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Author: Sue Nichols Publisher: Springer ISBN: 981108100X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 248
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This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life. Drawing on the insights of researchers from diverse fields, such as education, architecture, history, visual sociology, applied linguistics and sensory studies, this collection of papers develops and demonstrates the connection between experience, in all its dimensions, and informal learning in the city. The chapters discuss various sensory domains of experience, considering visual, embodied, and even sexual dimensions in relation to what and how learning operates, and the contributors reflect on their learning and inquiring experiences in the city, with special reference to topics such as narrativity, ‘race’ and ethnicity, equity, urban literacy, re-generation, participation, representation and oral histories.
Author: Tim Campbell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136489568 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 244
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The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities – that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation – this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below the surface and to examine the mechanisms which affect the way cities learn and then connect together. This book draws on quantitative and qualitative data with concrete case studies to show how networks already operating in cities are used to foster and strengthen connections in order to achieve breakthroughs in learning and innovation. Going beyond smart cities means understanding how cities construct, convert and manipulate relationships that grow in urban environments. Cities discussed in this book – Amman, Barcelona, Bilbao, Charlotte,Curitiba, Juarez, Portland, Seattle and Turin – illuminate a blind spot in the literature. Each of these cities has achieved important transformations, and learning has played a key role, one that has been largely ignored in academic circles and practice concerning competitiveness and innovation.
Author: Norman Longworth Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134195125 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 254
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This book explores the mental and social landscape of the city of today and tomorrow; the way in which people think, interact, work together, learn and live with and among each other. Written to address the urgent need for a guide to the principles and practices of lifelong learning, the topics covered include: an introduction to the idea of learning cities policies and strategies for the learning city, including examples form around the world how to activate learning, involve stakeholders and encourage citizen participation in a learning city or region. Written by one of the world’s foremost thinkers in the field, this book is highly readable and easily accessible to anyone interested in the issues addressed. Workers in local, regional and national government, academics and students of lifelong learning, in addition to anyone with an interest in the future of cities and communities will find this a truly invaluable resource and guide to a way of thinking that many see as the way to a better tomorrow.
Author: Timothy Beatley Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1610910133 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 513
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As the need to confront unplanned growth increases, planners, policymakers, and citizens are scrambling for practical tools and examples of successful and workable approaches. Growth management initiatives are underway in the U.S. at all levels, but many American "success stories" provide only one piece of the puzzle. To find examples of a holistic approach to dealing with sprawl, one must turn to models outside of the United States. In Green Urbanism, Timothy Beatley explains what planners and local officials in the United States can learn from the sustainable city movement in Europe. The book draws from the extensive European experience, examining the progress and policies of twenty-five of the most innovative cities in eleven European countries, which Beatley researched and observed in depth during a year-long stay in the Netherlands. Chapters examine: the sustainable cities movement in Europe examples and ideas of different housing and living options transit systems and policies for promoting transit use, increasing bicycle use, and minimizing the role of the automobile creative ways of incorporating greenness into cities ways of readjusting "urban metabolism" so that waste flows become circular programs to promote more sustainable forms of economic development sustainable building and sustainable design measures and features renewable energy initiatives and local efforts to promote solar energy ways of greening the many decisions of local government including ecological budgeting, green accounting, and other city management tools. Throughout, Beatley focuses on the key lessons from these cities -- including Vienna, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Zurich, Amsterdam, London, and Berlin -- and what their experience can teach us about effectively and creatively promoting sustainable development in the United States. Green Urbanism is the first full-length book to describe urban sustainability in European cities, and provides concrete examples and detailed discussions of innovative and practical sustainable planning ideas. It will be a useful reference and source of ideas for urban and regional planners, state and local officials, policymakers, students of planning and geography, and anyone concerned with how cities can become more livable.
Author: Biao, Idowu Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1522581359 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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As both a physical living space and emotional environment, cities impact human beings in a number of ways. These ways include but are not limited to the kinds of relationship that may exist among the varying categories of inhabitants of the city, the organization of and accessibility to leaning resources and facilities, the types and rates of migration impacting the city, the security level of the city, and the livelihood networks existing within the city. Learning Cities, Town Planning, and the Creation of Livelihoods is an essential research publication that explores livelihood types and lifelong learning typologies required by cities as well as the relationship between higher education and improved livelihood outcomes. Featuring a broad range of topics such as learning needs, economy, and technologically advanced societies, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, academicians, researchers, students, social workers, educators, politicians, and environmentalists.
Author: Jonathan Reichental Publisher: ISBN: 9781737609902 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The world's first activity book for kids focused on learning about the future of smarter cities!Exploring Smart Cities Activity Book for Kids provides a fun and engaging educational experience for a wide range of kids ages and learning styles. Activities and rhymes will provide endless hours of enjoyment at home and at school, and ample opportunities for topics to inspire a kid's interests now and into the future.Created by Dr. Jonathan Reichental, one of the world's foremost authorities on smart cities, and his co-author, Brett Hoffstadt, the producer of many popular children's activity books on current technologies!There are over 40 engaging learning activities including:- Coloring- Mazes- Drawing- Word searches- Crosswords- Cryptograms- Connect-the-dots- Craft constructionPlus, several multiplayer activities such as:- Scavenger hunt- Discussion topics- Brainstorming- Even a board game!Kids will be gently introduced to important topics such as:- Civil engineering- Public safety- Water management- The Internet of Things (IoT)- Alternative energy- Drones- SustainabilityToday, more than half of the people in the world live in cities. In the years ahead, many more people will join them. Our future belongs to cities!Through fun and interactive activities, woven through an entertaining rhyming storyline, this book gives children a better understanding of the past, the present, and the future of cities.
Author: Sue Nichols Publisher: Springer ISBN: 981108100X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life. Drawing on the insights of researchers from diverse fields, such as education, architecture, history, visual sociology, applied linguistics and sensory studies, this collection of papers develops and demonstrates the connection between experience, in all its dimensions, and informal learning in the city. The chapters discuss various sensory domains of experience, considering visual, embodied, and even sexual dimensions in relation to what and how learning operates, and the contributors reflect on their learning and inquiring experiences in the city, with special reference to topics such as narrativity, ‘race’ and ethnicity, equity, urban literacy, re-generation, participation, representation and oral histories.
Author: Hari Sacré Publisher: Springer ISBN: 331946230X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 103
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This book explores a cultural understanding of cities and processes of civic learning by scrutinizing urban educational topics from a cultural studies perspective. This book approaches the city as a cultural fabric that consists of social, material and symbolic dimensions, and describes how civic learning is not an accidental outcome of cities but an essential component through which citizens coproduce the city. Through a combination of theoretical development and methodological reflection the chapters in the book explore three interrelated questions addressing the relationships between culture, learning and the city: How does civic learning appear in urban spaces? How does civic learning take place through urban spaces? How are urban spaces created as a result of civic learning?
Author: Norman Longworth Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134195133 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 246
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This indispensible book for managers, professionals, administrators and stakeholders in local and regional authorities describes how and why learning cities, towns and regions are helping to create a better future for all, and the tools and learning materials that will help them do so.
Author: Colin McFarlane Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1444343416 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 273
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Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism. Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning Integrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai's informal settlements with debates on urban policy, political economy, and development Considers how knowledge and learning are conceived and created in cities Addresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about urbanism between North and South
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