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Land-Use Management to Support Sustainable Settlements in South Africa

Land-Use Management to Support Sustainable Settlements in South Africa

1st Edition

By Verna Nel, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens
October 24, 2023

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa. It presents an overview of alternative land use management system for South African municipalities that is economically, socially, and environmentally more sustainable ...

Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage

Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage

1st Edition

Edited By Mark Alan Rhodes II, William R. Price, Amy Walker
May 31, 2023

All industrialization is deeply rooted within the specific geographies in which it took place, and echoes of previous industrialization continue to reverberate in these places through to the modern day. This book investigates the overlap of memory and the impacts of industrialization within today’s...

Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City

Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City

1st Edition

Edited By Dale Leorke, Marcus Owens
January 09, 2023

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city. Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and ...

Ecologies Design Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism

Ecologies Design: Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism

1st Edition

Edited By Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Peter Connolly, Mark Southcombe
April 29, 2022

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse. This reflects contemporary concerns for our planet and a new understanding of the primary entanglement of the human species with the rest of the world.The use of the term ‘ecology’ with design tends to refer to how to ...

Planning Wild Cities Human–Nature Relationships in the Urban Age

Planning Wild Cities: Human–Nature Relationships in the Urban Age

1st Edition

By Wendy Steele
April 29, 2022

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change.  A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now ...

Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry

Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry

1st Edition

By Maibritt Pedersen Zari
October 17, 2019

It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems are becoming severely degraded. Humans must mitigate the causes of, and adapt to, climate change and the loss of biodiversity, as the impacts of these changes become more apparent and demand urgent responses. These pressures, combined with ...

The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions Knowledge, Power and Governance

The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Knowledge, Power and Governance

1st Edition

Edited By Jens Stissing Jensen, Matthew Cashmore, Philipp Späth
October 23, 2018

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges. Socio-technical systems are at the heart of these challenges as they configure...

Global Garbage Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment

Global Garbage: Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment

1st Edition

Edited By Christoph Lindner, Miriam Meissner
February 06, 2018

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex ...

The Experimental City

The Experimental City

1st Edition

Edited By James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Rob Raven
June 27, 2017

This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions. With contributions from leading scholars, and case studies from the Global North and...

Imagining Sustainability Creative urban environmental governance in Chicago and Melbourne

Imagining Sustainability: Creative urban environmental governance in Chicago and Melbourne

1st Edition

By Julie Cidell
March 17, 2017

Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies. This is due to the combination of growing urban populations and increased action on the part of local governments (generally attributed to national governments’ failure to act on climate change). Imagining ...

Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Cities Joining Forces for Change

Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Cities: Joining Forces for Change

1st Edition

Edited By Merritt Polk
January 19, 2015

At the current time, many issues and problems within sustainable urban development are managed within traditional disciplinary and organizational structures. However, problems such as, climate change, resource constraints, poverty and social tensions all exceed current compartmentalization of ...

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