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