The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically. Urban Analytics offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics. Written in an accessible style and packed with illustrations and interviews from key urban analysts, this is a groundbreaking new textbook for students of urban planning, urban design, geography, and the information sciences.
How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing
Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a single industry (usually in technology), or pursuing other narrow or short-term fixes that are inequitable and unsustainable.
This book identifies effective strategies to plan, create and manage government and privately-owned public urban spaces, and explores the broad spectrum of ways to govern public spaces and how they can be financially sustainable assets. The book consists of three Parts. Part I explores the different degrees of "publicness" of public spaces and ......
Neighbourhood, State and Economy in Indonesia's City of Struggle
Surabaya, 1945-2010 presents the recent history of one of Indonesia's great port cities as viewed from a crowded low-income neighbourhood (kampung) called Dinoyo. By following the lives of Dinoyo residents over three generations, it provides a new perspective on landmark moments in the country's modern history, including the war for independence, ......
A cascade of recent reports has described unprecedented growth in every category measured-population, employment, new business starts, manufacturing indices, traffic counts, in-migration, school attendance, and airport enplanements-highlighting the dynamism of the two "anchor cities" of Central Texas: Austin and San Antonio. In The Austin-San ......
Investing in Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization
This report estimates the costs of key resilient and low-carbon urban investments in all low- and middle-income countries up to 2050. It discusses how cities can reduce the cost of these investments through efficient investment, and explores which sources of funding and finance are suited to which types of urban investments.
Transforming the economic lives of people in extreme poverty and vulnerability is a persistent challenge and drives economic inclusion programs worldwide. This milestone report presents data and evidence from 219 economic inclusion programs in 75 countries reaching over 92 million people, assesses the evidence, and reveals new information on ......
Explores Africa's rapid urbanization and its crucial implications for health, prosperity, and sustainability. Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing cities. In this book, editors Elaine O. Nsoesie and Blessing U. Mberu bring together a diverse group of scholars to explore the critical impacts of rapid urbanization on the health and ......
These four volumes present a series of thematic explorations of key developments and debates on the topic of cities and city life in a post-modern context. Arranged thematically, the volumes draw together articles exploring: the relationship between the dynamics of contemporary globalisation, post-modernity, and urban development; the ways in which many contemporary cities are increasingly defined as centres of consumption rather than production; the multiple modernities defining contemporary city life around the world; and recent attempts to rethink our understandings of the materiality and complexity of cities. This collection has been built on the premise that cities need to be understood as interdisciplinary objects of study, and the contents have been drawn from a wide variety of sources with roots in areas such as urban anthropology, development studies, economics, history, geography and sociology. The result is a unique and valuable resource for scholars based in a variety of social science and humanities disciplines.
