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UNINA9910585955403321 |
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Urban planet : knowledge towards sustainable cities / / edited by Thomas Elmqvist [and nine others] [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2018 |
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1-108-19537-7 |
1-108-18696-3 |
1-316-64755-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxx, 482 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Urbanization |
City planning - Environmental aspects |
Sustainable development |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2018). |
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Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Dynamic urban planet -- Global urbanization: perspectives and trends -- Embracing urban complexity -- Understanding, implementing, and tracking urban metabolism is key to urban futures -- Live with risk while reducing vulnerability -- Harness urban complexity for health and wellbeing -- Macro-economy and urban productivity -- Global urban sustainable development -- Rethinking urban sustainability and resilience -- Indicators for measuring urban sustainable development and resilience -- The un, the urban sustainable development goal and the new urban agenda -- Utilizing urban living laboratories for social innovation -- Can big data make a difference for urban management? -- Collaborative and equitable urban citizen science -- Urban transformations to sustainability -- Sustainability transformation emerging from better governance -- To transform cities, support civil society -- Governance and the new politics of collaboration and contestation -- Seeds of the future, found in the present -- Provocations from practice -- Sustainability, karachi, and other irreconcilables -- What knowledge do the cities themselves need? -- Banksy and the biologist: redrawing the twenty-first century city -- |
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Every community needs a forest of imagination -- How can we shift from a imaged-based city to a life-based city? -- A chimera called smart cities -- Beyond fill-in-the-blank cities -- Persuading policy makers to implement sustainable city plans -- To live or not to live: urbanisation and the knowledge worker -- City fragmentation and the commons -- Cities as global organisms -- From concrete structures to green diversity: ecological landscape design for -- Restoring urban nature and children's play -- Building cities: a view from india -- The barking dog syndrome -- Overcoming inertia and reinventing "retreat" -- Money for old rope -- An aesthetic appreciation of tagging -- Understanding arab cities -- Who can implement the sustainable development goals? -- Achieving sustainable cities by focusing on urban underserved -- The rebellion of memory -- Cities don't need "big" data- they need innovations that connect to the local -- Digital urbanisation and the end of big cities -- The art of engagement / Activating Curiosity -- Nairobi's illegal city makers -- Active environmental citizens with receptive government officials can enact change -- The sea wall -- Academics and non-academics: who's who in changing the culture of knowledge -- Creation? -- Private fears in public spaces -- Leadership: science and policy as uncomfortable bedfellows -- Sketches of an emotional geography towards a new citizenship -- The shift in urban technology innovation -- Greening cities: our pressing moral imperative -- Recognition deficit and struggle for unifying city fragments -- Disrespecting the knowledge of place -- Broadening our vision to find a new eco-spiritual way of living -- Synthesis. |
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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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UNINA9910785208003321 |
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Autore |
Simons Jon |
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From Agamben to Žižek : contemporary critical theorists / / edited by Jon Simons |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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9780748643264 |
0748643265 |
1282899821 |
9781282899827 |
9780748639731 |
074863973X |
9780748639748 |
0748639748 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) |
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Critical theory |
Sociology - Philosophy |
Social sciences - Philosophy |
Théorie critique |
Sociologie - Philosophie |
Sciences sociales - Philosophie |
critical theories (dialectical critiques) |
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Regional Studies |
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - General |
LITERARY CRITICISM - Middle Eastern |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Giorgio Agamben (1942- ) / Paul Hegarty -- Alain Badiou (1937- ) / Benjamin Robinson -- Zygmunt Bauman (1925- ) / Peter Beilharz -- Homi K. Bhabha (1949- ) / David Huddart -- Judith Butler (1956- ) / Moya Lloyd -- Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-97) / Caroline Williams -- |
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Green critical theorists / David Kidner -- Donna J. Haraway (1944- ) / Joan Faber McAlister -- Ernesto Laclau (1935- ) and Chantal Mouffe (1943- ) / Simon Tormey -- Bruno Latour (1947- ) / Ilana Gershon -- Antonio Negri (1933- ) / Arianna Bove -- Jacques Rancière (1940- ) / Samuel A. Chambers -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942- ) / Stephen Morton -- Paul Virilio (1932- ) / John Armitage -- Slavoj Žižek (1949- ) / Matthew Sharpe. |
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In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that you can find out more and start applying the ideas in question. In addition to chapters on individuals such as Badiou, Ranci÷re and Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on Green critical theorists. Key Features Written by experienced lecturers including John Armitage (Northumbria University), Paul Hegarty (University College Cork), David Huddart (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Simon Tormey (The University of Sydney), Samuel A. Chambers (Johns Hopkins University) Sets each theorist in their biographical and intellectual context The only book to offer chapter-length introductions to such a range of contemporary theorists making it the first place to look for an informed overview and evaluation Jon Simons has edited two other popular guides to critical theory: From Kant to LÃ♭vi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said. |
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