TY - GEN AU - Elmqvist, Thomas & Others Eds. TI - Urban planet : knowledge towards sustainable cities SN - 9781107196933 U1 - 307.76 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Preface Part I Dynamic Urban Planet Introduction: Situating Knowledge and Action for an Urban Planet 1 Global Urbanization: Perspectives and Trends 2 Embracing Urban Complexity 3 Understanding, Implementing, and Tracking Urban Metabolism Is Key to Urban Futures 4 Live with Risk While Reducing Vulnerability 5 Harness Urban Complexity for Health and Well-Being 6 Macroeconomy and Urban Productivity Part II Global Urban Sustainable Development 7 Rethinking Urban Sustainability and Resilience 8 Indicators for Measuring Urban Sustainability and Resilience 9 The UN, the Urban Sustainable Development Goal, and the New Urban Agenda 10 Utilizing Urban Living Laboratories for Social Innovation 11 Can Big Data Make a Difference for Urban Management? 12 Collaborative and Equitable Urban Citizen Science Part III Urban Transformations to Sustainability 13 Sustainability Transformation Emerging from Better Governance 14 To Transform Cities, Support Civil Society 15 Governing Urban Sustainability Transformations: The New Politics of Collaboration and Contestatio 16 Seeds of the Future in the Present: Exploring Pathways for Navigating Towards "Good Anthropo Part IV Provocations from Practice 17 Sustainability, Karachi, and Other Irreconcilables 18 What Knowledge Do Cities Themselves Need? 19 Banksy and the Biologist: Redrawing the Twenty-First Century City 20 Every Community Needs a Forest of Imagination 21 How Can We Shift from an Image-Based Society to a Life-Based Society? 22 A Chimera Called "Smart Cities" 23 Beyond Fill-in-the-Blank Cities 24 Persuading Policy-Makers to Implement Sustainable City Plans 25 To Live or Not to Live: Urbanization and the Knowledge Worker 26 City Fragmentation and the Commons 27 Cities as Global Organisms 28 From Concrete Structures to Green Diversity: Ecological Landscape Design for Restoring Urban Natu 29 Building Cities: A View from India 30 The False Distinctions of Socially Engaged Art and Art 31 Overcoming Inertia and Reinventing "Retreat" 32 Money for Old Rope: The Risks of Finance Taking Over the New Urban Agenda 33 Aesthetic Appreciation of Tagging 34 Understanding Arab Cities: From National to Local 35 Who Can Implement the Sustainable Development Goals in Urban Areas? 36 Achieving Sustainable Cities by Focusing on the Urban Underserved: An Action Agenda for the Globa 37 The Rebellion of Memory 38 Cities Don't Need "Big Data - They Need Innovations That Connect to the Local 39 Digital Urbanization and the End of Big Cities 40 The Art of Engagement / Activating Curiosity 41 Nairobi's Illegal City-Makers 42 Active Environmental Citizens with Receptive Government Officials Can Enact Change 43 The Sea Wall 44 Academics and Nonacademics: Who's Who in Changing the Culture of Knowledge Creation? 45 Private Fears in Public Spaces 46 Leadership: Science and Policy as Uncomfortable Bedfellows 7 Sketches of an Emotional Geography Towards a New Citizenship 48 The Shift in Urban Technology Innovation from Top-Down to Bottom-Up Sources 49 Greening Cities: Our Pressing Moral Imperative 50 Recognition Deficit and the Struggle for Unifying City Fragments 51 Disrespecting the Knowledge of Place 52 Broadening Our Vision to Find a New Eco-Spiritual Way of Living ER -