Chapter 1. The Initial Response Systems used for Major Earthquakes and Disaster-resistant City Planning -- Chapter 2. Theory of Spare City Planning: for Temporary Use in Case of Emergency -- Chapter 3. Reconstruction Plans -- Chapter 4. Summary and Issues That Need to Be Considered -- Chapter 5....

Prague is a vibrant and growing city facing significant land-use pressures related to rapid peri-urban growth. This report examines land use and governance trends in Prague and the broader metropolitan area, including the formal elements of the planning system and broader governance arrangements...

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The authors focus on the interface between these two sub-disciplines that have historically had an uneasy relationship.

Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and...