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Smith reviews Revolution and Renewal: How Churches Are Saving Our Cities by Tony Campolo.

1. Innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern European cities : introduction / Karel Davids and Bert De Munck -- 2. The cities of glass : privileges and innovations in early modern Europe / Corine Maitte -- 3. Craft guild legislation and woollen production : the Florentine arte della lana in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Francesco Ammannati -- 4. New products and technological innovation in the silk industry of Vicenza in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Edoardo Demo -- 5. To kill two birds with one stone : keeping immigrants in by granting free burghership in early modern Antwerp / Jan de Meester -- 6. The secret perfume : technology and the organization of soap production in northern Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries / Alberto Grandi -- 7. Textiles manufacturing, product innovations and transfers of technology in Padua and Venice between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries / Andrea Caracausi -- 8. The spatial side of innovation : the local organization of cultural production in the Dutch Republic, 1580-1800 / Claartje Rasterhoff -- 9. Beyond exclusivism : entrance fees for guilds in the early modern Low Countries, 1450-1800 / Karel Davids and Bert de Munck -- 10. The Coopers' guilds in Holland, c. 1650-1720 : a market logic? / Janneke Tump -- 11. The early modern Antwerp Coopers' Guild : from a contract-enforcing organization to an empty box? / Raoul de Kerf -- 12. The paradox of the Antwerp Rose : symbol of decline or token of craftsmanship? / Annelies de Bie -- 13. Harbouring urban creativity : the Antwerp Art Academy and the tension between artistic and artisanal training in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Dries Lyna -- 14. Innovation in the capital city : central policies, markets and migrant skills in Neapolitan ceramic manufacturing in the eighteenth century / Alida Clemente -- 15. Innovations, growth and mobility in the secondary sector of Trieste in the eighteenth century / Daniele Andreozzi.

A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate change. Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively, even on the urgent issue of sustainability. Can cities do better? Benjamin R. Barber argues that with more than half the world's population, 80 percent of both its GDP and its greenhouse gas emissions, and a common will to cooperate, they can. In this compelling sequel to If Mayors Ruled the World, Barber assesses both broad principles and specific strategies like fracking bans, walkable cities, above-ground mining of precious resources, energy and heating drawn from garbage incineration, downtown wind turbines, and skyscrapers built from wood. He shows how cities working together on climate change can find common measures by which to evaluate the radically different policies they pursue. This is a book for a world in which combating climate change is about nothing less than cities' survival.

"Contentious Cities offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment. Positioning design as a central component in how cities produce, construct, represent and materialise gendered spatial practices, it brings together practice and theory to critique, question and enable solutions that challenge the root causes of gender inequalities in cities. Through a rich array of case-studies, practice-led interventions, and historical and theoretical perspectives, it examines important issues that affect the ways in which women, and people of diverse gender and sexual identities experience and participate in cities. Thematically organised, it considers problems of street-harassment, heterosexualisation and equity in access and mobility, together with modes of segregation, isolation and discrimination, as well as processes of resistance, intervention and agency. Grounded in feminist and queer methods of analysis, this book offers new insights regarding the representation of cities, the lived experience of cities, and how design-tactics and approaches might affect the ways cities shape and regulate how women and people of diverse gender and sexual identity inhabit, occupy and move through the city. An examination of the ways in which design might shift toward safer and more inclusive cities, Contentious Cities will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies and urban studies, as well as those working in the fields of urban planning and design"--

Namchi, in the Indian state of Sikkim, is undergoing a building boom thatis transforming a small district headquarters into an urban showpiece. Centredon religious theme parks and urban beautification, the boom capturesSikkim's emphasis on tourism as a development strategy. Growth in hydropowerand pharmaceutical industries within the state, and infrastructureenabling this growth, seek to reduce dependency on the Indian governmentand have turned Sikkim into a 'backyard' for Indian capital. In contrast,Namchi epitomizes the transition from rural to urban space through tourismledgrowth, creating a 'front yard' exhibit which was recently awarded SmartCity status despite its small size and relative unimportance. This article exploresNamchi's boom by analysing the politics that drive it, the buildingsand landscapes that capture its excess, and the town's lived urban spaces. Theauthors focus on three aspects ofNamchi's boom: first, it is crucial for projectionsof success in Sikkim and aligns urban transformation with a particularvision of development actively promoted by the Chief Minister and rulingparty; second, it is not based on resource extraction or agrarian expansionbut on funds transferred to cultivate and reward loyalty in this border region;and third, it is drawing migrant workers to the town in large numbers, causingfissures and tensions, and simultaneously creating an emergent, thoughuneasy, cosmopolitanism

Smart cities are considered to be a relevant concept that bridges the relation between technology and society. It assumes the management reserves in human society that can be exploited by different technological tools, that would be able to learn behavior patterns and adjust different aspects of life accordingly. However, this technologically driven social concept did not take into consideration one of the most important elements of the improved management equation; human, human nature and human behaviour. As well it has little or no regard for the democratic restrictions that are packed in the context of civil and political rights. And it has no interest in the long term effect of the use of smart technology for the development of human skills. In this manner, the article is conceptualized as a critique and discussion of overlooked elements that are reducing the effectiveness of the (smart) technologies on one hand, and on the other hand, they are simultaneously reducing the creative potential of human daily life. Despite the idea of smart societies seems to be beneficial, in general, especially on a macro level, it is considered to be limiting the creative potential of individuals even to the level of their mental deterioration. ; Inteligentne miasta są uważane za istotną koncepcję, stanowiącą pomost pomiędzy technologią a społeczeństwem. Przejmuje ona rezerwy zarządzania w społeczeństwie ludzkim, które mogą być wykorzystane przez różne narzędzia technologiczne, mogące uczyć się wzorców zachowań i odpowiednio dostosowywać różne aspekty życia. Jednak ta koncepcja społeczna napędzana technologią nie bierze pod uwagę jednego z najważniejszych elementów równania ulepszonego zarządzania: człowieka, ludzkiej natury i ludzkiego zachowania. W bardzo małym stopniu lub wcale nie uwzględnia ona również demokratycznych ograniczeń, które mieszczą się w kontekście praw obywatelskich i politycznych. Nie interesuje się też długoterminowymi skutkami wykorzystania inteligentnych technologii dla rozwoju ludzkich umiejętności. W ten sposób artykuł przybiera formę krytyki i dyskusji nad przeoczonymi elementami, które z jednej strony obniżają efektywność (inteligentnych) technologii, a z drugiej jednocześnie redukują potencjał twórczy ludzkiej codzienności. Mimo że idea inteligentnych społeczeństw wydaje się być korzystna, to generalnie, zwłaszcza w skali makro, uważa się, że ogranicza ona potencjał twórczy jednostek nawet do poziomu ich degradacji psychicznej.