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List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction Urban Living and Architecture; 1 -- Intermediate Andean Cities; 2 -- Neighborhood Dialectics; 3 -- Habits in House Building; 4 -- Fashionable Homes; 5 -- Transformations in Cuencan Architecture; 6 -- Riobamba, Disordered City; 7 -- The Ordinary City; Appendix Ethnographic Urban Research; Glossary; References; Index

"This is the urban century in which, for the first time, the majority of people live in towns and cities. Understanding how people influence, and are influenced by, the 'green' component of these environments is therefore of enormous significance. Providing an overview of the essentials of urban ecology, the book begins by covering the vital background concepts of the urbanisation process and the effect that it can have on ecosystem functions and services. Later sections are devoted to examining how species respond to urbanisation, the many facets of human-ecology interactions, and the issues surrounding urban planning and the provision of urban green spaces. Drawing on examples from urban settlements around the world, it highlights the progress to date in this burgeoning field, as well as the challenges that lie ahead"--

Table of Contents -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Defining the Urban -- Defining the Contours of an Alternative Field of Urban Political Studies -- Organization of the Book -- Notes -- 1: Where are the Global Urban Politics? -- Where are the Urban Politics? From Municipalism to a New Political Ontology -- Where are Politics? Urban Life is Political Life -- Where is the Global in Urban Politics? Uneven Connections and Power Relations -- Informalization of the State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2: Global Urban Social Movements -- What are Global Urban Social Movements? -- Why and How Do We Become Politically Engaged? Discordant Moments, Mobility Practices and Continuity with Everyday Life -- Emerging Forms of Urban Political Mobilization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3: Global Diversity Politics -- Cities as 'Difference Machines': From Managing Diversity In Cities to Difference as Constitutive of Urbanity -- The Routes of Undocumented Immigrants, The Neighbour and the Identity Card -- The Smuggling Routes of Socio-Economic Crisis, Patriarchy and Urbanity -- Rethinking Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4: Global Environmental Politics -- Local Environmental Conflicts: Engaging Various Conceptions of Time -- Global Environmental Politics: Articulating Metabolic Flows at Various Speeds and Scales -- A Changing Conception of Time Affecting the Political Process -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5: Global Urban Security Politics -- Urban Nightmares: Home Security and Alien Invasions -- Affective Micro-Politics and Re-emerging Forms of Political Action -- Conclusion -- Note -- Global Urban Politics and the Informalization of the State -- Critical Urban Studies: Pragmatism between Postcolonialism and Structuralism

Seeking Urban Transformation. Alternative Urban Futures in Zimbabwe tells the stories of ordinary people's struggles to remake urban centres. It interrogates and highlights the principle conditions in which urban transformation takes place. The main catalysts of the transformation are social movements and planning institutions. Social movements pool resources and skills, acquire land, install infrastructure and build houses. Planning institutions change policies, regulations and traditions to embrace and support a new form of urban development driven by grassroots movements. Besides providing a comprehensive analysis of planning and housing in Zimbabwe, there is a specific focus on three urban centres of Harare, Chitungwiza and Epworth. In metropolitan Harare, the books examines new housing and infrastructure series to the predominantly urban poor population; vital roles played by the urban poor in urban development and the adoption by planning institutions of grassroots-centered, urban-planning approaches. The book draws from three case studies and in-depth interviews from diverse urban shapers i.e. representatives and members of social movements, urban planners, engineers, surveyors, policy makers, politicians, civil society workers and students to generate a varied selection of insights and experiences. Based on the Zimbabwean experience, the book illustrates how actions and power of ordinary people contributes to the transformation of African cities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Investigating urban design -- Part I Philosophical Approaches -- 2 The role of risk in urban design -- 3 Deconstructing and recalibrating urban design in the global south -- 4 The politics of space production: the case of Macau, China -- 5 Urban design in the realm of urban studies -- 6 Place-temporality and rhythmicity: a new aesthetic and methodological foundation for urban design theory and practice -- Part II Process Investigations -- 7 Mixing methods / theorising urban design process -- 8 Link and Place - bridging stakeholder divides -- 9 Actor-network theory coevolution framework for urban design -- 10 Unlocking policy documents: policy analysis in urban design -- 11 Smart cities, social networks and the Internet of Things -- 12 Environmental masterplanning: defining an integrated approach -- Part III Physical Explorations -- 13 Urbiculturalism, understanding the patterns of place -- 14 Space syntax as interdisciplinary urban design pedagogy -- 15 Thinking systems in urban design: a prioritised structure model -- 16 Explorations in generative street layouts -- 17 The relationship between density, built form and design -- Part IV Propositional Experiments -- 18 London short stories -- 19 The siting of writing and the writing of sites -- 20 Design as research and research as design: mega-plans and mega-projects in Karbala and Hong Kong -- 21 Crafting a methodology for urban design in development: between research, pedagogy and practice -- 22 An evidence-based approach to designing new cities: the English New Towns revisited -- Part V Performance Enquiries -- 23 Public space as lived -- 24 Historical exploration/explanation in urban design -- 25 The problem of scale

