The urban planet : knowledge towards sustainable cities
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The urban planet : knowledge towards sustainable cities
Cambridge University Press, 2018
- : hardback
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references
Other editors: Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, Timon McPhearson, Susan Parnell, Patricia Romero-Lankao, David Simon, Mark Watkins
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology, geography, economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects, journalists, artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective, connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing, we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together, grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability. This title is also available Open Access.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Dynamic Urban Planet: 1. Global urbanization: perspectives and trends
- 2. Embracing urban complexity
- 3. Understanding, implementing, and tracking urban metabolism is key to urban futures
- 4. Live with risk while reducing vulnerability
- 5. Harness urban complexity for health and wellbeing
- 6. Macro-economy and urban productivity
- Part II. Global Urban Sustainable Development: 7. Rethinking urban sustainability and resilience
- 8. Indicators for measuring urban sustainable development and resilience
- 9. The UN, the urban sustainable development goal and the new urban agenda
- 10. Utilizing urban living laboratories for social innovation
- 11. Can big data make a difference for urban management?
- 12. Collaborative and equitable urban citizen science
- Part III. Urban Transformations to Sustainability: 13. Sustainability transformation emerging from better governance
- 14. To transform cities, support civil society
- 15. Governance and the new politics of collaboration and contestation
- 16. Seeds of the future, found in the present
- Part IV. Provocations from Practice: 17. Sustainability, Karachi, and other irreconcilables
- 18. What knowledge do the cities themselves need?
- 19. Banksy and the biologist: redrawing the twenty-first century city
- 20. Every community needs a forest of imagination
- 21. How can we shift from a imaged-based city to a life-based city?
- 22. A chimera called smart cities
- 23. Beyond fill-in-the-blank cities
- 24. Persuading policy makers to implement sustainable city plans
- 25. To live or not to live: urbanisation and the knowledge worker
- 26. City fragmentation and the commons
- 27. Cities as global organisms
- 28. From concrete structures to green diversity: ecological landscape design for restoring urban nature and children's play
- 29. Building cities: a view from India
- 30. The barking dog syndrome
- 31. Overcoming inertia and reinventing 'retreat'
- 32. Money for old rope
- 33. An aesthetic appreciation of tagging
- 34. Understanding Arab cities
- 35. Who can implement the sustainable development goals?
- 36. Achieving sustainable cities by focusing on urban underserved
- 37. The rebellion of memory
- 38. Cities don't need 'big' data - they need innovations that connect to the local
- 39. Digital urbanisation and the end of big cities
- 40. The art of engagement / activating curiosity
- 41. Nairobi's illegal city makers
- 42. Active environmental citizens with receptive government officials can enact change
- 43. The sea wall
- 44. Academics and non-academics: who's who in changing the culture of knowledge creation?
- 45. Private fears in public spaces
- 46. Leadership: science and policy as uncomfortable bedfellows
- 47. Sketches of an emotional geography towards a new citizenship
- 48. The shift in urban technology innovation
- 49. Greening cities: our pressing moral imperative
- 50. Recognition deficit and struggle for unifying city fragments
- 51. Disrespecting the knowledge of place
- 52. Broadening our vision to find a new eco-spiritual way of living.
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