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Book SynopsisThis second edition, Smartcities and Eco-warriors: The Ecological Landscapes for Urban Resilience, reflects CJ Lim’s latest research since the original publication, and has six additional case studies, together with a new extensive catalogue of floral and fauna for each landscape and environmental condition. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Urban Utopias and the Smartcity. From Soil to Table. The Perpetual Motion Machine. The American Dream Redux. Rise of the Eco-warrior. Scenic Positions. Cultivating Community. Resilient Landscapes 2. A Lexicon for the Smartcity 3. Guangming Smartcity China 4. DuSable Park USA 5. Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park China 6. Remembering the Great American Plains USA 7. Nordhavnen Smartcity Denmark 8. Daejeon Urban Renaissance South Korea 9. The Tomato Exchange UK 10. Central Open Space: MAC South Korea 11. The Linear Park China 12. A Workplace in a Garden Ireland 13. Guangming Energy Park China 14. Newark Gateway Project USA 15. The City of a Thousand Lakes China 16. Rifle Range Regeneration Malaysia 17. Dongyi Wan East Waterfront China 18. Brockholes Wetland + Woodland Reserve UK 19. The Green Pension Plan UK 20. Wanmu Orchard Wetland China 21. Romance + Resilience: Landscapes of the imagination 22. Anna Andronova The Grand Paris of Niger: Landscape of hope 23. Carolyn Steel Sitopia – The urban future 24. Project and Reproduction Credits Index
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Taylor & Francis Shaping Holland
Book SynopsisAll around the world, regions are facing major challenges: climate change, the transition to renewable energy, reinventing the food system, ongoing urbanisation and finding room to sustain biodiversity. These will radically transform our living and working environments. Regional design uses the power of visualisation to unite regional players around appealing spatial development visions for meeting those challenges. It offers a route to new forms of regional governance and planning that match the urgencies of our time. This book exposes the benefits and the pitfalls of regional plans and designs. Shaping Holland gives a unique insight into the emergence of contemporary regional planning and design practice in the Netherlands. This densely populated country in the delta of the Rhine and Meuse rivers is internationally renowned for its urban planning and design tradition. Drawing on first-hand accounts and a rich collection of illustrations, maps and diagrams, the book gTrade Review"In the 21st century, climate change will be the biggest differentiator between the haves and have-nots. As some of our lands become uninhabitable, the key to determining who will thrive and who will merely survive will be how prepared our communities areto make the tough choices. Only by working regionally will we be able to answer the tough questions: who will be forced to relocate, where they will go, and what will happen to communities receiving new neighbors to an often already-taxed infrastructure. "Shaping Holland" dives straight into those complexities to create a thoughtful approach to address how future generations can adapt to a wetter, dryer, hotter and colder environment."- Amy Chester, Managing Director, Rebuild by Design"This richly illustrated book brings together a highly competent and experienced group of contributors including scholars, researchers, consultants and practitioners to provide a diverse set of insights into the Dutch renowned experimentations with regional spatial planning and design, using South Randstad as a high profile example. The book draws on wide range of approaches to the concept of ‘regional design’ and goes beyond the conventional understanding of ‘the region’ as a bounded spatial scale, and ‘design’ as an outcome. The book is an excellent example of how a productive link can be forged between visual and textual narratives, and how synergies can be generated from multiple ways of knowing and articulating socio-spatial relations."- Professor Simin Davoudi, Director of Global Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Co-Director of Centre for Researching Cities, Newcastle University, UK "This book reports on regional designs that were undertaken in Holland over the past 20 years from different perspectives: from the point of view of the practice of regional design, using illustrations of numerous practical design projects, through the lenses of the intellectual endeavors of the sciences that engaged in concept and theory formation, and last but not least, from the perspective of personal experience of responsible politicians, top policy makers, a planning director as well as an academic researcher, a planning advisor, and a professor in the planning sciences.The result is a diverse, animated and informative compendium that can be read with different intentions and intensities. After a general introduction to the performance and position in-between central government and municipalities of Dutch regional design, it provides six thematic chapters – titled Coast, Urban