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Culture and Sustainability : exploring stability and transformation with the …
This Open access book brings a cultural lens, and a distinctive analytical framework, to the problem of transitioning to a sustainable, low-carbon future. The world faces a seemingly impossible hurdle – to radically alter long-established social, economic and technological systems in order to live within the biophysical limits of the globe, while ensuring a just and enduring transition. …
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- 9783031255151
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- xvii, 243p. : ill.
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- 306.094 STE c
Citizen participation in the information society
This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development. It assesses the emergence, use, applicability and functions of digital modes of citizen participation in multiple cities around the world, where political regimes invite ordinary citizens to partake in policy processes through information technologies. The book also…
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- 1
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- 9783030999407
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- xiii; 196 PG; ill.
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- 307.1216 CIT c
Smart Cities in Asia: regulations, problems, and development
This open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualiz…
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- 3
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- 9789811917011
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- ix; 124p; ill.
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- 307.12160951 SMA T
The unreal estate guide to detroit
Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production of seemingly valueless urban property that has facilitated the imagination and practice of alternative urbanisms. The first sustained study of Detroit’s alternative urba…
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- 9781911576518
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- xxi. ;ill. :158 p.
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- 977.434. AND t
The data shake : opportunities and obstacles for urban policy making
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the call “Policy-development in the age of big data: data-driven policy-making, policy-modelling and policy-implementation”. It investigates the operative and organizational implications related to the use of the growing amount of availa…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030636937
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- xiii, 125p. : ill.
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- 307.76 DAT d
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