Introduction -- Implementation of MGNREGA: A Study of two Gram Panchayats in Jhalawar, Rajasthan -- ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ intervention for a semi-urban village through ‘Public-People-Private’ partnership -- Making the Connection between Informal Self-employment and Temporary...

Leistungsdimensionen von Smart Cities -- Strategieentwicklung für Smart Cities -- Regionale Abhängigkeiten trotz Smartness? -- Zentrale Akteure von Smart Cities -- Handlungsfelder (Urban Production & Logistics, Innovation und Digitalisierung, Risikomanagement, Megaprojekte) -- Smarter Cities...

Introduction -- Part I: Complexity, Cognition and Cities -- 1. What makes cities complex? -- 2. Evolving a Plan: Design and Planning with Complexity -- 3. Self-organization and design as complementary pair -- 4. Cultivating complexity: The need for a shift in cognition -- 5. The fourth...

Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Globalized Space Versus Refuge of Locality? Beyond the Global Cities discourse -- 3 Rethinking the City: Actor-Network Theory and the Creation of Urban Connections -- 4 Urban Intensities: Architecture, Design, Affect -- 5 Rethinking Innovation: The Urban...

Interpretative Models of Urban Intervention -- Impact of the General Model on Specific Case Studies -- Participation and the Socio-Political Foundations of the Management of Urban Redevelopments -- Case Studies -- Conclusion

Das Buch beschreibt die Probleme und Gefahren, die im Großprojektmanagement auftreten können. So steht bei der Case Study die Betrachtung ethischer, moralischer und wirtschaftlicher Konflikte zwischen Unternehmen und Stakeholdern im Vordergrund. Am konkreten Beispiel der Projektplanungen für...

In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social...

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This book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute essential foundations for any understanding of urban form and function. These are: (a) the shifting patterns of urbanization through historical time, (b) the...