Examining the changing nature of cities in the face of smart technology, this book studies key new challenges and capabilities defined by the Internet of Things, data science, blockchain and artificial intelligence. It argues that using algorithmic logic alone for automation and optimisation in modern smart cities is not sufficient, and analyses the importance of integrating this with strong participatory governance and digital platforms for community action.
Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era
Integrating Technologies, Platforms and Governance
Edited by Nicos Komninos and Christina Kakderi
Edited by Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Moshe Givoni and Karst Geurs
With social inequity in urban spaces becoming an increasing concern in our modern world, The Elgar Companion to Transport, Space and Equity explores the relationships between transport and social equity. Transport systems and infrastructure investment can lead to inequitable travel behaviours, with certain socio-demographic groups using particular parts of the transport system and accessing particular activities and opportunities.
Edited by Tim Schwanen and Ronald van Kempen
This collection brings together the latest thinking in urban geography. It provides a comprehensive overview of topical issues and draws on experiences from across the world. Chapters have been prepared by leading researchers in the field and cover themes as diverse as urban economies, inequalities and diversity, conflicts and politics, ecology and sustainability, and information technologies. The Handbook offers a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in cities and the urban in geography and across the wider social sciences.
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook of Urban Geography
Edited by Tim Schwanen and Ronald van Kempen
- Published:
- 28 June 2019
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Transit Oriented Development and Sustainable Cities
Economics, Community and Methods
Edited by Richard D. Knowles and Fiona Ferbrache
This book provides new dimensions and a contemporary focus on sustainable transport, urban regeneration and development in eight countries spanning four continents at different stages of development. It examines the role of transit oriented development (TOD) in improving urban sustainability and providing different transport choices, exploring how these can be implemented in modern cities.
Monograph Chapter
In Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower and John Tomaney
- Published:
- 31 May 2019
Collection:
Economics 2019
Monograph Chapter
In Rethinking Third Places
Edited by Joanne Dolley and Caryl Bosman
- Published:
- 31 May 2019
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Monograph Chapter
In The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
Hazel Easthope
- Published:
- 31 May 2019
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower and John Tomaney
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national ‘rebalancing’ efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.
Monograph Chapter
In Rethinking Third Places
Edited by Joanne Dolley and Caryl Bosman
- Published:
- 31 May 2019
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019