Managing Urban Futures

2016-12-05 Architecture

Author : Marco Keiner
Release : 2016-12-05
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 200/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Managing Urban Futures written by Marco Keiner. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization is one of the most powerful forces influencing global sustainability. It is dominated by three factors: population growth, rural-urban migration and subsequent urban expansion. Perhaps nowhere are these factors more dominant than in developing countries. This volume brings together leading experts including Alan Gilbert, John Friedmann, Saskia Sassen and Janice Perlman to explore the conflicting challenges of rapid urbanization in developing countries. While all have to contend with key issues such as social segregation, poverty, and loss of governability, the ongoing forces of urban growth vary from country to country. By comparing the challenges of urbanization in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, this book puts forward a new way of thinking about mega- and million-cities in developing countries - one that promotes their vital function in society as engines of ideas, technologies, societal change, democratic transformation and loci of political will to build a new regime of global sustainability.

Alternative Urban Futures

2004 Business & Economics

Author : Raquel Pinderhughes
Release : 2004
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 678/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Alternative Urban Futures written by Raquel Pinderhughes. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop and manage essential urban infrastructures in ways that support sustainable development in the areas of waste management, water supply and management, energy production and use, building design and construction, land-use, transportation, and food systems. Each chapter features case studies that provide concrete examples of how ecologically and socially responsible urban and sustainable development planning and policy approaches have been successfully implemented in cities around the world. The book is especially effective in its emphasis on recently published statistics and writing supporting new planning and policy recommendations. Each chapter ends with a summary, accompanied by a list of questions that can be addressed with information provided in the text.

Co-creating Sustainable Urban Futures

2018-01-09 Science

Author : Niki Frantzeskaki
Release : 2018-01-09
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Co-creating Sustainable Urban Futures written by Niki Frantzeskaki. This book was released on 2018-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions. The book combines theoretical frameworks and tools with practical experiences on transition management as a framework that supports urban planning and governance towards sustainability. The book offers the opportunity to become actively engaged in working towards sustainable futures of cities. Readers of this book will be equipped to understand the complexity of urban sustainability transitions and diagnose persistent unsustainability problems in cities. Urban planners and professionals will build competences for designing transition management processes in cities and engaging with multidisciplinary knowledge in solution-seeking processes. The heart of the book marks the variety of very different local case studies across the world – including, amongst others, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, La Botija in Honduras, Sydney in Australia and Cleveland in the US. These rich studies give inspiration and practical insights to young planners on how to create sustainable urban futures in collaboration with other stakeholders. The case studies and critical reflections on applications of transition management in cities offer food for thought and welcome criticism. They also introduce new lenses to understand the bigger picture that co-creation dynamics play in terms of power, (dis-)empowerment, legitimacy and changing actor roles. This will equip the readers with a deep understanding of the dynamics, opportunities and challenges present in urban contexts and urban sustainability transitions.

Resilient Urban Futures

2021-04-06 Science

Author : Zoé A. Hamstead
Release : 2021-04-06
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Resilient Urban Futures written by Zoé A. Hamstead. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change.

Managing Urban Futures

2005 Architecture

Author : Marco Keiner
Release : 2005
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Managing Urban Futures written by Marco Keiner. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 Unsustainable Trends in Spatial Development in China: Situation Analysis and Exploration of Alternative Development Paths Demonstrated by Case Studies of Kunming (Urban) and Shaxi Valley (Rural) -- Part IV Coming Together -- 11 Sustaining Cosmopolis: Managing Multicultural Cities -- 12 Towards Gigapolis? From Urban Growth to Evolutionable Medium-sized Cities -- 13 Urban Planning in the North: Blueprint for the South? -- References -- Index

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