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This book explores the convergence of cutting-edge engineering techniques, innovative design approaches, and fundamental ecological principles to address the challenges associated with sustainable infrastructure, including green construction, resilient urban planning, integration of smart systems, low-carbon emissions, and waste reduction. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of sustainable infrastructure, such as eco-friendly building materials, energy-efficient systems, and waste management practices, supported by case studies, illustrated processes, and detailed technical explanations.

Key features

• Alignment with the central theme of eco-smart infrastructure, emphasizing sustainability, innovative technologies, and global best practices
• Discussion of critical aspects of climate-resilient infrastructure
• Coverage of essential topics such as eco-friendly materials, waste management, and life cycle assessment to address key challenges in sustainable infrastructure
• Exploration of smart waste management systems
• Review of real-world case studies supported by detailed technical explanations

This book is intended for graduate students and researchers in civil engineering, infrastructure development, sustainability, and urban planning.

The City as a Commodity: The Effects of Colonialism in the Cities of Today explores how urban planning, policy, and land use shaped by colonial foundations have transformed cities into commodities prioritising extraction and production over thriving ecosystems. This thought-provoking book examines the historical and ongoing effects of colonialism on urban frameworks, raising critical questions about the role of economic and municipal policies in perpetuating social inequities.

Through a comprehensive analysis of urban economic policies, interviews with local practitioners, and community conversations, this book synthesises fragmented literature into a cohesive narrative. It delves into the legacy of colonisation, urban segregation, economic disparities, and political participation, illustrating how cities worldwide have been shaped by these forces. Case studies from Jakarta, Indonesia; Santiago, Chile; Kinshasa, DR Congo; Mumbai, India; and Lowell, USA, provide real-world examples of cities grappling with issues such as displacement, cultural suppression, and socioeconomic inequity, while highlighting efforts to rewrite their stories.

This book is an essential resource for urban planning researchers, students, and professionals interested in urban policy, colonial studies, and the intersection of social justice and city development. It offers valuable insights into the systemic challenges cities face and the potential pathways to creating more equitable urban environments.

This book examines contemporary Korea's housing crisis through Dongja-dong, a Seoul district, exploring how the most vulnerable urban poor navigate precarious housing circumstances and presenting an unconventional yet potentially effective solution to this pressing issue.

Readers gain unique insights into the complex conflict between multiple stakeholders: residents of jjokbang (tiny single-room housing units prevalent in major Korean cities) who have no alternative but to accept substandard living conditions; developers eager to repurpose the land; and jjokbang landowners who oppose redevelopment because government proposals for public housing conflict with their desire to maximize property profits. Through detailed examination of this housing struggle, the book reveals the remarkably organized nature of Korean housing activism and demonstrates the community-centric approaches through which jjokbang residents collectively mitigate their challenging living conditions.

This book is essential for academics and researchers in Asian Studies, Korean studies, and Public Policy, as well as policymakers interested in addressing urban housing inequities through innovative community-based solutions.

This book explores China's spatial future through 2060, a future which will be dramatically different from both the Opening Up period starting in 1979, when the rules of landscape building were rewritten, and the Factory of the World era following China's 2001 WTO accession. Drawing on decades of participation in China's spatial transformation, the authors explore the country's future landscape by analyzing the intersecting forces of demographic, societal, economic, policy, and technological change. They examine a rapidly changing context shaped by population decline, the pursuit of global technological leadership, and changing lifestyles and consumption patterns.

The book addresses pressing questions: How will China's hollowing out rural landscapes be transformed as new economic nodes emerge based on alternative energy production, digitally enabled agriculture, ecological restoration and amenity development? As urbanization peaks at 85% and China's urban population declines by at least 125 million between 2030 and 2060, how will the national urban system be reshaped? Which urban clusters will emerge as new "Silicon Valleys"? Which will be caught in negative rust belt cycles? And as urban outward expansion and physical development slows dramatically, how will technological change, shifting social expectations, and new mobility and production systems reshape China's built landscape? This will be a useful resource for designers, investors, developers and all those interested in better understanding China's emerging new geography and landscape, as well as students and academics across a range of disciplines, including Urban and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Geography and Asian Studies.

Urban Authenticity and Heritage explores the contested notion of "urban authenticity" in European cities after 1945. It examines how buildings, neighbourhoods, and cultural practices are perceived as "authentic" - and why these claims matter.

