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As the second volume of this trilogy focused on nature in cities, this book focuses on global case study examples relevant to 'nature-based urbanism'. As a relatively newer field of research, nature-based urbanism encompasses the integration of ecological systems into the planning, design, and management of urban environments, ensuring that cities function not just as human habitats but as active components of broader natural systems. Nature-based urbanism is positioned as a revolutionary method of urban development in the Anthropocene by integrating ecosystem services, cultural values, and climate adaptability. This book makes the case that understanding nature as a co-creator of urban life, rather than just a source of inspiration, is essential to the future of cities. In doing so, it presents a picture of cities as living, breathing landscapes that are resilient, adaptive, and intricately linked to the ecological systems that support them.

This book offers a detailed examination of how urban areas can evolve while balancing growth, resilience, and ecological innovation. Through a variety of case studies and research-driven insights, it explores methods for improving climate resilience, reviving urban areas, and incorporating ecological frameworks into city planning. The book offers valuable strategies for developing dynamic, ecologically conscious cities by addressing critical issues such as urban redevelopment, disaster preparedness, and sustainable land use. When managed effectively, urban growth can drive economic vitality while fostering sustainable development. By emphasizing the importance of resilient urban planning, brownfield redevelopment, and innovative infrastructure design, the book demonstrates how cities can manage growth without compromising ecological integrity. The book draws attention to the conflict between sustainability and development, providing guidance on tactics that reduce environmental damage and advance social inclusion. Furthermore, degrowth emerges as a vital alternative to traditional urban growth, offering cities healthier and more balanced paths forward. Resilience is paramount in the face of climate-induced risks and mounting urban vulnerabilities.

This book presents neopragmatism as a fresh theoretical framework for the social and spatial sciences. Instead of relying on fixed truths or rigid subject-object divisions, it moves beyond traditional theoretical oppositions. At its core, the book applies Richard Rorty's vocabulary theory and a panrelationalist perspective, viewing the world as a dynamic network of relations shaped through language. This approach is enriched by insights from discourse theory, conflict theory, and actor-network theory, offering a comprehensive lens for understanding social and spatial phenomena. Concepts like landscape, region, or city are treated as contingent and contested constructions, rather than stable categories. The framework is tested through case studies on biography construction and landscape conflicts, demonstrating how it captures complexity and provides practical tools for addressing social issues.

The book is intended for readers seeking both theoretical depth and practical applicability in fields such as sociology, philosophy, geography, political science, and interdisciplinary studies of society and space.

This book profiles the developing realm of cultural values assessments (CVAs) or equivalent studies that are becoming prolific in use and narration in the settler state of Victoria, Australia. CVAs are being generated by First Peoples' organisations and their consultants to address land use and management dilemmas as well as pending major land use or water-related developments, major energy and road infrastructure projects, mineral extraction projects, and new greenfield suburb design and planning ventures. As CVAs are increasingly being interpreted as vehicles for Victoria's respective First Peoples' communities, this book explores how they are used to voice self-deterministic concerns and recommendations in considering how such projects negatively impact upon their Country, and how they could positively work towards healing and renourishing. This volume brings together some 38 CVAs, critiquing and interrogating their formative evolution as statements by First Peoples, to inform future applications in Australia and internationally.

An investigation into the policy choices that led to the UK housing crisis.

What is the true cost of Britain's housing emergency?

This is the shocking story of Britain's appalling housing crisis as it has never been told before - through the people stuck in its grip, living in barely believable and totally unliveable conditions, including children brought up in hostels, bedsits and even shipping containers.

Delving into the investigative work that began in a council tower block in Croydon and ended in the Houses of Parliament with changes to the law, Left to Rot exposes who is heard and who is ignored, where money is spent, where it is cut and what it tells us about Britain today.

This book exposes the long-term damage of short-term political thinking at the heart of British government, and lays bare the human cost of the catastrophic and ultimately counterproductive policy of rolling back the state in crucial areas of public life that matter most to people.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

How are urban social movements engaging in local politics to tackle the multiple crises in Europe?

