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How scarcity shapes nearly every aspect of our rental assistance programs, including the Housing Choice Voucher program.

It's no secret that the United States is experiencing a housing crisis. While the cost of rental housing has soared since 2000, the median household income has barely changed. The Housing Choice Voucher program is America's largest rental assistance program, but most households that are eligible for assistance simply cannot get access to it. Without enough resources to serve every eligible household in their communities, public housing agencies keep waiting lists, run lotteries, and claw back vouchers from households that are unable to meet the demands of the housing market. Despite the enormous benefits that come from affordable housing, it's simply out of reach for most renters in need.

In The Housing Lottery, sociologist Brian J. McCabe takes readers to the frontlines of these housing agencies to understand how scarcity shapes nearly every aspect of the program. Following the bureaucrats charged with making these decisions about allocating housing resources, McCabe shows how decisions and regulations resulting from scarcity have enormous consequences. He presents extensive evidence about the importance of rental assistance for lifting households out of poverty and creating economic opportunity. To improve housing assistance as a public resource and to combat housing insecurity and its negative effects, McCabe argues for a more inclusive, expansive approach to federal housing policy.

This book reframes urban acupuncture- small, precisely targeted design interventions- as a catalyst for rebuilding place attachment and reinforcing social resilience in gentrifying historic neighborhoods by discovering a newly human-centered approach to heritage regeneration. This book bridges environmental psychology and tactical urbanism, introducing place attachment as the key metric of success. It pairs in-depth theory with hands-on case studies, showing how micro-interventions can restore identity, culture, and community agency.

Scope:

• Foundations of gentrification place attachment, and social resilience.
• Principles and methods of urban acupuncture in heritage settings.
• Rich case studies and cross-case analysis
• A practical framework and policy recommendations for architects, designers, planners and psychologists.

This book is of particular value to urban designers, architects, planners, psychologists, and heritage professionals who are seeking practical and innovative strategies. It is also suitable for graduate students and researchers in the fields of urban studies, architectural studies, and environmental psychology.

This open access book takes readers inside the minds and hearts of twenty urban visionaries transforming urban and rural environments across six continents. Rather than focusing on technical solutions or policy frameworks, Cathy Oke and Jorn Verbeeck reveal the deeply personal journeys of former mayors, Indigenous leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, activists and academics who have used cities and towns as living laboratories for humanity's future. From Durban to Paris, Melbourne to Bangalore, these boundary spanners share intimate stories of what drives their work: childhood memories of fishing with grandparents, moments of recognition on Arctic mountains, encounters with traditional knowledge systems that challenge Western assumptions about development. Rather than celebrating lone heroes, the book reveals cities and their communities as "kaleidoscopes of possibility" requiring ensemble casts who translate between disciplines, sectors, and communities.

Each story weaves personal odyssey with professional transformation, capturing how individual experiences of displacement, discovery, and belonging shape approaches to collective challenges like climate change, inequality, and urban resilience. This is a syllabus for sustainable city leadership: accumulated wisdom that integrates multiple knowledge systems, honours ancient wisdom alongside contemporary innovation, and fosters collaborative intelligence through the stories we share. Essential reading for anyone navigating the messy, vital work of making cities thrive.

Illustrations by Chris Cane.

Chapters systematically compare and contrast regional economic development schemes across Europe and North America, focusing on 'civic capital': the networks, collaborative organizations and entrepreneurial leaders that help regions identify their unique strengths and chart new economic paths. The book emphasizes how effective local governance, strong universities and place-based development policies enable cities and regions to adapt to disruption and build innovative economies. Wolfe highlights the importance of local collaboration and institution-building for inclusive economic development that can benefit all cities and regions.

Scholars and students of economic geography, regional development and innovation studies will benefit from this book's in-depth and expansive approach. It is also a crucial resource for academics and practitioners of governance theories and industrial policy.

