Sustainable Urban Futures – serie
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8 produkter
8 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
655 kr
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This book introduces the concept of the ‘autonomous city’- a concept that has been developed from the ‘smart cities’ model that is based on a city’s ability to gather data and taking it one step further. The digital revolution has brought about numerous changes in the urban realm, along with the understanding that technology can aid in increasing the performance and efficiency of urban areas. This technology has given rise to a wealth of data allowing urban leaders to respond better to crisis and craft policies that increase the liveability of urban areas. The ‘autonomous city’ explores the possibility of urban areas evolving from the dimension of data gathering to that of action response – so a city able to collect data and render real time decisions to self-manage a variety of functions based on its interpretation of that data. The book discusses how this could lead to the automation of select urban dimensions for increased efficiency and performance, but also details how such a process would require careful consideration when put into practice. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students across Urban Planning, Sustainability and STS, as well as practitioners and policy makers involved in the development of urban life.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
655 kr
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On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 70/1, “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Also known as 2030 Agenda, the document lays out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the realm of ecology, society and economy. The current book focuses on three of these goals: SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions; SDG 3: Health and Wellbeing; SDG 11: Cities and Sustainable Communities.It is critical that interdisciplinary approaches go one step further and translate more effectively into intersectoral policies. This is particularly vital when it comes to urban planning and health. This book address the key question: In the context of a growing influence of European Union policies at a national level, can SDGs simultaneously contribute to harmonising sectoral policies and promoting intersectoral policies? Claiming a growing convergence between health and spatial planning, the main goal of the book is to formulate an answer to the following question: how can policymakers translate the SDGs effectively into public policies in order to improve cities, health and wellbeing?
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
299 kr
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This book presents a holistic integral sustainable design and planning method embedded in the hypothesis of biophilia, our innate connection to nature, used as a platform to chart a biophilic pattern language framework. In A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities, the author positioned the innate human-nature connection as critical in biophilic design and sustainable city planning solutions.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
493 kr
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This book provides a unique perspective on urban mobility focusing on past challenges and future trends. The book enables discussions of pathways towards sustainable and people-centred urban mobility building on existing concepts and introducing novel methods and consideration of future research. In particular, the book provides an overview of trends, design methods, and projects combining foresight and agent-based modelling to better integrate active mobility in Mobility-as-a-Service, assess impacts of automated vehicles in Paris, and compare multiple solutions in Cairo. The book provides a range of multidisciplinary concepts and methods that will be invaluable to both researchers in the field and students taking relevant courses.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
547 kr
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This open access book comes at an opportune time, with ‘land take’ high on the EU policy agenda. It shows how over one million hectares in Europe became urbanized between 2000 and 2018, over eight times that which changed back to agriculture or nature. This book seeks to explain this development and offer suggestions on how to control it, drawing on the ESPON Sustainable Urbanization and land-use Practices in European Regions (SUPER) project. It presents up-to-date analyses on urbanization rates (land take) as well as densities and morphology (sprawl). It also discusses the impact of spatial planning instruments and other public-sector interventions. Finally, the book peers into the future by drawing up urbanization scenarios – compact, polycentric, and diffuse – for 2050, and reflects on their sustainability. It concludes with the encouraging message that policy can make a positive difference.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
439 kr
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This open access book comes at an opportune time, with ‘land take’ high on the EU policy agenda. It shows how over one million hectares in Europe became urbanized between 2000 and 2018, over eight times that which changed back to agriculture or nature. This book seeks to explain this development and offer suggestions on how to control it, drawing on the ESPON Sustainable Urbanization and land-use Practices in European Regions (SUPER) project. It presents up-to-date analyses on urbanization rates (land take) as well as densities and morphology (sprawl). It also discusses the impact of spatial planning instruments and other public-sector interventions. Finally, the book peers into the future by drawing up urbanization scenarios – compact, polycentric, and diffuse – for 2050, and reflects on their sustainability. It concludes with the encouraging message that policy can make a positive difference.
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
471 kr
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Focusing on Milan, Barcelona, and the Ruhr area, this book reveals how three leading European city‑regions are reshaping the relationship between planning, agriculture, and sustainability. Bringing together fieldwork, interviews, and comparative analysis, it highlights the often‑overlooked power of peri‑urban agriculture and the complex dynamics that underpin truly local food systems. Farmland preservation emerges as only one piece of a much larger puzzle—one that spans governance, policy design, farm business models, land tenure, biodiversity, and resource management.Through vivid case studies, the book uncovers the tools, strategies, and actors driving innovation on the ground, as well as the structural obstacles that still stand in the way. The result is a compelling call for a more integrated, multi-scalar approach to planning—one capable of supporting resilient local food systems and sustainable peri‑urban landscapes.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
471 kr
Kommande
This book is designed to bridge the persistent and frustrating gap between planning and action in the cities of the Global South. It directly confronts a common challenge: while ambitious masterplans often gather dust, the delivery of tangible, near-term results frequently falters, which in turn erodes public confidence.In response, this guide offers a practical, sprint-based methodology for achieving visible improvements at a single precinct level in under one hundred days. Drawing from a decade of professional practice and academic research, it equips city teams with a suite of tools specifically tailored for the realities of emerging-market budgets and capacities. These include a precinct selection matrix, a step-by-step 100-Day Activation Framework, and practical finance and governance canvases. At the heart of this work is a transformative principle: to treat trust as essential infrastructure. The playbook demonstrates how to cultivate this foundational asset through early, visible successes, smart financial instruments, and transparent public dashboards from day one. By doing so, it shows how to create a virtuous cycle of public support that builds momentum and creates a sustainable pipeline of truly investable projects.Although grounded in the realities of the Global South, where fiscal limits, informality, and fragile governance are everyday conditions, the methodology is not restricted to these contexts. Its sprint-based framework, emphasis on visible delivery, and practice of treating trust as measurable infrastructure are also relevant in Global North cities. In these environments, the playbook’s tools can accelerate action, cut through bureaucratic inertia, and build legitimacy for urgent projects such as climate adaptation, housing delivery, or post-crisis recovery. The distinction is one of urgency: in the Global South, the framework addresses systemic capacity gaps; in the Global North, it offers a means to sustain public confidence and momentum within already established systems. In both settings, the playbook redefines regeneration as a discipline centred on trust, speed, and repeatable cycles of delivery.