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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2018
Print publication year:
2018
Online ISBN:
9781316647554
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Book 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.

Reviews

‘The fast-paced urbanization of the world significantly alters our attitudes towards space, particularly the ways we comprehend and organize them. This development is unprecedented in our recent history and calls for global reflections aiming at enlightening and supporting the implementation of local policies. Such is the ambition of Urban Planet book. To overcome the major challenges we are facing - particularly the ones dealing with climate and resilience - cities, such as Paris and many other cities around the globe, must understand and embrace their own complexity, so as to harness complexity to better serve the well-being of their citizens. It is by empowering the collective intelligence and sharing knowledge, that our cities will reinvent ways of living together, grounded in inclusiveness and the daily practice of democracy.'

Anne Hidalgo - Mayor of Paris

‘The authors of Urban Planet make [the] journey to the city more legible, highlighting the hopes and hindrances its brings, and the need for a parallel evolution of our science and systems if we are to reap the rewards of the great urban trek that we are now on.'

Greg Clark, CBE - Urban Innovation Centre, London

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  • Chapter 18: - What Knowledge Do Cities Themselves Need?
    pp 357-358
  • Chapter 19: - Banksy and the Biologist
    pp 359-361
  • Redrawing the Twenty-First Century City
  • Chapter 20: - Every Community Needs a Forest of Imagination
    pp 362-364
  • Chapter 21: - How Can We Shift from an Image-Based Society to a Life-Based Society?
    pp 365-367
  • Chapter 22: - A Chimera Called “Smart Cities”
    pp 368-370
  • Chapter 23: - Beyond Fill-in-the-Blank Cities
    pp 371-373
  • Chapter 24: - Persuading Policy-Makers to Implement Sustainable City Plans
    pp 374-375
  • Chapter 25: - To Live or Not to Live
    pp 376-378
  • Urbanization and the Knowledge Worker
  • Chapter 26: - City Fragmentation and the Commons
    pp 379-383
  • Chapter 27: - Cities as Global Organisms
    pp 384-385
  • Chapter 29: - Building Cities
    pp 388-390
  • A View from India
  • Chapter 30: - The False Distinctions of Socially Engaged Art and Art
    pp 391-393
  • Chapter 31: - Overcoming Inertia and Reinventing “Retreat”
    pp 394-396
  • Chapter 32: - Money for Old Rope
    pp 397-399
  • The Risks of Finance Taking Over the New Urban Agenda
  • Chapter 33: - Aesthetic Appreciation of Tagging
    pp 400-403
  • Chapter 34: - Understanding Arab Cities
    pp 404-407
  • From National to Local
  • Chapter 35: - Who Can Implement the Sustainable Development Goals in Urban Areas?
    pp 408-410
  • Chapter 37: - The Rebellion of Memory
    pp 417-419
  • Chapter 39: - Digital Urbanization and the End of Big Cities
    pp 422-424
  • Chapter 40: - The Art of Engagement / Activating Curiosity
    pp 425-427
  • Chapter 41: - Nairobi’s Illegal City-Makers
    pp 428-429
  • Chapter 43: - The Sea Wall
    pp 433-435
  • Chapter 45: - Private Fears in Public Spaces
    pp 440-442
  • Chapter 46: - Leadership
    pp 443-444
  • Science and Policy as Uncomfortable Bedfellows
  • Chapter 47: - Sketches of an Emotional Geography Towards a New Citizenship
    pp 445-450

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