The Urban Planet : Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities / edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, Timon McPhearson, Susan Parnell, Patricia Romero-Lankao, David Simon, Mark Watkins.

• Introduction: Situating Knowledge and Action for an Urban Planet / Susan Parnell, Thomas Elmqvist, Timon McPhearson, Harini Nagendra, and Sverker Sörlin -- PART I. DYNAMIC URBAN PLANET -- 1. Global Urbanization: Perspectives and Trends / Dagmar Haase, Burak Güneralp, Bharat Dahiya, Xuemei Bai, and Thomas Elmqvist -- 2. Embracing Urban Complexity / Marina Alberti, Timon McPhearson, and Andrew Gonzalez -- 3. Understanding, Implementing, and Tracking Urban Metabolism Is Key to Urban Futures / Abel Chávez, Chris Kennedy, Bin Chen, Marian Chertow, Tim Baynes, Shaoqing Chen, and Xuemei Bai -- 4. Live with Risk While Reducing Vulnerability / Patricia Romero-Lankao, Olga Wilhelmi, and Mikhail Chester -- 5. Harness Urban Complexity for Health and Well-Being / Franz W. Gatzweiler, Jo Ivey Boufford, and Anna Pomykala -- 6. Macroeconomy and Urban Productivity / Michael Cohen and Lena Simet -- PART II. GLOBAL URBAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 7. Rethinking Urban Sustainability and Resilience / David Simon, Corrie Griffith, and Harini Nagendra -- 8. Indicators for Measuring Urban Sustainability and Resilience / David Gómez-Álvarez and Eduardo López-Moreno with Edgardo Bilsky, Karina Blanco Ochoa, and Efrén Osorio Lara -- 9. The UN, the Urban Sustainable Development Goal, and the New Urban Agenda / Andrew Rudd, David Simon, Maruxa Cardama, Eugénie L. Birch, and Aromar Revi -- 10. Utilizing Urban Living Laboratories for Social Innovation / Sandra Naumann, McKenna Davis, Michele-Lee Moore, and Kes McCormick -- 11. Can Big Data Make a Difference for Urban Management? / Ulrich Mans, Sarah Giest, and Thomas Baar -- 12. Collaborative and Equitable Urban Citizen Science / Karen MacClune, Kanmani Venkateswaran, Bolanle Wahab, Sascha Petersen, Nivedita Mani, Bijay Kumar Singh, and Ajay Kumar Singh -- PART III. URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS TO SUSTAINABILITY -- 13. Sustainability Transformation Emerging from Better Governance / Patricia Romero-Lankao, Niki Frantzeskaki, and Corrie Griffith -- 14. To Transform Cities, Support Civil Society / Niki Frantzeskaki, Adina Dumitru, Julia Wittmayer, Flor Avelino, and Michele-Lee Moore -- 15. Governing Urban Sustainability Transformations: The New Politics of Collaboration and Contestation / Sarah Burch, Sara Hughes, Patricia Romero-Lankao, and Heike Schroeder -- 16. Seeds of the Future in the Present: Exploring Pathways for Navigating Towards “Good” Anthropocenes / Laura M. Pereira, Elena Bennett, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Garry Peterson, Timon McPhearson, Albert Norström, Per Olsson, Rika Preiser, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, and Joost Vervoort -- PART IV. PROVOCATIONS FROM PRACTICE -- 17. Sustainability, Karachi, and Other Irreconcilables / Mahim Maher -- 18. What Knowledge Do Cities Themselves Need? / Robert McDonald -- 19. Banksy and the Biologist: Redrawing the Twenty-First Century City / Debra Roberts -- 20. Every Community Needs a Forest of Imagination / Andrew Grant -- 21. How Can We Shift from an Image-Based Society to a Life-Based Society? / Cecilia Herzog -- 22. A Chimera Called “Smart Cities” / Gurbir Singh -- 23. Beyond Fill-in-the-Blank Cities / Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio -- 24. Persuading Policy-Makers to Implement Sustainable City Plans / Pengfei Xie -- 25. To Live or Not to Live: Urbanization and the Knowledge Worker / Takeshi Takama -- 26. City Fragmentation and the Commons / Anna Dietzsch -- 27. Cities as Global Organisms / Oliver Hillel and Manuela Gervasi -- 28. From Concrete Structures to Green Diversity: Ecological Landscape Design for Restoring Urban Nature and Children’s Play / Keitaro Ito and Tomomi Sudo -- 29. Building Cities: A View from India / Radhika Khosla -- 30. The False Distinctions of Socially Engaged Art and Art / Todd Lester -- 31. Overcoming Inertia and Reinventing “Retreat” / Andrew Revkin -- 32. Money for Old Rope: The Risks of Finance Taking Over the New Urban Agenda / Richard Friend -- 33. Aesthetic Appreciation of Tagging / Emma Arnold -- 34. Understanding Arab Cities: From National to Local / Huda Shaka -- 35. Who Can Implement the Sustainable Development Goals in Urban Areas? / David Satterthwaite -- 36. Achieving Sustainable Cities by Focusing on the Urban Underserved: An Action Agenda for the Global South / Anjali Mahendra and Victoria Beard -- 37. The Rebellion of Memory / Lorena Zárate -- 38. Cities Don’t Need “Big” Data – They Need Innovations That Connect to the Local / Mary Rowe -- 39. Digital Urbanization and the End of Big Cities / Gora Mboup -- 40. The Art of Engagement/Activating Curiosity / Mary Miss -- 41. Nairobi’s Illegal City-Makers / Lorraine Amollo Ambole -- 42. Active Environmental Citizens with Receptive Government Officials Can Enact Change / Kate Scherer and Umamah Masum -- 43. The Sea Wall / Paul Downton -- 44. Academics and Nonacademics: Who’s Who in Changing the Culture of Knowledge Creation? / Kareem Buyana -- 45. Private Fears in Public Spaces / Lesley Lokko -- 46. Leadership: Science and Policy as Uncomfortable Bedfellows / Thomas Tang -- 47. Sketches of an Emotional Geography Towards a New Citizenship / Diana Wiesner -- 48. The Shift in Urban Technology Innovation from Top-Down to Bottom-Up Sources / Reyhaneh Vahidian -- 49. Greening Cities: Our Pressing Moral Imperative / Troy Pickard -- 50. Recognition Deficit and the Struggle for Unifying City Fragments / Pranab Kishore Das -- 51. Disrespecting the Knowledge of Place / Rebecca Salminen Witt -- 52. Broadening Our Vision to Find a New Eco-Spiritual Way of Living / Guillermina Ramirez -- Synthesis: New Integrated Urban Knowledge for the Cities We Want / Xuemei Bai, Thomas Elmqvist, Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson, David Simon, David Maddox, Mark Watkins, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Susan Parnell, Corrie Griffith, and Debra Roberts. 

• 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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Urbanisering  (sao)

Hållbar utveckling  (sao)

Städer  (sao)

Urbanization.  (LCSH)

Sustainable development.  (LCSH)

Sustainability.  (LCSH)

Globalization  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Sustainability.  (fast)

Sustainable development.  (fast)

Urbanization.  (fast)

Globalization  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Cities and towns  (LCSH)

Sustainable development  (LCSH)

Urbanization  (LCSH)

Rural-urban migration  (LCSH)

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