From post-war reconstruction to contemporary urban transformations, the book shows that authenticity is not fixed but a dynamic process shaped by social actors, political agendas, and collective memory. The contributors move beyond traditional heritage frameworks to analyse how authenticity is constructed through debates, representations, and practices of "authentification." They reveal the role of citizens, institutions, media, and tourism in shaping places and traditions as symbols of identity and belonging. In doing so, the volume challenges essentialist understandings of heritage, presenting authenticity as relational, negotiated, and deeply embedded in changing urban contexts.

Bridging urban history and critical heritage studies, the book offers new insights into the cultural, political, and emotional dimensions of cities. It demonstrates how claims to authenticity influence urban planning, identity formation, and the reimagining of Europe's urban past and future. Its multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary approach will appeal to researchers in heritage, urban, historical, tourism, anthropological, sociological, and European studies, as well as heritage professionals

This work introduces Quality 4.0 as an era of advanced quality management principles applied in the context of smart cities, blending classical and new approaches incorporating digital technologies, data analytics, artificial intelligence and participatory system of governance. The authors define Quality 4.0 in the smart city as a complex socio-technical system where high-quality public services emerges from the interplay of data, institutions and infrastructure in relation to citizens and accountability mechanisms.

The book proposes a new interpretative framework for Quality 4.0, targeting its usefulness to operationalising urban strategies, enabling decision-making and adaptive systems of public management. The focus areas include system interoperability, security and data quality, public confidence and trust in the delivery systems, digital inclusion, urban resilience, as well as institutional adaptation and continuous learning.

The main contribution is in the framing of citizens as co-creators of quality public service. In the smart city ecosystem, urban user experience, social participation, digital justice and transparency of decision-making are placed in the middle of the quality management process. From this perspective, Quality 4.0 is an instrument of correlation between operational efficiency and social responsibility, sustainable development, and democratic legitimacy.

The work represents an important contribution to the field of quality management, digital transformation in public administration and smart city development. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, it will find a wide audience amongst researchers, public decision-makers, urban practitioners and quality managers, as well as all those interested in the future of sustainable and responsible urban governance.

This book explores spaces of participation beyond the invited and formal spaces of politics. From townhalls to deliberative processes, it questions how democracy can be more systemically embedded in politics to ensure a healthy public sphere. By embracing a spatial perspective to democracy, the book explores citizen participation through the lens of public spaces, both physical and digital, and discusses several cases of everyday forms of engagement in public life, taking place in public libraries, art spaces, streets, civic tech platforms, community centres, and more.

Cases explore the transformation of neighbourhoods and cities through the lens of public spaces, highlighting how democracy and citizen participation can be conceptualized spatially. It contains contributions from a diverse set of scholars and practitioners from interdisciplinary social science and humanities perspectives, including urban studies, planning, urban and digital sociology, political anthropology, public arts, and political science. Each chapter focuses on different public spaces from the viewpoint of citizen participation, making it essential for planners and policy analysts, as well as academics and graduate students of planning, human geography, design, social sciences, public policy, and politics.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International license.

This book examines the changing demographics, attitudes and electoral behaviours of Londoners over the last 50 years and considers the impact these changes have had on the policy agendas of the capital, past, present and future.

Focussing on the issues of greatest concern to voters in the capital, including crime, the economy and the cost of living, housing, inequality, health, immigration and the environment, the book examines the capital's economic and cultural dominance and how it influences broader debates about urban politics. It draws on a wide range of scholarly literature and data, providing a comprehensive understanding of how and why the political and policy landscapes of London have shifted in recent decades. The book questions how much space is available for policymakers to tackle the major issues facing Londoners, whether they can forge political coalitions for change and who will 'win' and 'lose' under policy reforms.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of British and metropolitan politics as well as those with interests in history, elections, political parties, political sociology, public policy and urban studies.

A small minority of the world's refugees are resettled to a new country. These refugees must rebuild their lives while navigating a specific set of expectations: They must become good citizens and show proper appreciation for the generosity extended by host communities. We Asked for Refugees, We Got People Instead explores how refugee newcomers navigate demands both explicit and tacit while simultaneously working towards social inclusion and economic independence.

Drawing on fascinating ethnographic fieldwork, Bronwyn Bragg offers a place-based account of families living in a housing complex that became known as Little Syria, situated in a low-income East Calgary neighbourhood. The book traces how white, middle-class norms cast Syrian families, particularly mothers, as both deserving of resettlement and the objects of intense moral scrutiny. Attending closely to daily practices and women's labour, frequently within conditions of poverty, Bragg uses the tools of feminist geography to understand how this community negotiates the terms of its own belonging, an act she describes as refugee placemaking.

