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Healthy Urbanism Designing and Planning Equitable, Sustainable and Inclusive Places
The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of...
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Mapping diversity: from ecology and human geography to urbanism and culture
A large body of research across science and humanities has come to deal with diversity, which, as a scientific concept, has proved immensely relevant...
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Practising Healthy Urbanism
Considerable progress towards international consensus on the need for sustainable development over the past 30 years has filtered down to action and...
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Introducing Healthy Urbanism
The global population, health and environmental trends affecting cities demand a new understanding of the meaning of healthy built environments. This...
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Repair and Do-It-Yourself Urbanism: Good Practice in London and Berlin
This paper examines the extent to which the activation and further development of the broad range of commercial and non-commercial practices of...
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Urbanism, Megaprojects, and the World Economy
This chapter explains how urbanism, megaprojects, and the world economy are inextricably linked. The chapter addresses the larger causal context of...
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Eco-Urbanism and the South East Asian City Climate, Urban-Architectural Form and Heritage
This book traces the history of urban design in tropical South East Asia with a view to offering solutions to contemporary architectural and urban...
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Developing Aquatic Urbanism: A Taxonomy for 35 Tactics
There is growing interest in water-based urban development, but there is no systematic approach to it. A matrix was created to combine viable...
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Modeling Tactical Urbanism: A Contemporary Approach for Urban Regeneration
Urban regeneration aims, among other objectives, to revive the city’s declined and sluggishly animated public spaces. Nevertheless, most of these...
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Platform urbanism and the Chinese smart city: the co-production and territorialisation of Hangzhou City Brain
We analyse an urban platform (Alibaba’s City Brain) to show how smart city development is evolving in urban China. In order to do so, we base our...
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Ethics of Urbanism: Rights in Urban Controversies
This book is about the ethics in relation to urban issues. Its main theme is how ethical considerations from Eastern and Western perspectives,...
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The Healthy City: How Sustainable Mobility Policies Gave a Resilient Response to the COVID-19 Crisis Through Tactical Urbanism
City and public health is a binomial with a long common story. Throughout history, there have been many sings of linkages between adequate urban...
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Urban Resilience by Morphology? Reflections on Lockdown Urbanism in China
The initial containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in China has been attributed by media and experts to the strict implementation of a generalised...
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Salutogenic Urbanism Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern European Cities
This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which...
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Climate Urbanism in the Post-pandemic World: Mapping Vulnerabilities and Exploring Community Activism in East London
This chapter proposes an approach to understand and map city social and environmental vulnerabilities, alongside bottom-up and emerging community...
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Competitive Urbanism in Its Regional Setting
In this chapter, the regional context was highlighted; the chapter positioned Hongqiao within the wider context of the western peripheries of...
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Impact of COVID-19 on Local Planning Practices: Focusing on Tactical Urbanism, Slow Streets and Low-Income Communities in Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, and New York
In the face of lockdowns and social distancing measures promulgated as a result of COVID-19, the effects on local planning are quite diverse. One of...
