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Book Urban High Technology Zones

Download or read book Urban High Technology Zones written by Ahoura Zandiatashbar and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban High-Technology Zones offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society, looking at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, quality-of-life impacts of high tech clusters on their surrounding communities, and economic geography. Using a combination of advanced geospatial data-driven techniques with evidence-based insights, the book provides quantitative measures on high tech cluster's social, environmental and economic impacts. While findings are from drawn cities in the US, the book's spatial analyses, methodology, research conclusions and literature reviews are generalizable to cities around the world. Users will find numerous insights and guidance on the role high-tech clusters play in how cities reach their economic growth and social equity goals, making it a useful resource for academic research and policy guidance. - Draws on disaggregated firm-level data to provide strong analytical granularity - Includes numerous and diverse case studies focusing economic externalities, policy implementation, and institutional barriers - Examines such issues as housing affordability and high-tech clusters' place attributes

Book Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China

Download or read book Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China written by Ye Yumin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: •The focus of published narrative on the great Chinese urbanization wave was always going to sharpen _ away from the general fascination, assertions, theories and commentaries to specific issues and specific regions. Well here is a first class example

Book Human Centered Urban Planning and Design in China  Volume I

Download or read book Human Centered Urban Planning and Design in China Volume I written by Weifeng Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Sustainable urban and rural planning should be “people-centered” and concerned about urban-rural coordination. The authors argue that successful urban and rural development in China should promote social equity, culture diversity, economic prosperity and sustainable built form. This book prompts Chinese urbanists to reconsider and explore a sustainable and people-first planning approach with Chinese characteristics. The breadth and depth of this book is of particular interest to the faculty members, students, practitioners and the general public who are interested in subjects like urban and regional planning, rural planning, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, climate change and ecological planning, environmental planning, social equity and beyond. This book dealing with human-centered urban planning and development, rural planning and urban-rural coordination in China is part of a 2 volume set. Volume II discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility.

Book The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies written by Anthony M. Orum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 2919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ‘global cities’. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida. Comprised of over 450 entries on the most important topics and from a range of theoretical perspectives Features authoritative entries on topics ranging from gender and the city to biographical profiles of figures like Frank Lloyd Wright Takes a global perspective with entries providing coverage of Latin America and Africa, India and China, and, the US and Europe Includes biographies of central figures in urban and regional studies, such as Doreen Massey, Peter Hall, Neil Smith, and Henri Lefebvre The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies is an indispensable reference for students and researchers in urban and regional studies, urban sociology, urban geography, and urban anthropology.

Book Mega Urban Projects in China

Download or read book Mega Urban Projects in China written by Yanpeng Jiang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first systematic account of mega urban projects in China, covering their construction, operation and planning. It is a detailed examination of the planning and construction of Hongqiao and its impact on local residents. In short, the aim of this book is to examine the process of planning and development of the Hongqiao transportation and commercial zone, to explore its relationship to urban development and spatial restructuring in Shanghai, and in doing so to comment on and critique the nature of urban change in contemporary China, which is characterized as property- and infrastructure-driven. Mega urban projects are arguably the quintessential symbol of entrepreneurial urbanism, and it is no coincidence that they have become a familiar part of the urban scene throughout the world, not least in East Asia. They can be seen as both a consequence of, and a response to, the deindustrialization of leading cities, first in North America and Europe and then in East Asia, as economies transitioned to globalized neoliberalism. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main features of the land-based urban growth coalition formed in Hongqiao by introducing the detailed picture of the Hongqiao project, and it outlines the recent example of the competitive rush to urban projects in China's largest cities that has led to the proliferation of new financial districts in Beijing and Guangzhou.

Book Sustainable Urbanism in China

Download or read book Sustainable Urbanism in China written by Ali Cheshmehzangi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Urbanism in China explores the notion of "Sustainable Urbanism" by considering the role sustainable neighborhood planning plays in the larger picture of sustainable urbanism and suggests innovations and best practices that are either developed or adopted by China. These are narrated as lessons learnt for other countries where we see similar trends of development patterns or emerging practices. Through various explorations of challenges, paradigms, and innovations of urban sustainability, this book highlights how planning, policy, and design are forming and reforming in the context of China. These are offered through a set of guidelines and pathways for urban sustainability at the scale of neighborhoods/communities or districts in a wider context of urban environments, as well as strategies for planners, developers, policy makers, and educators in the field of the built environment. Through a comprehensive overview of urban sustainability practices in China, this book investigates 12 case study projects. These comprehensive explorations should in turn help construct the future directions of China’s sustainable urban development and provide innovative pathways of sustainable urbanism in China and around the globe.

Book Emerging Issues in Urban Development

Download or read book Emerging Issues in Urban Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China s Urban Space

Download or read book China s Urban Space written by Terry McGee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China’s urban space since the 1970s, arguing that to study the Chinese urbanization process one must recognize the distinctive political economy of China. After a long period as a planned socialist economy, China’s rapid entry into the global economy has raised suggestions that modernization in China will inevitably result in urban patterns and features like those of cities in developed market economies. This book argues that this is unlikely in the short term, because processes of urban transition in China must be interpreted through the lens of a unique and unprecedented juxtaposition of socialism and the market economy, which is leading to distinctive patterns of Chinese urbanization. Richly illustrated with maps, diagrams and in-depth case studies, this book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars of urban economics and policy, geography, and the development of China.

Book Big Data     BigData 2018

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francis Y. L. Chin
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-06-20
  • ISBN : 3319943014
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Big Data BigData 2018 written by Francis Y. L. Chin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on BIGDATA 2018, held as Part of SCF 2018 in Seattle, WA, USA in June 2018. The 22 full papers together with 10 short papers published in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as Data analysis, data as a service, services computing, data conversion, data storage, data centers, dataflow architectures, data compression, data exchange, data modeling, databases, and data management.