This timely volume explores how grassroots actors across eleven European cities forge new forms of solidarity and enact citizenship at local scales. Drawing on rich ethnographic research, it examines how activists and communities challenge neoliberal isolation and marginalization through collective practices, ranging from community kitchens to tenant organizing. Bridging research on migration, housing and care, the book investigates how everyday urban struggles are reshaping political practices and reimagining democracy. It offers essential insights for scholars and practitioners of social justice, citizenship and urban politics.

This book offers an exploration of how cities can become engines of equity and well-being. As urbanization accelerates globally, this book argues, the future of truly sustainable, resilient cities depends on making them more equitable by design. It begins by recognizing that while cities are powerful hubs of economic activity and innovation, they often reinforce social and spatial inequalities-manifested in uneven access to housing, infrastructure, and opportunities. Drawing inspiration from biological systems that optimize for collective resilience, the book contrasts this with urban systems that currently prioritize wealth accumulation over equitable distribution. Instead of accepting this as status quo, the book proposes a new, forward-looking approach: a normative-scientific framework for measuring spatial inequalities and accessibilities within cities to inform the planning of cities for human well-being. By introducing concrete metrics and scaling tools, the book aims to support the design and planning of cities grounded in Amartya Sen's capability approach-cities that enable all residents to lead fulfilling lives, regardless of their economic position.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Water-oriented Design (WoD) principles and practices in the Asian context, presenting an innovative approach to integrating sustainable water management with urban planning and design. It addresses the pressing challenges of urban water systems in high-density Asian cities, providing practical solutions for enhancing urban resilience, sustainability, and livability.

By focusing on the Asian context, the book offers region-specific strategies and case studies that are particularly relevant to rapidly developing urban areas facing water-related challenges. Spanning from theoretical foundations to practical applications, the book covers four key areas: Water for Cities, Water for Nature & Ecology, Water for People, and Water for Comprehensive Urban Solutions. It provides in-depth analyses of successful WoD initiatives, including Sponge Cities in China, ABC Waters in Singapore, and Low Impact Development in the United States, offering valuable lessons for practitioners worldwide.

This book uses Berlin as a pivotal case study to analyse the transformation of urban spaces under the combined influences of financialisation and platformisation. By examining Airbnb's impact on housing and the development of coworking spaces, it provides a detailed exploration of how digital platforms are reshaping fundamental urban sites of production and reproduction within the broader context of post-2008 financialised capitalism. The study offers three significant contributions to the field. First, it presents a robust methodological framework for investigating financialised urbanism through spatial theory. Second, it delivers an empirical analysis of platform-mediated spatial practices at the micro level, offering concrete examples of these dynamics in action. Third, it advances theoretical understanding by situating platform urbanism within the larger processes of financialisation, highlighting the interplay between technology and real estate sectors in refiguring urban spaces and everyday practices. It does so by leveraging fieldwork from Berlin, a city uniquely suited for analysis due to its dynamic landscape of urban development and ongoing housing challenges. As such, it provides a cutting-edge and highly relevant analysis of how financial and technological forces are transforming cities, at both the structural and everyday levels. It will appeal to academics and graduate students of urban studies, human geography, sociology, and digital economy research, and particularly those working at the intersection of digital platforms and urban environments.

Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle's becoming a metropolitan city region in the nineteenth century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan status through disruptions of incessant economic advances being ameliorated by myriad social organizations to create a new vibrant urban environment.

The book defines the specific process of 'becoming metropolitan' by bringing together economic and social urban studies to explain an interactive development that when successful creates a metropolitan city region. In addition, a real example of this is meticulously described through a detailed case study that traces the process across decades to a metropolitan outcome. In doing so, it combines theoretical and empirical understandings within a single text and provides accessible information to a unique and large dataset.

Becoming Metropolitan will appeal to graduates and researchers of geography, sociology, planning, and history specializing in cities and urban studies. It will also be valuable to a larger public audience with interest in cities, as 'metropolitan' is a commonplace idea easily understood, especially in the case- study city.

Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal yet underexplored role in Regional Green Transitions (RGTs) and sustainable development. This volume addresses this knowledge gap by examining how universities in the Nordic region engage with RGTs, offering theoretical and methodological insights from diverse disciplines such as economic geography, political economy, organisational theory and education. The Nordic region, often regarded as a benchmark for best practices in education, research, innovation and regional development, serves as the backdrop for this exploration.

Through a rich collection of case studies, the book reveals that RGTs are neither linear nor uniform. Universities navigate these transitions at varying speeds and with different strategies. Some act as agenda-setters, leveraging local coalitions and innovation ecosystems, while others adopt a more cautious approach, observing leading regions and universities before committing to action. Structural pressures, such as national funding systems, global supply chains and sectoral dependencies, further shape their responses.

Offering important conceptual and practical insights for a wide variety of audiences, from social scientists and advance students to university managers, and policymakers, this volume underscores the critical role of HEIs in advancing RGTs (and change processes more generally) amidst evolving political, economic and social landscapes.

This book examines the history and current context of racism in housing and neighborhoods to understand how racism and white supremacy have hindered true equality. This book explores how Americans use various means - from racial intimidation to restrictive zoning - to continue to exclude entire races and classes of people from their neighborhoods and communities. We live in a society that claims to value diversity - of opinions, of religions, of perspectives, of race - but Tighe shows how spatial segregation and inequality present in society fail those values. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, policymakers, urban planners, lawyers, and advocates working in urban issues such as housing, race, and class.

Cities across the world are facing a convergence of environmental risks, from flooding and extreme heat events to air pollution and water scarcity. These threats are increasingly uneven in their impacts and deeply shaped by local geography. This book offers a practical, accessible guide to understand and respond to these threats using open source geographic information systems (GIS) and freely available spatial data. Through real-world case studies, the author discusses each risk separately to meet the needs of decision-making when urban threats happen.

Features:

• Focuses on mapping specific urban threats such as water scarcity, flood risk, fire, and urban heat islands.
• Takes a risk-by-risk approach grounded in the everyday realities of each city and using geospatial tools to support action.
• Shows how to analyze urban threats using open tools like QGIS, freely accessible satellite imagery, and public datasets.
• Emphasizes concepts and decision-making rather than software mastery, making it suitable for a variety of readers.

By demystifying geospatial analysis and emphasizing hands-on, place-based projects, this book empowers readers, such as students, city planners, journalists, community advocates, and public health officials alike, to investigate environmental risks in their own neighborhoods and use maps to support smarter, more equitable action. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This interdisciplinary book lays the foundations for a new critique of human societies examining how humans, as a species, are suited to live across the rural-urban spectrum. It proposes a new perspective for urban studies, ultimately centred on human nature. Evolutionary perspectives are at the core of the book and are linked to other disciplines such as economic geography, sociology, anthropology, geographical psychology, environmental psychology, genetics, and ontogenetics.

The book summarises the academic state of the art of the various fields under discussion, each expressing its own angle which, when holistically presented in the same volume, enriches the integrated understanding of such a multilayered theme. The timing of this book is critical: today, more than ever, we live in urban environments of some description or other and, within the coming decades, large numbers of new dwellers will "choose" cities as their permanent place of residence. For this reason, the author argues that urban planning and design must embrace this unique opportunity to build ex-novo urban and non-urban settlements for billions of people in liveable ways. The interdisciplinary approach brings together the study and understanding of cities from diverse disciplines.

This topical work therefore offers the reader a new understanding of how - and tentatively, why - living in cities affects humans for better or worse. It indirectly underlines the importance of smaller settlements based on empirical evidence, without necessarily having to escape from the big city, which instead could become more attractive if wisely planned and integrated in the larger multivariate territory. The author provides educated insights for policy and planning, inducing habitats which could be optimal for our wellbeing and progress.

Luca S. D'Acci is Associate Professor at the Polytechnic of Turin (DIST), Honorary Fellow at the University of Birmingham (EPS), and Partner (Visiting Professor) at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EHERO).

This book guides readers to a better understanding of the German planning system and its responses to the critical challenges of 21st-century spatial planning, such as patterns of shrinkage and growth with ongoing economic structural change, demographic change and environmental challenges - particularly climate change. It explores the legal framework and offers in-depth insights into the content, process and implementation of comprehensive spatial plans. It also features good-practice urban development projects, incorporating compact city principles, mixed-use, sustainable mobility and water-sensitive development.

