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AbstractThe notion of the 'urban laboratory' is increasingly striking a chord with actors involved in urban change. Is this term simply a metaphor for urban development or does it suggest urbanization by substantially different means? To answer this question, we review the work of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have empirically investigated laboratories and practices of experimentation over the past three decades to understand the significance of these spaces of experimentation in urban contexts. Based on this overview of laboratory studies, we argue that urban laboratories and experimentation involve three key achievements — situatedness, change‐orientation and contingency — that are useful for evaluating and critiquing those practices that claim to be urban laboratories. We conclude by considering some future directions of research on urban laboratories.

ch. 1. Changing cities and the commodification of leisure -- ch. 2. Globalization, urban competition, and tourism -- ch. 3. Tourism policies and urban growth -- ch. 4. The infrastructure and finance of urban tourism -- ch. 5. Urban tourism, amenities, and human capital -- ch. 6. Residential development and the new face of downtowns -- ch. 7. Implications and debates.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: The Urban in a Minor Key -- Chapter 1. A Minor Ecology of Infrastructure -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Commensality -- Chapter 3. Lively Capital and Recombinant Urbanisms -- Chapter 4. The Micropolitics of Ferality -- Chapter 5. Pastoral Formations -- Chapter 6. Surplus Ecologies -- Conclusion: Lively Cities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

In the politics of the regional and local development much less attention is devoting itself to small cities compared with large urban agglomerations. However a territorial cohesion of regions is seriously dependent on the amount and the level of development of small cities. Justifying the need of marketing assisting of the development of these economic individuals is the purpose of this article. The practice of the planning and the marketing management is poorly popularized especially in regions of Eastern Poland. In this article authors are stressing the need of assisting attraction of small cities towards basic groups, in it of residents, diverse companies, institutions and social organizations as well as visitors. The small cities are in the regions the specific "pumping stations" of the production, services, capital and information from the larger centers to one's back. On the example of the poorly urbanized Lubelskie Voivodship it is possible to state that the net of cities is too rare. Low urban planning standards are characteristic of small cities. The urban planning marketing can be the direction of the improvement of the social, economic and spatial situation of such regions as the Lubelskie Voivodship. Amongst this tools a main role will be playing the improvement in the standards of the technical and social infrastructure and comprehensive preparing the new investment grounds for the settlement and the market business activity. The improvement in the corporate culture of local governments in cooperation with all sorts partners on the local and regional level will also be needed.

This book forms a selection of chapters submitted for the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of June 2021 at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Chapters were selected from a double-blind review process by the conference's scientific committee. The chapters in the book cover developments and applications with big data and urban analytics, collaborative urban planning, applications of geodesign and innovations, and planning support science.

"This book presents a comprehensive selection of important writings on urban conservation, as distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning. There are more than sixty-five texts, ranging from early polemics by Victor Hugo and John Ruskin to a generous selection of recent scholarship, covering North America, Europe, India, China, Japan, Africa, and the Islamic world"--Provided by publisher

Interest in the role that urban supply chain management can play in the future planning of cities, has accelerated with the rapid advance of the digital economy and the rise in popularity of smart city designs. The ""smart city"" concept can be used to link wider social concerns around inclusiveness, resilience, good governance, long-term sustainability and economic competitiveness with developments in Information and Communication Technologies

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