Circular Cities

Author : Jo Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429955426

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Circular Cities by Jo Williams Pdf

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe. This research-based book defines the circular city and circular development. It explains the shift in focus from a purely economic concept, which promotes circular business models in cities, to one that explores a new approach to urban development. This approach offers huge opportunities and addresses important sustainability issues: resource consumption and waste; climate change; the health of urban populations; social inequalities and the creation of sustainable urban economies. It examines the different approaches to circular development, drawing on research conducted in four European cities: Amsterdam, London, Paris and Stockholm. It explores different development pathways and levers for a circular urban transformation. It highlights the benefits of adopting a circular approach to development in cities, but acknowledges that these benefits are not shared equally across society. Finally, it focuses on the challenges to implementing circular development faced by urban actors. This ground-breaking book will be essential reading to scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in the circular economy, urban sustainability, urban ecology, urban planning, urban regeneration, urban resilience, adaptive cities and regenerative cities.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264976122

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OECD Urban Studies The Circular Economy in Cities and Regions Synthesis Report by OECD Pdf

Cities and regions play a fundamental role in the transition from a linear to a circular economy, as they are responsible for key policies in local public services such as transport, solid waste, water and energy that affect citizens’ well-being, economic growth and environmental quality. This synthesis report builds on the findings from 51 cities and regions contributing to the OECD Survey on the Circular Economy in Cities and Regions and on lessons learnt from the OECD Policy Dialogues on the circular economy carried out in Groningen (Netherlands), Umeå (Sweden), Valladolid (Spain) and on-going in Glasgow (United Kingdom), Granada (Spain), and Ireland.

Author : Robert C. Brears
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030877453

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures by Robert C. Brears Pdf

While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues, lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth, scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution, and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and social consequences. In response, there is a growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in nature with people and communities interacting with one another and with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc., within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts. This comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788835156765

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Reconnecting the city with nature and history by AA. VV. Pdf

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Author : Panos Fitsilis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030978181

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Building on Smart Cities Skills and Competences by Panos Fitsilis Pdf

This book provides insights on skills required to achieve success in smart cities from a variety of industry and human factors perspectives. It emphasizes the balance between learning skills, technical skills, and domain-specific skills in these industries, with special emphasis given to innovative software development models. The authors note that digital transformation requires complementary measures that are not overtly aimed to support infrastructure investment but are instead directed at promoting entrepreneurship, improving digital skills, engaging citizens, applying new transformation strategies, and developing innovative software. All of the above are considered strategically important, especially for medium-sized cities since that enable them to be more competitive in the global economy.

Author : Sylvie Albert,Manish Pandey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000436334

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Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities by Sylvie Albert,Manish Pandey Pdf

Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities provides an overview of measurement systems and tools to enable communities to self-assess and benchmark their progress along a continuum of smart, intelligent, and sustainable development. It begins by explaining the importance of measurement and evaluation for cities and smaller communities, as well as future factors that will need to be considered and embedded into planning processes. Across 14 chapters, the book describes existing evaluation mechanisms that are being used for government funding decisions, awards of recognition, and new measurement systems to assess what makes a city smarter and more sustainable, such as broader sustainable goal targets (UN SDGs), green cities, fabrication cities, and compassionate cities. It presents examples of metrics used for important sustainability and liveability concepts for cities such as how to measure trust, engagement, compassion, circular economy, and so forth. The book ends with reflections on the feasibility of a holistic system of measurement and the implications of its implementation. This volume will be of great interest to students, researchers, and professionals of urban sustainability, planning, smart cities, and sustainable communities.

Author : Edward Glaeser,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429892363

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Urban Empires by Edward Glaeser,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world – in both developing and developed countries – display complex evolutionary patterns. Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of these radical changes in our contemporary systems from a global perspective and analyses the dominant position of modern cities in the ‘New Urban World’. This volume views the drastic change cities have undergone internationally through a broad perspective and considers their emerging roles in our global network society. Chapters from renowned scholars provide advanced analytical contributions, scaling applied and theoretical perspectives on the competitive profile of urban agglomerations in a globalizing world. Together, the volume traces and investigates the economic and political drivers of network cities in a global context and explores the challenges over governance that are presented by mega-cities. It also identifies and maps out the new geography of the emergent ‘urban century’. With contributions from well-known and influential scholars from around the world, Urban Empires serves as a touchstone for students and researchers keen to explore the scientific and policy needs of cities as they become our age’s global power centers.

Author : Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad,Marzena Smol
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323952798

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Sustainable and Circular Management of Resources and Waste Towards a Green Deal by Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad,Marzena Smol Pdf

Sustainable and Circular Management of Resources and Waste Towards a Green Deal highlights the importance of resource recovery, phosphorus management, climate action, clean energy transition, and a circular economy. The world is facing significant challenges, including climate disruption, environmental changes, pollution, and population explosion. Sustainable management of finite natural resources within the carrying capacity of the bio-geo-hydrosphere is the crux of transforming the global economy for a sustainable future. Moreover, keeping raw materials in circulation as long as possible and minimizing the amount of waste generated has grown in significance as a part of transitioning to a circular economy (CE) model. Introduces innovative solutions in green energy transition Provides case studies as examples of a circular economy implementation in selected sectors of the economy, including water and wastewater, raw materials, and construction Suggests actions to counteract climate change and its consequences for people and the planet

Author : Adriano Bisello,Daniele Vettorato,Håvard Haarstad,Judith Borsboom-van Beurden
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030573324

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Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions by Adriano Bisello,Daniele Vettorato,Håvard Haarstad,Judith Borsboom-van Beurden Pdf

