City Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate

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ID19906154
AuthorsTony Fry (0000-0003-2561-7878, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages198
Publication date2014-08-27
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCity Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315765969
OpenAlexW2911137000
Open LibraryOL53951221M
ISBN9781315765969
LanguageEN
Citations received9

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

Climatology · Economics · Financial economics · Futures contract · Geography · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Geology · History · Architecture · Aspect de l'environnement · Cities and towns · Cities and towns, growth · City planning · Croissance · Écologie urbaine · Environmental aspects · Growth · Klimaänderung · Kommunalpolitik · Politique urbaine · Social Science · Sociology · Stadtentwicklung · Stadtökologie · Stadtplanung · Sustainable development · Sustainable urban development · Urban · Urban & Land Use Planning · Urban ecology (sociology) · Urban environments · Urban policy · Urbanisation · Urbanisme durable · Urbanization · Villes

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