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The twelve city studies in the present volume provide city administrators with a comparative perspective about how U.S. and Canadian cities carry out their public engagement activities. The myriad examples elevate the experience-base of city administrators striving to achieve a standard of excellence in public engagement. This volume also suggests at least two themes. First, large cities have complex, sometimes overlapping, administrative structures (often including regional transit authorities), and, partly as a result, the larger the city, the more the coordinated effort required to keep the public informed and engaged. Second, rising citizen expectations for digital outreach have raised the bar for public engagement. Approaches to public engagement, nevertheless, vary across cities for historic, demographic, and idiosyncratic reasons. Among large cities, Chicago is innovative in public involvement (e.g., its activities include participatory budgeting). Portland is one of the few cities to delegate decision making to public committees. And San Francisco must assure public involvement for multiple language communities. In Canada, commitment to public involvement emerged earliest in the western cities - Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton, more or less in that order - while the eastern cities appear to have experienced more institutional inertia.

City planning --- Citizen participation.

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Sociology of culture --- citizen participation --- cultural heritage

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Energy Positive Neighborhoods and Smart Energy Districts: Methods, Tools, and Experiences from the Field is a comprehensive guide to this highly interdisciplinary topic. Monti et. al’s combined experience make them the most qualified team of editors to explore the processes and tools involved in creating Energy Positive Neighborhoods and Smart Energy Districts in an urban setting. Tools include: A complete simulation library to quickly support the implementation of a model of the scenario A set of possible approaches to neighborhood energy optimization An open, extensible information model for neighbourhood asset description The structure of this book offers different reading paths to appeal to the very varied audience it addresses. It describes the process of adaption and the challenges faced by the decision makers, and also how simulation, optimisation, ICT approaches and business models are combined in a holistic and pragmatic way. It also offers possible business models and a means to quantify them to complete the development process. This book is suitable for students on muti-disciplinary energy engineering courses, energy practitioners, ICT vendors aiming to develop new services to target the building industry, and decision makers aiming to structure an urban renovation program. Delivers a significant amount of exclusive knowledge on the topics of energy positive neighborhoods and smart energy districts Allows readers to grasp the complexity of this interdisciplinary topic by providing access to well-structured processes and tools Includes real life examples of the transformation of two demonstration sites that illustrate the concepts discussed to add context and value to their implementation

Energy conservation. --- Environmental protection --- Citizen participation.

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Much of today's policy on preventing crime is driven by political ideology and anecdotal evidence, with insufficient planning and evaluation. This book contributes to improved practice in crime prevention, primarily through the lessons from successful projects. It provides an overview of current research in the field, and an exposition of some of the best case-studies from the past . It is a must-read for security practitioners, crime prevention and community safety officers, police, research and policy officers, politicians, and students and academics in the field.

Crime prevention. --- Crime prevention --- Citizen participation.

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Welles, Orson, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Citizen Kane (Motion picture).