Urban Studies/Sociology

Hot Property: The Housing Market in Major Cities

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This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban housing. In many cities this demand is out-pacing supply, whi…

Smart and Digital Cities: From Computational Intelligence to Applied Social…

by Nazário Coelho, Vitor, Machado Coelho, Igor, A.Oliveira, Thays, Ochi, Luiz Satoru

fromUrban computing

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This book presents up-to-date information on the future digital and smart cities. In particular, it describes novel insights about the use of computational intelligence techniques and decentralized technologies, covering urban aspects and services, cities governance and social s…

Smart and Digital Cities: From Computational Intelligence to Applied Social…

by Nazário Coelho, Vitor, Machado Coelho, Igor, A.Oliveira, Thays, Ochi, Luiz Satoru

fromUrban computing

0 Type: Book

This book presents up-to-date information on the future digital and smart cities. In particular, it describes novel insights about the use of computational intelligence techniques and decentralized technologies, covering urban aspects and services, cities governance and social s…

An Ethnography of the Goodman Building: The Longest Rent Strike

by Caldararo, Niccolo

fromPalgrave studies in urban anthropology

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Through in-depth analysis and narrative investigation of an actual building occupation, Niccolo Caldararo seeks to not only offer an historical account of the Goodman Building in San Francisco, but also focus on the active resistance tactics of its residents from the 1960s to th…

An Ethnography of the Goodman Building: The Longest Rent Strike

by SpringerLink (Online service), Caldararo, Niccolo

fromPalgrave studies in urban anthropology

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Through in-depth analysis and narrative investigation of an actual building occupation, Niccolo Caldararo seeks to not only offer an historical account of the Goodman Building in San Francisco, but also focus on the active resistance tactics of its residents from the 1960s to th…

Complex Dynamics of Traffic Management

by SpringerLink (Online service)

fromEncyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science Series

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This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (ECSS) covers such fascinating and practical topics as (i) Vehicular traffic flow theory, (ii) Studies of real field traffic data, (iii) Complex phenomena of self-organization in vehicular traffic, (iv) Effect of …

Complex Dynamics of Traffic Management

by Kerner, Boris Semenovitch, Kerner, Boris S.

fromEncyclopedia of complexity and systems science series (Onli…

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This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (ECSS) covers such fascinating and practical topics as (i) Vehicular traffic flow theory, (ii) Studies of real field traffic data, (iii) Complex phenomena of self-organization in vehicular traffic, (iv) Effect of …

Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes

fromRaumFragen: Stadt - Region - Landschaft

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The volume deals with the effects of digitization on spatial and especially landscape construction processes and their visualization. A focus lies on the generation mechanisms of 'landscapes' with digital tools of cartography and geomatics, including possibilities to model and v…

The Rise of Autonomous Smart Cities: Technology, Economic Performance and Climate Resi…

by Allam, Zaheer

fromSustainable Urban Futures

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This book introduces the concept of the 'autonomous city'- a concept that has been developed from the 'smart cities' model and is based on a city's ability to gather data then taking it one step further. The digital revolution has brought about numerous changes in the urban real…

Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Space in the 21st Century

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'Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Spaces in the 21st Century is a welcome contribution to the "urban turn" in popular music studies. It moves beyond the analysis of styles and venues, setting musical practice within complex networks of policy, economic history and metropol…