Circular Cities
Circular Cities

Author: Jo Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-21

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0429955421

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With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe. This research-based book defines the circular city and circular development. It explains the shift in focus from a purely economic concept, which promotes circular business models in cities, to one that explores a new approach to urban development. This approach offers huge opportunities and addresses important sustainability issues: resource consumption and waste; climate change; the health of urban populations; social inequalities and the creation of sustainable urban economies. It examines the different approaches to circular development, drawing on research conducted in four European cities: Amsterdam, London, Paris and Stockholm. It explores different development pathways and levers for a circular urban transformation. It highlights the benefits of adopting a circular approach to development in cities, but acknowledges that these benefits are not shared equally across society. Finally, it focuses on the challenges to implementing circular development faced by urban actors. This ground-breaking book will be essential reading to scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in the circular economy, urban sustainability, urban ecology, urban planning, urban regeneration, urban resilience, adaptive cities and regenerative cities.

The Century of Global Cities
The Century of Global Cities

Author: Andrea Tobia Zevi

Publisher: Ledizioni

Published: 2020-01-12

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 8855260901

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Cities are gaining importance and influence worldwide. They sustain the global economy, set cultural trends, produce greenhouse gas emissions and consume energy; they attract migration flows and foster new political waves. While cities were supposed to be declining back in the 1980s, the globalised economy has established them as crucial world hubs leading billions of people on every continent, both at the top and the bottom of the social ladder, to move to cities. Today, global cities cry out for a more prominent role. But why and to what extent do they matter? Can they really stand alone in the global arena? How are they interacting with governments and multilateral organisations? From climate change to connectivity, from inequalities to migration: what is their contribution to key global challenges?

Livable Cities from a Global Perspective
Livable Cities from a Global Perspective

Author: Roger W. Caves

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1315523396

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Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability. They address the fundamental question, what is considered "livable?" The journey each city has taken or is currently taking is unique and context specific. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to livability. Some cities have had a long history of developing livability policies and programs that focus on equity, economic, and environmental concerns, while other cities are relatively new to the game. In some areas, government has taken the lead while in other areas, grassroots activism has been the impetus for livability policies and programs. The challenge facing our cities is not simply developing a livability program. We must continually monitor and readjust policies and programs to meet the livability needs of all people. The case studies investigate livability issues in such cities as Austin, Texas; Helsinki, Finland; London, United Kingdom; Warsaw, Poland; Tehran, Iran; Salt Lake City, United States; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; and Cape Town, South Africa. The chapters are organized into such themes as livability in capital city regions, livability and growth and development, livability and equity concerns, livability and metrics, and creating livability. Each chapter provides unique insights into how a specific area has responded to calls for livable cities. In doing so, the book adds to the existing literature in the field of livable cities and provides policy makers and other organizations with information and alternative strategies that have been developed and implemented in an effort to become a livable city.

Off-season City Pipe
Off-season City Pipe

Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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An American Book Award-winning poet explores her indigenous, working-class background against the backdrop of urban poverty.

Growing Food in Cities
Growing Food in Cities

Author: Nicholas Ardill

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-05-11

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 3030984753

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This book examines social innovation strategies in the collaborative development of spaces for growing food in cities. It enables readers to gain valuable insights into an innovative social and spatial practice whilst advancing knowledge in an emerging area of research. The book will also be of great relevance to social activists, urban designers, planners, and decision-makers with an interest in applying this expertise to their own neighbourhoods and cities. Urban food growing spaces have multiplied in recent times. This green and inclusive urbanism creates social value for the health, wellbeing, and welfare of local inhabitants. Therefore, there is a convincing argument to investigate innovative spatial practices that can enable cities to meet the needs of an increasing population. Despite the mounting interest in collective approaches to sustainable development, limited attention has been given to the diverse ways in which this social action has been pursued. How are urban food growing spaces produced through social innovation? What are the innovative processes that can be translated in a replicable model to other cities, yet suitable for local needs, to support the development of healthier, more socially just built environments?

The City of Sharon
The City of Sharon

Author: Byron R. Bowen

Publisher: Bowen's Books

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0981537723

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A Free World Novel THE CITY OF SHARON Real or Imagined: The story is based on actual happenings. The totalitarian situation is common knowledge. Some of the dialog is based on rumor and hearsay and sketchy news reports. The characters are aware of limited mythical influence caused by extreme duress. A prime character, Frederick von Popenov spent the first ten years of his life living with his family on a small farm in the country. Life suddenly changed when the nations political party in control nationalizes industry and sets up the police state and the network city. Nobody was allowed to own property or valuables. Many lower class people were sent to work in the common factories and on the common farms. The class workers and peasants sent to live and work at the City of Sharon found life difficult. Caught in the chaos and desperation of the common movement they miraculously escape the gulag or prison. A series of events involve a people from another side whose presence and assistance culminates in the prisoners escape into the hills around the devastated city. Unknown to the public, due to the type of people sent to live there, the City of Sharon had been set up as a designated bombing target by the World Board of Directors. While the prisoners make their escape, the city is obliterated by a nuclear bomb. Those who remained there were killed. Those who lived in other network cities became suspicious of their invisible government due to the total devastation of the city. All the people begin to look for a way out of party domination. Timorous, desperate and frightened, the fugitives begin a free world civilization in the wilderness about the the city of Sharon. The survivors elude the authorities in control of the totalitarian state and build a military defense system and prepare to defend their new found freedom or nation.

Capital City
Capital City

Author: Samuel Stein

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1786636379

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Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate developer. As Samuel Stein makes clear in this tightly argued book, its through seemingly innocuous profession of city planners that we can best understand the transformations underway. Planners provide a window into the practical dynamics of urban change: the way the state uses and is used by organized capital, and the power of landlords and developers at every level of government. But crucially, planners also possess some of the powers we must leverage if we ever wish to reclaim our cities from real estate capital.

City Walls
City Walls

Author: James D. Tracy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-09-25

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 9780521652216

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The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.