Mobility Revolution captures the sweeping transformation redefining how people and goods move. Drawing on decades of experience across Paris, Detroit, and Silicon Valley, Marc Amblard unpacks the forces driving this historic shift, namely the push for clean mobility, volatile regulations, ambitious startups, geopolitics, and the global power shift toward China. He dissects the central role played by technology as electrification, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, the software defined vehicle, and new modes reshape the entire ecosystem.

Blending insightful technology perspectives with rigorous strategic analyses, this book explores the new products and services, innovative business models and collaborations, and complex supply chains, that will determine the next era in automotive and mobility. Organized around key domains - clean mobility, autonomy, digital transformation, and changing mobility paradigms - the book offers professionals and policymakers a panoramic yet practical view of where mobility is headed.

Mobility Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and anticipate the future of transportation.

This book reframes street vending beyond depictions of marginality or disorder, exploring how informal street vending works as a situated, negotiated, diverse, relational, and gendered practice within contested public spaces. Bringing together a critical review of scholarship with an assemblage-informed methodological framework, it positions informality as relational and spatially embedded, emerging through interactions among mobility, public space edges, pedestrian flows, governance, street life, and everyday survival.

Focusing on Tehran as a critical case, this book presents two detailed case studies. Through field observation, photographic survey, urban mapping, and archival research, it investigates how different types of street vending unfold in relation to mixed-use corridors and transit nodes. A typology grounded in mobility and proximity to public/private interfaces shows how certain forms of street vending enable economic resilience while contributing to street-level sociability and urban intensity.

The concluding discussion situates these findings within broader governance, political economy, and gender dynamics, addressing selective enforcement, institutional opacity, and women's uneven access to public space and the informal economy. This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in urban design, planning, geography, and Middle Eastern studies seeking empirically grounded, critically reflexive insights into informality, public space, and the everyday politics of the city.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the Handbook assesses the overlapping constructs and ongoing debate surrounding the definition of 'sense of place'. It explores connections to natural environments, virtual places, change over time and also broader questions such as how place can be understood across cultures and how attitudes toward places evolve. Chapters engage with non-Western, First Nations worldviews which treat 'Country' as a living, relational entity, contrasting sharply with typical Western, object-oriented models. They provide weight to the view that 'place' must be studied from many angles, and that respecting diverse, especially Indigenous, perspectives is essential for a fuller, more inclusive understanding of how people relate to the world around them. This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of this fast-developing field, while also developing theory and encouraging future research in subjects such as regeneration, social relations and digital advancements.

The Handbook on Sense of Place is a valuable resource for students and scholars of human geography, environmental psychology, cultural studies and sociology. Its insights into how people relate to the world around them will also benefit practitioners in urban and regional planning and environmental policymakers.

This timely Advanced Introduction analyses the European Union's innovation policy on smart specialisation strategies (S3). Dominique Foray and Jan-Philipp Kramer clarify the S3 theory, outlining its core concepts and assessing policy progress at regional and national levels.

Key Features:

• Explains how S3 concepts challenge traditional innovation policy theory
• Connects academic theory with practical insights, providing a foundation of evidence regarding the history of S3 strategies
• Proposes suggestions for effective smart specialisation policymaking based on novel quantitative and qualitative assessments

The Advanced Introduction to Smart Specialisation Strategies is a key resource for scholars and students of economics, finance, innovation and technology. S3 policymakers and development professionals will similarly benefit from its astute perspective and actionable recommendations.

Richly illustrated with the author's exquisite drawings, this visual manual provides a concise and practical introduction to contemporary urban landscape architecture with trees and forest: Sylvan City Design.

Aimed at student and professional landscape architects and environmental designers, the manual will also appeal to other urban disciplines and to communities engaged with neighbourhood spaces in the context of the potential for trees to transform city living for climate resilience, green health, social equity, biodiversity and - at the same time - enriched urban culture.

