Smart city approaches in city planning have gained significant momentum in the recent past.
While proponents argue that smart cities will bring positive social change by the adoption of …

Environmental governance has the potential to be significantly transformed by Smart Earth
technologies, which deploy enhanced environmental monitoring via combinations of …

Smart cities are now arguably the new urban utopias of the 21st century. Integrating urban
and digital planning, smart cities are being marketed across the world as solutions to the …

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia—
massive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of …

Many cities have a two-tiered system for governing land: one set of rules for most people,
and a different set for elite investors, large developers, and others who can bend …

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization
as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its …

This article examines the transferability of the concept of gentrification away from its A nglo‐
A merican heartland to the cities of A sia Pacific and specifically H ong K ong. An …

This paper introduces the concept of “bypass urbanism” to account for a process of
urbanization that is reordering center-periphery relations of urban regions into new …

Smart cities are becoming a popular urban development strategy to address complex and
multiple challenges confronting cities globally, including in Africa. Using the 3RC framework …

Abstract King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) is a $100 billion master-planned city under
construction along Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast. As part of a quartet of new planned …