Liveable Cities

Author : Luigi Fusco Girard,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031374661

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The Future of Liveable Cities by Luigi Fusco Girard,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

This book explores the concept of livable cities, where people enjoy living and being, and examines indicators of citizens' well-being in relation to the urban environment. It is authored by experts from diverse disciplines, providing a citizen-centered perspective on urban well-being in sustainable, environmentally friendly, and climate-neutral (or -positive) cities. The contributions focus on the human and social aspects of cities, developing operational models and frameworks for circular cities, smart resource utilization, and examining contextual factors such as environmental and neighborhood quality, energy transition, climate neutrality, and recycling as factors that influence the well-being of "homo urbanus.” The chapters approach these topics from various analytical perspectives, including conceptual/theoretical, methodological/modeling, policy/planning, and evidence-based case studies. This book will be of interest to scholars in regional and spatial science, urban geography, economics, and related fields, as well as those interested in urban well-being.

Author : Paulo Pereira,Rita Ribeiro,Ivo Oliveira,Paulo Novais
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030452933

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Society with Future: Smart and Liveable Cities by Paulo Pereira,Rita Ribeiro,Ivo Oliveira,Paulo Novais Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Society with Future: Smart and Liveable Cities, SC4Life 2019, which took place in Braga, Portugal, in December 2019. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The conference has brought researchers, developers, and practitioners who are leveraging and develoing new knowledge on the topic of smart cities, offering more efficiency to main infrastructures, utilities and services, creating a sustainable urban environment that improves the quality of life for its citizens and enhances economic development.

Author : Khee Giap Tan,Wing Thye Woo,Kong Yam Tan,Linda Low,Grace Ee Ling Aw
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814417327

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Ranking The Liveability Of The World's Major Cities: The Global Liveable Cities Index (Glci) by Khee Giap Tan,Wing Thye Woo,Kong Yam Tan,Linda Low,Grace Ee Ling Aw Pdf

This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural environment and its management; satisfaction with freedom from fear; satisfaction with the socio-cultural conditions; and satisfaction with public governance.The authors attempt to be more constructive through performing policy simulations by first identifying relative weaknesses and strengths of 64 global cities across major continents including European, Asian, Middle Eastern, North and South American cities. The book also ranks and simulates 36 Asian cities separately, of which many are emerging third-world cities that are in need of policy guidance.

Author : Marichela Sepe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000728545

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Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities by Marichela Sepe Pdf

In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by investigating it in different ways. While it is possible to understand why a place is liveable – due to the liveability and health concepts that are being more and more explored in urban studies, and the strong influence coming from other disciplines – it is difficult to design a place that is certain to be healthy and liveable. Accordingly, aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics such as resilience, adaptation, health, and mixed connections, to illustrate the present-day approaches to the analysis and design of healthy places, and in particular the original Healthy Pl@ce Design method, flexible and repeatable in different contexts. The method aims to identify sustainable urban liveability and healthiness and the factors which make places liveable and healthy from users' points of view and identifying design interventions that can enhance or create both urban liveability and health. Emblematic case studies carried out in Europe, Canada and China – Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Madrid, Newcastle–Gateshead, Nice, Dublin, Vancouver and Wuhan – constitute the empirical part of the book, detailed with surveys, questionnaires, images and maps. The theoretical framework – built on contemporary issues – and international case studies make this book both attractive and scientific, adding a new stone on the sustainable city construction and opening it to a particularly wide readership, including scholars, students, administrators and professionals.

Author : Basant Maheshwari,Vijay P. Singh,Bhadranie Thoradeniya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783319281124

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Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities by Basant Maheshwari,Vijay P. Singh,Bhadranie Thoradeniya Pdf

This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges and develop strategies and practices to cope with future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land, water and energy use challenges. In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long-term planning needs and transdisciplinary approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and (iv) Strategies to adapt the cities and land, water and energy uses for viable and liveable cities. There are growing concerns about water, food security and sustainability with increased urbanisation worldwide. For cities to be liveable and sustainable into the future there is a need to maintain the natural resource base and the ecosystem services in the peri-urban areas surrounding cities. This need is increasing under the looming spectre of global warming and climate change. This book will be of interest to policy makers, urban planners, researchers, post-graduate students in urban planning, environmental and water resources management, and managers in municipal councils.