The German planning system is unique in terms of local planning sovereignty and rich in innovation due to its balanced federal structure and competition between the best spatial planning concepts. It is purposefully designed as a learning system that integrates systematic research, planning practice and further development of the legal framework in order to foster the innovation of good ideas for planning solutions and provide the necessary tools to turn them into built reality. This book is written for an international readership, providing the basis for the comparison of different planning systems to identify the most efficacious solutions for sustainable urban development. It will be of use to international students, scholars and practitioners of urban planning looking to address the vital challenges facing communities today.

Regional policies intended to reduce geographical inequalities in economic prosperity and performance across the UK date back to 1928. Yet, today, the UK has one of the highest levels of spatial economic inequality of any of the OECD nations. Many of today's lagging regions and cities are the same as in the 1920s and 1930s, and these have been joined by other economically disadvantaged areas. This raises the key question as to why past regional policies have had such limited lasting impact. This collection of interrogative essays, by experts in their respective fields, examines past policies to identify both their positive and the negative aspects with a view to explaining that question.

Several recurring weaknesses of past policies are identified (including inadequate resources, excessive churn of policies, a lack of strategic vision, inadequate embeddedness into mainstream policymaking, and a disproportionate concentration of economic, financial, and political power in London). Whilst recent major policy initiatives, including levelling up, an industrial strategy, and devolution, go some way to addressing the limitations of past policy, whether they are likely to achieve a more spatially balanced economy at what is a critical time for the UK's national economy is debatable.

This book will be of value to students, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of regional and urban development.

The book explores the complex links between war and order, presenting a well-founded and fresh view on how crime is governed in modern societies. It challenges existing analyses of the relationship between space and social control, offering an original theoretical perspective and a new analytical tool that paves the way for several lines of research examining how dynamic spaces of social control are designed across different spatiotemporal contexts.

The author shows how the uneven distribution of violence and security worldwide is key to understanding how our ideas of order are formed and how we perceive and inhabit cities. This uneven spread of violence and security grants a particular privilege in modern societies: the right to live in less violent areas. Such a privilege affects how crime is regulated and how security issues are addressed.

Fernando uses the case of Bogota to illustrate how war influences crime governance, even in societies and periods that seem peaceful, and how crime governance affects people's interactions within the city. Consequently, the author offers a compelling explanation of the structure, functioning, and fluidity of social control in modern societies, challenging common explanations of crime governance's social effects, opening multiple avenues for research, and proposing new theoretical foundations for understanding and connecting the experiences of the Global North and South.

Both theoretically rich and accessibly written, this book will appeal to academics and general readers alike, especially those interested in understanding contemporary urban life.

This book explores how food shapes urban identity, through people and practices, and reflects the cultural and social experiences of urban gastronomy.

From streets to markets, from restaurants to home, Food Tourism in Urban Places is a way of experiencing cities, connecting with cultures and societies and participating in stories through places. Drawing on examples from around the world, including Uruguay, Italy, Japan, Georgia, Spain, South Africa, Denmark and New Zealand, this book combines multiple perspectives and theoretical drivers, from foodscapes and museums' narratives to gastrodiplomacy and somaesthetics, slow food and regenerative tourism. It demonstrates how food tourism is both universal and locally specific, connecting tradition and innovation, and ordinary and extraordinary experiences as part of a dialogue between everyday life and tourism. Looking forward, this book highlights the importance of indigenous knowledge and sustainability for the future of urban food experiences. Drawing on food through visual, sensory and participatory methods, readers are invited to see, taste and feel the cities to discover how food becomes a language of communication, identity and transformation.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food studies, gastronomy, hospitality and tourism, cultural anthropology, human geography and urban development. This book will also appeal to readers outside academia with an interest in food, tourism and urban culture.

This title offers cross-disciplinary visions and insights into the implications of housing policy across continents, through accounts of the lived experience of homelessness and housing stress.

