Contents
Introduction:Situating Knowledge and Action for an Urban Planet
Part IVProvocations from Practice
19Banksy and the Biologist: Redrawing the Twenty-First Century City
21How Can We Shift from an Image-Based Society to a Life-Based Society?
24Persuading Policy-Makers to Implement Sustainable City Plans
25To Live or Not to Live: Urbanization and the Knowledge Worker
28From Concrete Structures to Green Diversity: Ecological Landscape Design for Restoring Urban Nature and Children’s Play
32Money for Old Rope: The Risks of Finance Taking Over the New Urban Agenda
35Who Can Implement the Sustainable Development Goals in Urban Areas?
36Achieving Sustainable Cities by Focusing on the Urban Underserved: An Action Agenda for the Global South
38Cities Don’t Need “Big” Data – They Need Innovations That Connect to the Local
42Active Environmental Citizens with Receptive Government Officials Can Enact Change
44Academics and Nonacademics: Who’s Who in Changing the Culture of Knowledge Creation?
46Leadership: Science and Policy as Uncomfortable Bedfellows
47Sketches of an Emotional Geography Towards a New Citizenship
48The Shift in Urban Technology Innovation from Top-Down to Bottom-Up Sources
50Recognition Deficit and the Struggle for Unifying City Fragments
52Broadening Our Vision to Find a New Eco-Spiritual Way of Living
Synthesis:New Integrated Urban Knowledge for the Cities We Want