Urban Planet : Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities PDF
Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, Timon McPhearson, Susan Parnell, Patricia Romero-Lankao, David Simon, Mark Watkins
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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.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781108195379
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- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781108195379