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Citizen Participation in the Information Society
This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development. It assesses the emergence, use, applicability and functions of digital modes of citizen participation in multiple cities around the world, where political regimes invite ordinary citizens to partake in policy processes through information technologies. The book also…
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- 978-3-030-99940-7
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Commoning the City Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics
This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics. The chapters in this volume draw on case studies in a diversity of urban contexts, ranging from Detroit, USA to Kyrenia, Cyprus – on urban gardening an…
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- 9780429021886
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- 228 p
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- 337 COM
Urban and Regional Cooperation and Development
This is an open access book. This book, first of all, introduces the new unveiled Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone with details as a special mode of the regional collaborative development that is committed to be mutually beneficial to both sides with different political and economic systems. China's central authorities have recently issued a masterplan for constructing the Guangdong-M…
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- 978-981-19-8061-9
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography
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- IX, 94
Urban Geology
Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance. In this book a multidisciplinary team of specialists and scientists presents innovative process-oriented approaches to the sustainable use of these resources. The included case studies from northwestern Switzerland describe representative e…
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- 978-3-0348-0185-0
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- XVI, 216
Urban and Regional Cooperation and Development
This is an open access book. This book, first of all, introduces the new unveiled Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone with details as a special mode of the regional collaborative development that is committed to be mutually beneficial to both sides with different political and economic systems. China's central authorities have recently issued a masterplan for constructing the Guangdong-M…
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- 978-981-19-8061-9
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography
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- IX, 94
Planetary Hinterlands
This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times…
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- 978-3-031-24243-4
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- XVI, 341
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Sequel to suburbia :glimpses of America's post-suburban future
How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330749
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- 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Fracking the neighborhood :reluctant activists and natural gas drilling
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessi…
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- 9780262329798
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).
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Sharing cities :a case for truly smart and sustainable cities
The work makes a case for understanding cities as shared spaces and venues for collaboration; and proposes policies and practices to share cities fairly. It argues that with modern technologies the intersection of urban space and cyberspace provides an unrivalled platform for more just, inclusive and environmentally efficient economies and societies rooted in a sharing culture.OCLC-licensed ven…
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- 9780262329705
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- 1 online resource (x, 445 pages) :illustrations.
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The Provisional City; Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism
Bagaimana kota modern terbentuk melalui siklus pergolakan, pembongkaran, dan perdebatan yang tak berujung. Kota sementara adalah kota yang terus-menerus dihapus dan dihancurkan. Melalui apa yang disebut Dana Cuff sebagai "tindakan urban yang gejolak," pengembang publik dan swasta menghancurkan situs urban dan membubarkan penghuninya, menggantinya dengan visi kehidupan yang lebih baik yang tidak…
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- 9780262271004
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- 1 online resource (x, 380 pages) :
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- 307.76 CUF p
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