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This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the
emergence of "platform urbanism", examining how it transforms urban
infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday
life, and brings together leading scholars and early-career
researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines.
The volume advances theoretical debates at the leading edge of the
intersection between urbanism, governance, and the digital economy,
by drawing on a range of empirically detailed cases from which to
theorize the multiplicity of forms that platform urbanism takes. It
draws international comparisons between urban platforms across
sites, with attention to the leading edges of theory and practice
and explores the potential for a renewal of civic life, engagement,
and participatory governance through "platform cooperativism" and
related movements. A breadth of tangible and diverse examples of
platform urbanism provides critical insights to scholars examining
the interface of digital technologies and urban infrastructure,
urban governance, urban knowledge production, and everyday urban
life. The book will be invaluable on a range of undergraduate and
postgraduate courses, as well as for academics and researchers in
these fields, including anthropology, geography, innovation
studies, politics, public policy, science and technology studies,
sociology, sustainable development, urban planning, and urban
studies. It will also appeal to an engaged, academia-adjacent
readership, including city and regional planners, policymakers, and
third-sector researchers in the realms of citizen engagement,
industrial strategy, regeneration, sustainable development, and
transport.
This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the
emergence of "platform urbanism", examining how it transforms urban
infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday
life, and brings together leading scholars and early-career
researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines.
The volume advances theoretical debates at the leading edge of the
intersection between urbanism, governance, and the digital economy,
by drawing on a range of empirically detailed cases from which to
theorize the multiplicity of forms that platform urbanism takes. It
draws international comparisons between urban platforms across
sites, with attention to the leading edges of theory and practice
and explores the potential for a renewal of civic life, engagement,
and participatory governance through "platform cooperativism" and
related movements. A breadth of tangible and diverse examples of
platform urbanism provides critical insights to scholars examining
the interface of digital technologies and urban infrastructure,
urban governance, urban knowledge production, and everyday urban
life. The book will be invaluable on a range of undergraduate and
postgraduate courses, as well as for academics and researchers in
these fields, including anthropology, geography, innovation
studies, politics, public policy, science and technology studies,
sociology, sustainable development, urban planning, and urban
studies. It will also appeal to an engaged, academia-adjacent
readership, including city and regional planners, policymakers, and
third-sector researchers in the realms of citizen engagement,
industrial strategy, regeneration, sustainable development, and
transport.
Developing an up-to-date critical framework for analysing urban
retrofit, this is the first book to examine urban re-engineering
for sustainability in a socio-technical context. Retrofitting
Cities examines why retrofit is emerging as an important strategic
issue for urban authorities and untangles the mix of economic,
competitive, ecological and social drivers that influence any
transition towards a more sustainable urban environment.
Retrofitting Cities comparatively explores how urban scale
retrofitting can be conceptualised as a socio-technical transition;
to critically compare and contrast different national styles of
response in cities of the north and global south; and, to develop
new research and policy agendas on future development of
progressive retrofitting. Bringing together a group of researchers
from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds that reflect the
complexity of the research challenge, Retrofitting cities looks
across different infrastructures and types of built environment,
dealing with diverse urban contexts and examining formal as well as
community responses. This is a uniquely practical book for urban
planning and policy professionals as well as for researchers in
urban studies and urban design.
Developing an up-to-date critical framework for analysing urban
retrofit, this is the first book to examine urban re-engineering
for sustainability in a socio-technical context. Retrofitting
Cities examines why retrofit is emerging as an important strategic
issue for urban authorities and untangles the mix of economic,
competitive, ecological and social drivers that influence any
transition towards a more sustainable urban environment.
Retrofitting Cities comparatively explores how urban scale
retrofitting can be conceptualised as a socio-technical transition;
to critically compare and contrast different national styles of
response in cities of the north and global south; and, to develop
new research and policy agendas on future development of
progressive retrofitting. Bringing together a group of researchers
from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds that reflect the
complexity of the research challenge, Retrofitting cities looks
across different infrastructures and types of built environment,
dealing with diverse urban contexts and examining formal as well as
community responses. This is a uniquely practical book for urban
planning and policy professionals as well as for researchers in
urban studies and urban design.
