This book came about as a major dissemination output of the BlueHealth Project (https://bluehealth2020.eu), a large, integrated interdisciplinary research project carried out under the European Union Horizon 2020 Research Frame-work Programme between 2016 and 2020. The project took an international and innovative, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to heal…
From July 5 to 7, 2021, the second “Tsinghua Area Studies Forum” with “Areas of the World and the World in Areas” as its theme, was held by the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua Univer-sity in Beijing. One hundred and forty-four scholars from 13 countries and 36 universities and research institutions aroun…
Cities and water have a love-hate relationship (Feldman 2017). This is especially true of rivers in many cities in Asia, which, like cities in the rest of the world, owe their locations to rivers and the trading opportunities and water sources these rivers provided. In recent years, cities across China have been beautifying and extending their waterfronts, and cities as diverse as Singapore and…
Let us imagine a work of architecture at the moment of its emergence, merging design with construction, from the originating idea all the way to the keystone, but still without any imputation of a meaningful purpose, without aligning it with the existing location, and without any presuppositions concerning the time that may have elapsed, which is to say, in relation …
A challenge is that transforming these sectors must have a focus on equity because large parts of the world population depend on these two sectors and have their livelihoods connected to them. More than 500 million small farms form part of the world food systems, many of these farm families live in inadequate housing, and many are among the approximately 830 million undernourish…
Cities have been profoundly affected by the challenges of economic restructuring and positioning in a globalizing world. They have strug-gled to reshape themselves physically to create new opportunities, or to rebrand themselves to create distinction and attract attention. Their strategies often draw on a limited range of “models”, taken from large industrial cities un…
This book presents the results of the international, interdisciplinaryresearch project ‘Urban Vertical Green 2.0’. It was part of the Sustain-able Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/ Food-Water-Energy Nexus,a call established by the Belmont Forum and the Joint ProgrammingInitiative (JPI) Urban Europe. The aim of the call was to develop op-tions for a sustainable urbanization. In the proj…
he concept of a ‘musical city’ is based on Henri Lefebvre’s philosophy of rhythmanalysis,2 developed in the 1980s by the French philosopher and urbanist as a way of understanding our cities through the experi-ence of its rhythms. He was to develop philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s rhythmic view of life as a composition of rhythms and apply it to …
This e-book contains smart city planning including both the framework and examples, regarding the priority areas, processes, and enablers for smart city development.
Tradition and innovation, side-by-side in a landscape of great buildings, sporting venues hosting local and international events and vibrant open spaces: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will offer all of this and much more. It will be the crowning glory of London’s eastward shift, establishing a new hub for business, leisure and life. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will defi ne the next generation…