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Platform urbanism and the Chinese smart city: the co-production and territorialisation of Hangzhou City Brain

open access: yesGeoJournal, 2020
We analyse an urban platform (Alibaba’s City Brain) to show how smart city development is evolving in urban China. In order to do so, we base our analysis on two strands of literature: that on platform urbanism, and on the experimental city.
Federico Caprotti, Dong Liu
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Urban Deforestation and Urban Development [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This paper has developed a model of a single forest owner operating with perfect foresight in a dynamic open-city environment that allows for switching between alternative competing land uses (forest and urban use) at some point in the future. The model also incorporates external values of an even-aged standing forest in addition to the value of timber
Sofia F. Franco   +3 more
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When Airbnb Sits in the Control Room: Platform Urbanism as Actually Existing Smart Urbanism in Reykjavík

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020
Platform urbanism understood as the impact of digital platforms on the materiality, daily lives and governance of cities is, we argue in this paper, a powerful form of actually existing smart urbanism.
O. Söderström, A. Mermet
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Case studies of hydropower renewable energy and landscape quality from Romania [PDF]

open access: yesGeoPatterns, 2017
This paper is presenting case studies of large hydropower built on Romanian mountain rivers Danube, Argeș and Bistrița during the communist regime and how they relate to criteria of landscape quality. The case studies were investigated as contribution to
Maria Bostenaru Dan, Angelica Stan
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Urbanization And Urbanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Chapter 28 Turkey’s urbanization started in the post-World War II era. “Over 3.3 million people were added to the urban population during the 1950s, more than twice as many as in the previous quarter century” (Danielson and Keles¸, 1985: 27). This “rapid urbanization” brought major transformations of society, challenging the ideals of the modernization
openaire   +2 more sources

VVITA Erasmus+ C6-C7 The Opening Conference [PDF]

open access: yesUrbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2019
The present paper is the dedicated review of the Opening Conference of C6-C7 activities within VVITA Erasmus+ project (Intensive programmes for higher education learners: “Romanian applied study on rural heritage sustainable revitalization methodology ...
Marius Voica   +5 more
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Charting AI urbanism: conceptual sources and spatial implications of urban artificial intelligence

open access: yesDiscover Artificial Intelligence, 2023
The aim of this paper is to tease out some of the key issues concerning the relationship between AI and urbanism. This relationship, which is presented in the academic literature as a new driving force of contemporary urbanism, will be investigated ...
Otello Palmini, Federico Cugurullo
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Enhancing Religious Tourism in Historical Urban Fabrics through Urban Design (Case Study: Noghan Neighborhood, Mashhad) [PDF]

open access: yesگردشگری فرهنگ
The shrine of the Eighth Shiite Imam in Mashhad, the most prominent religious and pilgrimage site in Iran, attracts numerous domestic and international tourists annually.
Morteza Nazarabadian, Hooman Ghahremani
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Qualitative criteria of urbanism and brands: A comparative analysis [PDF]

open access: yesUrbani Izziv, 2014
Interactivity, multidisciplinarity, synergy and interdependence are all concepts that are clearly intertwined with managing every responsible city and its leaders.
Andrej Pompe, Alenka Temeljotov Salaj
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A new institution on the block: On platform urbanism and Airbnb citizenship

open access: yesNew Media & Society, 2019
This article argues that Airbnb should be understood as a new urban institution that is transforming relations between market, state, and civil society actors.
Niels van Doorn
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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