A sylvan city is foremost 'made, shaped or formed of woods or trees'. Catherine Dee sets out to demonstrate how and why settlements may be better designed by considering trees as the indispensable 'ground' of a city, forming a life-giving, long-term dwelling matrix into which buildings and built infrastructure are fitted.

The manual is organised in two parts. Part I: Principles, Strategies + Methods introduces the central aims of sylvan city design and establishes key design principles, strategies and ethos: 1 What is a Sylvan City? 2 What is Sylvan Design? 3 Sylvan Space, 4 Sylvan Time, 5 Sylvan Climate and 6 Sylvan Specificity, Diversity + Robustness.

Part II: Forms, Functions + Habitats explores context-specific design, illustrating a wide range of urban situations, scales and types of tree environment from tiny street corners through to city-wide tracts using the patterns: Forest, Locale, Greenway, Grove, Glade, Parkland, Avenue, Hedgerow, Thicket, Garden, Farm, Woodland, and Wilderness. In each section, the design approach is to refresh and re-orient long-practised forms of tree cultivation and ecological management by matching them with urban social, cultural and biodiversity functions to create a contemporary environmental language adaptable to evolving sylvan cities in diverse global regions and changing climates.

Communicated in vivid drawings inspiring new ways to dwell with trees, this is a DIY landscape architecture manual for all.

Leading experts assess a variety of 'culprits' behind the financialization of housing, evaluating the role of institutions, social movements, grass roots initiatives and broader economic contexts. They advocate for an integrated method of analyzing these entry points and argue that stages of financialization must be understood as multi-level processes. Drawing on critical political economy and post-Keynesian economics, the book ultimately calls for a wider understanding of capitalist dynamics in order to synthesize various strategies for resisting financialization.

Resisting the Financialization of Housing is an essential resource for scholars and students of sociology, social policy, public policy, inequalities and sustainable development. Government policymakers and financial regulators will also benefit from its actionable recommendations.

Port cities of the world are critical nodes for international trade and socio-economic development. Yet they bear several costs, including congestion and pollution, which affect the local environment and population. In certain places, living near the port -together with related industrial and logistical activities -is a synonym of adverse health outcomes, resulting in several diseases and above-average unplanned hospital admissions and mortality. Decades of port-city physical separation have not eliminated such issues, since deep-water facilities, even outside urban cores, impact local populations and reach port and non-port cities through extensive trucking flows. Specific traffic, like cruise, keeps operating within dense urban environments.

This book is one of the first dedicated volumes on such matters, with contributions from scholars on several continents (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania). It is highly interdisciplinary, covering geography, history, economics, management sciences, regional science, sociology, public and comparative law, physics, energy and industrial engineering, urban and spatial planning, epidemiology, architecture, biology, and environmental sciences. This volume offers an overview of current environmental and health issues in port cities. It starts by presenting the mitigation and perception of port pollution. Next, it examines the health impacts of ports from a historical perspective and reviews and synthesizes the variety of existing approaches to measure the health impacts of ports and shipping. Finally, it proposes a reflection on multilevel governance and policies.

This book is a comprehensive resource for a wide readership, including academics and upper-level students interested in maritime transport, port management, and sustainability, as well as those in public management, planning, and governance.

Maritime transport is a key factor in the globalisation process where port cities play an essential role as edges of economic, technological, cultural, and institutional diffusion. Global supply chains depend on a complex network of port cities and are thus representative elements of economic structural shifts at national and regional levels.

This book explores the role of port cities as global actors since the end of the Second World War. It focuses on the morphological evolution of port cities, their economic functions, and cultural heritages. This volume incorporates case studies from regions around the world and analyses the differences and common features related to the global integration process. This edited collection offers a range of methodological approaches prepared by academics specialised in geography, history, economics, and urban planning.

Port Cities and Globalisation will be directly relevant to a wide variety of scholars and postgraduate researchers in the fields of transport studies and management, maritime logistics, port economics, as well as urban planning, regional development, and human geography.

