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Triumph of the City
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Glaeser as mentioned in this paper is a book that was waiting to be written, a popular book on the contemporary urban co-existence, and it was published by Palgrave Macmillan.Abstract:
Edward Glaeser, Basingstoke and Oxford, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 338 pp., £25.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780230709386 This is a book that was waiting to be written—a popular book on the contemporary urban co...read more
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Current trends in Smart City initiatives: some stylised facts
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Work of the Past, Work of the Future
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Cities, Productivity, and Quality of Life
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Current trends in Smart City initiatives: some stylised facts
TL;DR: In this article, a taxonomy of pertinent application domains, namely, natural resources and energy, transport and mobility, buildings, living, government, and economy and people, is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
Towards a new epistemology of the urban
Neil Brenner,Christian Schmid +1 more
TL;DR: New forms of urbanization are unfolding around the world that challenge inherited conceptions of the urban as a fixed, bounded and universally generalizable settlement type as mentioned in this paper, and debates on t...
Journal ArticleDOI
Work of the Past, Work of the Future
TL;DR: The authors argue that changes in the nature of work, many of which are technological in origin, have been more disruptive and less beneficial for non-college than college workers, and that this deskilling reflects the joint effects of automation and, secondarily, rising international trade, yielding a disproportionate polarization of urban labor markets.
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Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation
Robert Webb,Xuemei Bai,Xuemei Bai,Mark Stafford Smith,Robert Costanza,David John Griggs,Magnus Moglia,Michael Neuman,Peter Newman,Peter W. Newton,Barbara Norman,Chris Ryan,Heinz Schandl,Will Steffen,Will Steffen,Nigel J. Tapper,Giles Thomson +16 more
TL;DR: The knowledge framework adopts a systems perspective that incorporates the many urban trade-offs and synergies revealed by a systems view, and draws broader implications for policy and decision makers, for researchers and for a shared forward agenda.
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Cities, Productivity, and Quality of Life
TL;DR: There is a strong correlation between urbanization and economic development across countries, and within-country evidence suggests that productivity rises in dense agglomerations.