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Smart Cities eBook Series

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  • Shaping Smart for Better Cities

    Rethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies

    Edited by Alessandro Aurigi, Nancy Odendaal ...
    Series series Smart Cities
    Shaping Smart for Better Cities powerfully demonstrates the range of theoretical and practical challenges, opportunities and success factors involved in successfully deploying digital technologies in cities, focusing on the importance of recognizing local context and multi-layered urban relationships in designing successful urban interventions. The first section, 'Rethinking Smart (in) Places' ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

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  • In the Bubble

    Designing in a Complex World

    by John Thackara ...
    How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Technologies for Development

    From Innovation to Social Impact

    Edited by Silvia Hostettler, Samira Najih Besson, Jean-Claude Bolay ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and ... Read more

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  • Enabling the City

    Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Research and Practice

    Edited by Josefine Fokdal, Olivia Bina, Prue Chiles, Liis Ojamäe, Katrin Paadam ...
    Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter ... Read more

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  • Co-creation for Responsible Research and Innovation

    Experimenting with Design Methods and Tools

    Edited by Alessandro Deserti, Marion Real, Felicitas Schmittinger ...
    Series Book 15 - Springer Series in Design and Innovation
    This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the SISCODE (Society in Innovation and Science through CO-DEsign) project, funded by the EU under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to set up an analytical, reflective and learning framework to explore the transformations in initiatives and policies emerging from the interaction between citizens and stakeholders. The book ... Read more

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  • Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

    Edited by Karol Jan Borowiecki, Neil Forbes, Antonella Fresa ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The central purpose of this collection of essays is to make a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain. In the 21st century the world faces epochal changes which affect every part of society, including the arenas in which cultural heritage is made, held, collected, curated, exhibited, or simply exists. The book is about these changes; about the decentring of ... Read more

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  • Women in STEM in Higher Education

    Good Practices of Attraction, Access and Retainment in Higher Education

    Edited by Francisco José García-Peñalvo, Alicia García-Holgado, Angeles Dominguez, Jimena Pascual ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book addresses challenges related to women in STEM in higher education, presenting research, experiences, studies, and good practices associated with the engagement, access, and retention of women in the STEM disciplines. It also discusses strategies implemented by universities and policymakers to reduce the existing gender gap in these areas. The chapters provide an overview of ... Read more

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  • Public Places Urban Spaces

    The Dimensions of Urban Design

    by Matthew Carmona ...
    Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively revised and restructured. Carmona advances the idea of urban design as a continuous process of shaping places, fashioned in turn by shifting global, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Event Design

    Social perspectives and practices

    Edited by Greg Richards, Lénia Marques, Karen Mein ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    Events are becoming more complex as their range of functions grows, as meeting places, creative spaces, economic catalysts, social drivers, community builders, image makers, business forums and network nodes. Effective design can produce more successful business models that can help to sustain cultural and sporting activities even in difficult economic times. This process requires creative ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Creative research communication

    Theory and practice

    by Clare Wilkinson, Emma Weitkamp ...
    Aimed at scholars interested in engaging the public with their research and postgraduate students exploring the practical aspects of research communication, this book provides a theoretically grounded introduction to new and emerging approaches to public engagement and research communication. Split into three sections, the reader first explores the historical approaches and current drivers for ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology

    New Approaches and Perspectives

    Edited by Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Ina Šuklje Erjavec, Therese Kenna, Michiel de Lange, Konstantinos Ioannidis, Gabriela Maksymiuk, Martijn de Waal ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of ... Read more

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  • The Science of Citizen Science

    Edited by Katrin Vohland, Anne Land-zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni, Rob Lemmens, Josep Perelló, Marisa Ponti, Roeland Samson, Katherin Wagenknecht ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists ... Read more

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