Urban Planet Knowledge Towards Sustainable Cities
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 system...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England :
Cambridge University Press
[2018]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Life Sciences
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645336906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