This edited collection of biographical and autobiographical essays chronicles the transformative journeys of Australian planners who, confronting unprecedented urban challenges in the late twentieth century, pioneered new concepts, methodologies, and approaches that fundamentally reshaped the trajectory of urban planning for the twenty-first century.

The essays illuminate the profound social, economic, and technological upheavals of this era, as the established planning paradigm fractured into multiple specialized approaches-environmental planning, social planning, advocacy planning, collaborative planning, and others. These emerging frameworks, directly linked to rapid urbanization processes, reverberated through urban planning practice and governance structures. The result was a radical reimagining of the planning model itself, driven by critical reassessments of conventional practice, methodological innovations, grassroots demands for meaningful community participation, and heightened attention to previously marginalized concerns: the needs of women and children, Indigenous culture and rights, heritage conservation, environmental sustainability, and social equity.

Reinventing Urban Planning in Australia will appeal to readers interested in the history of urban and social transformation, the evolution of planning theory and policy, Australian urbanism, planning history, and professional biography. It bridges key disciplines including history, geography, urban planning, and environmental studies, offering valuable insights for scholars, practitioners, and students alike.

Intelligent Urban Infrastructure: Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities explores how emerging digital technologies are reshaping the design, management, and sustainability of modern cities. This comprehensive volume examines the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, and intelligent automation into critical urban systems such as transportation, energy, water management, healthcare, and public safety. It presents a forward-looking perspective on how infrastructure can evolve to become more adaptive, resilient, and environmentally responsible. The book highlights practical frameworks and technology-driven content that demonstrate measurable improvements in efficiency, cost optimization, and environmental performance. Designed for researchers, postgraduate students, urban planners, engineers, policymakers, and industry professionals, this book serves as a valuable reference for those seeking to understand and implement intelligent infrastructure solutions that enable smarter, greener, and more livable cities worldwide.

By taking an ecosystem approach to emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), this book gathers the scientific evidence outlining the origins of EIDs to show how a landscape-based ecosystem approach can lead to policy alternatives that draw on the expertise of planning for future pandemic prevention and management.

Global EIDs are one of the world's fastest-growing challenges to local health and are often able to cross large distances. The book targets the substantial "unknowns" surrounding these dangerous characteristics and outlines how current debates about pandemics overlook important characteristics of both the microscopic evolution of viruses themselves, and the social and economic systems through which they move from localized outbreak to global pandemic. Using accessible language, it highlights how planners can help advance and shape policy directions; and how investments in technologies, people, and institutions can be beneficial. Chapters emphasize the importance of creating methods of analysis able to detail very-long-term risks, and therefore suggest actionable and affordable preventative planning today for pandemics predicted decades from now. In doing so, they detail how the intersection of two planning fields of expertise - land use planning and transportation planning - can be enlisted in the fight against future pandemic risk.

Summarizing evidence from past pandemics and using case examples, this book provides future planners with innovative ideas to help the field efficiently understand core health ideas that align with planning expertise. This book is essential for graduate students in urban planning and public health courses, as well as all built environment professionals and practitioners tasked with reducing the risks of the next pandemic.

This illuminating Research Agenda opens up current debates and outlines potential developments in participatory mapping, an approach and set of practices relating to people's spatial knowledge and dedicated to spatial and environmental justice. Leading experts analyse scientific, methodological, social-political-cultural and technical issues in participatory mapping and Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS), emphasising ethics and good practice.

Investigating key issues, contested approaches and methodologies, researchers highlight the ethical dimensions of respect, safety and authority of knowledge. Chapters assess participatory mapping and PPGIS in citizen science and in affirming identity, with specific applications ranging from mapping indigenous culture and memories, to traditional land management and inclusive urban accessibility. Critiquing both innovative developments such as soundscapes and projection models, as well as established tools such as 3D modelling, remote sensing and phone apps, chapters also address meta issues, including evaluating outcomes of mapping applications and the impacts of AI.

