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Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning

Ambio, 2021
Cities can set in motion sustainability transitions through experimentation and innovation. To invest in and mainstream solutions that contribute to urban transformation agendas, urban planners needs to understand which innovations have transformational potential as well as how these innovations can accelerate sustainability transitions.
Fatemeh Shahani   +2 more
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Transforming Urban Slums

2021
Cities in developing countries are increasingly under stress through urbanization, which leads to the expansion of slum areas or informal settlements due to demand for low-cost housing. This chapter presents the social, environmental, and economic realities facing slum dwellers and discusses their redevelopment into intelligent cities.
Darrold Laurence Cordes   +2 more
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The Urban Transformation of the Developing World

Science, 2008
Sometime in the next 20 to 30 years, developing countries in Asia and Africa are likely to cross a historic threshold, joining Latin America in having a majority of urban residents. The urban demographic transformation is described here, with an emphasis on estimates and forecasts of urban population aggregates.
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Urban Transformations in the U.S.A. and Transformations in Urban Cultural Studies

2016
The essay collection Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.: Spaces, Communities, Representations comprises contributions studying transformations in various urban settings and their cultural representations in the US from diverse transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Urban Fringe: The Transformations

2016
This chapter examines the transformations which have taken place in the urban fringe of Aligarh city. The transformation has been witnessed largely in the economic, social environment and infrastructural facilities, which were also interrelated with each other.
Nasrin Banu, Shahab Fazal
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Urban Transformations

2017
Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, Stefan Al
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Transforming Transport, Transforming Urban Spaces

2018
The coming together of new technologies, changing attitudes to car ownership and innovative business models provides the opportunity to transform personal and business transportation. Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world with historical urban form in major cities that has geographically separated residential areas from areas of
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