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What has happened to cities after the global economic recession? Sustaining Cities answers this question by explaining how failed governmental policies contributed to urban problems and offering best practices for solving them. From social scientists and urban planners to architects and literary and film critics, the authors of this unique collection suggest real responses to this crisis. Could the drastic declines in housing markets have been avoided? Yes, if we reframe our housing values. Do you want to attract corporate investment to your town? You might want to think twice about doing so. The extinction of the "Celtic Tiger" may be charted in statistics, but the response in popular Irish mystery novels is much more compelling. China, while not immune to market vicissitudes, still booms, but at a considerable cost to its urban identities. Whether constructing a sustainable social framework for Mexican mega-cities or a neighborhood in London, these nine essays consider some strikingly similar strategies. And perhaps, as the contributors suggest, it's time to look beyond the usual boundaries of urban, suburban, and exurban to forge new links among these communities that will benefit all citizens. Accessible to anyone with an interest in how cities cope today, Sustaining Cities presents a cautionary tale with a hopeful ending.

Sociology, Urban. --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Growth, Urban --- Sprawl, Urban --- Urban development --- Urban growth --- Urban sprawl --- Migration, Internal --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Urban sociology --- Growth. --- Environmental aspects.

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Cities out of control

Overpopulation. --- Security, International. --- Cities and towns --- Urban density. --- Urban population density --- Population density --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Growth, Urban --- Sprawl, Urban --- Urban development --- Urban growth --- Urban sprawl --- Migration, Internal --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- Population explosion --- Growth. --- Urban density --- Security, International --- Overpopulation --- Growth --- E-books --- #SBIB:314H284 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Demografie en sociale demografie --- Toegepaste antropologie

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In recent years, Indonesia has made great strides in economic growth and development. This growth has been accompanied by rapid urbanization that has transformed Indonesian cities. Urbanization has the potential to boost national economic growth by facilitating the emergence of agglomeration and localization economies. Increasing urbanization presents Indonesia with an opportunity to leverage the transformation taking place to ensure that it is harnessed for economic growth and, more importantly, sustained improvements in the quality of life of its community members. Unfortunately, research shows that over the last four decades, Indonesia has not derived optimal returns on urban development, as can be seen by comparisons with the level of benefit derived by other Asian countries passing through similar processes of urbanization. Urbanization in Indonesia is driving the emergence of metropolitan areas whose boundaries stretch beyond the jurisdiction of administratively defined cities, creating an urgent need for mechanisms that optimize and coordinate development beyond the formal city unit. The purpose of this report on Indonesia's regional and urban development is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the country's spatial patterns of urbanization and economic development and to evaluate the extent to which Indonesia's urbanization has fostered increases in agglomeration economies and economic productivity growth. The study provides the analytical work to evaluate such performance and to identify key issues, constraints and opportunities for promoting faster and more inclusive growth. The overarching goal of the study is to provide a timely and rigorous analysis of regional and urban development in order to foster informed policy discussion at the central, provincial and local government levels.

Agricultural Sector --- Airports --- Demographic Change --- Demographics --- Developing Countries --- Development Policy --- Economic Opportunities --- Economies of Scale --- Employment --- Foreign Direct Investment --- Highways --- Housing --- Human Capital --- Infrastructure Economics and Finance --- Infrastructure Finance --- Infrastructure Investment --- Irrigation --- Job Creation --- Labor Market --- Land Management --- Living Standards --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Megacities --- Migration --- Mobility --- National Urban Development Policies & Strategies --- Natural Disasters --- Natural Gas --- Natural Resources --- Population Density --- Population Growth --- Property Rights --- Qualitative Data --- Quality of Life --- Regional Urban Development --- Rural Population --- Sanitation --- Schools --- Technical Training --- Transport --- Urban Areas --- Urban Development --- Urban Economic Development --- Urban Planning --- Urban Slums Upgrading --- Urban Sprawl --- Urbanization --- Vehicles --- Waste --- Water Supply

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Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical evolution of knowledge, desires and technology. Our planned and designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations, mediated by the existing technologies and social structures.  The city represents the accretion and accumulation of successive layers of collective activity, structuring and being structured by other, increasingly distant cities, reaching now right around the globe. This historical and structural development cannot therefore be understood or captured by any set of fixed quantitative relations. Structural changes imply that the patterns of growth, and their underlying reasons change over time, and therefore that any attempt to control the morphology of cities and their patterns of flow by means of planning and design, must be dynamical, based on the mechanisms that drive the changes occurring at a given moment. This carefully edited post-proceedings volume gathers a snapshot view by leading researchers in field, of current complexity theories of cities. In it, the achievements, criticisms and potentials yet to be realized are reviewed and the implications to planning and urban design are assessed.

Architecture. --- City planning -- Philosophy. --- Complexity (Philosophy). --- Engineering. --- Human Geography. --- City planning --- Complexity (Philosophy) --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Architecture --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Philosophy --- City planning. --- Cities and towns --- Computational complexity. --- Growth. --- Complexity, Computational --- Growth, Urban --- Sprawl, Urban --- Urban development --- Urban growth --- Urban sprawl --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban planning --- Planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Urban planning. --- Sociophysics. --- Econophysics. --- Complexity, Computational. --- Human geography. --- Architecture / Design. --- Urbanism. --- Complexity. --- Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models. --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Electronic data processing --- Machine theory --- Economics --- Statistical physics --- Mathematical sociology --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Statistical methods --- Design and construction --- Migration, Internal --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building. --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Stadt. --- Komplexität. --- Stadtgestaltung. --- Stadtplanung.