Consisting of twenty chapters, visual essays and manifestos from a range of viewpoints inspired by the introductory Homefullness manifesto, this timely collection explores experiences of and approaches to homelessness and housing stress and presents Homefullness as a positive lens to work towards inclusive, affordable and sustainable communities where everyone has a home. It covers a diverse range of topics including supporting cross-disciplinary thinking and innovation in the areas of homelessness and housing stress. The diverse provocative international thinking, research and practice included here explores the importance of community solidarity, mutual aid, and the meaning of home.

This book will be ideal for students, scholars, researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines and will appeal to readers with interests in the areas of social justice, art, design, activism, homelessness, housing stress, housing policy and provision, human rights and community development.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of Mediterranean port cities and their challenges in a "liquid" world. It interrogates emerging cultural narratives of these places, new morphological approaches to understand their transformation, and the global pressures and local dynamics that shape them.

The volume provides a compendium of themes and an actionable research agenda to explore twenty-first-century port cities, their changing culture and transformation, against the complexities and existential challenges of the Mediterranean region. It does so by embracing the seismic changes and uncertainty of our current times.

The book is addressed to scholars and students engaging with port city studies from a wide range of disciplines, including urban planning, human geography, urban sociology, maritime anthropology, cultural policy, and maritime and naval history.

This book critically examines the application of the enabling housing strategy in Asia, and assesses why market-driven strategies fail to meet the housing needs of the urban poor. The enabling strategy, rooted in the neoliberal paradigm, criticizes a state-led supply of housing, and argues that the private sector can produce more affordable housing through deregulation, an increased land supply, a robust housing finance sector, and a reliance on the market mechanisms. The book finds that enabling policies increase the supply of middle-income housing, but ignore low-income housing which it considers financially unfeasible or unattractive. As neoliberal policies prioritize urban economic growth, they encourage the demolition of informal settlements to give the land a more productive use, thereby eradicating the only affordable housing for the poor. An effective policy must turn government from enabler to promoter, treating low-income housing as a market niche, shielded from downward raiding and gentrification. The policy must combine housing and income generation, and develop institutions that bridge the gap between the formal sector and the socio-economic conditions of the poor. It is critical that the authorities recognize the poor as legitimate city residents who make significant contributions to the urban economy.

A book of vital interest to students, researchers, and academics in urban planning, housing, architecture, development studies, and urban economics, it will also be of interest to policymakers, housing activists of NGOs, and private-sector developers in developing countries.

There is growing global interest in understanding how digital technologies, institutional and physical spaces, particularly within the framework of digital and green agendas, can transform cities, influence behaviour, and stimulate innovation. This book advances a novel and interdisciplinary framework for understanding intelligent environments, grounded in the concept of connected intelligence, the integration of human, collective, and machine intelligence.

It explores how this integration operates within real-world smart ecosystems to drive transformative innovations in sustainable development, carbon neutrality, urban efficiency, and liveability. Departing from approaches that treat intelligent systems as purely technological constructs, such as urban artificial intelligence (AI), cyber-physical infrastructure, digital twins, and machine learning vision, it reframes intelligent environments as socio-technical systems that remain fundamentally human-centric, even in the age of AI. It distinguishes itself from existing smart city literature, which often isolates digital technologies and IoT infrastructures for cities, by offering a comprehensive investigation of smart ecosystems as digital-institutional-physical (DIP) spaces; an analysis of real-world environments where connected intelligence is enacted, including industrial sectors evolving into smart-green ecosystems, platform services augmented by generative AI, carbon-neutral residential districts; and the development of a universal architecture of connected intelligence, applicable across diverse ecosystems.

By bridging theory and practice and integrating technological, institutional, and territorial perspectives, the book introduces a conceptual and practical lens to understand how smart ecosystems enable ongoing transformative innovations that are reshaping the near future of cities and regions. It offers insights into evolving intelligent environments and will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and students of innovation systems, smart cities, urban development and planning, transportation and environmental planning, governance, digital systems, and engineering.