Growth, Landscape, Corridors, Regional Transit-Oriented Development, and Beyond the Port – and also briefly presents the most important "lessons" that one should take away from reading the individual chapters.This book could only be written in The Netherlands, building on an early planning culture that is still powerful today and which can ultimately be traced back to the centuries-old compulsion to control water.Regional design, as it is presented here, differs fundamentally from the making of plans which determine future development in a binding way. Regional design aims to identify the spatial implications of future socio-economic and technical problems, and to fathom and visualize spatial strategies for overcoming them. Regional design forms a basis for discussion in professional and political arenas. Regional design tells vivid stories, e.g. about the layering of the earth, about landscape-architectural characteristics, about the often conflicting interests that affect landscapes, about new economic and old natural cycles - always with the aim of composing a vivid and attractive image from the "stories," one that stimulates and inspires the imagination.Particularly beautiful examples are the "Sand engine," which uses characteristics of natural flows to stabilize and expand the beaches, the synopsis of the port industry and the glass house industry and the new development spaces that are opened up by this merging. And last but not least, the conception of a new type of "Parkstad" (Park City) that emerges from the permeation of urban development and agricultural production. I feel this tension between rational analysis and the creative invention of new spaces of possibility as a particularly valuable contribution of the Dutch variety of regional design.What could this book mean for the spatial planning debate in Germany? It could provide vital inspiration for releasing regional planning from its bureaucratic constrictions and for the development of a more creative regional planning approach. Everyday life has long ago exceeded the boundaries of the municipality and takes place in the region. Climate change, resource preservation and the circular economy call for a synopsis on a regional scale!"- Thomas Sieverts, award-winning architect, planner and urban theorist. He was a Professor of Urban Design at Technical University Darmstadt, and in 2000 become a Partner of S.K.A.T. Architecten und Stadtplaner. He is the author of Zwischenstadt (1997; first published in English in 2000 as Cities without Cities: An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt)"This insightful book enhances and introduces regional design as a powerful technique to bridge the gap between regional planning and urban design. It is an inspiring contribution that adds value to current research-based and governance-oriented regional problem-solving, offering a methodology to face the regional era of global urbanization. Reshaping spatial planning with a broader sense of design, regional design is a revolutionary theory of shaping regions, based on the Southern Randstad experience, showing how regional development could be given direction and be transformed."- Shifu Wang, Professor of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology"The regional governance debate is gridlocked between two contrary positions. While some argue that formal administrative boundaries need to be better aligned with functional urban areas to resolve challenges on supra-local scales, others insist on working within the given boundaries to preserve local identity and facilitate inter-municipal competition.The proposition of a design exercise at regional scale shifts the discourse from issues of formal governmental re-organisation towards multi-scalar and inter-scalar methodologies for imagining and narrating alternative spatial futures. ‘Shaping Holland’ conveys convincingly that regional designing is possible and impactful. Regional design thus is necessary for any structural transformation as a means to overcome pressing contemporary challenges."- Alain Thierstein, TU MunichTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Coast 2. Urban growth 3. Landscape The Civil Servant / The Politician / The Director 4. Corridors 5. Regional transit-oriented development 6. Beyond the port The Researcher / The Advisor / The Academic 7. Regional Design Principles for the Future
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Taylor & Francis Mapping Urban Spaces