A Research Agenda for Participatory Mapping and PPGIS is a valuable resource for scholars and students of geography, participatory research approaches and politics and public policy. Practitioners looking to implement PPGIS will benefit from its evaluation of current debates and potential developments in the field.

This book investigates the ways in which Ethiopia's urban landscape is being reshaped by an infrastructure boom in megaproject corridors and industrial parks.

Drawing on extensive immersive fieldwork, the book considers how citizens negotiate, appropriate, or resist these engineered spaces. Tracing Ethiopia's recent investments in expressways, logistics corridors and state-built industrial parks, the book documents a fast-changing territorial and urban frontier across Ethiopia's southern peripheries and the Addis Ababa-Nairobi corridor. Rather than treating infrastructure expansion as a straightforward, top-down process, the study foregrounds the "messy" negotiations that unfold on the ground. By following everyday encounters with roads, industrial zones and mobility regimes, the book shows how infrastructure becomes a key arena through which authority, access to resources and urban futures are organized and contested. Side-stepping binary state-versus-society or plan-versus-practice narratives, the book illuminates how urban futures are negotiated in concrete, often contradictory, ways during times of heightened political tensions.

This book's detailed ethnographic insights will be an important read for researchers across the fields of urban studies, human geography, development economics, anthropology, and African studies.

Chapters assess welcoming initiatives across Europe, evaluating how those that engage with migrant newcomers contribute to economic, political and social prosperity in their respective localities. Identifying factors that limit the success of welcoming initiatives, such as fragmentation and challenges in scaling support, contributors illustrate how progress is constrained beyond the local level. This Modern Guide highlights the need for new criteria to define community belonging, based on people's contributions to their community rather than legal or normative assumptions of belonging. Analysing how migrant newcomers and long-term residents can integrate into a diverse and cohesive community, authors present methods for learning from comparison and scaling up initiatives.

Innovative and timely, A Modern Guide to Migration and Spatial Justice in Europe is a crucial resource for students and scholars of geography, anthropology, sociology, politics and public policy, as well as urban and regional studies. Policymakers will also benefit from its insights into social justice action.

Experts adopt an interpretive approach to contextualise migration within social, economic and political transformations of small towns and rural regions. They assess case studies to reflect on the perspectives of local societies through their responses to migration-based challenges. Chapters demonstrate how different contexts uniquely shape global forces and emphasise the active role of both native and newcomer populations in influencing the future of their communities, despite facing numerous constraints. The Handbook also highlights the methodological challenges of studying migration in small towns and rural areas and considers future directions for research.

Scholars and students of migration studies, sociology, geography, politics and public policy will greatly benefit from the novel insights explored in this Handbook. It is also an essential resource for academics in urban and regional studies, anthropology, and political science.

This book examines why urban planning continues to fall short of its aspirations for equity, sustainability, and resilience. It argues that contemporary challenges cannot be met without fundamentally reconfiguring how knowledge, power, and action are organized. The book present de-siloing as the essential groundwork for closing the persistent gap between planning ideals and lived urban realities.

Going beyond procedural calls for coordination or collaboration, the book reframes de-siloing as an epistemic and political project. It maps the "ecosystem of siloing" across governance, academic, professional, and civic domains, showing how these structures shape what counts as legitimate knowledge and whose voices guide urban change. Drawing on global theory, practice, and case studies across diverse geographies, the book offers a framework for understanding and operationalizing institutional transformation-highlighting pathways that embrace plural knowledge, foster collaboration, and support more relational forms of planning.

Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and activists, the book invites a wide audience to rethink planning not as the work of isolated experts but as a collective, situated practice. It is written for planners, policymakers, researchers, and students seeking more just, context-responsive, and interconnected urban futures.