A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most
common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet
the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two
ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and
not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs.
After Sustainable Cities critically reviews what has happened to
these priorities and asks whether these social commitments have
been abandoned in a period of austerity governance and climate
change and replaced by a darker and unfair city. This book provides
the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the new
eco-logics reshaping conventional sustainable cities discourse and
environmental priorities of cities in both the global north and
south. The dominant discourse on sustainable cities, with a
commitment to intergenerational equity, social justice and global
responsibility, has come under increasing pressure. Under
conditions of global ecological change, international financial and
economic crisis and austerity governance new eco-logics are
entering the urban sustainability lexicon - climate change, green
growth, smart growth, resilience and vulnerability, ecological
security. This book explores how these new eco-logics reshape our
understanding of equity, justice and global responsibility, and how
these more technologically and economically driven themes resonate
and dissonate with conventional sustainable cities discourse. This
book provides a warning that a more technologically driven and
narrowly constructed economic agenda is driving ecological policy
and weakening previous commitment to social justice and equity.
After Sustainable Cities brings together leading researchers to
provide a critical examination of these new logics and identity
what sort of city is now emerging, as well as consider the
longer-term implication on sustainable cities research and policy.
Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected
to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental
transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life,
such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a 'low
carbon' future implies a large scale reorganisation in the way
societies produce and use energy. Cities are critical in this
transition because they concentrate social and economic activities
that produce climate change related emissions. At the same time,
cities are increasingly recognised as sources of opportunities for
climate change mitigation. Whether, how and why low carbon
transitions in urban systems take place in response to climate
change will therefore be decisive for the success of global
mitigation efforts. As a result, climate change increasingly
features as a critical issue in the management of urban
infrastructure and in urbanisation policies. Cities and Low Carbon
Transitions presents a ground-breaking analysis of the role of
cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. Insights from the
fields of urban studies and technological transitions are combined
to examine how, why and with what implications cities bring about
low carbon transitions. The book outlines the key concepts
underpinning theories of socio-technical transition and assesses
its potential strengths and limits for understanding the social and
technological responses to climate change that are emerging in
cities. It draws on a diverse range of examples including world
cities, ordinary cities and transition towns, from North America,
Europe, South Africa and China, to provide evidence that
expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake purposive
socio-technical transitions are emerging in different urban
contexts. This collection adds to existing literature on cities and
energy transitions and introduces critical questions about power
and social interests, lock-in and development trajectories, social
equity and economic development, and socio-technical change in
cities. The book addresses academics, policy makers, practitioners
and researchers interested in the development of systemic responses
in cities to curb climate change.
What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the
future development of cities and regions across the country? Does
it reinforce existing 'business as usual' or create new
transformational opportunities? Low Carbon Nation? takes an
interdisciplinary approach to tackle this critical question, by
looking across the different dimensions of technological,
scientific, social and economic change within the diverse city and
regional contexts of the UK. Hodson and Marvin set out how the
transition to low carbon futures needs to be understood as a dual
response to the wider financial and economic crisis and to critical
ecological concerns about the implications of global climate
change. The book develops a novel framework for understanding how
the transition to low carbon is informed by historical legacies
that shape the geographical, political and cultural dimensions of
low carbon responses. Through a programme of research in Scotland,
Wales, the North East of England, Greater London, and Greater
Manchester, the authors set out different styles of low carbon
urban and regional response. Through in-depth illustration of this
in newly devolved nations, an old industrial region, a global
city-region and in an entrepreneurial city, international lessons
can be drawn about the limits and the unrealised opportunities of
low carbon transition. This book is key reading for students on
geography, economics, planning and social science degrees, as well
as those studying sustainability in related contexts trying to
understand the urban and regional politics of low carbon
transition. It is also an essential resource for policymakers,
public officials, elected representatives, environmentalists and
business leaders concerned with shaping the direction and type of
transition.
