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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765747203321

Autore

Allen Adriana

Titolo

Untamed urbanisms / / edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis and Mark Swilling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2015

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9781315746692

1315746697

9781317599104

1317599101

9781317599098

1317599098

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy ; ; 6

Classificazione

BUS000000BUS020000BUS069000

Disciplina

307.1/416

307.1416

Soggetti

Sustainable urban development

Urban policy - Environmental aspects

City planning - Environmental aspects

Urban ecology (Sociology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Untamed Urbanisms-Front Cover; Untamed Urbanisms; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Editors; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why Untamed Urbanisms?; Re-ordering the urban Anthropocene?; On taming and untaming the city; Overview of the book; Note to the Reader; References; Part I: Trajectories of change in the urban Anthropocene; Chapter 1: Towards sustainable urban infrastructures for the urban Anthropocene; Introduction; Rethinking urban infrastructure planning and governance

Smart cities and co-production platforms: alternatives or building



blocks of a synthesis?Is a synthesis possible?; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Sustainable flows between Kolkata and its peri-urban interface: Challenges and opportunities; Introduction; Overview and objectives; Urban and peri-urban: a colonial history of evolution and interdependence; Free services versus colossal infrastructure: the recycling mechanism and present output from EKW; Dwindling wetlands, diminishing flows: post-colonial urbanization and development

Beyond the consumption city? The polemics of urban planning and developmentConclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: On being smart about cities: Seven considerations for a new urban planning and design; Smart cities or smart urbanism; The smart city as discourse; Previous city transitions; Cities in the Anthropocene; Smart urbanism: an agenda for planning and design; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 4: Is big sustainable?: Global comparison of city emissions; Introduction; Climate change; An energy-hungry society; Identifying emission drivers; When is big sustainable?

Discussion and conclusionsConclusion; Note; References; Chapter 5: Urban-scale food system governance: An alternative response tothe dominant paradigm?; Mutually converging transitions; Alternative food geographies; International food governance analysis; South African urban food governance trends; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part II: The untamed everyday; Chapter 6: Lost in translation: Social protection and the search for security in Bogotá, Colombia; Introduction; Framing the debate on social protection in the twenty-first century

Decoupling assistance from citizenship: the changing fractal in social protectionFrom social risk management to social floors in Colombia; The case study; Demographic data; Concluding reflections: The need for a renewed debate on agency and social protection; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Potentials of the urban poor in shaping a sustainable Lagos metropolis; Introduction; The agency of the poor: literature overview; The agency of the urban poor of Lagos metropolis; Conclusion; References

Chapter 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

Sommario/riassunto

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-o