Book Directors of Urban Change in Asia

Download or read book Directors of Urban Change in Asia written by Peter J.M. Nas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a group of international scholars, Directors of Urban Change in Asia examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix of Asian cities. The books discusses how, in the majority of cases, urban change has come about primarily as the result of visionary leaders, on national, regional and local levels. It also makes clear that the less successful cities have tended to lack such leaders.

Book Transforming Urban Economies

Download or read book Transforming Urban Economies written by Andrea Colantonio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities house the majority of the world’s population and are the dynamic centres of 21st century life, at the heart of economic, social and environmental change. They are still beset by difficult problems but often demonstrate resilience in the face of regional and national economic decline. Faced by the combined threats of globalisation and world recession, cities and their metropolitan regions have had to fight hard to maintain their global competitiveness and protect the quality of life of urban residents Transforming Urban Economies: Policy Lessons from European and Asian Cities, the first in an ongoing series of research volumes by LSE Cities, provides insights in how cities can respond positively to these challenges. The fine-grained and authoritative analysis of how Barcelona, Turin, Munich and Seoul have been transformed in the last 20 years examines comparative patterns of decline, adaptation and recovery of cities that have successfully managed to transform their economies in the face of economic hardship. This in-depth and practical analysis is aimed at urban leaders, designers, planners, policymakers and scholars who want to understand the dynamics of economic resilience while cities are still suffering from the aftershocks of the 2008 recession. The book highlights the importance of aligned and multi-level governance, the need for strategic public investments and the role of the private sector, universities and foundations in leading and guiding complex processes of urban recovery in an increasingly uncertain age.

Book Urban Spaces in Contemporary China

Download or read book Urban Spaces in Contemporary China written by Deborah Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the impact of post-Mao reforms on the economic, social and cultural dimensions of China's cities.

Book Carbon Neutrality  Social Media  Artificial Intelligence  volume II

Download or read book Carbon Neutrality Social Media Artificial Intelligence volume II written by Rita Yi Man Li and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon neutrality refers to net-zero carbon emissions. It can be achieved by reducing carbon emissions or increasing carbon adsorption. The popularity of social media including Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn provides good channels for sharing relevant information and promoting sustainable carbon-neutral living styles. For example, a motor company has launched social media challenges with Korean pop stars to raise awareness of carbon neutrality. Social media provides real-time information. In Jakarta, flood-related tweet intensity during a flood peaked at about 900 tweets a minute during the floods of 2015. The tweets created real-time maps that people sent a minute before. Regarding government policies, identification of problem areas is needed to help policymakers to resolve problems. Machine learning can monitor these events by studying past records to know how countries and governments performed in a high-risk event or environmental crisis and this data can be used to provide future recommendations to governments for policy making. Additionally, AI can analyze online unstructured data, and predict various scenarios of carbon emissions and adsorptions using structured data. The world of social media is a huge data source still yet to be fully optimized in science.

Book Contemporary Urban Design Thoughts in China

Download or read book Contemporary Urban Design Thoughts in China written by Jin Duan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes and systematically discusses four trends of thoughts in contemporary Chinese urban design. As the first book to systematically introduce contemporary Chinese urban design thoughts, this book objectively displays the macroscopic picture of contemporary urban design development of China from the time dimension, sorting out seven historical stages and three disputes. This book is mainly divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the vertical description, taking the major events in the seven historical stages as the context, combing the macro picture of the development of contemporary urban design in China in the last 100 years, and describing the three controversies in this process: contention, subject, and legalization. The second part focuses on horizontal observations, puts forward and systematically discusses the four trends of thought formed in the development of contemporary urban design in China, including “Design of Form,” “Synthesis of Design,” “Control of Design,” and “Design of Rule”. This part discusses their development background, theoretical support, and key concepts in detail and finally conducts critical thinking. The whole book is based on historical events, archives, and papers published in Chinese academic journals. While sorting out, summarizing, and objectively discussing, it also makes a critique of urban design activities and academic thinking in China, which will greatly benefit scholars and readers who are interested in urban design history of contemporary China.

Book The New Urban Area Development

Download or read book The New Urban Area Development written by Zisheng Shao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This book examines the formation trajectory and development path of China’s newly formed urban areas, which was the result of an unprecedented massive urbanization process. The analysis is based on the case of Dezhou, Shandong Province. This book systematically introduces strategic studies, planning and design, development and construction, investments, policies and future development of new urban areas. The book broadly summarizes strategies used for new urban area development and the concrete methods implemented in place. In-depth analysis into the selected case areas also reveal some critical issues emerged from the Chinese practice in urbanization. In general, this book provides a useful reference for government leaders, urbanization researchers, city planners, city economic policy makers and researchers interested in related areas.

Book Geo Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem

Download or read book Geo Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem written by Fuling Bian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2014, held in Ypsilanti, MI, China, in December 2014. The 73 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 296 submissions. The papers are divided into topical sections on smart city in resource management and sustainable ecosystem; spatial data acquisition through RS and GIS in resource management and sustainable ecosystem; ecological and environmental data processing and management; advanced geospatial model and analysis for understanding ecological and environmental process; applications of geo-informatics in resource management and sustainable ecosystem.

Book Knowledge Based Urban Development  Planning and Applications in the Information Era

Download or read book Knowledge Based Urban Development Planning and Applications in the Information Era written by Yigitcanlar, Tan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book covers theoretical, thematic, and country-specific issues of knowledge cities to underline the growing importance of KBUD all around the world, providing substantive research on the decisive lineaments of urban development for knowledge-based production (drawing attention to new planning processes to foster such development), and worldwide best practices and case studies in the field of urban development"--Provided by publisher.