Toward comparative environmental urbanism : the discovery of urban natures in a "world of cities" / Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sorlin -- The disappearing river : infrastructural desire in New Orleans / Joshua Lewis -- Natures remade and imagined : "world city" beautifying and real-estate reclaiming in Lagos / Lindsay Sawyer -- Landscape literacy and design for ecological democracy : the nature of Mill Creek, Philadelphia / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Realms of exposure : design and the making of more-than-human ecologies in Cordoba, Argentina / Martín Ávila and Henrik Ernstson -- Nature's popular metropolis : the greening ofthe San Francisco Bay Area / Richard A. Walker -- Invasion and citizen mobilization : urban natures in Dalian, China / Lisa M. Hoffman -- Urban nature and its publics : shades of green in the remaking of Delhi / Amita Baviskar -- Regimes of urban nature : organic urbanism, biotope protection, and civic gardening in Berlin / Jens Lachmund -- Elbows over the fence : Rondevlei and the invention of community-based conservation in apartheid Cape Town / Lance van Sittert -- Ecology in the urban century : power, place and the abstraction of nature in Baltimore / James Evans -- Re-figuring the rural : eco-urbanization in Yixing City, China / Jia-Ching Chen -- Grounding and worlding urban natures : configuring an urban ecology knowledge project / Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin

"An explosive new interdisciplinary field of urban research. This textbook delves into the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging forms of data to study cities. Topics explored include: data and urban computing infrastructure; sensors and human dynamics; urban modeling; agent-based modeling; [and] visualization and GIS. Over recent years, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically. Cities are constantly adapting to incorporate new technology, and this has fast become a key tool to analysing how cities work. Spanning current and future cities, interviews with key urban analysts, reflective questions and technical case studies, 'Urban analytics' equips the reader with a greater understanding of theory and the technical skills needed for practice." -- rear cover

