Cities in the 21st century /
Cities in the twenty-first century
edited by Oriol Nel-lo and Renata Mele.
- 1st ed.
- xxix; 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) : 26cm
index
Contents : List of figures infographics and tables ix -- About the contributors xi -- Foreword Francesco Starace xvi -- Introduction : the irresistable rise of urbanization Oriol Nel -lo xviii -- PART 1 URBAN SYSTEM : CITIES IN THE GLOBAL SOCIOECONOMIC NETWORK 1 -- 1 Changing the city , changing the world Mireia Belil 3 -- Outlook 1 The City of London : center of capital flows Giuseppina Siciliano 12 -- 2 Cities in the world system Michael Cohen 15 -- Outlook 2 New patterns of circulation of goods : the port of Shanghai Irina Lazzerini 23 -- 3 Cities as innovation : towards a new understanding of population growth , social inequality and urban sustainability Julio D . Dávila 26 -- Outlook 3 Ceuta and Melilla : the paradox and drama of international migration Oriol Porcel 35 -- PART 2 URBAN MORPHOLOGY : TRANSFORMATIONS AND DISSOLUTIONS 39 : 4 Regional urbanization and the end of the metropolis era Edward W . Soja 41 -- Outlook 4 The città diffusa of the Po Valley Angelo Facchini 57 -- 5 New urban forms : the distinctive character of the European metropolis Francesc Indovina 60 -- Outlook 5 The new Luanda Igor Cersosimo 67 -- 6 Beyond urbanalization : urban form and the low - carbon challenge Francesc Muñoz 69 -- Outlook 6 Old and new commercial centres : bazaars vs . shopping malls in Ankara Oriol Porcel 78 -- 7 Mutations in the Latin American metropolis : Santiago de Chile under neoliberal dynamics , Carlos de Mattos Luis Fuentes and Felipe Link 80 -- Outlook 7 Observing changes in urban form through night satellite RAS images in Buenos Aires and Lima Jordi Martín 93 -- PART 3 - URBAN ECOSYSTEMS : RESOURCES AND ENERGY 97 -- 8 Living at the edge of chaos : a complex systems view of cities Gianluca Bocchi and Angelo Facchini 99 -- Outlook 8 Climate-sensitive urbanization in Tokyo - Yokohama Angelo Facchini 106 -- 9 Cities in a low - carbon world Christopher Kennedy 109 -- Outlook 9 Pathways to decarbonizing mobility in Madrid Christian Zulberti 120 -- 10 Cities , climate change and lifestyles Federico M . Butera 123 -- Outlook 10 Urban agriculture in Melbourne Giuseppina Siciliano 131 -- 11 The mirage of the sustainable ' smart city ' : planetary urbanization and the spectre of combined and uneven apocalypse Erik Swyngedouw 134 -- Outlook 11 Energy access and water supply in urban centers in arid environments : the case of Nouakchott Oriol Porcel 144 -- PART 4 URBAN TECHNOLOGIES : INFORMATION , KNOWLEDGE , INFRASTRUCTURES AND CULTURE IN CITIES 147 -- 12 The cognitive city Franco Farinelli 149 -- Outlook 12 Talent concentration and brain drain in Greater Boston Oriol Porcel 160 -- 13 Dimensions of the future city , Matthew Claudel and Carlo Ratti 162 -- Outlook 13 Shaping the city with big data : Seattle , Chicago and Lyon Angelo Facchini 178 -- 14 Cities , infrastructure and planning : levers to steer transitions Tim Marshall 181 -- Outlook 14 Managing public transport in Medellín Irina Lazzerini 190 -- 15 Group form and urban infrastructural resilience : New York City as an example , Richard Plunz and Patricia Culligan 192 -- Outlook 15 Res Novae : new things and concepts in the " smart city " of Bari Angelo Facchini 205 -- PART 5 - THE URBAN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY : DYNAMISM AND INEQUALITIES 209 -- 16 The city as economic engine Luis Carvalho and Leo van den Berg 211 -- Outlook 16 Urban festivals as tools for sustainable development : the case of the World Port Days in Rotterdam Leo van den Berg and Erwin van Tuijl 218 -- 17 Dynamism and inequalities in the Global South cities Caroline Moser 221 -- Outlook 17 Gender and spaces of fear : the case of Mexico City Anna Ortiz 230 -- 18 The city in the net : infrastructural networks , economic development and urban form Joan López 233 -- Outlook 18 Social construction of urban spaces in Barcelona Glasgow and New York Oriol