities
This book focuses on the ways in which resiliency can foster the transformation of cities. There is a growing need for our cities to be transformed into “smart” cities; in this regard, tremendous efforts are called for in order to face the environmental challenges that play a major role in the creation or transformation of cities and environments. This book covers a broad range of appl…
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- 978-3-030-63567-1
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- XI, 268p.:ill
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- Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
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- 577.56 Res
Urban Informatics and Future Cities
This book forms a selection of chapters submitted for the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of June 2021 at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Chapters were selected from a double-blind review process by the conference's scientific committee. The chapters in the book cover developments and applications with big data and urban analy…
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- 978-3-030-76059-5
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- xii, 632p.:ill
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
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- 577.56 Urb
Governance of Climate Responsive Cities
The book presents governance with a particular focus on the social and spatial aspects of climate responsiveness and reads the practice of governance across different scales. It conceptualizes a framework of scale composed of three main categories including (i) scientific knowledge, (ii) plans and policies, and (iii) authorities of action. This framework presents ‘practice’ as the social co…
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- 978-3-030-73399-5
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- XIII, 164p.:ill
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
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- 577.56 Gov
East Asian Architecture in Globalization
This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region. While centered around the core issue of globalization and its complex effects on East Asian architectural cultures, the selected papers were arrang…
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- 978-3-030-75937-7
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- xxii, 614p.:ill
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- 577.56 Eas
The Dialectics of Urban and Architectural Boundaries in the Middle East and t…
This edited volume informs readers about changing norms and meanings of borders and underlines recent scenarios that shape these borders. It focuses mainly on the Mediterranean and Middle East regions through the following questions: What are the social, cultural, philosophical, political, economic and aesthetic reasons for spatial segregation within contemporary territories and cities? In the …
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- 978-3-030-71807-7
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- viii, 291p.:ill
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- -
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- 577.56 The
Green Village and Town Construction in China
By means of multidisciplinary research on urban and rural planning, construction engineering, environmental engineering and engineering sociology, this book conducts pioneering research on the construction theory, construction methods, evaluation technology and application of demonstration projects in China’s green villages and towns. The book is divided into three parts and eleven chapter…
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- 978-981-16-2098-0
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- xxii, 466p.:ill
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- -
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- 577.56 Wan g
Creative City as an Urban Development Strategy
This book is a pioneering work to position the creative city concept within Malaysian urban development discourse. The chapters are written and systematically sequenced to be all-encompassing and comprehensible to audiences both from the academic and non-academic realms. The nascency of creative city development in Malaysia has motivated the timely exploration of the viability of this strategy …
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- 978-981-16-1291-6
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- xxi, 201p.:Ill
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- -
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- 577.56 Kho c
Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Development of Urban Green Infrastructure
This proceedings book focuses on advanced technologies to monitor and model urban soils, vegetation and climate, including internet of things, remote sensing, express and non-destructive techniques. The Smart and Sustainable Cities (SSC) conference is a regular event, organized each second year in RUDN University (Russia) and providing a multidisciplinary platform for scientists and practitione…
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- 978-3-030-75285-9
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- xiv, 332p.:ill
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- Springer Geography
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- 577.56 Adv
Urban Geography in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
This interdisciplinary book provides a cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional exploration and assessment of the urban geography perspectives in Zimbabwe. Drawing on work from different disciplines, the book not only contributes to academia but also seeks to inform urban policy with the view of contributing to the national aspirations of Zimbabwe attaining middle-income status by 2030. Adopting a …
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- 978-3-030-71539-7
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- -
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- The Urban Book Series
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- 577.56 Urb
Urban Informality
This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South. The context of Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan—in the Middle East— is the transregional focus of this book. In these contexts, the book opens a new arena of academic discussion on the theory and practice of urban informality. Urban Informality…
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- 978-3-030-68988-9
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- xxiii, 450p.:ill
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- -
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- 577.56 Sol u
Living in the Megacity: Towards Sustainable Urban Environments
This book tackles the challenging issues raised by the growth of large megacities from diverse perspectives and approaches. The central question raised by the growth of megacities is what effect their growth will have on the ability of the global population to live in sustainable, livable, and safe societies. In Part I, important issues on the relationships between megacities and sustainability…
