Population Dynamics and Supply Systems
Population Dynamics and Supply Systems

Author: Diana Hummel

Publisher: Campus Verlag

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3593385457

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This book focuses on the links between population dynamics and environment. Demographic changes, e.g. population growth and decline, urbanization and migration are analyzed by researchers from different natural and social sciences, focusing on complex interactions between population dynamics and transformations of water and food supply systems. Empirical case studies in selected regions in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa from prehistory to present permit to identify specific problem constellations. Solutions are presented in order to enhance the capability of supply systems to adapt to demographic changes.

Thick Space
Thick Space

Author: Dorothee Brantz

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 3839420431

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Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.

Tramway Renaissance in Western Europe
Tramway Renaissance in Western Europe

Author: Dejan Petkov

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-13

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 3658288795

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Dejan Petkov explores the tramway renaissance in Western Europe from a socio-technical standpoint and focuses on the development in Germany, France, and England. A multiple case analysis reveals the drivers, impact forces, actors and interest constellations behind the tramway renaissance in these countries and demonstrates the large variations in local systems and their style. A key finding is that there can be quite different paths to the success of tramway systems, but this success usually comes at a cost and can have a comprehensive character only if the systems are considered an integral part of the overarching strategies and concepts for urban and regional development.

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar

Author: AbdouMaliq Simone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-01-27

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 1135850232

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City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how possibilities, perhaps inherent in these cities all along, are materialized through the everyday projects of residents situated in the city and the larger world in very different ways.

Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures
Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures

Author: Pierre Filion

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2019-05-06

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1487531230

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Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major source of urban innovation. Taking a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures, this book highlights the similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South. Adopting an international approach grounded in case studies from three continents, this book discusses infrastructure issues within different suburban and societal contexts: low-density infrastructure-rich Global North suburban areas, rapidly developing Chinese suburbs, and the deeply socially stratified suburbs of poor Global South countries. Despite stark differences between types of suburbs, there are features common to all suburban areas irrespective of their location, and similarities in the infrastructure issues confronting these different categories of suburbs.

Splintering Urbanism
Splintering Urbanism

Author: Steve Graham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 113465698X

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Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about: *globalization and the city *technology and society *urban space and urban networks *infrastructure and the built environment *developed, developing and post-communist worlds. With a range of case studies, illustrations and boxed examples, from New York to Jakarta, Johannesberg to Manila and Sao Paolo to Melbourne, Splintering Urbanism demonstrates the latest social, urban and technological theories, which give us an understanding of our contemporary metropolis.

Experimenting for Sustainable Transport
Experimenting for Sustainable Transport

Author: Remco Hoogma

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-29

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1134488211

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Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved - it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way.