Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization

Chapter 1 Development Against Sustainability? Marrakech as a Case Study

Chapter 2 Metropolitan Public Realm Frameworks for Coastal East African Urbanization: The Case of Malindi Waterfront as Socio-Ecological Infrastructure

Chapter 3 Mobile Urbanity in Southern Africa. The Socio-Spatial Practices of Informal Cross-Border Traders Between Johannesburg and Maputo

Chapter 4 Humanizing Urbanism. On Embracing Informality and the Future of Johannesburg

Chapter 5 Urban Planning in Islamabad: From the Modern Movement to the Contemporary Urban Development Between Formal and Informal Settlements

Chapter 6 Pacification of Favelas, Mega Events, and the Creation of New Inequalities in the Global South: The Case of Rio de Janeiro

Chapter 7 The Role of State Involvement in Slum Improvement: A Critical Examination of Cofopri Approach into a Peripheral Barrio of Lima, Peru

Chapter 8 Undergrowth Urbanism: The Role of User-Generated Practices in the Informal City. A Methodology for Analysis and Intervention Based on the Case Study of Paraisópolis in São Paulo

Chapter 9 Share for Care. Communication Technologies and Social Inclusion for Empowerment in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Chapter 10 Enhancing Participation Through ICTs: How Modern Information Technologies Can Improve Participatory Approaches Fostering Sustainable Development

Chapter 11 Architectural Design in the Cities of the Global South

Chapter 12 Bioclimatic Design for Informal Settlements

Chapter 13 Housing in African Rural Contexts: The Nubian Vault. Opportunities for the Economic Market in the Rural Savannah Environments

Chapter 14 National Public Primary Schools Strategic Planning: A Key Factor to Ensure Quality Education Enrollment in Developing Countries

Chapter 15 The Tourism as Local Development Leverage: The Restaurant/Guest house of Olga’s and the Professional School YCTC in Livingstone, Zambia

Chapter 16 The Mantra of Modernity

Chapter 17 Research, Interventions and Training for Cultural Heritage Safeguard and Enhancement. Lesson Learned from 50 Years of Studies and Projects Implementation in Armenia

Chapter 18 Landscape Quality and Multifunctional Agriculture: The Potential of the Historic Agricultural Landscape in the Context of the Development of the Contemporary City

Chapter 19 Cultural Heritage for Urban Regeneration. Developing Methodology Through a Knowledge Exchange Program

Chapter 20 Learning by Practice from an Early Researcher Perspective. Investigating Widespread Heritage in Transition Countries

Chapter 21 Minor Settlements: Setting up a Network of Creative and Sustainable Communities

Chapter 22 The Heritage Value of the Craft Sector in Fast-Growing Cities

Chapter 23 Resilience Thinking as a Useful Approach to Reduce the Territorial Risks

Chapter 24 New Strategies and Four-Layer Approach for Disaster Risk Management in Complex City Environments

Chapter 25 The Economic Impacts of Natural Hazards: Lessons Learnt from the PDNA International Damage Assessment Project Implemented in Haiti After the Earthquake of 2010

Chapter 26 Perceiving Urban Resilience Within Post-quake Recovering Processes. An Experimental Approach for Emergency Housing in Emilia Romagna, Italy

Chapter 27 Climate Change and Heat Waves in Colombia. Possible Effects and Adaptation Strategies

Chapter 28 Social–Ecological Implications of the Quinoa Market Teleconnections: Intervention Criteria on the Southern Bolivian Altiplano

Chapter 29 Socio-Environmental Effects of Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Mozambique

Chapter 30 The Narrative Structure of the Agro-Urban Metropolitan Territory. The Metropolis as Hypertext for the History of the Twenty-first Century: A Network of Middle Cities as an Operational Topography

Chapter 31 Resource Efficiency and Resilience in Sub-Saharan African Cities: Towards Community Metabolism

Chapter 32 The International Workshop “Transforming Johannesburg: Reshaping Socio-Ecological Landscapes Through Collaborative Practices”

Chapter 33 Engaging the Informal and Formal in an Expanded Notion of Urban Infrastructure: How Healing Human and Ecological Networks Could Lead to a More Equitable City

Chapter 34 Eco-Incremental Housing: Researching Typologies and Systems in Pursuit of a Community-Based Approach to Housing Upgrades in Informal Contexts