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City Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate

Author : Tony Fry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317659015
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book City Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate written by Tony Fry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes beyond current ways that the impact of climate change upon the city are understood. In doing so it addresses climate in a variety of its connotations. It looks to the nomadic behaviour patterns of the past for lessons for today’s population unsettlement, and argues that as human survival will increasingly be linked directly to movement, the city can no longer be defined as a constrained space. The impacts of climate change must be understood as a combination of the actual and the expected, and have to be addressed both practically and culturally. City Futures in an Age of Changing Climate looks at how cities can adapt and respond to the unsustainable conditions they are now facing. The book considers possible post-urban futures, exposing a range of very different urban forms, and addresses the concept of fragmentation; the breaking up of any coherent economic or cultural nucleic urban spaces. Urban planners, designers, development practitioners, and anyone seeking to understand what the future is likely to look like for our cities, and how to prepare for it, will find this an essential read.

Resilient Urban Futures

Author : Zoé A. Hamstead
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030631307
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Resilient Urban Futures written by Zoé A. Hamstead and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 186 pages. 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.

Urban Planning for Climate Change

Author : Barbara Norman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000791017
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Urban Planning for Climate Change written by Barbara Norman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures. Urban Planning for Climate Change focusses on how urban planning is fundamental to action on climate change. In doing so it particularly looks at current practice and opportunities for innovation and capacity building in the future - carbon neutral development, building back better and creating more resilient urban settlements around the world. The complex challenge of possible urban resettlement from the impact of climate change is covered as a special issue bringing a focus on adaptation, working with nature and delivering real action on climate change with local communities. Norman recommends ten essential actions for urban planning for climate change along with some suggestions to inspire the next generations to embrace these opportunities with creativity and innovation. Featuring key messages and implications for practice in each chapter, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, practitioners and communities involved in planning more climate resilient urban and regional futures.

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

Author : Peter Calthorpe
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597264198
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change written by Peter Calthorpe and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities

Author : Abusaada, Hisham
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668424649
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities written by Abusaada, Hisham and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decades, protecting the urban environment in the face of environmentalism and environmental rights has become crucial to saving the planet from the dangers of the rapid urban development of new cities and societies. Air temperature is one of the factors influenced by climate change and contemporary city morphology that lacks compact city features. Contemporary cities have taken on global paradigms, adopting open-fabric, multiple, and ultrahigh residential towers and superhuman-scale spaces at the level of squares and public parks. This type of planning results in a radical thermal transformation not only in the movement and transportation network, but also in all public spaces and their external spaces. It is essential to understand the dimensions and principles of urban planning and design in conjunction with the competence of environmental design to reduce the impact of the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities focuses on public health and wellbeing, decent work and economic growth, sustainable cities and societies, and climate action. It presents atlases of UHI-based digital techniques and methods of modelling as well as the use of these atlases, mapping, and models in exploring the placemaking problems in the new cities. Covering topics such as artificial intelligence, pedestrian density mapping, and urban heat island mitigation, this premier reference source is a critical resource for architects, city planners, urban planners, city officials, government officials, policymakers, non-profit organizations, politicians, engineers, libraries, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Hot Cities

Author : Wendy Steele
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786434598
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Hot Cities written by Wendy Steele and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban regeneration.

Performance for Resilience

Author : Beth Osnes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319672894
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Performance for Resilience written by Beth Osnes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated. Weaving together climate science and artistic expression, it results in a funny and powerful story spanning 300 million years. The first half is professionally scripted, composed, and choreographed to convey how our use of fossil fuels is impacting our climate. The second half - our future story - is authored by local youth to generate solutions for their city’s resilience. In rehearsing the musical, participants themselves embody aspects of climate science and human development. Ultimately, it demonstrates that performance can be a dynamic tool for youth to contribute to their community’s resilience. Educators can use this book to guide youth in creative expression based on (or inspired by) Shine. Included are the script, links to the music and video of the performance, materials for building curricula, interviews with collaborators, and lessons learned along Shine’s year-long international tour.

The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies

Author : John Hannigan
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526421631
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies written by John Hannigan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to new debates and research on the city, this handbook looks both backwards and forwards to bring together key scholarship in the field

Remaking Cities

Author : Tony Fry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474224172
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Remaking Cities written by Tony Fry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed. In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a conceptual design perspective to the challenge of urban sustainability and resilience. In a typically far-sighted and provocative work, Fry presents ideas and actions for 'metrofitting' – a new kind of practice in architecture and urban design. Metrofitting expands the technological concept of retrofit up to the city scale, placing social, cultural, political and ethical concerns at its heart. Metrofitting is not about visionary technology, it is about transforming existing cities by combining available resources with human creativity, prompted by new thinking about new and old urban problems. It requires overcoming outmoded Eurocentric assumptions of what constitutes a city, rethinking their forms and structures, and understanding their metabolic processes and social and economic functions. This book provides conceptually strong practical approaches that will ultimately change the whole way we view cities and the way the urban future is designed. Illustrated with international case studies of metrofitting in action, Remaking Cities will provoke and stimulate debate among architects, urban designers, and anyone concerned with the urban environment and social and cultural change.