In an era marked by global uncertainties and pressing challenges, this scholarly monograph offers insights into the future of European cities based on over a decade of research. Today, halfway through implementing the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pressing issues such as climate change, pandemics, economic upheavals, increased inequities, conflicts, and technological leaps require innovative responses that embrace all fields of society. Addressing these challenges, the authors advocate for innovative solutions that embrace the pivotal roles of culture and ecology.

Drawing from extensive studies centered on the city of Ixelles, Belgium, this book examines the transformative power of integrating biocultural goals into public policies. Through adopting a biocultural approach, Ixelles has achieved sustainable development objectives and addressed critical topics such as gender equality, multiculturalism, and societal change.

Discussing diverse models and policies to enhance community regeneration and global connectivity, the book emphasizes the imperative of collective action for the betterment of all and the planet. It will appeal to students, scholars, and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of biocultural approaches, sustainability, and policy solutions for the pressing issues of our time.

Cities are active policy innovators of global importance, whether responding to climate change, migration, poverty, or health disparities, or aiming to generate growth. Since cities adapt to the needs and interests of global capital, they may implement policies that slight the well-being of everyday residents and the most vulnerable. How cities choose to contribute to a democratic and sustainable future reveals dimensions of political life playing out in society at large.

Global Urban Policy suggests that to understand contemporary societal transformation-and political and policy processes more generally-we need to study the policies that cities create and implement. Going beyond thinking of "urban" as a physical site, the authors show that an urban mode of life is one marked by diversity, complexity, chaos, flexibility, and ongoing change. With eleven empirical case studies, the authors examine issues including housing and urban development, migration, climate change, and crime in cities as varied as Berlin, Medellin, Chicago, Accra, Guangzhou, Sao Paulo, Mumbai, and Saint Etienne. The studies show how contemporary confrontations between public and private property, power and justice, participation and exclusion, wealth and poverty, and emerging technology and existing economic, social, and political structures take physical form in cities. Global Urban Policy engages with theoretical developments in public policy, urban politics, and urban studies to develop and demonstrate a framework for urban policy analysis.

This book examines the transformative role of crowd-sourced data and AI-driven analytics in redefining urban environments. This book presents a thorough investigation into how large-scale and real-time data-harnessed from mobile devices, sensors, and participatory inputs-enhances urban systems, including transportation, public safety, sustainability, and civic engagement. Through cutting-edge data analytics, machine learning techniques, and scalable system architectures, the book demonstrates how intelligent urban management is achieved.

This book integrates theoretical foundations with applied perspectives, offering a structured discussion around three central domains including Urban Crowdsensing Practices (i.e., concepts, models, and service patterns), Data Processing and Analytics (e.g., data fusion, machine learning, and intelligent frameworks), and Technological Enablers (such as mobile sensing, IoT, and cloud-based systems). Key Contributions of this book are:

1. Innovative Integration of Technologies: Demonstrates the convergence of crowdsensing, AI, big data analytics, and IoT to support intelligent and responsive urban decision making.

2. Practical Applications and Case Studies: Showcases real-world implementations of crowdsensing, highlighting its tangible impact on smart city development and urban innovation.

3. Interdisciplinary and Forward-Looking Perspectives: Bridges academia, industry, and policy, offering actionable insights for researchers, engineers, planners, and decision-makers.

This book provides a compelling and timely exploration of passive design strategies in the coastal city of Bushehr, revealing how centuries-old architectural wisdom can inform today's urgent sustainability agenda. Set against the backdrop of escalating global warming and the high energy demand of HVAC systems, it demonstrates how vernacular solutions can significantly enhance building performance in hot-humid climates. Drawing from Bushehr's rich architectural heritage, the book showcases climate-responsive orientation, spatial organization, natural ventilation methods, and innovative shading systems that ensured thermal comfort long before mechanical cooling existed. Combining field observations, environmental measurements, and insights from traditional building owners, it illustrates how these proven techniques can be refined through modern engineering analysis and seamlessly integrated into contemporary construction. Written for architects, engineers, students, and urban planners, this book serves as both a vital documentation of cultural heritage and a practical roadmap for designing energy-efficient, climate-adaptive, and culturally grounded buildings in coastal and hot and humid regions worldwide.