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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1. Creating smart cities -- Introduction -- The political economy of smart cities -- Smart cities, citizenship and ethics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- PART I: The political economy of smart cities -- 2. A Digital Deal for the smart city: Participation, protection, progress -- Introduction -- Smart governance: Austerity and accumulation -- Austerity -- Accumulation -- A programme for alternative smart urbanism -- Snapshot: The Digital Deal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Politicising smart city standards -- Introduction -- What do smart city standards standardise and why? -- Orders of meaning and action -- Reconfiguring the field of possibilities -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. Urban revitalization through automated policing and "smart" surveillance in Camden, New Jersey -- Introduction: From industrial collapse to economic revitalization -- The evolution of policing practices -- Securing the city through automated surveillance -- Conclusion: Who benefits from the surveilling of Camden? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5. Can urban "miracles" be engineered in laboratories? Turning Medellín into a model city for the Global South -- Introduction -- From entrepreneurial to experimental cities: Urban exemplars and innovation in the social sciences -- Innovation as an "engine for development" -- Assembling economic performance and social inclusiveness through urban experiments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Building smart city partnerships in the "Silicon Docks" -- Introduction -- Selective modernity and urban decline -- The Dublin Docklands becomes a national signifier.

"First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself. "--Provided by publisher.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Fundamental of Smart Cities and Data Analytics -- Fundamentals of Smart Cities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Smart Cities: Components, Characteristics and Role of Big Data Applications -- 2.1 Applications of Big Data in Smart Cities -- 3 Technology in Smart Cities and Challenges -- 3.1 Communication Technologies -- 3.2 Mobility -- 3.3 Sensors -- 3.4 Data Analytics and Machine Learning -- 3.5 Smart City Design: Challenges and Opportunities -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- A Context Aware Big Data Analytics Service-Centric Process Modeling Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Contribution -- 1.2 Organizations -- 2 Scenario and Motivation -- 3 Related Work -- 3.1 Activity Oriented Approach -- 3.2 Artifact Based Approach -- 3.3 Workflow Pattern and Case Handling -- 3.4 Context-Aware Approaches -- 4 Context Related Knowledge Elicitation -- 4.1 View of Multi-level Data Analytic Framework -- 4.2 Capturing Elastic Specifications -- 4.3 Capturing Service Specifications -- 5 Context Related Knowledge Representation -- 6 Modeling Framework -- 7 Illustration Examples and Architecture -- 7.1 Service Centric Without Considering the Technical Details -- 7.2 User's Service-Related Demand -- 7.3 Big Data Volume and Velocity -- 8 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Smart Energy: A Collaborative Demand Response Solution for Smart Neighborhood -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Demand Side Management -- 2.1 Impact of Demand Response Programs -- 2.2 Overview of Demand Response Programs -- 3 Smart Neighborhood Model -- 3.1 Smart Neighborhood Architecture -- 3.2 Load Modeling -- 4 Robust Collaborative Smart Neighborhood -- 4.1 Robust Optimization -- 4.2 Case 1: Optimization at the HEMS' Level -- 4.3 Case 2: Overall Welfare as Expected by Utilities -- 4.4 Case 3: Robust Optimization at the NEMS' Level -- 5 Numerical Analysis.

The Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation-and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project-a collective organization of students, scholars, and activists devoted to documenting and interpreting the lives of GLBT people in Minneapolis and St. Paul- Queer Twin Cities is a uniquely critical collection of essays on Minnesota's vibrant queer communities, past and present. A rich blend of oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Queer Twin Cities u

The Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation-and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project-a collective organization of students, scholars, and activists devoted to documenting and interpreting the lives of GLBT people in Minneapolis and St. Paul- Queer Twin Cities is a uniquely critical collection of essays on Minnesota's vibrant queer communities, past and present. A rich blend of oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Queer Twin Cities u.