Bragg's powerful work highlights how displaced people are often unequally absorbed into host societies along lines of gender, class, and race and how, despite these structural constraints, they go on to actively shape and improve the communities in which they live.

The book focuses on recent changes in personal mobility driven by technological advances, aiming for a structurationist interpretation of personal mobility, thus exploring ongoing tensions between societal mobility structures, on the one hand, and human agency or individual mobility practices, on the other.

This book primarily examines challenging structures for the virtual mobility of individuals, mostly through smartphones, as digital technologies advance, and on the consequent emergence of new personal mobility patterns in everyday activities such as work, networking, and shopping. Therefore, the book outlines the evolving nature of personal mobility and societal change in the third decade of the 21st century. Contemporary structural dimensions involved in the pursuit of personal mobility include technology and networks as allocative resources, and distance, time, compulsion, work, regulation, and volatility as authoritative ones.

Personal Mobilities in the Advanced Digital Age will be valuable as a primary or supplementary resource in mobility courses at all study levels, notably for geographers and sociologists, and it may serve as a valuable tool for research projects across various areas of mobility studies. It will also prove to be helpful for urban planners, transportation planners, and Internet specialists in their practical professional work.

This book offers a comprehensive diagnosis of the current situation of mobility policies and an examination of potential actions to promote sustainable mobility by changing practices and challenging political decision-makers.

With contributions from leading experts, this book shares innovations that are working, develops promising strategies to overcome backsliding, and highlights worldwide experiences in overcoming the many obstacles in the urgently needed mobility transition. Covering 22 countries on five continents, it provides a global perspective on sustainable mobility transitions, including innovative transport policies covering North and South America, Europe, Africa, India, China and Japan. Through 50 chapters, illustrated with graphs, charts, and images, the book presents state of the art and up to date perspectives at the cutting edge of current issues, challenges, and opportunities. In doing so, it offers an overview of the current stakes of world-wide mobility transition and decarbonization.

This book will be of interest to urban and transport planning professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers interested in sustainability and mobility. It will also be valuable for governmental agencies, regional and urban departments of transportation and mobility, transport planners and transit and cycling advocacy organizations as well as decision-makers in charge of mobility issues at different institutional levels.

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This book examines urban mobility across rapidly growing South Asian cities by drawing upon critical analyses of user experiences, popular media representations, and transport policies. While transport infrastructures are expanding, many residents - particularly those from lower-income households, older adults, women, and people with disabilities-lack access to affordable and accessible transport options. This limits their opportunities for decent employment, healthcare, and social participation, making inclusive mobility not a privilege but a fundamental right.

Through interdisciplinary analysis, the contributors generate evidence-based insights essential for developing inclusive transport policies. Moving beyond traditional engineering approaches, they adopt a user-centred perspective that highlights how multiple forms of discrimination - classism, sexism, ageism, and ableism - intersect to produce urban mobility inequalities. The chapters uniquely position transport as a crucial link to health services, education, and employment, serving as both a call to action and a roadmap for building inclusive transport infrastructures in unequal societies.

This book will be of use to researchers of transport geography, urban studies and development studies besides sociology, economics, management, geography, urban planning, urban sociology, policy studies, gender studies and development studies. It will be an important resource for transport and urban policymakers.

Spatial Governance and Planning Policy Transfer in the Global South examines how spatial governance and planning concepts and ideas circulate within and beyond the Global South, highlighting the actors, power relations and institutional contexts that shape how these ideas are adopted, adapted, or resisted.

As regions and cities are being faced with an increasing number of challenges - from climate change to housing shortage, social inequality to energy security, they increasingly look for ready-made solutions, often with the support of international organisations and city networks. Yet policies do not simply move from one place to another. They are reshaped, adapted - and sometimes distorted - by local political interests and institutional traditions. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, the book explores how concepts and practices travel across the globe, and what happens when they land. The collected contributions bridge an important research gap by examining how spatial policies circulate within and beyond the Global South, challenging the long-held assumption that planning knowledge flows mainly North-South. Through case studies from Ecuador, Brazil, the Andean region, Chile, South Africa and Taiwan, the authors show how planning ideas are translated on the ground, how international agendas interact with local priorities and how "quick-fix" solutions can prevent deeper structural challenges.

Offering a fresh perspective on how cities and regions learn from one another in a rapidly changing world, this collection represents an essential reading for urban and regional planning scholars, policymakers and practitioners seeking to understand not only how spatial policies travel, but how they transform - and are transformed by - the places they touch.

The chapters in this book were first published as a special issue of Planning Practice & Research, and are accompanied by a new Introduction and Conclusion.

