List of figures, infograptiics and tables ...................... ix
About the contributors ......................................... xi
Foreword ...................................................... xvi
Francesco Starace
Introduction: the irresistable rise of urbanization ......... xviii
Oriol Nel-lo
PART 1 - URBAN SYSTEM: CITIES IN THE GLOBAL SOCIOECONOMIC
NETWORK ......................................................... 1
1 Changing the city, changing the world ........................ 3
Mireia Belil
Outlook 1 The City of London; center of capital flows ....... 12
Giuseppina Siciliano
2 Cities in the world system .................................. 15
Michael Cohen
Outlook 2 New patterns of circulation of goods: the port
of Shanghai ................................................. 23
Irina Lazzerini
3 Cities as innovation: towards a new understanding of
population growth, social inequality and urban
sustainability .............................................. 26
Julio D. Dávila
Outlook 3 Ceuta and Melilla: the paradox and drama of
international migration ..................................... 35
Oriol Porcel
PART 2 - URBAN MORPHOLOGY: TRANSFORMATIONS AND DISSOLUTIONS .... 39
4 Regional urbanization and the end of the metropolis era ..... 41
Edward W. Soja
Outlook 4 The citta diffusa of the Po Valley ................ 57
Angelo Facchini
5 New urban forms: the distinctive character of the European
metropolis .................................................. 60
Francesco Indovina
Outlook 5 The new Luanda .................................... 67
Igor Cersosimo
6 Beyond urbanalization: urban form and the low-carbon
challenge ................................................... 69
Francesc Muñoz
Outlook 6 Old and new commercial centres: bazaars vs.
shopping malls in Ankara .................................... 78
Oriol Porcel
7 Mutations in the Latin American metropolis: Santiago de
Chile under neoliberal dynamics ............................. 80
Carlos de Mattos, Luis Fuentes, and Felipe Link
Outlook 7 Observing changes in urban form through night
satellite images in Buenos Aires and Lima ................... 93
Jordi Martin
PART 3 - URBAN ECOSYSTEMS: RESOURCES AND ENERGY ................ 97
8 Living at the edge of chaos: a complex systems view of
cities ...................................................... 99
Gianluca Bocchi and Angelo Facchini
Outlook 8 Climate-sensitive urbanization in Tokyo-
Yokohama ................................................... 106
Angelo Facchini
9 Cities in a low-carbon world ............................... 109
Christopher Kennedy
Outlook 9 Pathways to decarbonizing mobility in Madrid ..... 120
Christian Zulberti
10 Cities, climate change and lifestyles ...................... 123
Federico M. Butera
Outlook 10 Urban agriculture in Melbourne .................. 131
Giuseppina Siciliano
11 The mirage of the sustainable 'smart city': planetary
urbanization and the spectre of combined and uneven
apocalypse ................................................. 134
Erik Swyngedouw
Outlook 11 Energy access and water supply in urban
centers in arid environments: the case of Nouakchott ....... 144
Oriol Porcel
PART 4 - URBAN TECHNOLOGIES: INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE,
INFRASTRUCTURES AND CULTURE IN CITIES ......................... 147
12 The cognitive city ......................................... 149
Franco Farlnelli
Outlook 12 Talent concentration and brain drain in
Greater Boston ............................................. 160
Oriol Porcel
13 Dimensions of the future city .............................. 162
Matthew Claudel and Carlo Ratti
Outlook 13 Shaping the city with big data: Seattle,
Chicago and Lyon ........................................... 178
Angelo Facchini
14 Cities, infrastructure and planning: levers to steer
transitions ................................................ 181
Tim Marshall
Outlook 14 Managing public transport in Medellin ........... 190
Irina Lazzerini
15 Group-form and urban infrastructural resilience: New York
City as an example ......................................... 192
Richard Plunz and Patricia Culligan
Outlook 15 Res Novae: new things and concepts in the
"smart city" of Bari ....................................... 205
Angela Facchini
PART 5 - THE URBAN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY: DYNAMISM AND
INEQUALITIES .................................................. 209
16 The city as economic engine ................................ 211
Luis Carvalho and Leo van den Berg
Outlook 16 Urban festivals as tools for sustainable
development: the case of the World Port Days in Rotterdam .. 218
Leo van den Berg and Erwin van Tuijl
17 Dynamism and inequalities in the Global South cities ....... 221
Caroline Moser
Outlook 17 Gender and spaces of fear: the case of Mexico
City ....................................................... 230
Anna Ortiz
18 The city in the net: infrastructural networks, economic
development and urban form ................................. 233
Joan López
Outlook 18 Social construction of urban spaces in
Barcelona, Glasgow and New York ............................ 244
Oriol Porcel
19 "New urbanisation": theory, challenges and research ........ 247
Dajian Zhu
Outlook 19 The slums of Manila ............................. 257
Igor Cersosimo
PART 6 - GOVERNING CITIES: VISIONS, PROJECTS AND INSTRUMENTS .. 261
20 The rise of urban governance ............................... 263
Ronan Paddison
Outlook 20 The "pacification" of Rio de Janeiro's favelas .. 270
Orlol Porcel
21 Urban policies: towards new scenarios of innovation and
governance ................................................. 272
Joan Subirats
Outlook 21 The regulation of urban citizenship:
Shenzhen's migrants ........................................ 280
Igor Cersosimo
22 Updating Lorenzetti's allegories on government: towards
a Europe of cities ......................................... 283
João Ferrão
Outlook 22 Exchanging recyclable waste for electricity in
Fortaleza .................................................. 290
Angelo Facchini
Index ......................................................... 293
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