This book explores the concept of leisure through the lens of colour, offering a fresh and innovative perspective on how chromatic elements shape our understanding of health, wellbeing, and environmental ethics. By focusing on the material and symbolic significance of hues, particularly blue, green, and grey, the book delves into the ways these colours influence leisure spaces and activities. From children's play to surfing in artificial wave pools and skateboarding, the chapters examine diverse leisure practices across locations such as the UK, Russia, Turkey, East Asia, and North America. The book also challenges the traditional focus on blue and green spaces by highlighting the potential of grey spaces-urban environments like city streets, rooftops, and industrial landscapes-as sites of healthy and meaningful leisure.

Through 15 chapters based on original empirical research, this book introduces the nascent field of chromatic leisure, offering new conceptual frameworks that add depth and nuance to leisure scholarship. It critically examines how grey spaces, often overlooked in health and well-being discourse, provide alternative ways to frame leisure, embracing ambiguity, hybridity, and complexity. This book is essential reading for students, scholars and policymakers in leisure studies, social geography, urbanism, and health and well-being research.

The chapters in this book were originally published in Leisure Studies and are now accompanied by three new chapters and an updated introduction.

This book critically examines the intersection of gender, governance, and urban mobility through the lens of transit systems in postcolonial and developing countries. Drawing on postcolonial feminist and intersectional theories, it analyses how historical legacies, socio-economic structures, and systemic inequalities have shaped the governance and accessibility of urban transit systems, disproportionately marginalising women. It highlights the compounded challenges women encounter in navigating these systems, including safety, affordability, and representation, whilst also identifying opportunities for their empowerment as stakeholders and decision-makers in governance and shareholding. Through examples from Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, and Dar es Salaam in Africa; Lahore, Jakarta, and Delhi in Asia; and Bogota, Santiago, and Curitiba in Latin America, the book offers actionable insights for policymakers and urban planners. It will be of interest to researchers, students, and faculty in interdisciplinary fields such as gender studies, public administration, feminist studies, international relations, and urban planning.

Using foundations in educational research and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the included tools and methods cover scales from local to global, building skills in analysis, data fluency, and communication that are increasingly valued in our interconnected world. Joseph Kerski illustrates a holistic approach to examining problems and taking action, covering key topics including cultural studies, population change, natural resources, environmental justice, natural hazards, and other critical topics. Chapters further include approaches on how to collect, map and analyse the findings of student investigation.

The insightful methods of teaching in this book gives scholars and academics in a variety of fields such Geography, GIS, environmental studies, ethics, geoscience, as well as sociology and business, the tools to provide students with a more engaging and interdisciplinary learning process.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI), ecological design, and governance reforms can be leveraged to tackle climate-induced urban heat.

The book is structured around three key themes: AI for climate adaptation, green infrastructure and design innovation, and policy and planning perspectives. It delves into how intelligent technologies like remote sensing, real-time monitoring, and machine learning are revolutionising the assessment and management of urban microclimate risks. Specific applications include enhancing urban resilience through hyperlocal weather alert systems and analysing the influence of vegetation and building distribution on urban heat for better mitigation. The book further examines how nature-based interventions, such as AI-optimised vegetation strategies and cooling infrastructure, can create thermally comfortable and ecologically robust urban environments. It highlights the growing intersection of AI and green infrastructure in climate adaptation and urban sustainability. Beyond technology and design, the author focuses on governance and policy frameworks, exploring how institutional arrangements and planning paradigms can translate digital and design solutions into equitable and effective climate action. It investigates how climate action is reflected in local urban planning, drawing insights from cities committed to global climate agreements. By integrating computational tools, bioclimatic design, and multilevel governance, the book provides a holistic framework for addressing urban heat challenges.

It is an essential resource for urban planners, climate researchers, and policymakers seeking forward-looking, inclusive, and technologically informed strategies for building heat-ready cities in a warming world.

This timely book proposes a set of questions for a renewed research and practice agenda that recognizes the deep and historical work that has been done on understanding neighborhoods, taking advantage of data and technical innovations to propel it forward. It questions how neighborhoods are defined, how we think about and identify neighborhood effects and how new analytical tools and contemporary urban contexts allow for novel insights.