Explores the importance of horticulture to the lives, health, and well-being of urban populations. It includes contributions from experts in research and practice from across the United States, discussing the history, importance, and benefits of selected topics in urban horticulture. Examines types of public and private communities as well as state and federal programs to promote urban horticulture, including their history, management and administration, programming, evaluation, funding, and the benefits they provide to individuals and communities. It also reviews past and current research on school, community, public, and prison gardens.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Urban Europe and the European Union / Mamadouh, Virginie / Wageningen, Anne van -- Part 1: Citizenship -- 2. At home in the city? / Duyvendak, Jan Willem / Wekker, Fenneke -- 3. A tolerant social climate? / Sunier, Thijl -- 4. Sex and the city / Hekma, Gert -- 5. The city as integration mechanism? / Klaver, Jeanine / Odé, Arend -- 6. Undocumented immigrants / Garcés-Mascareñas, Blanca / Chauvin, Sébastien -- 7. From Mokum to Damsko and back again? / Mamadouh, Virginie / El Ayadi, Nesrin -- 8. Schools in the multilingual city / Agirdag, Orhan -- 9. City kids and citizenship / Karsten, Lia -- 10. Those who feel left behind / Pinkster, Fenne M. -- 11. Exiles in the city: A triptych / Snel, Guido / Eckenhaussen, Sepp / Ruiter, Fien de -- Part 2: Urban nodes -- 12. Hub Cities 2.0 for the 21st century / Arbonés Aran, Núria -- 13. Competing cities and urban networks in medieval Europa / Steensel, Arie van -- 14. Beyond anti-urban sentiments / Hemel, Zef -- 15. Trendy coffee shops and urban sociability / Rath, Jan / Gelmers, Wietze -- 16. A quiet transfer / Geltner, G. -- 17. Build something different for a change! / Verlaan, Tim -- 18. Big is beautiful? / Majoor, Stan -- 19. Creative cities and shrinking cities: False opposites? / Bontje, Marco -- Part 3: Creative cities -- 20. The creative destruction and recovery of cities / Jonker, Joost -- 21. Visions and symbols of the creative city / Rasterhoff, Claartje -- 22. Smart cities value their smart citizens / Kresin, Frank -- 23. The dangers of a tamed city / Kloosterman, Robert C. -- 24. Cities and creative unpredictability / Föllmer, Moritz -- 25. Cultural Incubators: The squats of the 21st century? / Draaisma, Jaap -- 26. New cities as testing grounds for a new urbanity / Reijndorp, Arnold -- Part 4: Sustainable cities -- 27. The social sustainability of European cities / Musterd, Sako / Nijman, Jan -- 28. Bothersome and besotted / Blok, Gemma -- 29. ProefGroen (Taste Green / Test Green) / Dijkstra, Coosje / Halberstadt, Jutka / Seidell, Jaap / Verhoeff, Arnoud -- 30. Cycling is an acquired skill / Brömmelstroet, Marco te -- 31. Growing socio-spatial segregation in European capitals: Different government, less mitigation / Musterd, Sako -- 32. The future of the city / Slot, Jeroen / Michon, Laure -- 33. Welcome to Amsterdam! Well, not really / Wijngaarden, Arie van -- 34. More than just housing / Veer, Jeroen van der / Schuiling, Dick -- 35. The energetic city: Between dreams and deeds / Hisschemöller, Matthijs -- Part 5: Urban representation -- 36. The dreamed European city (urbo kune) / Laan, Eberhard van der -- 37. Interlocking identities / Wintle, Michael -- 38. An eye for freedom: Spinoza and Terstall in Amsterdam / Pisters, Patricia -- 39. An urban geopolitics / Bialasiewicz, Luiza -- 40. Decor and decorum in diplomacy / Wusten, Herman van der -- 41. Urban diplomacy in Europe / Vos, Claske -- 42. Town twinning / Mamadouh, Virginie -- Part 6: Cities in administrative and policy networks -- 43. The city as a tool to promote European integration: Napoleonic Amsterdam / Burg, Martijn van der / Wageningen, Anne van -- 44. The European city as a bulwark of resistance against neoliberalisation / Zuidhof, P.W. -- 45. About bed, bath and bread / Versteegh, Lia -- 46. Safe cities in Europe: Making the leap to sustainable connections / Boer, Monica den -- 47. URBAN Bijlmermeer / Dukes, Thea -- 48. A Europe of peripheries / Savini, Federico -- 49. An Urban Agenda for the European Union: About cities or with cities? / Heijde, Wouter van der -- 50. 2031: The year the city disbanded the state / Wageningen, Anne van

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 Urban Morphology -- 1.2 Teaching Urban Morphology -- 1.3 Overview of the Book -- References -- Why Teaching Urban Morphology? -- 2 The Importance of Urban Form as an Object of Study -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 An Epistemological Basis for Urban Morphology -- 2.3 The Significance of Culture in Urban Morphology -- 2.4 The Practical Significance of Urban Morphology -- 2.4.1 Urban Morphology and Planning -- 2.4.2 Urban Morphology and Urban Conservation -- 2.4.3 Urban Morphology, Urban Legibility and Heritage Tourism -- 2.4.4 Urban Morphology and Sustainability -- 2.4.5 Urban Morphology, Urban Crime and Public Health -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Planning Practice and the Shaping of the Urban Pattern -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Urban Morphological Research and Practice -- 3.2.1 Commonalities and Differences -- 3.3 Urban Development Plans and the Shaping of the Built Environment -- 3.4 Shaping the Urban Pattern -- 3.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Notes on 'Urban Morphology: Its Nature and Development' (1992-1999) -- Abstract -- 4.1 Origins and Development of Urban Morphology -- 4.1.1 Early Awareness of Urban Landscape (Townscape) -- 4.1.2 Concept of Kulturgeographie -- 4.1.3 Towns as Objects of Research -- 4.1.4 The Swing to Functionalism -- 4.1.5 Development of the Morphogenetic Tradition -- 4.2 The Geospheric Context to Urban Settlements as Geographical Objects of Study -- 4.2.1 The Geosphere as a Specific Four-Dimensional Space -- 4.2.2 Urban Settlements as Part of the Geosphere -- 4.3 The Nature of Urban Morphology and Its Relation to Other Aspects of Urban Geography -- 4.3.1 The Local Urban Society -- 4.3.2 The Urban Landscape (or Townscape -- Cityscape).