The urban disorder in Los Angeles in the late spring of 1992 shocked the world. For five days following the acquittal of police officers accused of the vicious beating of African American motorist Rodney King, the city's Black and immigrant neighbourhoods burned. These events have long been understood as an enraged response to blatant racial injustice in an era of criminalization, poverty, and political powerlessness.

Setting the uprising within a twenty-year continuum of activist struggles for spatial justice, Before and After Rodney King tells a different story. George Francis-Kelly introduces an array of diverse and engaged community activists who fought to improve the everyday lives of their neighbours throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, from downtown janitors to East LA grandmothers, South Central entrepreneurs to Compton revolutionaries. Familiar community spaces became sites of struggle to reclaim the future of local development, jobs, and policing. As the global forces of the Reagan era began to define attitudes toward race and neoliberal urban policy, the resulting struggles over urban space precipitated the most destructive, costly, and deadly riot in modern US history.

Drawing from unexplored archival sources, Francis-Kelly examines the intersections between social history and racial geography to situate Los Angeles-based activism within the political landscape of urban America in the 1980s and 1990s.

"A good walking tour is not about individual stops but about the experience of moving along a city's streets, taking in a variety of neighborhoods, buildings, shops, parks, public art, and bridges: a chance to be the grand marshal in your own parade," writes Brian Libby in the introduction of In Search of Portland. Starting from his 1997 home, the Empire Apartments at Southwest Eleventh Avenue and Jefferson Street, Libby shares one hundred fascinating points of interest through personal reflection, interviews, and anecdotal history.

The six excursions exploring Portland's downtown, Old Town, and Pearl District not only focus on the city's important landmarks and hidden gems but showcase an evolving city's resilience and heart. Alongside his own experiences, Libby reveals how luminaries like Humphrey Bogart, Mark Rothko, Gus Van Sant, Vera Katz, and Bill Walton appreciated the City of Roses. From Pioneer Courthouse Square to the Crystal Ballroom, each location in the book celebrates the spirit of place in addition to its architecture.

More than a book about buildings, In Search of Portland reveals the stories behind the built landscape, the people, and the history that have created modern Portland.

Urban atmospheres shape how we experience and understand the spaces we inhabit. Urban Atmospheres between East and West is the first collective work to explore this topic from an inter-cultural perspective, spanning diverse locations such as China, Malaysia, Japan, France, Italy, and Cyprus. This groundbreaking volume addresses the need to foreground under-represented Eastern contexts while pairing them with resonant Western counterparts, offering a fresh lens on the dynamic interplay of culture and space.

Organised into four thematic parts, the book's ten chapters establish a comparative dialogue that bridges East and West. By tracing atmospheres that migrate across cultures and crystallise in sites of hybridity, the volume redefines atmosphere as an active, relational field. Readers will gain insights into how urban spaces mediate affective responses and negotiate concepts such as home, belonging, infrastructure, and spatial justice. This trans-cultural approach opens new pathways for understanding the relational dynamics of urban life.

This edited volume is an essential resource for scholars and professionals in architecture, urban studies, sociology, media studies, anthropology, and geography. It is particularly valuable for academics, urban planners, cultural geographers, and researchers seeking to explore how urban spaces evoke and shape emotional and cultural experiences.

While global urban discourse remains dominated by the spectacular, high-rise gentrification of central city areas, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the quiet, mundane redevelopments that transform the inner-city neighborhoods of the Global East. Exploring this "shadow of gentrification," it provides a rich empirical analysis of Osaka, Japan-a primary example of emerging neoliberalism playing out across an inner-city shaped by the developmental state. Despite departing from conventional gentrification, the analysis focuses on social change and capital reinvestment. Through evidence from extensive field research and interviews, it traces three distinct trajectories of neighborhood change: retro renovation driven by small businesses in Nakazaki; art-led renovation facilitated by a local landlord in Kitakagaya; and welfare-led renovation triggered by livelihood protection amendments in Northwest Nishinari. The analysis reveals a nascent "precarious city," in which the working class is replaced by populations marked by precarity and fragmentation, standing outside the societal project of the developmental state. Ultimately, this book argues for embracing the trajectories of neighborhood change in the Global East, while treating gentrification as a conceptual vanishing point to guide analyses that sometimes lead into the spotlight, and sometimes into the shadow of gentrification.

