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AbstractPolicy makers and academics frequently emphasize a positive link between city size and economic growth. The empirical literature on the relationship, however, is scarce and uses rough indicators for the size of a country's cities, while ignoring factors that are increasingly considered to shape this relationship. In this paper, we employ a panel of 113 countries between 1980 and 2010 to explore whether 1) there are certain city sizes that are growth enhancing and 2) how additional factors highlighted in the literature impact the city size/growth relationship. The results suggest a nonlinear relationship which is dependent on the country's size. In contrast to the prevailing view that large cities are growth‐inducing, for a majority of countries relatively small cities of up to 3 million inhabitants are more conducive to economic growth. A large share of the urban population in cities of more than 10 million inhabitants is only growth promoting in countries with an urban population of 28.5 million and more. In addition, the relationship is highly context‐dependent: a high share of industries that benefit from agglomeration economies, a well‐developed urban infrastructure, and an adequate level of governance effectiveness allow countries to take advantage of agglomeration benefits from larger cities.

This project combines diverse theoretical and methodological tools to examine the relationship between space and care work in Chile. The chapters are stand-alone articles that come together to tell a single story. The social production of urban space has marginalized thousands of female caregivers from the labor market as Chile's care system unravels. I argue that community caregiving could simultaneously improve the conditions of caregivers and dependents. Chapter 1 examines the role of residential segregation in reproducing Chile's meager female labor market participation rates. I use spatial and econometric analysis to show that the social forces that segregate Santiago create a landscape that penalizes the labor market participation of individuals with mobility constraints. Unpaid care is especially restrictive to mobility. Hence, caregivers residing in economically marginalized regions are significantly less likely to participate in the labor market. Thanks to the gendering of care, female caregivers' participation is the most negatively affected by the city's residential configuration. In Chapter 2, I use political economy analysis to examine the capability of the Chilean system to meet the growing demand for adult care in a rapidly aging population. Moreover, the care system continues to rely excessively on unpaid family members (i.e., women) to care for adult dependents. However, Chile's demographic transition has also led to transformations in dependents' family structures. With the help of econometric analysis, I show that dependents living in households where the patriarchal division of labor is unfeasible are significantly less likely to receive assistance. Additionally, using Machine Learning methods, I demonstrate that dependents are increasingly living in these types of households. Chapter 3 explores the possibility of replacing the family as the primary space of adult care for the community. It uses theoretical tools to analyze the economic implications of a state-funded program hiring caregivers to assist adult dependents in their communities. Since adult dependency rates are higher in economically marginalized communities, the program would disproportionately benefit the urban poor, especially women. Additionally, the program would boost aggregate demand and aggregate supply, leading to real economic growth. A crucial factor determining the program's success is trust in community care.

In 2008, a milestone was reached in the history of humankind: half of the world's population of 6.6 billion people were residing in cities. One out of every three people who live in a city resides in a slum. In the United States, 14 million acres of prime farmland was lost to urban development in the 25 years between 1982 and 2007. These disturbing statistics underscore the tremendous importance of addressing issues of urban growth across the globe

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section One: Embedding - The digital in the physical world -- Chapter 1: No need to fix: Strategic inclusivity in developing and managing the smart city -- Chapter 2: Reimag(in)ing the city: Street View as storyspace -- Chapter 3: Information, communication and the digital city -- Chapter 4: From the iron cage to the mediated city -- Section Two: Applications - The use of the digital in the everyday -- Chapter 5: Identity management, premediation and the city -- Chapter 6: Urban utopics: The politics of the digital city view -- Chapter 7: Place, play and privacy: Exploring location-based applications and spatial experience -- Chapter 8: Post-digital approaches to mapping memory, heritage and identity in the city -- Chapter 9: Responsive transport environments: System thinking as a method to combine media architecture into a digital ecology to improve public transport -- Section Three: Studies and trials - Examples of community uses of digital technologies -- Chapter 10: Digital urban health and security: NYC's got an app for that -- Chapter 11: Explorations of an urban intervention management system: A reflection on how to deal with urban complex systems and deliver dynamic change -- Chapter 12: Innovative urban mobility shaped by users through pervasive information and communication technologies -- Chapter 13: Blurring the physical boundaries of the city: Media architecture and urban informatics for community engagement -- Epilogue -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

chapter Introduction -- chapter About the Sustainable City Awards -- chapter Sustainable City Award Winners -- Sustainable Finance Category -- chapter About the City of London -- chapter GrowUp Urban Farms -- Award: Entrepreneurship (commercial) The Mission -- chapter Project Dirt -- Award: Entrepreneurship (commercial) The Mission -- chapter Rosh Engineering -- Award: Entrepreneurship (commercial) The Mission -- chapter PleaseCycle (now Yomp) -- Award: Entrepreneurship (social) The Mission -- chapter Core Arts -- Award: Greening the Third Sector The Mission -- chapter Abundance -- Award: Sustainable Finance The Mission -- chapter Co-oproduct CIC -- Award: Responsible Waste Management & Social Entrepreneurship The Mission -- chapter Nampak Plastics -- Award: Responsible Waste Management The Mission -- chapter Castle Climbing Centre -- Award: Responsible Waste Management/Sustainable Food The Mission -- chapter United House, NHP Leisure Developments and Mitsubishi Electric (joint award) -- Award: Sustainable Building The Mission -- chapter WestTrans Partnership -- Award: Sustainable Travel and Transport The Mission.