A review essay on books by (1) Jeffrey Cole, The New Racism in Europe: A Sicilian Ethnography (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1997); (2) Juan Jose Lahuerta, Le Corbusier y Espana ([Le Corbusier and Spain] Barcelona: Centre Cultura Contemporania Barcelona, 1997); (3) Donald McNeill, Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona (London & New York, Routledge, 1999); (4) Jean-Luc Pinol, Atlas historico de ciudades europeas: Francia ([Historical Atlas of European Cities: France] Barcelona: Centre Cultura Contemporania Barcelona/Salvat, 1999); (5) Joan Pujola, De que vas, tio? ([What's Happening, Dude?] Barcelona: Empuries, 1997); & (6) Rosemary Wakeman, Modernizing the Provincial City, Toulouse 1945-47 (Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1997). These works address the status of European Mediterranean cities as new types of global cities, highlighting their potential as models of sustainable development & environmental planning. They cover a broad base of perspectives from architects, historians, anthropologists, & linguists on issues of urban planning, policy, & social change. Cole offers ethnographic evidence collected 1988-1990 to document the persistence of classist & racist stereotypes regarding immigrants among the working & middle classes of Palermo, Italy, centered around new immigrants arriving in Sicily from the South. The politicization of immigration issues is noted. Lahuerta's edited collection of essays chronicles the contributions of urban architect Le Corbusier to the development of Barcelona, Spain, in the early 20th century, bringing to light new political influences on his work. McNeill moves ahead to the period following Francisco Franco's dictatorship to examine political factors in the urban discourses of Barcelona. He critiques the New Left & its urban reforms under socialist mayor Pasqual Maragall, extending the analysis to other socialist urban discourses throughout Europe. In another analysis of Barcelona, Pujolar examines language use & identity among working-class adolescents, focusing on changes to the Catalan language & its conflicts with Castilian as examples of the politics of language & national identity. Pinol's collection provides a comprehensive, illustrated guide to France & makes an excellent reference atlas that also manages to link various urban architectures to political & economic factors. Wakeman focuses on the city of Toulouse & its development as both an aerospace & cultural center in Europe in the immediate post-WWII era, placing this path of urban modernization within the context of political & economic changes across different decades in the city & in France as a whole. 21 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Many non-scholarly and scholarly accounts on the societies, culture, and political economy of the Middle East post-"Arab Uprisings/Spring" still deal with cities and regions as mere repositories of social, cultural, political, and economic action—despite the spatial turn that has informed social sciences and humanities for more than three decades.[1] Indeed, they often overlook the shaping roles of the built and natural environments in the production of events unraveling in cities and regions of the Middle East. We thus need to understand cities and regions not only as backgrounds and contexts for processes and practices, but rather as environments that have determining impacts on these, and that human interactions also shape. Since its launch in September 2013, Jadaliyya's Cities Page has been committed to producing such informed, empirical, and integrated knowledge, where the spatial engages and intersects with historical, political, economic, technological, legal, social, and cultural analysis. These are some of the questions we committed to address five years ago: How and why does urban space contribute to public action and social movements? What is the relationship between power, space, and resistance? How do different groups utilize space to mobilize and facilitate collective action? Which forces that shape space (physical and technological, as well as social, historical, political, and economic) are combined to guide this action? More broadly, how do specific historical, national policies, and global forces shape cities? How are different inequalities constituted by urban life and how do they reconstitute the city? How do the ordinary practitioners of the city negotiate, navigate, appropriate, resist, and transform urban forms?

Many non-scholarly and scholarly accounts on the societies, culture, and political economy of the Middle East post-"Arab Uprisings/Spring" still deal with cities and regions as mere repositories of social, cultural, political, and economic action—despite the spatial turn that has informed social sciences and humanities for more than three decades.[1] Indeed, they often overlook the shaping roles of the built and natural environments in the production of events unraveling in cities and regions of the Middle East. We thus need to understand cities and regions not only as backgrounds and contexts for processes and practices, but rather as environments that have determining impacts on these, and that human interactions also shape. Since its launch in September 2013, Jadaliyya's Cities Page has been committed to producing such informed, empirical, and integrated knowledge, where the spatial engages and intersects with historical, political, economic, technological, legal, social, and cultural analysis. These are some of the questions we committed to address five years ago: How and why does urban space contribute to public action and social movements? What is the relationship between power, space, and resistance? How do different groups utilize space to mobilize and facilitate collective action? Which forces that shape space (physical and technological, as well as social, historical, political, and economic) are combined to guide this action? More broadly, how do specific historical, national policies, and global forces shape cities? How are different inequalities constituted by urban life and how do they reconstitute the city? How do the ordinary practitioners of the city negotiate, navigate, appropriate, resist, and transform urban forms?

The challenges lying ahead of the urban areas, specifically cities are formidable. These include growing population, air pollution, congestion, energy efficiency and demand for high quality of living. Although they are varied and can appear as seemingly unrelated, they more often appear on international agendas of the United Nations, European Union and various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) under umbrella of sustainability or more often as green agenda. This book is an introduction to the dynamically developing and evolving area of green innovations taking place in contemporary cities, with a specific focus on the European and North American examples. It is divided into three interconnected parts, each prepared by a separate author specialising in the areas like communal services, real estate and information technologies. First, authored by doctor Dominika P. Brodowicz focuses on green urban models and challenges facing 21st century cities. Second, developed by IT specialist and doctoral researcher Przemysław Pospieszny presents green transportation and smart technological innovations. Third, compiled by Professor Zbigniew Grzymała relates to European and American legal requirements and strategies towards eco-cities development. ; This publication was supported by grant funds from the European Union's European Social Fund. The project "Eco-innovations in cities", performed at the Warsaw School of Economics, was commissioned by the Polish National Centre for Research and Development (POKL.04.03.00-00-249/12). ; Przemysław Pospieszny