What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the
future development of cities and regions across the country? Does
it reinforce existing 'business as usual' or create new
transformational opportunities? Low Carbon Nation? takes an
interdisciplinary approach to tackle this critical question, by
looking across the different dimensions of technological,
scientific, social and economic change within the diverse city and
regional contexts of the UK. Hodson and Marvin set out how the
transition to low carbon futures needs to be understood as a dual
response to the wider financial and economic crisis and to critical
ecological concerns about the implications of global climate
change. The book develops a novel framework for understanding how
the transition to low carbon is informed by historical legacies
that shape the geographical, political and cultural dimensions of
low carbon responses. Through a programme of research in Scotland,
Wales, the North East of England, Greater London, and Greater
Manchester, the authors set out different styles of low carbon
urban and regional response. Through in-depth illustration of this
in newly devolved nations, an old industrial region, a global
city-region and in an entrepreneurial city, international lessons
can be drawn about the limits and the unrealised opportunities of
low carbon transition. This book is key reading for students on
geography, economics, planning and social science degrees, as well
as those studying sustainability in related contexts trying to
understand the urban and regional politics of low carbon
transition. It is also an essential resource for policymakers,
public officials, elected representatives, environmentalists and
business leaders concerned with shaping the direction and type of
transition.
A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most
common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet
the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two
ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and
not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs.
After Sustainable Cities critically reviews what has happened to
these priorities and asks whether these social commitments have
been abandoned in a period of austerity governance and climate
change and replaced by a darker and unfair city. This book provides
the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the new
eco-logics reshaping conventional sustainable cities discourse and
environmental priorities of cities in both the global north and
south. The dominant discourse on sustainable cities, with a
commitment to intergenerational equity, social justice and global
responsibility, has come under increasing pressure. Under
conditions of global ecological change, international financial and
economic crisis and austerity governance new eco-logics are
entering the urban sustainability lexicon - climate change, green
growth, smart growth, resilience and vulnerability, ecological
security. This book explores how these new eco-logics reshape our
understanding of equity, justice and global responsibility, and how
these more technologically and economically driven themes resonate
and dissonate with conventional sustainable cities discourse. This
book provides a warning that a more technologically driven and
narrowly constructed economic agenda is driving ecological policy
and weakening previous commitment to social justice and equity.
After Sustainable Cities brings together leading researchers to
provide a critical examination of these new logics and identity
what sort of city is now emerging, as well as consider the
longer-term implication on sustainable cities research and policy.
Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected
to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental
transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life,
such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a 'low
carbon' future implies a large scale reorganisation in the way
societies produce and use energy. Cities are critical in this
transition because they concentrate social and economic activities
that produce climate change related emissions. At the same time,
cities are increasingly recognised as sources of opportunities for
climate change mitigation. Whether, how and why low carbon
transitions in urban systems take place in response to climate
change will therefore be decisive for the success of global
mitigation efforts. As a result, climate change increasingly
features as a critical issue in the management of urban
infrastructure and in urbanisation policies. Cities and Low Carbon
Transitions presents a ground-breaking analysis of the role of
cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. Insights from the
fields of urban studies and technological transitions are combined
to examine how, why and with what implications cities bring about
low carbon transitions. The book outlines the key concepts
underpinning theories of socio-technical transition and assesses
its potential strengths and limits for understanding the social and
technological responses to climate change that are emerging in
cities. It draws on a diverse range of examples including world
cities, ordinary cities and transition towns, from North America,
Europe, South Africa and China, to provide evidence that
expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake purposive
socio-technical transitions are emerging in different urban
contexts. This collection adds to existing literature on cities and
energy transitions and introduces critical questions about power
and social interests, lock-in and development trajectories, social
equity and economic development, and socio-technical change in
cities. The book addresses academics, policy makers, practitioners
and researchers interested in the development of systemic responses
in cities to curb climate change.
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