Planning Wild Cities: Human-Nature Relationships in the Urban Age

ISBN-13: 9780367551575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 158 str.

Wendy Steele

Opis

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges of planning wild cities in a climate of change and will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies and sustainable development.

Spis treści

1. Weather of mass destruction  2. Finding Homo urbanis  3. Through the security glass darkly  4. Seeking the good city  5. We are the wild city  6. Planning in climate change  7. Can the wild city be tamed?  Index

O autorze

Wendy Steele is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning with the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. Her research and practice focus on cities in a climate of change, with a particular emphasis on climate justice, urban resilience, critical governance, infrastructures of care and planning theory. Her previous books include A Climate for Growth, Planning Across Borders and Global City Challenges: Debating a concept, improving a practice.