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Towards Resilient Cities and Neighbourhoods to Pandemics
This chapter summarises the valuable insights in the field of resilience-related innovations for cities and neighbourhoods to pandemics presented in...
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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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Networking Collaborative Communities for Climate-Resilient Cities
As urban populations continue to rise, land-use rapidly converts, and the urban-nature divide continues to grow ever wider, cities will need to...
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Ranking Cities According to Their Fundamental Power: A Comparison Among Results of Different Methods of Linear Ordering
City managers search for new concepts of city development in order to satisfy growing demands and manage risk. The research assumes that city...
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Understanding shocks for sustainable urban open space development in selected cities in the Southern Ethiopian Corridors
The rapid and uncontrolled urbanization in develo** countries raises concerns about sustainability as urban centers continue to expand in both size...
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Philanthropic Organisations and the Global Circulation of Urban Resilience Practices – The Case of 100 Resilient Cities
The policy rhetoric of urban resilience has spread rapidly across the globe in recent years, including the scholarly debate and networks of globally...
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Civil Conflict’s Impact on the Pursuit of Inclusivity, Safety, Resilience and Sustainability in Anglophone Cities of Cameroon
Cities are increasingly becoming sites where violence and conflict thrive. In the African continent, civil conflict has been rife, with cities not...
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The Cities of the Future
This chapter focuses on the theoretical strand that defines future cities according to the meanings of “cognition” and “sustainability.” In...
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Resilient Cities: A Case Study of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Cities adapt to unexpected events and changes in culture, climate, and migration. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, with...
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The Legacy of Radical Exclusion in Cities
The cities we live in today continue to be largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and restrictive, leading to the intentional and unintentional...
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Benefit and limitation of using blockchain in smart cities to improve citizen services
This paper examines the potential of blockchain technology to create more efficient, secure, and transparent smart cities. The paper covers the six...
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Small cities: Regional motors or sponges? The case of Inland County, Norway
In the innovation and regional development literature, regional areas that lie between prosperous core regions and struggling peripheral areas have...
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Perceptions of smart sustainable cities: a scale development study
An estimated 55% of the global population live in cities, with this expected to increase to 70% by 2050. Thus, the strain from urbanisation generates...
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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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Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment
This chapter aims to explain why there are diverse features associated with the different phrases. The purpose of changes in governance modes is...
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Philanthropic Organisations and the Global Circulation of Urban Resilience Practices – The Case of 100 Resilient Cities
The policy rhetoric of urban resilience has spread rapidly across the globe in recent years, including the scholarly debate and networks of globally...
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Practice and Politics of Land Use for Urban Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in Blantyre and Lilongwe Cities, Malawi
Malawi’s population is fast growing, with a good share of urban residents being susceptible to environmental risks and disasters. This risk is...
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Low-Carbon and Resilient Urban Development and Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate change exacerbates and complicates the existing pressures on river basins. This chapter reiterates principles of integrated management of...