City Futures In The Age Of A Changing Climate

Author : Tony Fry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317659020

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City Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate by Tony Fry Pdf

This book goes beyond current ways that the impact of climate change upon the city are understood. In doing so it addresses climate in a variety of its connotations. It looks to the nomadic behaviour patterns of the past for lessons for today’s population unsettlement, and argues that as human survival will increasingly be linked directly to movement, the city can no longer be defined as a constrained space. The impacts of climate change must be understood as a combination of the actual and the expected, and have to be addressed both practically and culturally. City Futures in an Age of Changing Climate looks at how cities can adapt and respond to the unsustainable conditions they are now facing. The book considers possible post-urban futures, exposing a range of very different urban forms, and addresses the concept of fragmentation; the breaking up of any coherent economic or cultural nucleic urban spaces. Urban planners, designers, development practitioners, and anyone seeking to understand what the future is likely to look like for our cities, and how to prepare for it, will find this an essential read.

Author : Tony Fry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317659013

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City Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate by Tony Fry Pdf

This book goes beyond current ways that the impact of climate change upon the city are understood. In doing so it addresses climate in a variety of its connotations. It looks to the nomadic behaviour patterns of the past for lessons for today’s population unsettlement, and argues that as human survival will increasingly be linked directly to movement, the city can no longer be defined as a constrained space. The impacts of climate change must be understood as a combination of the actual and the expected, and have to be addressed both practically and culturally. City Futures in an Age of Changing Climate looks at how cities can adapt and respond to the unsustainable conditions they are now facing. The book considers possible post-urban futures, exposing a range of very different urban forms, and addresses the concept of fragmentation; the breaking up of any coherent economic or cultural nucleic urban spaces. Urban planners, designers, development practitioners, and anyone seeking to understand what the future is likely to look like for our cities, and how to prepare for it, will find this an essential read.

Author : Zoé A. Hamstead,David M. Iwaniec,Timon McPhearson,Marta Berbés-Blázquez,Elizabeth M. Cook,Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030631303

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Resilient Urban Futures by Zoé A. Hamstead,David M. Iwaniec,Timon McPhearson,Marta Berbés-Blázquez,Elizabeth M. Cook,Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson Pdf

This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change.

Author : Barbara Norman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000791013

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Urban Planning for Climate Change by Barbara Norman Pdf

This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures. Urban Planning for Climate Change focusses on how urban planning is fundamental to action on climate change. In doing so it particularly looks at current practice and opportunities for innovation and capacity building in the future - carbon neutral development, building back better and creating more resilient urban settlements around the world. The complex challenge of possible urban resettlement from the impact of climate change is covered as a special issue bringing a focus on adaptation, working with nature and delivering real action on climate change with local communities. Norman recommends ten essential actions for urban planning for climate change along with some suggestions to inspire the next generations to embrace these opportunities with creativity and innovation. Featuring key messages and implications for practice in each chapter, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, practitioners and communities involved in planning more climate resilient urban and regional futures.

Author : Timothy J. Dixon,Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781447336303

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Urban Futures by Timothy J. Dixon,Mark Tewdwr-Jones Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futures. This book explores the history and evolution of city visions, placing them in the wider context of art, culture, science, foresight and urban theory. It highlights and critically reviews examples of city visions from around the world, contrasting their development and outlining the key benefits and challenges in planning such visions. The authors show how important it is to think about the future of cities in objective and strategic ways, engaging with a range of stakeholders – something more important than ever as we look to visions of a sustainable future beyond the COVID-19 crisis.

Author : Abusaada, Hisham,Elshater, Abeer,Khalifa, Marwa
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781668424643

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Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities by Abusaada, Hisham,Elshater, Abeer,Khalifa, Marwa Pdf

In the past decades, protecting the urban environment in the face of environmentalism and environmental rights has become crucial to saving the planet from the dangers of the rapid urban development of new cities and societies. Air temperature is one of the factors influenced by climate change and contemporary city morphology that lacks compact city features. Contemporary cities have taken on global paradigms, adopting open-fabric, multiple, and ultrahigh residential towers and superhuman-scale spaces at the level of squares and public parks. This type of planning results in a radical thermal transformation not only in the movement and transportation network, but also in all public spaces and their external spaces. It is essential to understand the dimensions and principles of urban planning and design in conjunction with the competence of environmental design to reduce the impact of the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities focuses on public health and wellbeing, decent work and economic growth, sustainable cities and societies, and climate action. It presents atlases of UHI-based digital techniques and methods of modelling as well as the use of these atlases, mapping, and models in exploring the placemaking problems in the new cities. Covering topics such as artificial intelligence, pedestrian density mapping, and urban heat island mitigation, this premier reference source is a critical resource for architects, city planners, urban planners, city officials, government officials, policymakers, non-profit organizations, politicians, engineers, libraries, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Beth Osnes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319672892

