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Nachbarschaftsgärten und Interkulturelle Gärten, bepflanzte Baumscheiben und Fassaden mit Obst zum Selbsternten, temporäre Gemüsebeete auf Brachen und blühende Straßeninseln werden als Ausdruck einer neuen urbanen Agrikultur interpretiert. Nicht nur Streuobstwiesen und Äcker am Stadtrand, auch Selbsterntefelder und die Nutzung temporärer Wälder als Kurzumtriebsplantagen gehören neuerdings zu den als produktive Stadtlandschaften bezeichneten landwirtschaftlich und gärtnerisch genutzten stadtregionalen Grünräumen. Landwirtschaft und Gartenbau in der Stadt scheinen en vogue, und die Zahl neuer Projekte wächst kontinuierlich. Aber auch in den Fachdiskussionen befassen sich zahlreiche Beiträge zu innovativen Ansätzen für eine zukunftsfähige und nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung mit dem Phänomen des urbanen Gärtnerns und der urbanen Landwirtschaft. Dieser Band betrachtet auf der Grundlage aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisbeispiele die Relevanz des Themas für die Zukunftsfähigkeit der Städte und Stadtregionen. Identifiziert werden neue Herausforderungen für den kommunalen Umgang mit Landwirtschaft und Gärten.

"Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for both a PhD level course in urban economics and a master's level course in urban policy. Both the US and the world populations are becoming more and more urbanized, and these notes are designed to help scholars learn and teach about the factors that determine urban residential structure and that lead to urban problems such as inadequate housing, concentrated poverty, an inequitable distribution of local public services, racial and ethnic discrimination in housing, and traffic congestion. Although these notes focus on the US, many of the lessons in the notes apply to other countries as well. They also draw on Professor Yinger's extensive teaching experience and publication record in urban economics and should prove useful to many scholars who want to teach about or study urban areas."--

This book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to urban design, whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within its study and practice. It informs users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need the inspiration to move from idea to methodological approach. Through the work of 32 urban researchers from the arts, sciences and social sciences, it demonstrates a wide range of problems and approaches and shows how the diverse range of complementary approaches can come together to provide a holistic understanding to the design of cities.

PART I: Uses, rules and conflicts about nature in urban wastelands -- Chapter 1. The urban wasteland, spatial expression of a transition of uses: cross-media contributions art, ecology and geography (Cieslik) -- Chapter 2. Recent developments in the legal framework of urban wastelands: to better take into account nature in the city (Chapouton) -- Chapter 3. Dwelling in urban wastelands: a disputed nature (Mattoug) -- Chapter 4. Between privatization and publicising, which place for nature in the frame of urban wastelands' reconversion? (Lotz) -- Chapter 5. Long-standing wastelands: transactions, publicising Vs privatising and green settings on two urban wastelands in Tirana and Istanbul (Dorso & Muci) -- PART II: Contaminated soils in urban wastelands -- Chapter 6. Ecological restoration of contaminated brownfield sites in urban areas: what perspectives in the context of European policies and national regulatory contexts? (Limasset) -- Chapter 7. Social representations of nature regarding (soil-)contaminated brownfields in France (Tendero) -- Chapter 8. Brownfield gardens and contaminated soils (Petit-Berghem) -- PART III: Urban wastelands and waterfronts -- Chapter 9. Wastelands at city-port interfaces: the search of water spaces to evade urban tumults (Mazy) -- Chapter 10. The requalification of urban riversides: environmental and social issues at stake (Carrière) -- Chapter 11. Becoming wastelands: the captation areas of the traditional water management system of Tamil Nadu (India) (Verdelli) -- PART IV: Wastelands in the urban green network -- Chapter 12. The conditions that make urban wastelands reservoirs of biodiversity for cities (Machon) -- Chapter 13. Vacant lots' urban landscape and legacies: which influence on plant communities? (Brun) -- Chapter 14. Generalised and temporary greening on deconstructed urban wastelands: an opportunity for biodiversity (Lemoine) -- Chapter 15. Approaches to develop urban wastelands as elements of green infrastructure including the perception and use by residents (Mathey) -- Chapter 16. How informal open spaces contribute to the metropolitan park system? The case of Brussels and its semi-naturals spaces (Vanbutsele).

The theoretical and methodological toolbox of urban economics : from and towards where? / Peter Nijkamp -- Uncertainty social capital and community governance : the city as a Milieu / Roberto Camagni -- Land-use, transportation and urban development / P. Rietveld -- Transport systems and urban equilibrium / Lars Lundqvist -- Intra-metropolitan agglomeration, information technology and polycentric urban development / Tschangho John Kim -- Dual earners, urban labour markets and housing demand / J. Willemijn Van Der Straaten -- Urban scale economies : statics and dynamics / Philip McCann -- Spatial interaction models : from the gravity to the neural network approach / Aura Reggiani -- Commuting : the contribution of search theory / Jos van Ommeren -- Ethnic concentration and human capital formation / Henri L.F. de Groot -- Advanced insights in central place theory / Shin-Kun Peng -- The city system paradigm : new frontiers / Hesham M. Abdel-Rahman -- The city network paradigm : theory and empirical evidence / Roberta Capello -- Dynamic urban models : agglomeration and growth / Ping Wang -- Beyond optimal city size : theory and evidence reconsidered / Roberta Capello -- New economic geography explanations of urban and regional agglomeration / Kieran P. Donaghy -- Agglomeration and knowledge diffusion / Johannes Brocker -- Innovation and the growth of cities / Zoltan J. Acs -- Strengthening municipal fiscal autonomy through intergovernmental transfers / Chang Woon Nam -- Urban quality of life and public policy : a survey / Meagan Cahill -- Policy issues in the urban south / Manie Geyer -- Urban policy in a global economy / T.R. Lakshmanan -- Spatial externalities and the urban economy / Peter Nijkamp -- Cities and business / rajendra kulkarni -- Land use regulation and its impact on welfare / Stephen Sheppard

