Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face
particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental
risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots,
terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate
change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts,
procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning,
creating a need to rethink and revise current planning methods.
Therefore, this book suggests a paradigm shift in our thinking,
interrogation, and planning of our cities. Based on the
contemporary conditions of risk at cities, this book conceptualizes
the risk city as a construct of three interlinked concepts of risk,
trust, and practice. It is a construct of risk and its new evolving
conditions and knowledge of uncertainties stem from climate change
and other risks and uncertainties. As a construct of practices, the
risk city produces social and political institutional framework and
promotes practices accordingly in order to reduce risk and risk
possibilities and to increase trust. In light of the complex
challenges and risks to the human habitat that have emerged in
recent years, many cities have prepared various types of plans
aimed at addressing the challenges posed by climate change.
Nonetheless, despite the importance of these plans and the major
public resources invested in their formulation, we still know
little about them and have yet to begin studying them and assessing
their contributions . From the innovative perspective of the risk
city, this book asks critical questions about the nature, vision,
practices, and potential impact of the recent climate
change-oriented plans. What kinds of risks do they attempt to
address, what types of practices do they institute, and what types
of approaches do they apply? Do they adequately address the risks
and uncertainties posed? How do they contribute to the worldwide
effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? This book uses the
methodologically innovative Risk City framework to examine the
nature, vision, outcomes, practices, and impact of these crucial
plans, as well as their contribution to the resilience of our
cities and to global efforts toward reducing greenhouse gas
emissions.
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