Urban planet : knowledge towards sustainable cities / edited by Thomas Elmqvist [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elmqvist, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Life Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 482 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English

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. This title is also available Open Access.

Contents:

Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction

Dynamic urban planet

Global urbanization: perspectives and trends

Embracing urban complexity

Understanding, implementing, and tracking urban metabolism is key to urban futures

Live with risk while reducing vulnerability

Harness urban complexity for health and wellbeing

Macro-economy and urban productivity

Global urban sustainable development

Rethinking urban sustainability and resilience

Indicators for measuring urban sustainable development and resilience

The un, the urban sustainable development goal and the new urban agenda

Utilizing urban living laboratories for social innovation

Can big data make a difference for urban management?

Collaborative and equitable urban citizen science

Urban transformations to sustainability

Sustainability transformation emerging from better governance

To transform cities, support civil society

Governance and the new politics of collaboration and contestation

Seeds of the future, found in the present

Provocations from practice

Sustainability, karachi, and other irreconcilables

What knowledge do the cities themselves need?

Banksy and the biologist: redrawing the twenty-first century city

Every community needs a forest of imagination

How can we shift from a imaged-based city to a life-based city?

A chimera called smart cities

Beyond fill-in-the-blank cities

Persuading policy makers to implement sustainable city plans

To live or not to live: urbanisation and the knowledge worker

City fragmentation and the commons

Cities as global organisms

From concrete structures to green diversity: ecological landscape design for

Restoring urban nature and children's play

Building cities: a view from india

The barking dog syndrome

Overcoming inertia and reinventing "retreat"

Money for old rope

An aesthetic appreciation of tagging

Understanding arab cities

Who can implement the sustainable development goals?

Achieving sustainable cities by focusing on urban underserved

The rebellion of memory

Cities don't need "big" data- they need innovations that connect to the local

Digital urbanisation and the end of big cities

The art of engagement / Activating Curiosity

Nairobi's illegal city makers

Active environmental citizens with receptive government officials can enact change

The sea wall

Academics and non-academics: who's who in changing the culture of knowledge

Creation?

Private fears in public spaces

Leadership: science and policy as uncomfortable bedfellows

Sketches of an emotional geography towards a new citizenship

The shift in urban technology innovation

Greening cities: our pressing moral imperative

Recognition deficit and struggle for unifying city fragments

Disrespecting the knowledge of place

Broadening our vision to find a new eco-spiritual way of living

Synthesis.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2018).

ISBN:

9781108195379

1108195377

9781108186964

1108186963

9781316647554

1316647552

OCLC:

1034593572