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Dieses Fachbuch beschreibt die zentralen Herausforderungen, mit denen sich Städte konfrontiert sehen und zeigt Ansätze, welche Handlungsoptionen sich den Städten aus Sicht des Städtemanagements bieten. Angesichts der in Deutschland und weltweit zu beobachtenden steigenden Urbanisierung ist die Auseinandersetzung mit Smart Cities ein zentrales gesellschaftspolitisches Thema. Zur Erhaltung der Zukunftsfähigkeit von Städten wird erörtert, welche zentralen Themenfelder am dringendsten zu berücksichtigen sind. Hierzu zählen ebenso nachhaltige Verkehrskonzepte wie auch innovative Formen des Verwaltungshandelns mit Blick auf die Einbindung der Bürger. Dieses Fachbuch ist für Führungskräfte in Stadtverwaltungen interessant, gleichermaßen aber auch für Studierende mit Studienschwerpunkten in den Bereichen Nachhaltigkeit, Logistik, Controlling, Vernetzung, Digitalisierung und Innovation in urbanen Kontexten. Der Inhalt Leistungsdimensionen von Smart Cities Strategieentwicklung für Smart Cities Regionale Abhängigkeiten trotz Smartness? Zentrale Akteure von Smart Cities Handlungsfelder Smarter Cities – Best-Practice-Beispiele von IBM Die Autoren Gordon Müller-Seitz ist Professor für Strategisches Management am Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern. Seine Haupttätigkeitsfelder sind im Bereich Strategie, Innovation, Kooperation und Industrie 4.0 angesiedelt. Mischa Seiter ist Professor für Wertschöpfungs- und Netzwerkmanagement am Institut für Technologie- und Prozessmanagement der Universität Ulm und Leiter des International Performance Research Institute. Seine Schwerpunkte sind Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke, industrielle Dienstleistungen sowie Performance Measurement Systeme. Patrick Wenz leitet den Bereich Smarter Cities bei der IBM für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz. Zu seinen Aufgaben gehören u.a. die Umsetzung der weltweiten IBM Smarter Cities Strategie in konkreten Kundensituationen und Projekten.

Management. --- Industrial management. --- Urban economics. --- Urban geography. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Urban Economics. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).

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This book reviews contemporary research on urban infrastructure in 76 Ethiopian cities. It examines urban infrastructure issues in these cities and covers a wide range of topics from sustainability and smart cities to research methods employed by urban infrastructure investigators with regard to Ethiopian cities. Research on urban infrastructure legitimacies and modalities has established its value worldwide in recent years, though it is still fairly young in the Ethiopian context. The first chapter outlines ongoing issues of debate concerning urban infrastructures, including but not limited to discourses on sustainability, smart cities, innovative financing methods, and potential partnerships. Urban infrastructure issues in Ethiopian cities are examined in the second chapter, while the third chapter presents a review of the most relevant literature for researchers. Findings show that the citations in the research reports are mainly from the materials available over the internet, including WHO, UN-Habitat and unpublished local materials. The fourth chapter identifies patterns in the findings and recommendations of the research reports discussed. The results reveal that there is a wider gap between supply and demand with regard to urban infrastructure in Ethiopian cities, a situation that is further aggravated because of the growing urban population and already existing backlogs. The fifth chapter reviews the essential methods employed by urban infrastructure investigators in Ethiopian cities. In this regard, the cross-sectional study method with the use of survey method has been broadly adopted among investigators. Lastly, the book presents a summary and recommendations. It was observed that the urban infrastructure boom in Ethiopia is primarily concentrated in the key cities, and the current pattern of urban infrastructure provision does not incorporate the notion of sustainability. Hence, the book calls for setting the agenda of future research on urban infrastructure and services in Ethiopian cities together with the universities, private sector and government, who should ideally collaborate to produce the knowledge needed to improve quality of life, welfare, productivity, and economic growth. .

