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Urbanisation in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, poses challenges to urban living conditions. Despite large scale housing programmes from the side of the government, construction and settling processes have largely remained incremental. Nadine Appelhans focuses on the relation between statutory planning and practices of everyday urbanisation. The findings from Bahir Dar suggest that some mundane regimes of building the city are patronised, while others are considered undesired by policy makers. Based on this insight, the author argues that urban development in Bahir Dar needs to be locally grounded, differentiated and inclusive to avoid further tendencies of segregation.

City planning --- Urban policy --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- 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 --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban renewal --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Africa. --- Bahir Dar. --- Case Study. --- City. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Ethiopia. --- Ethnology. --- Socio-Economic Segregation. --- Sociology. --- Urban Developement. --- Urban Living Conditions. --- Urban Planning. --- Urban Policy. --- Urban Studies. --- Environmental planning --- urban planning --- urban sociology --- urban development --- urbanization --- Ethiopia --- Urbanisation; Ethiopia; Bahir Dar; Urban Planning; Case Study; Urban Living Conditions; Urban Policy; Urban Developement; Socio-Economic Segregation; City; Urban Studies; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology; Africa --- Urbanisation; Ethiopia; Bahir Dar; Urban Planning; Case Study; Urban Living Conditions; Urban Policy; Urban Development; Socio-Economic Segregation; City; Urban Studies; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology; Africa --- Urban Development.

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The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm. Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities.

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The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the "cradle of civilization," owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BCE. In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization, Guillermo Algaze draws on the work of modern economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium affected the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia. He argues that these natural conditions granted southern polities significant competitive advantages over their landlocked rivals elsewhere in Southwest Asia, most importantly the ability to easily transport commodities. In due course, this resulted in increased trade and economic activity and higher population densities in the south than were possible elsewhere. As southern polities grew in scale and complexity throughout the fourth millennium, revolutionary new forms of labor organization and record keeping were created, and it is these socially created innovations, Algaze argues, that ultimately account for why fully developed city-states emerged earlier in southern Mesopotamia than elsewhere in Southwest Asia or the world.

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The topic of pinpointing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban context has been cultivating interest lately from different scholars, urban planning practitioners and policymakers. This Special Issue originates from the Greening Cities Shaping Cities Symposium held at the Politecnico di Milano (12–13 October 2020), aiming at bridging the gap between the science and practice of implementing NBS in the built environment, as well as highlighting the importance of citizen participation in shared governance and policy making. The Special Issue received contributions from all over the world, from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Brazil, Portugal, Denmark, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Hungary, Spain, the UAE, the UK, and the USA.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- nature-based solutions --- landscape and urban design --- urban agriculture and food systems --- coastal dynamics --- Groningen --- stakeholder participation --- multi-level governance --- co-creation --- urban living lab --- sustainable urban development --- urban planning --- greening cities --- urban governance --- biophilia --- health and well-being --- urban design --- urban green infrastructure --- ecopsychology --- ecotherapy --- Parque Augusta --- social movements --- appropriation of nature --- green gentrification --- right to nature --- spatial planning --- green infrastructure --- rainwater management --- urban green areas --- nature-based solutions (NBSs) --- agent-based model (ABM) --- firmographics --- market segmentation --- multi-level perspective --- sustainability transition --- participatory budget --- urban sustainability --- European green capital --- European green deal --- Lisbon --- social monitoring --- social cohesion --- CLEVER Cities --- municipal planning --- ecosystem services --- shared governance --- public-private collaboration --- competence development --- land development --- planning models --- nature-based solutions (NBS) --- knowledge-based urban development --- guidelines --- citizen engagement --- participation --- urban regeneration --- living knowledge --- URBiNAT --- Augmented Reality --- Virtual Reality --- emotions --- co-design --- computer vision --- simulation --- Environmental Psychology --- colors --- Nature-Based Solutions --- surrounding environment for access --- neighborhood park --- user satisfaction --- park facility --- Bay Avenue Park --- Al Ittihad Park --- n/a

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The topic of pinpointing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban context has been cultivating interest lately from different scholars, urban planning practitioners and policymakers. This Special Issue originates from the Greening Cities Shaping Cities Symposium held at the Politecnico di Milano (12–13 October 2020), aiming at bridging the gap between the science and practice of implementing NBS in the built environment, as well as highlighting the importance of citizen participation in shared governance and policy making. The Special Issue received contributions from all over the world, from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Brazil, Portugal, Denmark, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Hungary, Spain, the UAE, the UK, and the USA.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- nature-based solutions --- landscape and urban design --- urban agriculture and food systems --- coastal dynamics --- Groningen --- stakeholder participation --- multi-level governance --- co-creation --- urban living lab --- sustainable urban development --- urban planning --- greening cities --- urban governance --- biophilia --- health and well-being --- urban design --- urban green infrastructure --- ecopsychology --- ecotherapy --- Parque Augusta --- social movements --- appropriation of nature --- green gentrification --- right to nature --- spatial planning --- green infrastructure --- rainwater management --- urban green areas --- nature-based solutions (NBSs) --- agent-based model (ABM) --- firmographics --- market segmentation --- multi-level perspective --- sustainability transition --- participatory budget --- urban sustainability --- European green capital --- European green deal --- Lisbon --- social monitoring --- social cohesion --- CLEVER Cities --- municipal planning --- ecosystem services --- shared governance --- public-private collaboration --- competence development --- land development --- planning models --- nature-based solutions (NBS) --- knowledge-based urban development --- guidelines --- citizen engagement --- participation --- urban regeneration --- living knowledge --- URBiNAT --- Augmented Reality --- Virtual Reality --- emotions --- co-design --- computer vision --- simulation --- Environmental Psychology --- colors --- Nature-Based Solutions --- surrounding environment for access --- neighborhood park --- user satisfaction --- park facility --- Bay Avenue Park --- Al Ittihad Park