Sustainable Urban Futures – serie
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8 produkter
8 produkter
Rise of Autonomous Smart Cities
Technology, Economic Performance and Climate Resilience
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
650 kr
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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.
650 kr
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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?
292 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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.
489 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.
Urbanization in Europe
Past Developments and Pathways to a Sustainable Future
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
543 kr
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This open access book comes at an opportune time, with ‘land take’ high on the EU policy agenda. Finally, the book peers into the future by drawing up urbanization scenarios – compact, polycentric, and diffuse – for 2050, and reflects on their sustainability.
435 kr
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This open access book comes at an opportune time, with ‘land take’ high on the EU policy agenda. Finally, the book peers into the future by drawing up urbanization scenarios – compact, polycentric, and diffuse – for 2050, and reflects on their sustainability.
Metropolitan Food Systems
European Trajectories in Planning, Governance and Landscape Management
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
658 kr
Kommande
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.
Urban Regeneration Toolkit
Bridging Planning and Practice in the Global South
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
658 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.