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Ranking of Global Smart Cities Using Dynamic Factor Analysis
In the age of the digital revolution, many cities around the world have made significant investments in planning and implementing smart city...
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Olympic Games and Global Cities What Future for an Olympic System in Turmoil?
This book offers a comprehensive overview of current debates on the influence of the Olympic Games on cities, urban policies and the governance of...
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Olympic Games and Global Cities: New Crises and New Challenges
This chapter focuses on the renewed connection between global cities and the Games. This connection isn’t new, as the European and North American...
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Global Cities and Business Internationalization: Towards a New Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
As urban centers incorporating worldwide command and coordination functions, global cities act as major hubs contributing to the global economic...
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In-between metropolitan cities and urban theories: a case of small town Dharamshala
The scholarship and discussion on urbanization and urbanism are restricted to the exploration of a few metropolitans and global cities. In this way,...
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Cities
This chapter explores the socio-spatial consequences of the dialectic of art and economy in postindustrial cities. The relationship between cities...
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Research on the Measurement and Effects of Urban–Rural Integration and Modernization in National Central Cities
In promoting China’s comprehensive modernization in pursuit of the grand revitalization of the Chinese nation, the relationship between industry and...
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Comparative analysis of the connectivity of world cities in Europe and Asia through the lens of advanced producer service networks
To counterbalance a potential overemphasis on the state as the key unit of analysis in research on Asia-Europe relations, we examine how their major...
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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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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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Environmental sustainability performance of eleven upgraded informal settlements in Kenyan cities
Given the phenomenal growth of urban centres in develo** countries, cities have become important sites for engaging with environmental issues....
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Reclaiming and Transforming Cities During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: American and Global Examples
In addition to the tragic loss of millions of lives worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19 pandemic also had other unintended and unexpected...
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Determinants of housing prices: Serbian Cities’ perspective
This study investigates the spatial and temporal dynamics of housing prices in Serbia, addressing the critical need to understand the drivers of real...
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Preparing Quality of Life Surveys Versus Using Information for Sustainable Development: The Example of Polish Cities
Cities, in order to develop, should acquire data from various sources, properly process it, and skillfully use it for sustainable development. One...
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How urban growth influences the spatial characteristics of cities: empirical research in Malatya/Türkiye based on space syntax
Urbanization is increasing rapidly because of the economic, cultural, natural, political, etc. factors on a local or global scale. Therefore, this...
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Introduction: Rethinking the Role of Historic Olympic Cities
This first chapter provides the context of the book objectives and the Olympic Games and Global Cities (OGGC) research program. Two dynamics observed...
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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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Urban qualities and residents’ strategies in compact global south cities: the case of Havana
Research and policy argue for more compact cities to respond to sustainable development challenges. However, what actually needs to be made more...
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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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Cities and COVID-19. Reflections on a New Research Agenda for the Cities of Tomorrow
Throughout 2020, the world faced an unprecedented situation caused by the global spread of COVID-19, resulting in a series of challenges. This...