Porcel 244 -- 19 " New urbanization " : theory , challenges and research Dajian Zhu 247 -- Outlook 19 The slums of Manila Igor Cersosimo 257 -- PART 6 GOVERNING CITIES : VISIONS , PROJECTS AND INSTRUMENTS 261 -- 20 The rise of urban governance Ronan Paddison 263 -- Outlook 20 The " pacification " of Rio de Janeiro ' s favelas Oriol Porcel 270 -- 21 Urban policies : towards new scenarios of innovation and governance Joan Subirats 272 -- Outlook 21 The regulation of urban citizenship : Shenzhen ' s migrants Igor Cersosimo 280 -- 22 Updating Lorenzetti ' s allegories on government : towards a Europe of cities João Ferrão 283 -- Outlook 22 Exchanging recyclable waste for electricity in Fortaleza Angelo Facchini 290 -- Index 293 --
Figures: 1.1 House prices in London, UK and UK excluding London (2007-2014) 13 -- 2.1 Chinese ports container traffic 24 -- 4.1 Regional urbanization graph 48 -- 7.1 Classification of the municipalities of the Metropolitan Urban System of Santiago de Chile (MUSS) according to their location 83 -- 7.2 Distribution of the percentage of homes in the MUSS by urban location 85 -- 7.3 Proportion of authorized public and private housing units by area of the MUSS and by decade 86 -- 7.4 Means of transport used to get to work within the MUSS 88 -- 7.5 Municipality where head of household works compared to place of residence in the MUSS 89 -- 7.6 Expectations for municipal evolution by area of the MUSS 90 -- 7.7 Spatial distribution of lighting in Buenos Aires and Lima (1992-2012) 94 -- 8.1 Morowitz model of a self-organizing intermediate system 103 -- 9.1 Interdependence of infrastructure systems in virtuous cycles of low carbon growth 111 -- 9.2 Examples of low carbon infrastructure strategies tailored to different cities 113 -- 9.3 Examples of positive and negative interactions between adaptation and mitigation strategies 116 -- 13.1 A series of visualizations generated by 311 data 166 -- 13.2 An analysis of the number of mobile phone calls made in Washington, DC, on Obama's Inauguration Day 167 -- 13.3 Visualization of the volumes of Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world over a 24 hour period 168 -- 13.4 The United States’ waste management patterns 169 -- 13.5 Local Warming explores a vision for the future of heating systems 170 -- 13.6 A map of connections and relationships in the field of scientific publication 171 -- 13.7 One Laptop Per Child program 172 -- 13.8 A visualization of taxi pickups and drop offs on the island of Manhattan 173 -- 13.9 The Cloud : Helping to keep the London lamp aflame 174 -- 14.1 Self Reliant Green City 186 -- 15.1 Design for a Fourierist 193 -- 15.2 New York City gridiron, circa 1890 195 -- 15.3 Columbia University Watt Residence Hall : Floor plan and context 197 -- 15.4 Columbia University Watt Residence Hall : Decrease in consumption among those with social media access 199 -- 15.5 Albany neighborhood housing cluster 200 -- 15.6 ‘Amsterdam Houses’ study : Floor plan and context 201 -- 15.7 Overview of Res Novae 206 -- Infographics: I.1 Foreign investment -- I.2 Immigration and urban deprivation -- I.3 Migrations -- I.4 Urban and rural populations -- I.5 Urban agglomerations -- I.6 City density and morphology -- I.7 Social standards -- I.8 Merchandise exports -- Tables: 1.1 Major agglomerations of the world (July 2014) 5 -- 7.1 Residential land by year of construction 86 -- 9.1 Top 20 cities ranked in terms of assets exposed to coastal flooding in the 2070s -- 9.2 Strategies for simultaneous climate change adaption and mitigation 116 -- 16.1 Basic data : World Port Days (WPD) in Rotterdam 219 -- 19.1 Ten differences between ‘’old and new’’ urbanization, according to the five in one development program 248 -- 19.2 Key indices of new urbanization in China 252 -- 19.3 Cities and city size in China 253 -- 22.1 Main figures of the project Ecoelce since 2007 291 --
9781138119642 (hardcover)
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Urbanization--History--21st century. Cities and towns--Growth. City planning.