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Eco2 Cities [PDF]

open access: possible, 2010
This book provides an overview of the World Bank's Eco2 cities : ecological cities as economic cities initiative. The objective of the Eco2 cities initiative is to help cities in developing countries achieve a greater degree of ecological and economic sustainability. The book is divided into three parts.
Hiroaki Suzuki   +4 more
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City age and city size [PDF]

open access: possibleEuropean Economic Review, 2014
Abstract Using novel data on the foundation dates of more than 10,000 American Census places, we show that older cities in the US tend to be larger than younger ones. To take this nexus between city age and city size into account, we introduce endogenous city creation into a dynamic economic model of an urban system.
Giesen, Kristian, Suedekum, Jens
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A Survey of Blockchain Technology Applied to Smart Cities: Research Issues and Challenges

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2019
In recent years, the rapid urbanization of world’s population causes many economic, social, and environmental problems, which affect people’s living conditions and quality of life significantly.
Jun-feng Xie   +6 more
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A universal framework for inclusive 15-minute cities

Nature Cities
Proximity-based cities have attracted much attention in recent years. The ‘15-minute city’, in particular, heralded a new vision for cities where essential services must be easily accessible.
Matteo Bruno   +3 more
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City Diplomacy

2021
While the view that only states act as global actors is conventional, significant diplomatic and cross-cultural activity is taking place in cities today. Economic growth and fiscal experiments all occur in urban contexts. Political reforms, social innovation, and protests and revolutions generate in cities.
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HAPPY CITY: CITY DISCUSSIONS

2015
City, to where the citizen belongs to as being the citizen, thus having an identity with the city, to live in the city, with or without the rights of the citizenship.. Well, on which point will the citizen be right-while living inside the city/while trying to live on the city-?
Sağdıç, Zafer, Aydın, Aysun
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Learning Cities, Shared Cities, Empathic Cities

2022
Approccio critico sulla condizione contemporanea del progetto architettonico e lo spazio urbano in relazione alla combinazione Resilienza e Nuove Tecnologie e Società della informazione.
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Built City, Planned City, Virtual City: the City Museum

2012
"Built city, planned city, virtual city: the city museum" is he name of an Italian research project reasserting the role of urban historians and the historical and humanistic disciplines in defining the scope and content of the city museum.
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Smart Cities as “EnvironMental” Cities

2013
Starting from the references to Smart Cities and Living Labs included in the Strategic Research Framework of the European Joint Programming Initiative "Urban Europe", the paper tries to outline the basic notions of a more limited reference framework, specifically aimed at fostering an approach to Smart City through an Urban/Territorial Living Lab ...
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Cities-Before-Cities

2017
Foundation myths are a crucial component of many Greek cities’ identities. But the mythic tradition also represents many cities and their spaces before they were cities at all. This study examines three of these ‘prefoundational’ narratives: stories of cities-before-cities that prepare, configure, or reconfigure, in a conceptual sense, the mythic ...
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