Contributors adopt a multi-disciplinary and methodologically diverse approach to frame and analyze neighborhoods as places to document and understand, as sites of exposure and as units for planning and policy practice. Chapters propose that, in an age of increasingly global and a-spatial networks, place matters more than ever, and neighborhoods are key factors in determining individual economic and social outcomes. This Research Agenda analyzes neighborhoods as continual lenses for understanding social, economic, political and environmental change and evaluates the burdens and benefits for those living in them.

A Research Agenda for Neighborhoods is an essential resource for scholars and students across the social sciences including urban studies, planning, economics, human geography, political science, public and social policy and sociology. Urban planners and policymakers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations.

Leading experts examine how student populations and competition for school places are reshaped when neighbourhoods are transformed by rising housing costs and the arrival of affluent residents. They illustrate how the outcomes of gentrification, including increased segregation, reinforced education inequalities and uneven access to resources, are consistently harmful despite varying local policies. By analysing evidence from diverse contexts, the book demonstrates that schools are not only affected by urban change, but are key sites where the social consequences of gentrification unfold and educational opportunities are limited or widened.

Gentrification and Schooling in Global Cities is an essential resource for scholars and students of educational equity and access, particularly those interested in urban education. Education policymakers and urban planners will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for mitigating the impact of urban change.

This book delves into the intricate relationship between climate change, urbanisation, political attitudes, and spatial inequities, examining how these elements collectively shape vulnerability in cities. This comprehensive book, structured across ten chapters and three core themes (public perception, urban exposure, and methodological innovation) presents an integrated framework that unifies social science, spatial analysis, and data science. Unlike narrower approaches, it bridges the gap between technical metrics and social responses to urban climate challenges.

The book explores how political worldviews influence climate risk perception and how peri-urbanisation intensifies vulnerability, particularly focusing on the disproportionate impact of heat in rapidly expanding cities. It reveals that while public awareness of climate change is present, a significant gap exists between awareness and individual action, with calls for more effective government responses and integrated climate strategies. It also highlights how advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and remote sensing are transforming the assessment and visualisation of urban climate risks. Specifically, it demonstrates how remote sensing quantifies the intensification of climate change due to urban greenfield expansion, revealing ecosystem loss and increased emissions, especially in peri-urban areas. This underscores the need for policies prioritising ecosystem protection for climate mitigation. Furthermore, the book provides a bibliometric review of urban heat vulnerability research, showcasing its rapid growth and evolution across diverse fields such as urban planning, environmental dynamics, public health, climatology, and remote sensing. It notes a crucial shift towards human-centred approaches and advocates for integrated policies to effectively manage escalating urban heat risks.

This book is an indispensable resource for practitioners in the field, including city government officials, policymakers, urban planners, and consultants. It can also be used as a reference for researchers and university students in urban studies.

This book explores how digital technologies are reshaping urban public spaces, transforming social interactions, civic engagement, and cultural experiences in cities globally.

Through detailed case studies from Singapore, Barcelona, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Istanbul, New York City, Boston, Seattle, Vancouver, Montreal, Medellin, Bogota, Canberra, and Cape Town, it examines innovative digital solutions such as smart waste management systems and citizen engagement platforms, assessing their profound impact on urban safety, mobility, and accessibility. The book critically questions whether public spaces are effectively aligning with rapid technological advancements to better serve citizens, delving deeply into the evolving role of these spaces. It highlights how tools like Internet of Things (IoT) and digital platforms can significantly enhance urban life while addressing critical challenges such as privacy concerns and unequal access. The book also investigates how digitalization fundamentally reshapes urban morphology, from physical infrastructure to intangible cultural dimensions, offering a comprehensive framework for future city planning and sustainable development.

Ideal for urban planners, architects, policymakers, and those passionate about the future of cities, this book provides a concise, insightful guide to navigating the dynamic intersection of urban design and technology in the 21st century.