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"How would you like to visit Paris, France years and years ago to see the glow from the first electric streetlight? Or travel to cities built in dry deserts, deep underground, or even on water? Cities are full of fantastic engineering! Discover extreme facts about cities in this fun and kooky book"--

"This publication is about urban life and the urbanizing process in the context of more aware people interacting with more aware technologies, contributing to understandings of the ambient turn in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities embracing rethinking of more sustainable and livable approaches to urban life in terms of research and practice"--

"The fourth edition of Mark Hutter's Experiencing Cities examines cities and larger metropolitan areas within a truly global framework, lending readers much to understand and appreciate about the variety of urban structures and processes and their effect on the everyday lives of people residing in cities. Beginning with the emergence of the first urban centers and continuing to examine the present-day and the future of smart cities, this book explores the changing cultural and domestic character of the metropolis and offers readers a complete historical and theoretical overview of municipal life. The new edition seamlessly integrates issues of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class in its examination of city and suburban life, and further extends the Chicago School of Sociology perspective by combining its traditions with a distinct social psychological orientation derived from symbolic interaction and macro-level examination of social organization, social change, and power in the urban context. With this strong and sweeping interdisciplinary approach, the new edition of Experiencing Cities will continue to enrich students' understandings of urban life and offer new, forward-looking perspective to those working in the fields of urban sociology, history, politics, geography, and the arts"--

An uncommon humanity -- Part I: Cities -- The urban world -- Part II: Life -- Thinking animals -- Animals thinking -- Part III: Death -- The animal city -- The city of surplus death -- Not meat but still dead -- But some animals do adapt to the city -- Part IV: A new settlement -- Dreaming more human cities 1 -- Dreaming more human cities 2 -- There is another world but it is this one.

Rationale for ethical city -- The right to the city -- Ethics and the city -- Who shapes the ethical city? -- Assessment of the ethical city -- Competitive, liveable and fragile cities -- Relentless disruption -- Building ethical cities -- Ethical urban futures.

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From Singapore to New York, via New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Glasgow and Buenos Aires, "Cities in Flux" registers some of the most profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities around the world. Narrated in different styles, the individual pieces draw on theories of global cities in neoliberal times as well as on the phenomenological truths of inhabiting these disparate places bound together by a global crisis. The pieces make use of a plethora of urban signs—flashing images, sounds of silence and emergency vehicles, Whatsapp chatter, billboards, found objects, and media noise—to reflect on experiences that are both deeply personal and embodied as well as reflective of a common urban predicament. Even as the pandemic exacerbated problems of housing, transport, health, schooling, employment, environment, and food supply, it also created feelings of waste, loss, and loneliness. All the pieces draw inspiration from a range of urban projects such as the Hot City Collective in New York, the Workers' Stories Project in Glasgow, the Black Lives Matter movement in London, the Feminist Assembly in Buenos Aires, the C-19 People's Coalition in Johannesburg, and the anti–citizenship law protests and the farmers' movement in Indian cities. Against the multiplying crises of cities during the time of the pandemic, the different pieces in this pod come together to hope for an urban commons that is based on justice and freedom.

The topic of pinpointing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban context has been cultivating interests lately from different scholars, urban planning practitioners and policymakers. [.] ; The 'Greening Cities: Shaping Cities' symposium was co-funded by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, under the Grant number MPO0DOTA02 and the CLEVER Cities project. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 innovation action program under grant agreement no. 776604. The sole responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors. It does not necessarily represent the opinion of the European Union. Neither the EASME nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein

AbstractIntermediate cities have experienced economic dynamism in recent years, but, with the focus firmly on large metropoles and sprawling megacities, the development potential of intermediate cities has stayed out of the limelight. This paper upholds the relevance and potential of intermediate cities, arguing that they can play as important a role – if not a more important one – than the large metropoles that, until now, have been the focus of attention. Intermediate cities hold considerable advantages, in particular for poverty reduction and as more efficient ecosystems to live and work. Untapping the potential of intermediate cities requires, however, more territorially balanced, place‐sensitive strategies.