Lessons from Bologna on how ordinary people take charge of urban spaces and make their cities more democratic

Proprietors for a Democratic City examines how nonelite individuals politically engage with urban spaces - even when they do not formally own them. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork throughout Bologna, Italy, Robin M. LeBlanc presents valuable models of democratic community-making through imaginative occupation, curation, and coalition-building projects, with critical implications for the study of cities and democracy.

Once a standard-bearer of progressive governance, contemporary Bologna now faces globally emergent challenges to its democratic functioning, from a lack of affordable housing to the rise of an authoritarian and xenophobic Far Right. But amid this precarity, everyday citizens employ the spaces around them to influence the political life of the city. Through interviews with a wide range of Bolognese, from urban planners and real estate developers to housing office staff, retirees in public gardening plots, and members of immigrant and youth squatter collectives, LeBlanc illuminates the humble origins of coalitional work that can meaningfully address today's urban economic, environmental, and demographic crises.

Challenging both capitalistic and Marxist conventional wisdom, Proprietors for a Democratic City is a vivid portrait of the urban landscape and an inspiring call to empower regular people to create vibrant democratic spaces.

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This book introduces the research perspective and development of urban social geography, the main schools, and their research methods in foreign countries. The book is divided into three parts.

The first part is a general introduction to the teaching and research methods of urban social geography. This book focuses on how to carry out social surveys on the phenomena and problems of urban social geography in China, as well as the key points to pay attention to in completing an urban social geography research independently, especially the specific writing points of the paper, including the structure and logical relationship of the paper, the specific writing, paragraph arrangement, abstract writing, the selection of keywords, the writing of literature review, the use of scientific language, the writing of discussions and conclusions, literature query and reference annotation, etc.

The second and third parts are on the teaching and research practice of urban social geography. It is divided into two parts: macro perspective and micro perspective. In addition to a few papers written by the editor-in-chief of this book, most of the papers are carefully selected from the works of Peking University students, aiming to provide excellent model essays for undergraduate or graduate students in related majors, which can be compared with the previous general thesis, serve as a reference, and are also convenient for students to understand intuitively.

City Opaque is a book about how cities are produced-not just with plans, money, concrete and cranes, but through grey spaces that operate through erasure, ambiguity, and the overproduction of contradictory laws and regulations. Set in Ho Chi Minh City, widely known as Saigon, Hun Kim follows developers, state officials, investors, and residents as they navigate one of the fastest-growing urban economies in the world. Through years of close observation and lived encounters - from rooftop bars overlooking glittering construction sites to neighborhoods quietly erased by disappearing planning maps - he reveals a city shaped as much by what is hidden, revised, or forgotten as by what is planned and recorded.

Rather than treating corruption, legal ambiguity, and disorder as failures of development, this book shows how opacity itself is a form of governmental reason and a strategy for producing space in the city. Laws multiply but rarely clarify. Archives disappear. Plans are rewritten after the fact. These practices are born out of rationalities that enable land to be reassigned, capital to move, and futures to be reimagined - often at great cost to some residents, but with enormous payoff for others. Moving beyond familiar stories of "corruption" or "failed governance," City Opaque offers a new way of understanding urban development in Southeast Asia and beyond.

This book asks what peace means when the state wages war against its own citizens in the name of security in the war on drugs. Set in Rio de Janeiro, a deeply unequal city where life chances are shaped by race, class, gender and neighbourhood, it questions whose peace is protected, and at whose expense. Tracing the historical racialisation, marginalisation and criminalisation of the favelas, the book shows how this has resulted in complex forms of hybrid governance involving criminal groups, police and the state. It conceptualizes urban violence in Rio as a form of performative, necropolitical state war-making, where a discourse of security sustains deadly and inefficient operations in the favelas. In this violent context, the book explores favela peace formation as a grassroots alternative, in which residents construct new forms of nonviolent politics and envision more just and peaceful futures, offering important insights for rethinking and decolonizing peace.

European Union policy on rural development and EU research programmes aim to help rural areas of the EU meet the wide range of economic, environmental and social challenges of the 21st Century. However, the challenges facing rural areas of Europe, and their people, remain significant and highly affected by the crises of our current era. This contributed volume comprises 12 research studies, exploring the intersection of research, policy and innovation strategy across the diverse rural regions of the Europe Union.

Conducted in different countries, these studies point to the challenges that lie at the heart of strategic planning in public policy. The book ultimately supports an EU vision for future rural development, digitalisation, sustainability planning and innovation strategy. It is not only a source of data on the problems faced by local communities in different European countries, but offers suggestions for practical use of bottom-up and multiactor perspective for policy-making, business development and community engagement at local, regional and national level. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of rural development, innovation strategy, the agricultural sector and EU policy.