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- 978-4-431-56901-5
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- xvi, 225p.:ill
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- -
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- 577.56 Liv
Governance of Near-Urban Conservation Areas
This book comprehensively describes the history of Gatineau Park, from the first proposals for a “national park” in the early 1900s to the governance issues in the present period, and it highlights the issues concerning the planning and governance of this unique near-urban ecological area. The 34,500-hectare Gatineau Park is an ecologically diverse wilderness area near the cities of Ottawa …
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- 978-3-030-64440-6
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- xxi, 291p.:ill
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- -
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- 577.56 Lai g
Cluster Dynamics in Transition Economies
This book analyses the effectiveness of policies adopted in cluster promotion, using complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography approaches. It studies cluster dynamics in transition economies, exploring the case of Albania. In developing countries, the ‘model’ of the developed countries, is often seen as the endpoint of a trajectory that must be followed meticulously, implyi…
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- 978-3-030-69842-3
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- xiii, 74p.:ill
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Geography
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- 577.56 Kar c
The Centre of City: Urban Central Structure
This book presents the latest research results related to urban center and urban center. It expounds the theoretical connotation, development models, hierarchical function, and spatial layout of the urban central structure through over 200 figures and tables. In addition, it analyzes the threshold characteristics, structural hierarchy, spatial characteristics, and development rules of urban cen…
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- 978-981-33-6675-6
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- xv, 609p.:ill
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- -
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- 577.56 Shi t
Cities’ Vocabularies: The Influences and Formations
This book discusses several topics regarding different vocabularies, such as sacred architecture, heritage buildings, open spaces, landmarks, and street escapes, all of which have a direct influence on the city form. The city form is also affected by the indirect impact of the citizens themselves, for example their culture, which in turn depends on the arts, as can be seen and embodied in moral…
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- 978-3-030-51961-2
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- xvi, 339p.:ill
- Series Title
- Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
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- 577.56 Cit
Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts
This book covers a broad range of topics relating to architecture and urban design, such as the conservation of cities’ culture and identity through design and planning processes, various ideologies and approaches to achieving more sustainable cities while retaining their identities, and strategies to help cities advertise themselves on the global market. Every city has its own unique id…
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- 978-3-030-14869-0
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- xii, 238p.:ill
- Series Title
- Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
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- 577.56 Cit
Social Movements and Public Policies in Southern European Cities
The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities. The essays show how the impact of the movements is increasing and has effects both in the orientation of the policies, as in their form of management and its effects. The authors are leading scholars from universi…
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- 978-3-030-52754-9
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- vi, 179p.:ill
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- Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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- 577.56 Soc
Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources. This collection, contributed from different academic disciplines and professions, seeks to support the UN Habitat New Urban Agenda passed at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador, in 2016. It …
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- 978-3-030-52504-0
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- XV, 360p.:Ill
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- Local and Urban Governance
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- 577.56 Lan
Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics
This volume uses an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to assess various issues resulting from human-environment interactions in relation to sustainable development. The book encompasses theoretical and applied aspects, using both thematic and regional case studies from India, to highlight the impact of human-environment interactions at various spatio-temporal scales, with each study foc…
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- 978-3-030-49115-4
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- xxiii, 333p.:ill
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- Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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- 577.56 Hab
Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure
The book analyses the relationship between ecosystem services, green and blue infrastructures (GBI) and spatial planning in Italy. It provides insights on the opportunities and challenges in the adoption of an ecosystem services (ES)-based approach for Spatial Planning exploring methods and techniques for the design of GBI strategies. Nowadays, there is an advance in ES knowledge and a recog…
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- 978-3-030-54345-7
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- xii, 239p.:ill
- Series Title
- Cities and Nature
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- 577.56 Eco
Reclaiming and Rewilding River Cities for Outdoor Recreation
The introduction of sports and recreational facilities into natural environments calls for reflection on their impact on fragile ecosystems. This book is unique in providing an interdisciplinary approach to the ecological restoration of urban and industrial degraded habitats and their use by nearby city-dwellers. For the first time ecologists, sociologists and anthropologists have worked togeth…
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- 978-3-030-48709-6
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- v, 104p.:ill
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- -
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- 388.46 Rec
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