The populations of the Middle East and Africa are increasing rapidly, contributing to rapid urban growth. This paper describes a two-year action research process involving diverse public, private, and community stakeholders. The actions aimed to develop and strengthen the capabilities of three Mediterranean cities (Marrakech, Morocco; Sin el Fil, Lebanon; and Bodrum, Turkey) in managing and pro...

This paper reports from a pilot study conducted in an ongoing research project focusing on how users and their needs are being part of the development of smart grid services. The project aims to explore how development and use of services related to smart grids in homes might affect practices involving electricity consumption. The empirical material centers around an urban development project w...

Tackling environmental problems demands the development of new modes of integrating policy regimes and institutional structures. Putative moves from government to governance, characterised by the diffusion of state power and duties from hierarchical state structures into multi-level and cross-sectoral networks, promise to open up opportunities for the vertical and horizontal integration of envi...

As the world rapidly urbanizes, there is much focus on achieving sustainability outcomes within cities. Accomplishing this goal requires not only envisioning sustainable cities and implementing strategies, but it also demands assessing progress towards sustainable urban development. Despite a growing literature on sustainability assessment, there is room to further understand the application of...

Defining global themes such as Urban Policy, Sustainability, and even the Right to City (RTTC) is fundamental stimulating establishing a continuous dialogue with scientific community, mainly in social sciences. Thus, understanding dynamics around scope of urban sustainability requires an analysis that focused on multiple realities. Taking holistic view Brazilian this entry looks at historical c...

Information processing is increasingly embedded in the systems and processes of the contemporary city to enhance its operations, functions, and designs. This has been fueled by the new digital transition in ICT enabled by an integration of various forms of pervasive computing. Driving this transition predominantly are big data analytics and context–aware computing and their increasing amalgamat...