; 2) it includes non-natural hazards such as security challenges and accidents; and 3) it includes institutional aspects that focus on protecting infrastructure systems (Bosher,2014, p 242). Examples include the Council of Australian Government’s 2011 National Strategy for Disaster Resilience, which...
Still an inherent conflict/mismatch between the metropolitan (MAB) (Jones, 2015), the regional (Generalitat) with SmartCat brand (Calzada, 2016b), and the local authority (city council led by Ms. Ada Colau with the new brand, BITS, based on the new "Municipalism") (Shea Baird, 2017)....
The English city region discourse resonated north of the border.8 In 2011 the Scottish Government, in association with the six main Scottish cities (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness and Stirling) published an agenda for cities; “Scotland's Cities, delivering for Scotland” (Scot...
Naked City's "solution" was to admit that there are no solutions--at least none that could be articulated in the context of its own dramatic agenda. "One of its strengths," wrote Boroff in 1966, "was that it said nothing which is neatly paraphraseable. It was, in truth, Chekhovian ...
The 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships are being delivered in collaboration between the UCI, Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council, UK Sport, British Cycling, Glasgow Life and VisitScotland. The partnership aims to create a blueprint for future editions by ensuring the inaugural event is authen...
particularly, the overall transformation of Barcelona into a Smart City was progressing successfully, and it was already widely recognised as a leading case of Smart City initiatives all over Europe. Nevertheless, as we will observe later, after some changes in the City Council of Barcelona and ...
The façade also serves as a structural exoskeleton that bears the lateral loads of the tower [20]. In 2012, the CTBUH recognized O-14 as a “Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa Finalist”. The council praised the building’s exoskeleton by stating, “The curvaceous, porous form ...