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals. Innovation processes such as co-design and co-creation help establish collaborations that engage with stakeholders in a trustworthy and transparent environment while answering the need for new value propositions. The importance of an integrated, holistic approach is widely recognized to break down silos in local government, in particular, when aimed at achieving a better integration of climate-energy planning. Despite the ongoing urbanization and polarization processes, new synergies between urban and rural areas emerge, linking development opportunities to intrinsic cultural, natural and man-made landscape values. The increasing availability of big, real-time urban data and advanced ICT facilitates frequent assessment and continuous monitoring of performances, while allowing fine-tuning as needed. This is valid not only for individual projects but also on a wider scale. In addition, and circling back to the first point, (big) urban data and ICT can be of enormous help in facilitating engagement and co-creation by raising awareness and by providing insight into the local consequences of specific plans. However, this potential is not yet fully exploited in standard processes and procedures, which can therefore lack the agility and flexibility to keep up with the pulse of the city and dynamics of society. The book provides a multi-disciplinary outlook based on experience to orient the reader in the giant galaxy of smart and sustainable planning, support the transposition of research into practice, scale up visionary approaches and design groundbreaking planning policies and tools.

Author : Auravana
Publisher : Travis A. Grant
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9798986143651

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Auravana Material System by Auravana Pdf

This publication is the Material System for a community-type society. A material system describes the organized structuring of a material environment; the material structuring of community. This material system standard identifies the structures, technologies, and other processes constructed and operated in a material environment, and into a planetary ecology. A material system encodes and expresses our resolved decisions. When a decision resolves into action, that action is specified to occur in the material system. Here, behavior influences the environment, and in turn, the environment influences behavior. The coherent integration and open visualization of the material systems is important if creations are to maintain the highest level of fulfillment for all individuals. This standard represents the encoding of decisions into an environment forming lifestyles within a habitat service system. The visualization and simulation of humanity’s connected material integrations is essential for maintaining a set of complex, fulfillment-oriented material constructions. As such, the material system details what has been, what is, and what could be constructed [from our information model] into our environment. This specification depicts, through language and symbols, visualization, and simulation, a material environment consisting of a planetary ecology and embedded network of integrated city systems. For anything that is to be constructed in the material system, there is a written part, a drawing part, and a simulation part, which is also how the material system is sub-divided.

Author : Nigar Pösteki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527538061

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Strategic Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Migration Issues in Turkey and Abroad by Nigar Pösteki Pdf

The purpose of this book is to share the output of recent multidisciplinary research in Turkey performed by several academics regarding four main themes: urban studies and sustainability, local governments, environmental and migration issues. These are a significant agenda not only in Turkey but also in other countries. One of the important elements that makes this book interesting and original is that it explains the problems by addressing specific issues through examples. It intends to bring from different perspectives innovative approaches to finding solutions to current problems. A thread that runs through the study is the idea that the making and implementation of public policies at the local level will increase the success of achieving sustainability on a wider scale. The book will have an intellectual impact not only on researchers, students, policy makers and bureaucrats but also on more general readers as an academic resource.

Author : Auravana
Publisher : Travis A. Grant
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781733065184

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Auravana System Overview (Color) by Auravana Pdf

This publication is the System Overview for a community-type society -- this is the system overview for a proposed societal system of the type, ‘community’. This publication details an overview of the proposed type of society, as well as, an overview of the project to develop and operate said society. This overview identifies how humanity may organize information at a high-level, in order to structure its adaptation to a dynamic, emergent environment where humans physically interact together, and therein, have common human needs with the potential for fulfillment. It provides high-level models and relatable descriptions of the proposed community-type societal organization. It further includes a high-level explanation for the organized understanding of community at the societal scale. This overview document is necessary for social understanding, and it specifies, (1) the project to bring into existence and operate a community-type society, (2) a treatise on community as a type of society (i.e., community is a type of configuration of a societal system), (3) a high-level, unified model for the organization of societal information, in such a way as to sustain human fulfillment, and (4) a set of high-level overview models that visualize the structural formation of community, for society. This document provides discursive reasoning for the selection of community as the optimal societal configuration, given what is known, as opposed to the selection and construction of other societal configuration types.

Author : Rashmi Anoop Patil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789811997006

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Circularity Assessment: Macro to Nano by Rashmi Anoop Patil Pdf

Author : Reichental
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781119679936

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Smart Cities For Dummies by Reichental Pdf

Become empowered to build and maintain smarter cities At its core, a smart city is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban centers across the world. The movement to create smarter cities is still in its infancy, but ambitious and creative projects in all types of cities—big and small—around the globe are beginning to make a big difference. New ideas, powered by technology, are positively changing how we move humans and products from one place to another; create and distribute energy; manage waste; combat the climate crisis; build more energy efficient buildings; and improve basic city services through digitalization and the smart use of data. Inside this book you’ll find out: What it really means to create smarter cities How our urban environments are being transformed Big ideas for improving the quality of life for communities Guidance on how to create a smart city strategy The essential role of data in building better cities The major new technologies ready to make a difference in every community Smart Cities For Dummies will give you the knowledge to understand this important topic in depth and be ready to be an agent of change in your community.

Author : Olga Arsenyeva,Tatiana Romanova,Maria Sukhonos,Yevgen Tsegelnyk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031201417

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Smart Technologies in Urban Engineering by Olga Arsenyeva,Tatiana Romanova,Maria Sukhonos,Yevgen Tsegelnyk Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive review of smart technologies and perspectives on their application in urban engineering. It covers a wide range of applications, from transport and energy management to digital manufacturing, smart city, environment, and sustainable development, providing readers with new ideas for future research and collaborations. This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Smart Technologies in Urban Engineering (STUE-2022), held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on June 9–11, 2022. All the contributions offer plenty of valuable information and would be of great benefit to the experience exchange among scientists in urban engineering.