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Successful, safe and sustainable cities: towards a New Urban Agenda [PDF]

, 2017
There is a growing interest among national governments and international agencies in the contribution of urban centres to sustainable development. The paper outlines the new global agendas to guide this: the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris ...
Satterthwaite, David
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Complexity and emergence in city systems: implications for urban planning [PDF]

, 2009
Cities can be regarded as the quintessential example of complexity. Insofar as we can define a hidden hand determining their morphology, this is based on the glue that stitches together the actions of individuals and organizations who build and plan the ...
Batty, Michael
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A Learnt City: The Mediated, Affective, and Experiential Layers of London

Societies
This article reconceptualises London as a learnt city, a dynamic learning ecosystem co-produced through digital mediation, affective experience, and embodied practice.
Giota Alevizou, Photini Vrikki
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Mind the gap! Global cities and ordinary cities in the planning perspective [PDF]

This paper presents a critical debate about the extreme selectivity through which the existing body of literature identifies the critical factors in urban development and competitiveness.
Luca Salvati, Roberta Gemmiti, Silvia Ciccarelli   +2 more
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A "Local Climate Zone" based approach to urban planning in Colombo, Sri Lanka [PDF]

, 2018
Integrating climate-sensitive design with the local planning process is fundamental to managing the warming trend in the growing high-density tropical cities.
Alexander, Bechtel, Brousse, Ching, Dept. of Census and Statistics, Emmanuel, Emmanuel, Emmanuel, Emmanuel, Georgescu, Grimmond, Japan International Coorporation Agency, Johansson, Leconte, Middel, Mills, Mills, Müller, Ng, Oke, Peng, Perera, Perera, Puliafito, Ren, Roth, See, Siu, Stewart, Stewart, Thomas, Unger, Urban Development Authority (UDA), Villadiego   +33 more
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Shopping Centres and Intangible Consumption in Global Cities

Symphonya, 2011
In global markets, shopping centres are becoming important agents, defining the kind and quality of intangible features of supplies, not only establishing the assortments, but also affecting the consumption behaviour atmosphere that they determine in all
Margherita Corniani
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Mathematics and Morphogenesis of the City: A Geometrical Approach

, 2010
Cities are living organisms. They are out of equilibrium, open systems that never stop developing and sometimes die. The local geography can be compared to a shell constraining its development.
Catherine Gloaguen, G. Chen, J. L. Gross, P. Blanchard, P. Frankhauser, Stephane Douady, Thomas Courtat, Y. I. H. Parish   +7 more
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Ouverture de ‘Global Cities and Knowledge Management - 1’

Symphonya, 2011
Global markets impose an important transformation of the firms’ growth policies where innovation and imitation (of products and processes) play a primary role to meet a volatile demand.
Silvio M. Brondoni, Riccardo Cappellin
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Sources of ambient PM_2.5 exposure in 96 global cities. [PDF]

Atmos Environ (1994), 2022
Tessum MW, Anenberg SC, Chafe ZA, Henze DK, Kleiman G, Kheirbek I, Marshall JD, Tessum CW.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Complex City Systems [PDF]

, 2011
Information and communications technology (ICT) is being exploited within cities to enable them to better compete in a global knowledge-based service-led economy.
Leon, Nick
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