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/ Moreno, Carlos. — Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2024.

1 online resource (xxii, 276 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour), plans, PDF.

The book makes the case for the 15-minute city concept for sustainable human-centric urban development. It reviews the past and evolution of urban design theories and morphologies. It highlights examples of cities and small towns implementing the 15-minute city approach. It also discusses digital technologies that can support 15-minute cities.

/ Deffner, Alex & Kavaratzis, Mihalis. (Eds.). — Cheltenham ; Northampon, MA : Edward Elgar, 2025.

1 online resource (xv, 213 pages) : illustrations, PDF.

The book contains papers exploring the theory and practice of city branding and communication strategies, image and reputation management through branding, and branding for tourism marketing through case studies of cities around the world.

/ Dabrowski, Marcin; Van den Berghe, Karel; Williams, Joanna; & Bueren, Ellen van. (Eds.). — Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis, 2024.

iv, 108 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) — (Regional studies policy impact books ; v. 6, no. 1).

The chapters in the book explore circular economy applications and challenges at the level of cities and regions, as well as integrating care and social justice in circular economy frameworks, measures for assessing circular economy transitions, support for a circular bioeconomy in European metropolitan regions, and enabling policies at the international, national and local/regional levels.

/ Khare, Anshuman & Beckman, Terry. (Eds.). — Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

1 online resource (xx, 179 pages) : illustrations, PDF. — (Routledge advances in regional economics, science and policy).

The book compiles papers related to sustainable urban development through smart cities and technological innovation. Papers are organized into four sections: (1) governance of smart cities; (2) the economy; (3) society, including sustainable homes and homelessness reduction and (4) technology (i.e., the use of the APIS platform to manage distributed photovoltaic systems.

/ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS. — Third edition. — New York ; Washington : National Association of City Transportation Officials : Island Press, 2025.

1 online resource (xiii, 409 pages) : colour illustrations, PDF.

The document offers design and planning principles and best practices for adding bikeways to urban routes. It covers planning a bicycle network and action plan; designing bikeways (i.e., bicycle facilities, vehicle speed and volume management, bikeway operations, and transitions); bikeways on low-speed, low-volume streets (i.e., shared spaces, bike boulevards, advisory bike lanes and constrained bike lanes); protected bike lanes; paths; bicycle infrastructure at transit stops (i.e. boarding islands, shared boarding areas and curbside transit stops); curbside activity; bicycle route wayfinding; intersections; bikeway maintenance; construction management plans; and bicycle and scooter parking.

/ Kresl, Peter Karl. — Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2025.

1 online resource (v, 137 pages) : graphs, maps, PDF. — (Cities series).

The book explores the competitiveness of cities/urban regions and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on competitiveness in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. It covers the components of urban competitiveness (e.g., city size, human capital, cultural services and transit); the impacts of the pandemic on urban social activities that have repercussions for the economy; the effects and adaptation responses of central business districts and downtowns to telework and vacant office buildings, including lost tax revenue; the repercussions of the relocation of businesses to suburban business districts and outside the urban region since the pandemic; the recovery of cities and economic competence going forward; and strategies to improve urban resilience to global warming, health-related disasters, economic disasters, political threats, and physical and demographic challenges.