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Technomolecular flows in coastal cities: an anthropological approach to new materialist ethics of the anthropogenic microscale
Urban life is crisscrossed and affected by events and matter in various scales, of which the microscopic has been only partly addressed in...
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Interconnected challenges: an ethical discussion of climate change through the jellyfish metaphor
The pervasive global effects of climate change pose an imminent threat to individuals and nations around the world and highlight the fact that we are...
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The Ethical and Privacy Implications of Datafication and Digitalization in Develo** Country Contexts
The chapter investigates ethical and privacy concerns resulting from digitalization and datafication in the Global South, drawing from a systematic...
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How Cities Shape Our Experience
Cities need to be places of inclusion, belonging, and access. Failing to do so leads to social and economic costs for citizens, such as the...
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Emerging Trends in Cities of Tomorrow
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes a range of technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and biosensors, is already...
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Migration and Cities: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the empirical context and analytical framework within which the volume is inscribed. We discuss how urbanisation processes...
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Arriving at a Good Port: Urban and Historical Archaeology in Three Cities of the Colombian Caribbean
Colombian urban archaeology has been growing since the 1990s, particularly in Caribbean cities such as Cartagena, Barranquilla, and Santa Marta. The...
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Hook-up culture among young Indian adults in Indian metropolitan cities
This study aimed to explore the existence of hook-up behaviour among emerging adults in the Indian metropolitan cities of Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi...
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Blockchain cities: the futuristic cities driven by Blockchain, big data and internet of things
Smart cities would depend on digital technologies that have the potential ahead where Blockchains would perform significantly. Blockchains has become...
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Familial affections vis-à-vis filial piety: the ethical challenges facing eldercare under neo-familism in contemporary China
The present study demonstrates that the values and practices of neo-familism are altering the ethical foundation of eldercare in a similar way as...
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Fixing Cities
This chapter looks beyond the ambitious, large-scale, utopian visions of twentieth-century urban designers to smaller-scale “micro-interventions,”...
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How Cities Can Be Resilient
Theoretical doubts and vagueness about the definition, use, and application of resilience have not stopped firms and institutions from using the...
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Doing drug research as an intimate insider: navigating the complex ethical terrain of pre-existing friendship in drug research
Intimate insiders are researchers who study in spaces they regularly frequent and with people they have pre-existing relationships. While there is an...
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Solid Waste Collection in the Informal Settlements of African Cities: a Regulatory Dilemma for Actor’s Participation and Collaboration in Kampala
Formal and informal institutions exist to regulate actors providing solid waste collection services in African cities, yet collection coverage...
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Cities of the Future
In the previous chapter, we examined the limits of urban micro-interventions from a Jacobsian Market Urbanist framework. Here we use that framework...
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The Ethical Interruption
For the reader, researcher, scholar or studentStudents to embrace human rights qua human rights with this methodologyMethodology for marginalised...
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Governing Diversity Beyond City and State: Epistemic and Ethical Challenges of African Urbanisation
Despite the rapid growth of cities worldwide, scholarly approaches to urban policymaking often overlook Sub-Saharan Africa’s urban revolution. Here...
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Ethical considerations for mandating food worker vaccination during outbreaks: an analysis of hepatitis A vaccine
A widespread global outbreak of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) has prompted regulations in a few cities in the United States (US) mandating HAV vaccination...
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Legislative Responses to the Challenge of Insufficient Data on Water Service Delivery in South African Cities
This article investigates the existing legal responses to the challenge of insufficient data on water service delivery in cities. The article finds...
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Smart Cities in Asia: An Introductory Note
This chapter provides a framework to conceptualize a few common topics related to smart city governance. It provides a high-level overview of smart...