Untamed Urbanisms (Open Access)

ISBN-13: 9780367869878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 318 str.

Adriana Allen; Andrea Lampis; Mark Swilling

Opis

By drawing on fresh original research by a new generation of urban researchers located in research institutions across the global South and North, this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development. It will be of interest to researchers, city managers and a wide range of

Spis treści

1. Trajectories of change in the urban Anthropocene 1. Towards sustainable urban infrastructures for the urban Anthropocene Mark Swilling 2. Sustainable flows between Kolkata and its peri-urban interface: challenges and opportunities Jenia Mukherjee 3. On being a smart about cities: seven considerations for a new urban planning and design Maarten A. Hajer 4. Is big sustainable? Global comparison of city emissions Dominik Reusser, Anna-Lena Winz and Diego Rybski 5. Urban-scale food system governance: an alternative response to the dominant paradigm? Gareth Haysom II. The untamed everyday 6. Lost in translation: social protection and the search for security in Bogotá, Colombia Andrea Lampis 7. Potentials of the urban poor in shaping a sustainable Lagos metropolis Taibat Lawanson 8. Sustainability of what? The struggles of poor Mayan households with young breadwinners towards a better life in the peri-urban area of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico Mauricio Dominguez Aguilar and Jorge Pacheco Castro 9. Local governance, climate risk and everyday vulnerability in Dar es Salaam Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya, Patience Mutopo and Mzime Ndebele-Murisa 10. Accra’s unregulated market-oriented sanitation strategy: problems and opportunity John Harris III. Disrupting hegemonic planning 11. Walking the path to urban sustainability: what is still missing in current urban planning models? Natalie Rosales 12. Are you really listening to me? Planning with the community in urban revitalization projects Mintesnot Woldeamanuel and Jose Palma 13. Sustainable urban development: a Georgist perspective Franklin Obeng-Odoom 14. Beyond an imaginary of power? Governance, supranational organizations and ‘just’ urbanization Philip Lawton IV. Liberating alternatives 15. Ne

O autorze

Adriana Allen is Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London, UK.

Andrea Lampis is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.

Mark Swilling is Programme Coordinator: Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute, South Africa.