Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability
This book tackles the challenges posed by accelerating urbanization, and demystifies Social Sustainability, the least understood of all the different areas of sustainable development. The volume’s twin focus on these profoundly intertwined topics creates
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Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability
Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability
Mohammad Dastbaz ∙ Wim Naudé Jamileh Manoochehri Editors
Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability
Editor Mohammad Dastbaz University of Suffolk Ipswich, UK Jamileh Manoochehri Leicester School of Architecture De Montfort University Leicester School of Architecture Leicester, UK
Wim Naudé Maastricht School of Management and Maastricht University Maastricht, The Netherlands IZA Institute of Labor Economics Bonn, Germany
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Preface
The idea behind putting this volume together was to provide a considered approach in dealing with some of the most pressing issues facing the development of our societies. We believe that social sustainability is one of the least understood of the different areas of sustainable development. Large migrations of populations from rural areas to cities without planning and without appropriate infrastructure, including housing, education, and health care requirements, have created significant challenges across the globe. There is now the need to look at how the intelligent use of data on population growth and movement in planning, design, and constructing infrastructure can be used to meet the challenges of urbanization and the sustainable development of societies in the face of rapid pop
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