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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This prescient book
presents the intellectual terrain of shrinking cities while
exploring the key research questions in each of the field?s
sub-domains and reviewing the range of methodologies within these
topics. The book begins with an introduction outlining what
shrinking cities are and how they are researched, highlighting both
the opportunities and challenges that arise in this field,
including the big ideas any researcher must grapple with. The next
six chapters are each devoted to a different sub-domain within
shrinking cities, offering a quick overview of the topics, relevant
problems, paradoxes and key research questions. The book concludes
with a review of the major themes and, most importantly, looks
toward the future, predicting and anticipating the most significant
future research trends related to shrinking cities. This accessible
and compelling Research Agenda will be of interest to researchers
looking to move into this area, urban studies and planning
instructors who are teaching research methods courses, and students
studying or independently researching shrinking cities.
This book analyses new software tools and social media data that
can be used to explore the attitudes of people in urban places. It
reports on the findings of several research projects that have have
experimented with using microblogging data in conjunction with
diverse quantitative and qualitative methods, including content
analysis and advanced multivariate statistics. Applied researchers,
planners and policy makers have only recently begun to explore the
potential of Big Data to help understand social attitudes and to
potentially inform local policy and development decisions. This
book provides an original analysis into how Twitter can be used to
describe the urban experience and people's perception of place, as
well as offering significant implications for public policy. It
will be of great interest to researchers in human geography, social
media, cultural studies and public policy.
This book paints an intimate portrait of an overlooked kind of city
that neither grows nor declines drastically. In fact, New Bedford,
Massachusetts represents an entire category of cities that escape
mainstream urban studies' more customary attention to global cities
(New York), booming cities (Atlanta), and shrinking cities (Flint).
New Bedford-style ordinary cities are none of these, they neither
grow nor decline drastically, but in their inconspicuousness, they
account for a vast majority of all cities. Given the complexities
of growth and decline, both temporarily and spatially, how does a
city manage change and physically adapt to growth and decline? This
book offers an answer through a detailed analysis of the politics,
environment, planning strategies, and history of New Bedford.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This prescient book
presents the intellectual terrain of shrinking cities while
exploring the key research questions in each of the field?s
sub-domains and reviewing the range of methodologies within these
topics. The book begins with an introduction outlining what
shrinking cities are and how they are researched, highlighting both
the opportunities and challenges that arise in this field,
including the big ideas any researcher must grapple with. The next
six chapters are each devoted to a different sub-domain within
shrinking cities, offering a quick overview of the topics, relevant
problems, paradoxes and key research questions. The book concludes
with a review of the major themes and, most importantly, looks
toward the future, predicting and anticipating the most significant
future research trends related to shrinking cities. This accessible
and compelling Research Agenda will be of interest to researchers
looking to move into this area, urban studies and planning
instructors who are teaching research methods courses, and students
studying or independently researching shrinking cities.
Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the
human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how
cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based
foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the
creation of a healthier and happier public realm, this book
describes how unconscious responses to stimuli, outside our
conscious awareness, direct our experience of the built environment
and govern human behavior in our surroundings. This collection
contains 15 chapters, including contributions from researchers in
the US, the UK, the Netherlands, France and Iran. Addressing topics
such as the impact of eye-tracking analysis and seeing beauty and
empathy within buildings, Urban Experience and Design encourages us
to reframe our understanding of design, including the narrative of
how modern architecture and planning came to be in the first place.
This volume invites students, academics and scholars to see how
cognitive science and biometric findings give us remarkable
21st-century metrics for evaluating and improving designs, even
before they are built.
Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the
human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how
cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based
foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the
creation of a healthier and happier public realm, this book
describes how unconscious responses to stimuli, outside our
conscious awareness, direct our experience of the built environment
and govern human behavior in our surroundings. This collection
contains 15 chapters, including contributions from researchers in
the US, the UK, the Netherlands, France and Iran. Addressing topics
such as the impact of eye-tracking analysis and seeing beauty and
empathy within buildings, Urban Experience and Design encourages us
to reframe our understanding of design, including the narrative of
how modern architecture and planning came to be in the first place.
This volume invites students, academics and scholars to see how
cognitive science and biometric findings give us remarkable
21st-century metrics for evaluating and improving designs, even
before they are built.
BUILDINGS FOR PEOPLE Buildings for People: Responsible Real Estate
Development and Planning explores how to balance social concerns
with financial and investment considerations without sacrificing
profit. This timely volume provides key technical and practical
knowledge while exploring real estate development and planning
through a multi-level lens—revealing the systemic factors that
both govern and are governed by the real estate process. Beginning
with site selection, the authors discuss financing, site
improvement, architecture, landscape architecture, site planning,
construction, and evaluation within a broader political, economic,
and social context. Throughout the text, the authors explain key
theories and methods of professional practice, and highlight how
important social issues are interconnected to the business of real
estate development and planning. Demonstrating how the desire for
profit can be balanced with the needs of society Buildings for
People: Responsible Real Estate Development and Planning is an
excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students
in real estate, urban planning, urban design, and urban studies
courses, as well as a valuable resource for researchers and
professionals who want a multidisciplinary understanding of the
built environment.
This book paints an intimate portrait of an overlooked kind of city
that neither grows nor declines drastically. In fact, New Bedford,
Massachusetts represents an entire category of cities that escape
mainstream urban studies' more customary attention to global cities
(New York), booming cities (Atlanta), and shrinking cities (Flint).
New Bedford-style ordinary cities are none of these, they neither
grow nor decline drastically, but in their inconspicuousness, they
account for a vast majority of all cities. Given the complexities
of growth and decline, both temporarily and spatially, how does a
city manage change and physically adapt to growth and decline? This
book offers an answer through a detailed analysis of the politics,
environment, planning strategies, and history of New Bedford.
This book analyses new software tools and social media data that
can be used to explore the attitudes of people in urban places. It
reports on the findings of several research projects that have have
experimented with using microblogging data in conjunction with
diverse quantitative and qualitative methods, including content
analysis and advanced multivariate statistics. Applied researchers,
planners and policy makers have only recently begun to explore the
potential of Big Data to help understand social attitudes and to
potentially inform local policy and development decisions. This
book provides an original analysis into how Twitter can be used to
describe the urban experience and people's perception of place, as
well as offering significant implications for public policy. It
will be of great interest to researchers in human geography, social
media, cultural studies and public policy.
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