Author : Liang Fook Lye,John Wong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813109759

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The Challenge of Making Cities Liveable in East Asia by Liang Fook Lye,John Wong Pdf

The rate of urbanisation will accelerate in the years ahead. The massive influx of people to cities will result in the demand for more services, expending more resources and generating more waste. The forces of globalisation and better connectivity will hasten this urbanisation process. Although the developed and developing countries in East Asia are at different stages of development, they have to grapple with the common challenge of improving the quality of life for urban residents and making cities liveable. This book brings together a collection of articles that traces the process of urbanisation in selected countries in East Asia, including the achievements and challenges encountered. It seeks to promote the sharing of best practices and experiences that can be a reference for governments and relevant stakeholders to facilitate the process of urbanisation that brings about the greatest benefits to residents and lessens the negative impact on the environment.

Author : Khee Giap Tan,Tao Oei Lim,Yanjiang Zhang,Isaac Yang En Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811211560

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Global Liveable And Smart Cities Index: Ranking Analysis, Simulation And Policy Evaluation by Khee Giap Tan,Tao Oei Lim,Yanjiang Zhang,Isaac Yang En Tan Pdf

A rising proportion of the global population are moving to cities in search of a better standard of living. However, although urbanisation has its benefits, unchecked urbanisation can lead to a host of challenges, such as congestion and limited access to public services. As such, the concept of urban liveability has been garnering more attention from policymakers and academics who are interested in mitigating the negative effects of urbanisation.In this context, the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) has released the 2018 Global Liveable and Smart Cities Index (GLSCI), the third in its series of liveability indices. The GLSCI attempts to measure the liveability of an average resident in a city. More importantly, this year's edition has added considerations to the concept of smart cities and the role that these technologies can play in augmenting the liveability of a city's residents. It also builds on ACI's past liveability indices by expanding the number of cities in the index to 78, notably with African cities for the first time. In addition, this book includes two case studies on liveability. The first one concerns the relationship between a city's liveability, smartness, connectivity, and agglomeration, while the other is a case study on the 99-year lease of public housing in Singapore.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814467155

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World Cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Herbert Girardet
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015059323314

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Cities People Planet by Herbert Girardet Pdf

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Author : Christopher T. Boyko,Rachel Cooper,Nick Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429894466

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Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing by Christopher T. Boyko,Rachel Cooper,Nick Dunn Pdf

Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing draws on original research that brings together dimensions of cities we know have a bearing on our health and wellbeing – including transportation, housing, energy, and foodways – and illustrates the role of design in delivering cities in the future that can enhance our health and wellbeing. It aims to demonstrate that cities are a complex interplay of these various dimensions that both shape and are shaped by existing and emerging city structures, governance, design, and planning. Explaining how to consider these interconnecting dimensions in the way in which professionals and citizens think about and design the city for future generations’ health and wellbeing, therefore, is key. The chapters draw on UK case and research examples and make comparison to international cities and examples. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students in planning, public policy, public health, and design.

Author : Basant Maheshwari,Ramesh Purohit,Hector Malano,Vijay P. Singh,Priyanie Amerasinghe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401788786

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The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities by Basant Maheshwari,Ramesh Purohit,Hector Malano,Vijay P. Singh,Priyanie Amerasinghe Pdf

The population of cities around the world is growing at an alarming rate, and as a result the landscapes of most cities are going through enormous changes. In particular, fertile agricultural lands at the periphery of cities are being developed without consideration of holistic planning. As such, peri-urban areas, zones of transition from rural to urban land uses located between the outer limits of the urban and the rural environment are experiencing significant losses of agricultural land, increased runoff, and water quality degradation. Concurrently, the demands for water, food and energy are increasing within cities, and unless a balance is struck the liveability of these cities will soon be compromised. The current water and land use changes have serious consequences on lifestyle, environment, health and overall well-being of urban communities. This book therefore helps readers to understand the current issues and challenges and examines suitable strategies and practices to cope with current and future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land-use changes. The book examines a number of critical aspects in relation to the future of cities and peri-urban regions, including the suitability of policies and institutions to sustain cities into the future; impact of current trends in land use change, population increase and water demand; long term planning needs and approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and strategies to adapt the cities and land uses so that they remain viable and liveable. The readership of the book will include policy makers, urban planners, researchers, post-graduate students in urban planning and environmental and water resources management and managers in municipal councils.