"Although cities occupy only 2 percent of the planet's surface, their inhabitants use 75 percent of its natural resources; by 2050, 70 percent of the global population will live in cities and towns. Sustainable urban development is crucial, therefore, for ensuring the quality of life of the world's people. Forests and trees in cities, if properly managed, can make important contributions to the planning, design and management of sustainable, resilient urban landscapes. They can help make cities more pleasant, attractive and healthy places in which to live, as well as safer, wealthier and more diverse. A few years ago, FAO initiated a collaborative process to develop voluntary guidelines aimed at optimizing the contributions of forests and trees to sustainable urban development. Scientists, practitioners and public administrators from cities worldwide were brought together to discuss the elements and key challenges of urban forestry, and a smaller team of experts was assembled to distil this vast knowledge. This document is the ultimate result of that process. Intended for a global audience comprising urban decision-makers, civil servants, policy advisors and other stakeholders, it will assist in the development of urban and peri-urban forests that help meet the present and future needs of cities for forest products and ecosystem services. These guidelines will also help increase community awareness of the contributions that forests and trees can make to improving quality of life, and of their essential role in global sustainability."--Publisher's description

Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm. This book gathers cutting-edge treatments, research field reports and critical examinations of crime and harm in cities, from the disciplines of urban studies and criminology. The social, economic and political composition of cities and the various inequalities that mark out and drive the problem of crime in many cities today are foregrounded. Readers follow a series of thematic engagements, generating a deeper understanding of a range of key areas that include problems of violence, social and spatial divisions, housing, policing and the role of the urban economy in issues of financial crime. This book comes at a time of rising crime in many cities and complex responses by city administrations and communities. It presents a critical, political thesis - that crime in cities must be understood with reference to the varying social structures, political forces and economic opportunities of cities. These influences intersect to produce dramatic variations in victimisation and attempts at social control, often felt most strongly around class and gender divisions. To understand crime, we must better understand the life of the city. Urban Criminology seeks to present an integrated framework that brings to life these key issues and seeks to enthuse students of our urban condition - to locate the harms within it and to identify ways of reducing the risk of crime. This book is ideal reading for all students with an interest in cities, crime, community life, urban sociology and urban cultures.

This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject. It focuses on structural details and explains the elements that make cities such highly productive entities, and also explores explores the mechanisms of labour productivity enhancement that are unique to cities.Written with a focus on location theory, key topics include:How cities are arranged;Housing prices;Urban transportation;Why some cities grow rapidly whilst others decline;How wages adjust to local costs of living;How suburbs function in relationship to the urban core;Public finance.This book will be essential reading for Urban Economics courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Urban Substructures as a Way to Build a Balanced Spatial and Functional Structure of Cities -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Basic Research Premises -- 3.1. A City as a System -- 3.2. Urban Spatial Structure -- 3.3. Characteristic Features of Nodal Regions -- 3.4. Urban Spatial Structure in the Light of Sustainable Development -- 3.5. Compact vs Dispersed Urban Spatial Structure -- 3.6. Polycentricity as a Feature of 21st Century Cities -- 3.7. Advantages of Polycentricity -- 4. Conception of Urban Substructures -- 4.1. The Understanding of Substructures, their Main Aspects and Features -- 4.1.1. Morphological Aspect -- 4.1.2. Functional Aspect -- 4.1.3. Systemic Aspect -- 4.1.4. Relations of Inhabitants to the Area of Residence (Substructure) -- 4.1.5. Dynamic Character -- 4.2. Ways of Establishing Substructures -- 4.3. Factors behind the Formation of Substructures -- 4.4. Delimitation of the Boundaries of Substructures -- 4.5. Examples of Substructures -- 4.5.1. Jurydyki -- 4.5.2. Beguinages -- 4.5.3. Workers' Colonies -- 4.6. Benefits from the Functioning of Substructures -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Footbridge Network: Walkability and Street Life in a Hong Kong New Town -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Street and Jane Jacobs -- Footbridge Networks at Tseung Kwan O -- Walkability and the Social Impact of the Footbridge Network -- Safety and Level of Comfort -- A Boring Space -- Social Interactions -- Conclusion -- References -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 3 -- Risk Accumulation Processes in Urban Built Environment: A Case of Central Market Fire Disasters in Kumasi, Ghana -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Fire Disasters in Ghana: Literature Perspective -- Research Approach -- The Central Market in Perspective -- Data Collection.

This text introduces both traditional and contemporary approaches and perspectives in urban geography. It explores the roles played by global cities, governments and institutions in forming and changing urban landscapes. This third edition has a new concluding chapter giving students' ideas for their dissertations