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Fixing Cities
This chapter looks beyond the ambitious, large-scale, utopian visions of twentieth-century urban designers to smaller-scale “micro-interventions,”...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the topics platform urbanism and counter-mapping and explains the approach and structure of the book.
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Introduction: Climate Urbanism—Towards a Research Agenda
As climate change dramatically reshapes how we understand, imagine, live in, and intervene in cities, a New Climate Urbanism is emerging as a way to...
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Understanding Urbanism
Understanding Urbanismpresents built environment students with the latest approaches to studying urbanism. The book is written in an accessible and...
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Climate Urbanism and the Implications for Climate Apartheid
This chapter examines the concept of climate urbanism as a response to climate change that is dominated by the financialization and prioritization of...
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Persist or Perish. The Dynamics of Irrigated Agriculture in Urbanising Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) is one of the fastest urbanising cities in sub-Saharan Africa, which has implications for its food security. Based on...
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Conclusions: Three Modalities for a New Climate Urbanism
This book has explored what climate urbanism looks like, how it manifests, and what its consequences might be. In this conclusion, we reflect on the...
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Can informality help create smart, sustainable cities? The vibrancy of self-organised informal settlements in Cape Town
The study critically evaluates the sustainability of informal settlements in terms of smart growth principles. There is an irony that informal...
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Reassessing Non-economic Benefits: the Black Metropolis and Regional Variation in Blacks’ Cultural Expression Employment
Addressing issues overlooked in previous research, the present study examines regional variation in blacks’ opportunities to become artists,...
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In-between metropolitan cities and urban theories: a case of small town Dharamshala
The scholarship and discussion on urbanization and urbanism are restricted to the exploration of a few metropolitans and global cities. In this way,...
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Medium-Sized Spanish Cities: Urban Planning and Urban Policies
This chapter addresses the debate on the restatement of the dynamics of urbanizationMedium-Sized Spanish Cities in medium-sized Spanish citiesCities...
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SeaCities Aquatic Urbanism
This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which...
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Svalbard’s Urban Imaginaries
This chapter shows how Svalbard has a history unique among the Arctic regions for the various parallel projections of urbanism onto its territory by...
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The New Climate Urbanism: A Physical, Social, and Behavioural Framework
How do we identify the constituents of climate urbanism vis-à-vis built form? How do we distinguish these constituents’ universalisms and...
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Community Energy Resilience for a New Climate Urbanism
Long-term climate change and increasing frequency of extreme weather events pose key challenges for the resilience of energy systems in cities in the...
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The Malay ‘Garden City’: An Ethos of Malay Historic Urbanism
In Malaysia, the Malay garden is one of the country’s first ethnic gardens. The Malay lifestyles are well suited to the influence of community...
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Emerging Places of Repair: A Sustainable Urbanism Approach to Living in and with Cities—Inspired by Vine Deloria, Jr.’s Agent Ontology of Place
This chapter proposes the concept of places of repair as a contribution to contemporary, sustainable urbanism in North America, starting with the...
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Data-driven smart sustainable urbanism: the intertwined societal factors underlying its materialization, success, expansion, and evolution
Visions of future advances in science and technology (S&T) inevitably bring with them wide-ranging common visions on how societies, and thus cities...
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Patrimonialism and Marginal Urbanism: Kampung Kota in Java, Indonesia
Understanding urbanism in the Indonesian world is indispensable to include kampung kota as a populist live–work–play system. The reason is plain and...