AbstractThe city is both a carrier and a subject of innovation. Based on the triple helix theory of industry–university research and the theory of spatial correlation, this study constructs a collaborative innovation framework both within the cities and between cities, and uses a network data envelopment analysis (DEA) model and spatial econometric model to measure and analyze the collaborative innovation efficiency in 75 innovative cities in China. The results show that collaborative innovation efficiency within cities is on the rise, and the efficiency of "research to production" is significantly higher than that of "learning to research." Industrial structure and foreign factors have inhibited the efficiency improvements, and infrastructure and living standards have different promoting effects on different stages of efficiency. Between cities, capital flows have obvious spillover effects, which promote the efficiency of innovation networks, while the long‐term characteristics of institutional learning have a near‐term negative impact.

Most historians and social scientists treat cities as mere settings. In fact, urban places shape our experience. There, daily life has a faster, artificial rhythm and, for good and ill, people and agencies affect each other through externalities (uncompensated effects) whose impact is inherently geographical. In economic terms, urban concentration enables efficiency and promotes innovation while raising the costs of land, housing, and labour. Socially, it can alienate or provide anonymity, while fostering new forms of community. It creates congestion and pollution, posing challenges for governance. Some effects extend beyond urban borders, creating cultural change. The character of cities varies by country and world region, but it has generic qualities, a claim best tested by comparing places that are most different. These qualities intertwine, creating built environments that endure. To fully comprehend such path dependency, we need to develop a synthetic vision that is historically and geographically informed.

This Element explores the history of urban planning, city building, and city life in the socialist world. It follows the global trajectories of architects, planners, and ideas about socialist urbanism developed during the twentieth century, while also highlighting features of everyday life in socialist cities. The Element opens with a section on the socialist city as it took shape first in the Soviet Union. Subsequent sections take a comparative and transnational approach to the history of socialist urbanism, tracing socialist city development in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Intro -- Disclosure -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation for this Research -- 1.2 Objectives -- 1.3 Research Material vs Formal Objects -- 1.4 Research Discipline -- 1.5 Main Hypothesis -- 1.5.1 Seven Main Postulates -- 1.6 Research Methodology -- 1.6.1 Cities Sample Size and Selection Criteria -- 1.6.2 City Magnetism Model -- 1.6.3 City Profitability (Yield) Model -- 1.6.4 Research. Surveys Run to Check Model Accuracy -- 1.6.5 Model Reliability -- 1.6.6 Proposal´s Innovative Characteristics -- References -- Chapter 2: Cities in the XXI Century. Main Challenges Technology Tackles -- 2.1 Introduction. The Era of Cities -- 2.1.1 Urbanization Process -- 2.1.2 Cities´ Transformation -- 2.1.3 People Matter for Thriving -- 2.1.4 Realizing the SmartCity Vision -- 2.1.5 City as a Catalyst for Creativity: Wittgenstein´s Vienna -- 2.2 Impact of the Industry 4.0 Revolution. A Quantum Leap -- 2.2.1 Cities´ Prosperity Recipe: 3T´s: Technology + Talent + Tolerance -- 2.2.2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) = Massive DATA + CLOUD Power + TALENT -- 2.3 Citizen at the Center. A Copernican Shift -- 2.3.1 An Aging Population. The Incoming Tsunami -- 2.3.2 Connecting/Listening to Citizens. City Co-creation -- 2.3.3 Citizens´ Trust (CyberSecurity, Privacy, Compliance). GDPR -- 2.4 DATA: XXI Century Gold -- 2.4.1 Power Shift to DATA. Internet of Things (IoT) -- 2.4.2 A Reflection About Omnipresent Data and Sensors -- 2.4.3 Connectivity. The 5G Revolution -- 2.4.4 Teleworking on Duty. Place Civil Servants Closer to Citizens -- 2.4.5 New DataCenters. Cloud Computing -- 2.5 Urban Mobility: Cities´ Bloodstream -- 2.5.1 Short-term. Avoid Private Traffic Downtown -- 2.5.2 Mid-term. Mobility-as-a-Service. (MaaS) -- 2.5.3 Long-term. Rebuild the City for Humans -- 2.6 Environmental Sustainability.