ABSTRACT
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One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change.
For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-oriented innovations that address equity and ecological challenges. This book is rooted in the latter category, but recognises that if cities continue to evolve along current trajectories they will be where the large bulk of the most unsustainable and inequitable human activities are concentrated. By drawing on a range of case studies from both the global South and global North, this book is unique in its aim to develop an integrated social-ecological perspective on the challenge of sustainable urban development. Through the interdisciplinary and original research of a new generation of urban researchers across the global South and North, this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development. .
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Trajectories of change in the urban Anthropocene
chapter 2|17 pages
Sustainable flows between Kolkata and its peri-urban interface: Challenges and opportunities
chapter 3|14 pages
On being smart about cities: Seven considerations for a new urban planning and design
chapter 5|13 pages
Urban-scale food system governance: An alternative response to the dominant paradigm?
chapter 6|15 pages
Lost in translation: Social protection and the search for security in Bogotá, Colombia
chapter 10|15 pages
Accra’s unregulated market-oriented sanitation strategy: Problems and opportunity
part |2 pages
PART III Disrupting hegemonic planning
chapter 11|12 pages
Walking the path to urban sustainability: What is still missing in current urban planning models?
chapter 12|12 pages
Are you really listening to me? Planning with the community in urban revitalization projects
chapter 14|13 pages
Beyond an imaginary of power? Governance, supranational organizations and ‘just’ urbanization
part |2 pages
PART IV Liberating alternatives