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Complexity and Uncertainty in Contemporary Cities
Most contemporary cities are subject to growing levels of operational complexity and forecasting uncertainty, a fact that inevitably increases the difficulties to plan and manage urban development under reasonable standards. The issues of complexity and uncertainty in the urban domain have been studied since the 1960s, but most academic contributions have been partial and discontinued through time. Therefore, this book pursues two major objectives: (1) provide a historical review of the efforts made to understand the phenomena of complexity and uncertainty in both Basic Sciences and Urban Sciences, and (2) display a conceptual model that helps to understand the application of systemic principles and foresight techniques in the urban realm. While the historical overview constitutes an indispensable introduction to systems thinking, the conceptual model facilitates collaborative planning with local stakeholders without losing the perspective of an integrated approach to cities. This book will be appreciated by professors, researchers, and professionals in Urban Sciences.
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies
Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures t...
Governing the Metropolis
This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
Planificación estratégica de ciudades
Este libro persigue dos fines principales; por un lado, actualizar y ampliar un campo de conocimiento, el de la planificación estratégica, que crece paulatinamente y que atrae la atención de las nuevas generaciones de urbanistas; por otro lado, mantener vivo el debate sobre la crisis y validez de la planificación urbana contemporánea, para lo que se utiliza siempre un tono optimista sobre las posibilidades de la buena gobernabilidad para superar los desafíos del futuro. Esta nueva edición constituye una revisión profunda de la primera edición de este libro (1997). El resultado ha sido una transformación rigurosa y crítica de la estructura y los contenidos iniciales.
Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela
Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create both potential and problems within settlements. To do so, it focuses on three metropolitan areas located in Venezuela’s Center-North region: Caracas, Maracay and Valencia, designated as "Camava." Considering three core topics, government and territorial administration, infrastructure and environment, as well as looking at the reciprocal impact, this book describes and analyzes the determinant variables that characterize the phenomenon of regional urbanization in this area and in the wider Global South. It includes documentary research, semi-structu...
Urban Justice
This book outlines an interdisciplinary normative framework that makes sense of the historical transformation of cities and helps to assess contemporary urban conditions and policies for the built environment. This normative framework is embedded in what the editor and authors have termed 'urban justice'. As is widely acknowledged, the urban condition has become the inescapable horizon of modern life. Urban relations now permeate the lives of the majority of the world's population. Even if urbanization as a global process seems to have reached its zenith, there is no end in sight to the growth of cities. This is a fact that political theory must come to terms with when debating justice. To a...
Handbook of Multilevel Finance
This Handbook explores and explains new developments in the _second generation‘ theory of public finance, in which benevolent rulers and governments have been replaced by personally motivated politicians and the associated institutions. Following a com
