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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures
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While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and
centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on
competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and
environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad
of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work,
create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid
urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban
poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues,
lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance
capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental
degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so
forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth,
scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution,
and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the
ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while
protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has
typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal
solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and
competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and
social consequences. In response, there is a growing movement
towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in
nature with people and communities interacting with one another and
with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc.,
within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts. This
comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert
interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in
locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and
stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs
in the development of resilient, resource-efficient,
environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated,
and technology-enabled centres and regions.
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