Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an extensive overview of security-related problems in the context of smart cities, seen as huge data consumers and producers. Trends as hyper connectivity, messy complexity, loss of boundary and industrialized hacking transform smart cities in complex...

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an extensive overview of security-related problems in the context of smart cities. The impressive heterogeneity, ubiquity, miniaturization, autonomous and unpredictable behaviour of objects interconnected in Internet of Things, the real data deluges...

Four measures of urban patterns are identified to describe the distributions of housing units in 59 large urban areas in the United States from 1950 to 2010. These measures include density; variation in density using the index of dissimilarity; centralization measuring the proportional reduction...

In this paper, I present a framework for analyzing city competition that clarifies the different dimensions along which cities can compete with one another for people and firms. I contend that current urban development strategies are largely based on a “hydraulic” approach to development and...

The development of the city in Indonesia has different character and identity. Recognizing identities will understand who and what their needs are, how much and how they meet these needs, and strive to nurture and nurture them well and sustainably according to their characteristics or identity....

With a self-constructed, unique historical data set for 240 counties that spans over centuries, this paper uses the ‘quasi-natural experiment' of capital relocation in 1421, during China's Ming Dynasty, as an exogenous shock to study the relationship between political governance and urban...

A hyperbolic, equivocal view about the city is still hegemonic among urban scholars and commentators. Such view portrays cities and urban life, in an optimistic and one-sided fashion, as the foundations of global economic growth and human progress. Robert Beauregard's Cities in the Urban Age is...