Author : Richard Hu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000878097

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Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities by Richard Hu Pdf

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities—developed and developing, large and small—and their urban development. Investigating the urban challenges and opportunities of cities from every nation in Asia, the handbook engages not only the global cities like Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, and Mumbai but also less studied cities like Dili, Malé, Bandar Seri Begawan, Kabul, and Pyongyang. The handbook discusses Asian cities in alignment to the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals in order to contribute to global policy debates. In doing so, it critically reflects on the development trajectories of Asian cities and imagines an urban future, in Asia and the world, in the post-sustainable, post-global, and post-pandemic era. Presenting 43 chapters of original, insightful research, this book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, students, and general readers in the fields of urban development, urban policy and planning, urban studies, and Asian studies.

Author : Christian Zuidema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317102274

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Decentralization in Environmental Governance by Christian Zuidema Pdf

Decentralization in Environmental Governance is a critical reflection on the dangers and risks of governance renewal; warning against one-sided criticism on traditional command and control approaches to planning. The book formulates the arguments that support when and how governance renewable might be pursued, but this attempt is not just meant for practitioners and scholars interested in governance renewal. It is also useful for those interested in the challenge of navigating a plural landscape of diverse planning approaches, which are each rooted in contrasting theoretical and philosophical positions. The book develops a strategy for making argued choices between alternative planning approaches, despite their theoretical and philosophical positions. It does so by revitalizing the idea that we can contingently relate alternative planning approaches to the circumstances encountered. It is an idea traced to contingency studies of the mid and late 20th century, reinterpreted here within a planning landscape dominated by notions of uncertainty, complexity and socially constructed knowledge. This approach, called ‘Post-contingency’, is both a theoretical investigation of arguments for navigating the theoretical plurality we face and an empirical study into renewing environmental governance. Next to its theoretical ambitions, Decentralization in Environmental Governance is practical in offering a constructive critique on current processes of governance renewal in European environmental governance.

Author : Khee Giap Tan,Xuyao Zhang,Tao Oei Lim,Lin Song
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813272354

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Urban Composite Development Index For 17 Shandong Cities: Ranking And Simulation Analysis Based On China's Five Development Concepts by Khee Giap Tan,Xuyao Zhang,Tao Oei Lim,Lin Song Pdf

Shandong is a thriving economic centre with a Gross Regional Domestic Product of RMB 6.3 trillion in 2015, the third-highest in China. It is also the third-largest province by land area in the country with the second-largest resident population of 98,470,000. With such impressive characteristics, Shandong's urbanisation rate had quickly expanded from 45 percent in 2005 to 57 percent in 2017. As such, in line with the growing affluence of the province, the people's ever-growing demand for urban development in areas such as infrastructure, public services, education and environmental protection has exceeded the provision of such facilities.In view of these developments, the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS) developed Shandong's first city-level index which assesses the levels of urban development and liveability for each city. The ranking and simulation analysis via the Urban Composite Development Index for 17 Shandong cities was constructed to provide an empirically robust framework to better understand the quality of urban development of Shandong cities in a comprehensive and rigorous manner, while at the same time highlight important policy implications for further growth and development. Further, this publication incorporates key elements which ensures that the construction of the index is unique, empirically sound and relevant to Shandong's development in the context of China.Overall, the analysis provided in this book relates to the broad dimensions of urban development of Shandong cities and can stand up to academic scrutiny as it is based on rigorous methodological foundations. In addition, the study will remain accessible and appealing to policymakers as it offers tailored policy recommendations based on the analysis that will enable them to take appropriate policy interventions in each city to improve their overall performance in urban development. This research will help to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each city and empower policymakers to formulate more effective development strategies.

Author : Vukan Vuchic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351318143

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Transportation for Livable Cities by Vukan Vuchic Pdf

The twenty-first century finds civilization heavily based in cities that have grown into large metropolitan areas. Many of these focal points of human activity face problems of economic inefficiency, environmental deterioration, and an unsatisfactory quality of life—problems that go far in determining whether a city is "livable." A large share of these problems stems from the inefficiencies and other impacts of urban transportation systems. The era of projects aimed at maximizing vehicular travel is being replaced by the broader goal of achieving livable cities: economically efficient, socially sound, and environmentally friendly. This book explores the complex relationship between transportation and the character of cities and metropolitan regions. Vukan Vuchic applies his experience in urban transportation systems and policies to present a systematic review of transportation modes and their characteristics. Transportation for Livable Cities dispels the myths and emotional advocacies for or against freeways, rail transit, bicycles,and other modes of transportation. The author discusses the consequences of excessive automobile dependence and shows that the most livable cities worldwide have intermodal systems that balance highway and public transit modes while providing for pedestrians, bicyclists, and paratransit. Vuchic defines the policies necessary for achieving livable cities: the effective implementation of integrated intermodal transportation systems.