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Hot Cities
A Transdisciplinary Agenda
9781786434586 Edward Elgar Publishing
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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.
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.
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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.
Hot Cities offers insights from eminent academics and practitioners, providing both a practical and theoretical outlook on strategy development in a climate crisis. Chapters call for urgent responses to the urban heat problem, providing future projections to illustrate why this is important. They highlight that despite prominent issues within cities, such as maladaptive practices or unsustainable path dependency in city policy and planning, urban spaces are likely to be the safest and most protected locations from the uncompromising outcomes of global warming.
This enlightening book will be incredibly useful for scholars of human geography, urban planning, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction, environmental humanities, urban design and urban and regional studies. Due to its broad applicability, it will also benefit design practitioners and community developers.
Hot Cities offers insights from eminent academics and practitioners, providing both a practical and theoretical outlook on strategy development in a climate crisis. Chapters call for urgent responses to the urban heat problem, providing future projections to illustrate why this is important. They highlight that despite prominent issues within cities, such as maladaptive practices or unsustainable path dependency in city policy and planning, urban spaces are likely to be the safest and most protected locations from the uncompromising outcomes of global warming.
This enlightening book will be incredibly useful for scholars of human geography, urban planning, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction, environmental humanities, urban design and urban and regional studies. Due to its broad applicability, it will also benefit design practitioners and community developers.
Critical Acclaim
‘Albert Einstein famously said that “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” The authors of this book take this to heart and demonstrate that a new kind of thinking is urgently needed and possible to address the rising heat in our cities. Their transdisciplinary approach to tackling urban heat is grounded in ethics and equity, embracing a wide variety of knowledge. You may think that collectively embracing our creative ability to think differently won’t lead to rapid decarbonization in our cities, but this book will change your mind!’
– Sabine von Mering, Brandeis University, US
‘In the evolving reality of a heated planet, it is largely the voices of select natural sciences, finance, technology and risk appraisal that we hear. Hot Cities opens a far more imaginative and creative dialogue around climate change and our hugely varied cities, wielding diverse knowledges and values to offer both sharp warnings and inviting future prospects.’
– Steve Dovers, Australian National University
‘The majority of humans now live in cities. With climate change accelerating, they are all hot cities. So how the urban population lives is both being affected by and contributing to climate change. This interdisciplinary effort is a handbook for civilised urban futures.’
– Ian Lowe (AO), Griffith University, Australia and author of Living in the Hothouse
– Sabine von Mering, Brandeis University, US
‘In the evolving reality of a heated planet, it is largely the voices of select natural sciences, finance, technology and risk appraisal that we hear. Hot Cities opens a far more imaginative and creative dialogue around climate change and our hugely varied cities, wielding diverse knowledges and values to offer both sharp warnings and inviting future prospects.’
– Steve Dovers, Australian National University
‘The majority of humans now live in cities. With climate change accelerating, they are all hot cities. So how the urban population lives is both being affected by and contributing to climate change. This interdisciplinary effort is a handbook for civilised urban futures.’
– Ian Lowe (AO), Griffith University, Australia and author of Living in the Hothouse
