1. Modern civilization is the city -- 2. Key problems facing modern cities -- 3. The green industrial revolution -- 4. Smart green and sustainable -- 5. Technologies that make a city smart and green -- 6. Sustainable green transport -- 7. China- revolutionary green transformation -- 8. The next...

"This book explores the concepts of car-free cities and city humanization as possible solutions to reduce the deteriorating effect on the environment and the community. The publication discusses the urban initiative to implement pedestrianization and humanization of cities and public spaces to...

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...