Philosophy and the City

Author : Keith Jacobs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786604612
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the City written by Keith Jacobs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy has its origins in the city, and in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important than ever. The city is the place in which most humans now play out their lives, and the place that determines much of the cultural, social, economic, and political life of the contemporary world. Towards a Philosophy of the City explores a wide range of approaches and perspectives in a way that is true to the city’s complex and dynamic character. The volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that identifies the key themes and then moves through four parts, examining the concept of the city itself, its varying histories and experiences, the character of the landscapes that belong to the city, and finally the impact of new technologies for the future of city spaces. Each section takes up aspects of the thinking of the city as it develops in relation to particular problems, contexts, and sometimes as exemplified in particular cities. This volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Philosophy, Geography, Sociology and Urban Studies.

Sacred Civics

Author : Jayne Engle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000601358
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Civics written by Jayne Engle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters. Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities.

Urban Geography

Author : Tim Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317313534
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Urban Geography written by Tim Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation in urban geography through its major themes to contemporary and pressing issues. The text critically synthesizes key literatures in the following areas: the urban world changing approaches to urban geography urban form and structure economy and the city urban politics planning, regeneration and urban policy cities and culture architecture and urban landscapes images of the city experiencing the city housing and residential segregation transport and mobility in cities sustainability and the city. This edition builds on the success of the comprehensively revised fourth edition and provides revised chapters on transport/mobility and urban futures, with additional updating of readings and some case studies. The book synthesises a wide range of literature on each subject and presents the material in a lively engaging way, supported by an expanded range of student friendly features, including exercises and suggestions for further study.

Urban Futures

Author : Timothy J. Dixon
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447336291
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Urban Futures written by Timothy J. Dixon and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futures. This book explores the history and evolution of city visions, placing them in the wider context of art, culture, science, foresight and urban theory. It highlights and critically reviews examples of city visions from around the world, contrasting their development and outlining the key benefits and challenges in planning such visions. The authors show how important it is to think about the future of cities in objective and strategic ways, engaging with a range of stakeholders – something more important than ever as we look to visions of a sustainable future beyond the COVID-19 crisis.

A Modern Guide to Creative Economies

Author : Comunian, Roberta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789905494
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book A Modern Guide to Creative Economies written by Comunian, Roberta and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a series of new perspectives and reflections on creative economies, this insightful Modern Guide expands and challenges current knowledge in the field. Interdisciplinary in scope, it features a broad range of contributions from both leading and emerging scholars, which provide innovative, critical research into a wide range of disciplines, including arts and cultural management, cultural policy, cultural sociology, economics, entrepreneurship, management and business studies, geography, humanities, and media studies.

Climate Change and Cities

Author : Cynthia Rosenzweig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1316603334
Total Pages : 855 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Cities written by Cynthia Rosenzweig and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.

Climate Change and U.S. Cities

Author : William D. Solecki
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610919793
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and U.S. Cities written by William D. Solecki and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 80% of the U.S. population now lives in urban metropolitan areas, and this number is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. At the same time, the built infrastructure sustaining these populations has become increasingly vulnerable to climate change. Stresses to existing systems, such as buildings, energy, transportation, water, and sanitation are growing. If the status quo continues, these systems will be unable to support a high quality of life for urban residents over the next decades, a vulnerability exacerbated by climate change impacts. Understanding this dilemma and identifying a path forward is particularly important as cities are becoming leading agents of climate action. Prepared as a follow-up to the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA), Climate Change and U.S. Cities documents the current understanding of existing and future climate risk for U.S. cities, urban systems, and the residents that depend on them. Beginning with an examination of the existing science since 2012, chapters develop connections between existing and emerging climate risk, adaptation planning, and the role of networks and organizations in facilitating climate action in cities. From studies revealing disaster vulnerability among low-income populations to the development of key indicators for tracking climate change, this is an essential, foundational analysis. Importantly, the assessment puts a critical emphasis on the cross-cutting factors of economics, equity, and governance. Urban stakeholders and decision makers will come away with a full picture of existing climate risks and a set of conclusions and recommendations for action. Many cities in the United States still have not yet planned for climate change and the costs of inaction are great. With bold analysis, Climate Change and U.S. Cities reveals the need for action and the tools that cities must harness to effect decisive, meaningful change.

Being Dead Otherwise

Author : Anne Allison
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024410
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Being Dead Otherwise written by Anne Allison and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where descendants would tend their spirits, and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In Being Dead Otherwise Anne Allison examines the emergence of new death practices in Japan as the old customs of mortuary care are coming undone. She outlines the proliferation of new industries, services, initiatives, and businesses that offer alternative means---ranging from automated graves, collective grave sites, and crematoria to one-stop mortuary complexes and robotic priests---for tending to the dead. These new burial and ritual practices provide alternatives to long-standing traditions of burial and commemoration of the dead. In charting this shifting ecology of death, Allison outlines the potential of these solutions to radically reorient sociality in Japan in ways that will impact how we think about the end of life, identity, tradition, and culture in Japan and beyond.