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Transition or Consolidation? The Role of Inner-City Neighbourhoods in the Integration of Immigrants in Brussels, Belgium
Ernest Burgess’ transition zone has become a classical concept in urban sociology and geography. Because of the development of inner-city...
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Urban Spaces, Gender and Development Goals in Asia
This chapter introduces the central theme of the book, urban spaces, gender and sustainable development goals in Asia. Rapidly proliferating urban...
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South Africa’s Urban Future: Challenges and Opportunities
The future of South African cities is linked to how these cities address the historical legacies of segregation and inequality. South African cities...
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Urban Memory, Experiences, and Palimpsests: The Continuity and Discontinuity of Places
As an extension to what has been done in ‘Identity of CitiesIdentity of Cities and City of Identities’ (Cheshmehzangi, 2020), this chapter serves as...
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Introduction: Open Data and the Generation of Urban Value
The world has made two significant transitions in the new millennium. The first involves the transition to a knowledge economy where the most...
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From Wastescapes Towards Regenerative Territories. A Structural Approach for Achieving Circularity
In this chapter, the understanding of circularity goes beyond material resource management, deepening the spatial implications of a more circular...
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Inland Spain: Challenges and Opportunities of Undertourism Contexts Within the Local Turn
Spain is one of the main tourism destinations worldwide. However, tourism is not equally present in all the territory and a distinction can be made...
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Testing Density-Dependent and Path-Dependent Population Dynamics in Greece with Spatial Quantile and Geographically Weighted Regressions
Regional variability in the spatial distribution of resident population and across-country density divides have consolidated heterogeneous...
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Towards a Typology of Imaginary Skyscrapers
What if the city’s territory’s only option was to grow upwards, turning common places into an endless vortex of rooftops? What if the architect was...
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The Spatialities of the Nordic Compact City
The compact city has become the preferred and mainstream model for urban, peri-urban and sometimes even rural planning in the Nordic context....
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Introduction: Conceptualizing Hinterlands
This introduction first considers the history of the hinterland as not just any spatial distribution but one driven by and instrumental to the...
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Smart Grids and Enhancing Urban Systems: Reflections on Ordering and Disordering the City
This chapter examines the nature and implications of urban enhancement propounded by recent smart urban initiatives. Using a short analytical...
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Introduction
The sustainable development of cities and urbanization is inseparable with urban renewal, and one of the main ways of urban renewal is urban land...
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Decarbonization and Urban Sustainability
Why climate change mitigation plans often fail to gain global consensus is due to geo-economic political influences. Where the question often arises...
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The Inclusion of “Unequals:” Hotspot Network Strategy for a Metropolitan Agricultural Revolution Eluding Informality
This chapter analyzes the effects of metropolization on territorial divisions, the dynamics of development, the ways of life at the intersection of...
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Territorialising Circularity
Nowadays, the circularity concept dominates the debate on resource management in cities and territories. The idea is often used as a vehicle towards...
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Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Cities: Opportunities for Innovations to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals in the Face of Climate Change
The urban water-energy-food (WEF) nexus approach in cities represents a pathway for co** with trade-offs in the search for achieving the...
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Spatial Dimensions
The spatial study included desk research regarding various historical, theoretical and regulatory aspects, as well as a review and analysis of...
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Approaching Infrastructural Being
In this chapter, we develop tools for grappling with the complexity of infrastructural being. We identify three social scientific frames that have...
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Participative Agri-Food Projects in the Urban Bioregion of the Vega of Granada (Spain)
The Vega of Granada is a traditional peri-urban agricultural bioregion that includes important environmental and heritage values. As it belongs to...