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1 online resource (514 pages) |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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 an 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: urbanization 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 urbanization 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. |
| Local Note |
Cambridge University Press Cambridge Open Access Books |
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Urbanization.
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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Sustainable development.
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Sustainability.
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00943547
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Sustainability. (OCoLC)fst01747391
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Sustainable development. (OCoLC)fst01139731
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Urbanization. (OCoLC)fst01162722
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| Added Author |
Bai, Xuemei.
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Frantzeskaki, Niki.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Elmqvist, Thomas. Urban Planet. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2018 9781107196933 |
| ISBN |
9781107196933 (hardback) |
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9781316647554 |
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1316647552 |
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