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Performance for Resilience by Beth Osnes Pdf

This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated. Weaving together climate science and artistic expression, it results in a funny and powerful story spanning 300 million years. The first half is professionally scripted, composed, and choreographed to convey how our use of fossil fuels is impacting our climate. The second half - our future story - is authored by local youth to generate solutions for their city’s resilience. In rehearsing the musical, participants themselves embody aspects of climate science and human development. Ultimately, it demonstrates that performance can be a dynamic tool for youth to contribute to their community’s resilience. Educators can use this book to guide youth in creative expression based on (or inspired by) Shine. Included are the script, links to the music and video of the performance, materials for building curricula, interviews with collaborators, and lessons learned along Shine’s year-long international tour.

Author : Wendy Steele,John Handmer,Ian McShane
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786434593

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Hot Cities by Wendy Steele,John Handmer,Ian McShane Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban regeneration.

Author : Tony Fry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474224178

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Remaking Cities by Tony Fry Pdf

Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed. In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a conceptual design perspective to the challenge of urban sustainability and resilience. In a typically far-sighted and provocative work, Fry presents ideas and actions for 'metrofitting' – a new kind of practice in architecture and urban design. Metrofitting expands the technological concept of retrofit up to the city scale, placing social, cultural, political and ethical concerns at its heart. Metrofitting is not about visionary technology, it is about transforming existing cities by combining available resources with human creativity, prompted by new thinking about new and old urban problems. It requires overcoming outmoded Eurocentric assumptions of what constitutes a city, rethinking their forms and structures, and understanding their metabolic processes and social and economic functions. This book provides conceptually strong practical approaches that will ultimately change the whole way we view cities and the way the urban future is designed. Illustrated with international case studies of metrofitting in action, Remaking Cities will provoke and stimulate debate among architects, urban designers, and anyone concerned with the urban environment and social and cultural change.

Author : Peter Calthorpe
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1597264199

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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change by Peter Calthorpe Pdf

Author : Brian Stone (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107016712

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The City and the Coming Climate by Brian Stone (Jr.) Pdf

First book to explore dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities for students, policy makers and the general reader.

Author : John Hannigan,Greg Richards
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526421630

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The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies by John Hannigan,Greg Richards Pdf

Contributing to new debates and research on the city, this handbook looks both backwards and forwards to bring together key scholarship in the field

Author : Ashley Dawson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781784780371

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Extreme Cities by Ashley Dawson Pdf

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world’s megacities are located in coastal zones, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions, but also place coastal residents at greater risk when water levels rise. In Extreme Cities, Dawson offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities, describing the efforts of Staten Island, New York, and Shishmareff, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland’s models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. Our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls, he argues. Rather, it lies with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. As much a harrowing study as a call to arms Extreme Cities is a necessary read for anyone concerned with the threat of global warming, and of the cities of the world.

Author : Keith Jacobs,Jeff Malpas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786604613

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Philosophy and the City by Keith Jacobs,Jeff Malpas Pdf

Philosophy has its origins in the city, and in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important than ever. The city is the place in which most humans now play out their lives, and the place that determines much of the cultural, social, economic, and political life of the contemporary world. Towards a Philosophy of the City explores a wide range of approaches and perspectives in a way that is true to the city’s complex and dynamic character. The volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that identifies the key themes and then moves through four parts, examining the concept of the city itself, its varying histories and experiences, the character of the landscapes that belong to the city, and finally the impact of new technologies for the future of city spaces. Each section takes up aspects of the thinking of the city as it develops in relation to particular problems, contexts, and sometimes as exemplified in particular cities. This volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Philosophy, Geography, Sociology and Urban Studies.

Author : Tim Hall,Heather Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317313533

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Urban Geography by Tim Hall,Heather Barrett Pdf

This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation in urban geography through its major themes to contemporary and pressing issues. The text critically synthesizes key literatures in the following areas: the urban world changing approaches to urban geography urban form and structure economy and the city urban politics planning, regeneration and urban policy cities and culture architecture and urban landscapes images of the city experiencing the city housing and residential segregation transport and mobility in cities sustainability and the city. This edition builds on the success of the comprehensively revised fourth edition and provides revised chapters on transport/mobility and urban futures, with additional updating of readings and some case studies. The book synthesises a wide range of literature on each subject and presents the material in a lively engaging way, supported by an expanded range of student friendly features, including exercises and suggestions for further study.