This paper addresses a major problem in international solid waste management, which is twofold: a lack of data, and a lack of consistent data to allow comparison between cities. The paper presents an indicator set for integrated sustainable waste management (ISWM) in cities both North and South, to allow benchmarking of a city's performance, comparing cities and monitoring developments over tim...

  Poverty is a multi-dimensional problem and various researchers, based on their field, have investigated different aspects of poverty. Moreover, poverty, as a global problem, could be an interesting subject for both developed and developing countries. In recent decades, both international org...

Since the early 1990s, and particularly with the popularization of the Internet and the World Wide Web, a wave of experiments and initiatives has emerged, aiming at facilitating city functions such as community activities, local economies and municipal services. This chapter reviews advancements of worldwide activities focused on the creation of regional information spaces. In the US and Canada...

In this paper, we present the evacuation simulation system that is the combination of a virtual city and a crisis management simulation. The system allows users to become virtual evacuees in an evacuation simulation to learn about crowd behavior. In the experimental use of the system, we found that the synergic effects between a bird’s-eye and a first-person views in learning emergency escaping...

As a consequence of the accelerated globalization process, today major cities all over the world are characterized by an increasing multiculturalism. The integration of immigrant communities may be affected by social polarization and spatial segregation. How are these dynamics evolving over time? To what extent the different policies launched to tackle these problems are working? These are crit...

This paper examines the effect of COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic, fiscal, social political fallout on cities metropolitan regions. We assess urban economic geography at intra- inter-regional geographic scales in context four main forces: scarring instilled by pandemic; lockdown as a forced experiment; need to secure built environment against future risks; changes form system. At mac...