Geography. --- Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- City planning. --- City planning --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Urban geography. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Geography --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history

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This open access book presents a comparative analysis of intergroup relations and migrant integration at the neighbourhood level in Europe. Featuring a unique collection of portraits of urban relations between the majority population and immigrant minorities, it examines how relations are structured and evolve in different and increasingly diverse local societies. Inside, readers will find a coordinated set of ethnographic studies conducted in eleven neighbourhoods of five European cities: London, Barcelona, Budapest, Nuremberg, and Turin. The wide-ranging coverage encompasses post-industrial districts struggling to counter decline, vibrant super-diverse areas, and everything in between. Featuring highly contextualised, cross-disciplinary explorations presented within a solid comparative framework, this book considers such questions as: Why does the native-immigrant split become a tense boundary in some neighbourhoods of some European cities but not in others? To what extent are ethnically framed conflicts driven by site-specific factors or instead by broader, exogenous ones? How much does the structure of urban spaces count in fuelling inter-ethnic tensions and what can local policy communities do to prevent this? The answers it provides are based on a multi-layer approach which combines in-depth analysis of intergroup relations with a strong attention towards everyday categorization processes, media representations, and narratives on which local policies are based. Even though the relations between the majority and migrant minorities are a central topic, the volume also offers readers a broader perspective of social and urban transformation in contemporary urban settings.  It provides insightful research on migration and urban studies as well as social dynamics that scholars and students around the world will find relevant. In addition, policy makers will find evidence-based and practically relevant lessons for the governance of increasingly diverse and mobile societies. For anyone who wants to understand a critical issue of the early 21st century--the integration of immigrant minorities in European cities-this book is essential reading.  In contrast to the all-too-common top-down view from the perspective of the national state, the authors provide us with essential ground-level insights from the daily round in urban neighborhoods.   Richard Alba, CUNY Graduate Center   This timely book makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of migration in Europe. Its focus on the neglected areas of negotiation, boundary-making and social relationships in European neighbourhoods make it especially compelling. It deserves to be read closely by academics and policy-makers alike. Richard Gale, Cardiff University.

Social sciences. --- Political science. --- Urban geography. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Social Sciences. --- Migration. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Political Science. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Geography --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Civilization

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This insightful volume examines the politics and contestations around urban space in India’s national capital, Delhi. Moving beyond spectacular megaprojects and sites of consumption, this book engages with ordinary space and everyday life. Sites and communities analysed in this volume reveal the processes, relations, and logics through which the city’s grand plans are executed. The contributors argue that urbanization is negotiated and muddled, particularly in the spaces occupied by informal labour, resettled communities, and small-scale investors. The critical analyses in this volume shed light on the disjunctures between planning and ideology, narratives of growth and realities of immobility, and facades of modernity and the spaces and practices produced in its pursuit. The book is organized in four parts – (I) Dis/locating Bodies, (II) Claims at the Urban Frontier, (III) Informalization and Investment, and (IV) Gendered Mobility. The studies report current empirical work from a variety of sites, investigating the dynamics of capital investment, state planning and citizen response in these spaces. These studies, set in ordinary spaces in Delhi, reveal a subliminal disarray of thought and action, stemming from the impetus to make the city attractive to capital, while having to manage marginality and reorganize welfare functions. The volume provides fresh insights into the nature of urban planning and governance in an Indian megacity two decades after the neoliberal shift.

Social sciences. --- Urban geography. --- Social policy. --- Human geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Social Policy. --- Urbanization --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology

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This book, based on conference excerpts, investigates various aspects of contemporary Iranian urbanism. The topics covered range from the impacts of political developments on the cities’ rapid socio-economic developments, to the cities’ troubled relationship with the country’s built-environment history and their frequently ill-managed exposure to Western notions of development and globalisation. Last but not least, the country’s vulnerability to natural disasters in an age of increasing urban-population densification is also considered. Alongside more theoretically and artistically oriented debates, the book’s individual contributions turn their attention to the now much higher proportion of urban dwellers in the country’s rising population. It also discusses the policies designed in response to these demographic moves, including those to develop new towns, find housing for the excess population in existing cities, renovate historic buildings and create new public spaces. The practice-policy oriented contributions also include those concerning the country’s responses to natural disasters. .

Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- Urban sociology --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- City planning --- Urban renewal --- Cities and towns --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Environmental Geography. --- Urban geography. --- Environmental geography. --- Geography