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The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a locus at which the prospects of prosperity and individual and collective well-being can be increased. What this new edition of State of the world's cities shows is that prosperity for all has been compromised by a narrow focus on economic growth. UN-Habitat suggests a fresh approach to prosperity beyond the solely economic emphasis, including other vital dimensions such as quality of life, adequate infrastructures, equity and environmental sustainability. The Report proposes a new tool - the City Prosperity Index - together with a conceptual matrix, the Wheel of Prosperity, both of which are meant to assist decision makers to design clear policy interventions. The Report advocates for the need of cities to enhance the public realm, expand public goods and consolidate rights to the 'commons' for all as a way to expand prosperity. This comes in response to the observed trend of enclosing or restricting these goods and commons in enclaves of prosperity, or depleting them through unsustainable use. - Publisher.

"Momentous changes in the relation between women and the state have advanced women's status around the globe. Women were barred from public affairs a century ago, yet almost every state now recognizes equal voting rights and exhibits a national policy bureau for the advancement of women. Sex quotas for national legislatures are increasingly common. Ann Towns explains these changes by providing a novel account of how norms work in international society. She argues that norms don't just provide standards for states, they rank them, providing comparative judgments which place states in hierarchical social orders. This focus on the link between norms and ranking hierarchies helps better account for how a new policy, such as equality for women in public life, is spread around the world. Women and States thus offers a new account of the relationship between women and the state, and of the influence of norms in international politics"--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: A Definition of Urban Culture -- Theories of the City -- Modern Adaptation of the Chicago School -- Urban Conflict Theory in the Modern Age -- Urban Culturalist Theory as a Modern Application -- Roots of Culture -- The Development of Urban Culture -- Chapter Two: The Urban Environment -- Housing in the Urban Landscape -- Race and Class -- Business and Jobs in the Urban Landscape -- Culture Production -- Chapter Three: Evolution of Culture in the City -- Institutionalized Religion -- Hierarchy and Class -- Currency -- Cultural Artifacts That Denote Class and Conspicuous Consumption -- The Industrial Revolution and Urban Planning -- The Growth of the Suburbs -- Urban Pressure and the Debate on Welfare -- Chapter Four: Music in the City -- The First Organized Music Makers -- Producing Musical Culture -- The Sociology of Musicianship -- Music Consumption -- Race and Class in Urban Music Production -- Music as a Cultural Artifact -- Urban Music Consumption -- Los Angeles, New York, and Nashville-The Triumvirate -- Style, Sound, and Cities -- Chapter Five: Art and Sculpture -- Ancient Greece -- The Roman Empire -- The Renaissance and Culture -- The Benefits of Urban Culture Production -- Urban Painting -- Theater and Literature -- Chapter Six: Architecture and Fashion -- Ancient Urban Architecture -- Modern Urban Architecture -- Housing Discrimination-Race and Class -- Seeking Solutions: Paris, France -- St. Louis, Missouri -- and Baltimore, Maryland -- Cities Built to Suit -- Fashion -- Public Health as an Impetus for Urban Culture Production -- Production of Urban Culture through Fashion -- Chapter Seven: Photography, Film, and Television -- How Photographs Built a City -- Tinsel Town -- Live Television to Studio City.

Intro -- Preface -- Overview -- Objectives -- Organization -- Target Audiences -- Acknowledgements -- Other Springer Books by Zaigham Mahmood -- Data Science and Big Data Computing: Frameworks and Methodologies -- Connected Environments for the IoT: Challenges and Solutions -- Connectivity Frameworks for Smart Devices: The Internet of Things from a Distributed Computing Perspective -- Software Project Management for Distributed Computing: Life Cycle Methods for Developing Scalable and Reliable Tools -- Requirements Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing -- Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm -- Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches -- Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations, and R&D Solutions -- Continued Rise of the Cloud: Advances and Trends in Cloud Computing -- Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures -- User-Centric E-Government: Challenges & Opportunities -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Editor -- Frameworks and Models -- 1 Modeling Smart Self-sustainable Cities as Large-Scale Agent Organizations in the IoT Environment -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Literature Overview -- 1.3 Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems: An Organizational Metamodel -- 1.3.1 A Simple Example -- 1.4 Smart Self-sustainable Human Settlements (SSSHS) Framework -- 1.5 Modeling Smart Cities as LSMAS -- 1.6 Example Scenario -- 1.7 Discussion -- 1.8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2 Cybersecurity System: An Essential Pillar of Smart Cities -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Conceptualization of Smart City -- 2.2.1 Past: ICT-Driven City, Efficient City, Cyber City, Digital City, and U-City -- 2.2.2 Present: Intelligent City, Knowledge City, Smart City -- 2.2.3 Future: MESH City-Sense, Soft, and Warm Technology City -- 2.3 Pillars of a Smart City -- 2.3.1 Social -- 2.3.2 Management.

AbstractIt is generally accepted that cities and other forms of geographic agglomerations are conducive to innovation because their density and variety of firms, sectors and individuals create a diverse environment. However, a growing body of work shows that innovation also occurs in peripheral regions and small towns. Furthermore, work on rural social networks shows that diversity is multidimensional, and that along certain dimensions networks developed in rural areas are more diverse than those observed in cities. In this paper, we develop these arguments, then report our observations of seven successful firms in Swiss small towns. These firms benefit from at least three types of diversity: internal diversity; multiplexed interactions between workers at different hierarchical levels; and external diversity as firms reach beyond the region. We conclude that diversity conducive to firm‐level innovation is not a specifically urban attribute: at least some of its dimensions are present in small towns and more peripheral areas.

Books reviewed in this article:Borden, Iain, Joe Kerr and Jane Rendell (eds.) with Alicia Pivaro The unknown city: contesting architecture and social spaceCoutard, Olivier (ed.) The governance of large technical systemsEasterling, Keller Organization space: landscapes, highways, and houses in AmericaMelosi, Martin V. The sanitary city: urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present