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  • Urban Nature

    New Directions for City Futures

    by Kes McCormick, Bernadett Kiss, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Harriet Bulkeley, McKenna Davis, Rob Raven, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Kathrin Hörschelmann ...
    This introductory textbook with a global scope aims to train students of geography, sustainability, and urban and environmental studies to re-imagine and transform cities to meet climate, biodiversity, and sustainability challenges. A dedicated team of authors critically examine the relationships between nature and urban areas, sharing an inspiring account of how nature helps us re-think our ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Transforming Cities

    Urban Growth, Resilience, and Ecological Innovation

    Edited by Ali Cheshmehzangi, May Tan-Mullins, Martin de Jong, Rob Raven ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a detailed examination of how urban areas can evolve while balancing growth, resilience, and ecological innovation. Through a variety of case studies and research-driven insights, it explores methods for improving climate resilience, reviving urban areas, and incorporating ecological frameworks into city planning. The book offers valuable strategies for developing dynamic, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Smart and Sustainable Cities?

    Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities

    Edited by James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Chris Martin, Andres Luque-Ayala, Kes McCormick, Rob Raven, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan ...
    Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental value through the seamless connection of urban services and infrastructure by digital technologies. However, there is scant evidence of how these activities can enhance social well-being and contribute to just and equitable communities.Smart and Sustainable Cities? Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities provides one of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Experimental City

    Edited by James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Rob Raven ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
    This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions.With contributions from leading scholars, and case studies from the Global North and South, from small to large scale cities, this book suggests that urban experiments offer novel modes ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

    by Jeffrey Raven, Mattia Federico Leone, Sanjukkta Bhaduri, Christian Braneon, David Corbett, David Driskell, Ursula Eicker, John E. Fernandez, Jing Gan, Anna Hürlimann, Ilana Judah, Michael Neuman, Barbara Norman, Dennis Pamlin, Chao Ren, Rob Roggema, Pourya Salehi, Anne Shellum, Andréa Souza Santos, Joel Towers, Cristina Visconti, William Solecki, Minal Pathak, Martha Barata, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Maria Dombrov, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Series series Elements in Climate Change and Cities
    Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

    by Ayyoob Sharifi, Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir ...
    Uniquely focused on the contributions smart cities can make to climate change resilience, Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation offers evidence-based scientific solutions for improving cities' abilities to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to global climate-related events. Beginning with the observation of global environmental change, this book explores what sustainable smart projects are, ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Learning Futures

    Education, Technology and Social Change

    by Keri Facer ...
    In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether alternative futures might be in development, and what other possible futures might demand of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Sustainable Urban Development Volume 4

    Changing Professional Practice

    Edited by Ian Cooper, Martin Symes ...
    Series series Sustainable Urban Development Series
    This new book explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development professional.Showing how sustainability is rapidly becoming the norm for practitioners, the authors consider new types of professional knowledge, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Knowledge Economies

    Clusters, Learning and Cooperative Advantage

    by Philip Cooke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
    This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. Initially, natural resource endowments explained the formation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century industrial districts. Today, geographical concentrations ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Resilient by Design

    Urban Systems, Policy, and Community Engagement

    Edited by Ali Cheshmehzangi, Jian Zuo, Ayyoob Sharifi, Rongpeng Zhang, Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat, Jie Zhao ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In the face of increasing climate disruption, this book provides a design-centered investigation of how cities might adapt, recover, and prosper. It positions resilience not as a technical add-on, but as a fundamentally social, ecological, and spatial practice that must be embedded across scales, from materials and buildings to neighbourhoods, infrastructures, and urban systems.The chapters show ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • International Practices of Smart Development

    Edited by Robertas Jucevicius, Jurgita Bruneckiene, Gerd-Bodo von Carlsburg ...
    Series Book 30 - New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften
    Smart people make a smart city. This volume presents a collection of papers on the concept of smartness, smart development and the international practices in the field. There are five key topic areas: the conceptual, smart economy, smart specialisation, smart city and public governance. The concept of a smart social system is grounded on comparative analysis of competing concepts such as ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Governing Technology for Sustainability

    by Joseph Murphy ...
    In a world of growing complexity and dwindling resources, the relationship between technology and sustainability is a pressing issue of concern at the highest levels. This book improves our understanding by examining the ways that people, technology and governance shape each other with implications for sustainability. It is the first book to link technology studies and governance research to this ... Read more

    $45.99 USD