Book SynopsisMapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable â accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness â can be traced back to the nature of that space. The chapters develop from a phenomenological study of space to contributions on places and landscapes in the city. Centralities and their meaning are studied, as well as the social space and its complexity. The contributions focus on history and theory as well as concrete research and mapping approaches and the resulting design applications. The case studies come from countries around Europe including Poland, Italy, Greece, Germany, and France, among others. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONThe ArcheA MethodLamberto AmistadiPART 1: MAPPING SPACES. The Phenomenological Approach to the City of Spaces.1. A Spatial Understanding of Architecture and the City.2. Landmarks in a History of Spatial Mapping.3. The Many-faceted Notion of Space: On the Hypothesis of Mapping and the Observation of Spatial Phenomena. 4. Stadtraumgestaltungen: On Perceiving and Reading Urban Spaces.5. Where the Compact and Open City Meets: Inner and Outer Spaces on the Periphery of Aachen North.6. Here and There: On the Ambivalence of Transitional Spaces.PART 2: MAPPING PLACES. The Italian Tradition of Urban Studies.7. Drawing the City. Form and Meaning.8. Urban Events and the Soul of the City. The Poetic Political Tripartition of Urban Form. 9. Civic Urbanity. The Places of Everyday Life.10. Venice as a Paradigm: Urban Studies and the Value of Emptiness in the City’s Design.11. Nature Prepares the Sites, But It Is Man Who Creates the Organism: Bologna Through Its Geography, Its History and Its Planning Tools. 12. New Urban Landscapes. Fragments of Civil Architecture.PART 3: MAPPING NATURAL SPACE. The Significance of Landscapes for the Urban Project13. The Role of Green Spaces in Urban Design Theories in France.14. Green Space as an Element for a New Urban Dynamic.15. Uses of Mapping: Methods of Investigation and Ways of Narrating Territory in Architectural Practice and Teaching.16. Towards a More ‘Natural’ City?PART 4: MAPPING CENTRALITIES. Urban Regeneration towards a Polycentric City.17. The Long-Term Method of the Urban Project in Italy and the Parma School.18. Designing the European Medium-Sized City. Urban Regeneration Technique Through the Structured Densification of the Centrality System. 19. The Project of a Metropolitan Urban Centrality. The Case of the Former Fruit and Vegetable Market of Bologna.20. Densification as the Key to Suburb Regeneration. The Case of Driescher Hof In Aachen.21. The European Medium-Sized City: The Characteristics of the Urban Form.22. The Idea of Space and Urban Sequences. The Case of Parma.PART 5: MAPPING SOCIAL SPACE. Demographic Analysis as an Image of Urban Complexity.23. Mapping Urban Spaces with the Use of Physical, Digital and Augmented Reality Models: Experiences from Applications in Architectural and Urban Education.24. The Urban Circle of Life’ of People with Disabilities: Mapping Urban Inconveniences.25. Multigenerational Spaces in Conceptual Urban Projects in Polish Cities.AFTERWORDProblems of the Contemporary CityRaffaella Neri
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Taylor & Francis Ltd City and Regional Planning
Book SynopsisCity and Regional Planning provides a clearly written and lavishly illustrated overview of the theory and practice of city and regional planning. With material on globalization and the world city system, and with examples from a number of countries, the book has been written to meet the needs of readers worldwide who seek an overview of city and regional planning.Chapters cover the history of cities and city and regional planning, urban design and placemaking, comprehensive plans, planning politics and plan implementation, planning visions, and environmental, transportation, and housing planning. The book pays special attention to diversity, social justice, and collaborative planning. Topics include current practice in resilience, transit-oriented development, complexity in planning, spatial equity, globalization, and advances in planning methods. It is aimed at U.S. graduate and undergraduate city and regional planning, geography, urban design, urban studies,Trade Review"Richard Le Gates has written the most complete and comprehensive survey of city and regional planning by any author in the past twenty years. It will be the standard for the coming decades." Michael Teitz, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA"LeGates has perfectly captured city and regional planning in its many applications from local to global and offers an excellent portrait of the international scope of urbanization from the past to the present." Eugenie Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education, University of Pennsylvania, USA"This book is a refreshing, inclusionary, beautifully illustrated and readable overview of a complex profession. It pays special attention to important issues of social inequality and justice." June Thomas, Professor Emerita of Urban Planning, University of Michigan, USA"Eminent planning scholar Richard LeGates presents a beautifully crafted story of city and regional planning that will fascinate planning students worldwide. Full of masterly insights, this book is a planners’ must-read." Ben Davy, Professor of Land Policy, Land Management and Municipal Geoinformation, Technical University of Dortmund (retired), Germany, 2017–2021 President of the Association of European Schools of Planning"This wide-ranging volume offers undergraduate and graduate students an overview that is U.S.-focused but globally-engaged; historically-grounded yet attuned to recent exemplary practice; concentrated on places, projects, policies and techniques, yet aware of human agency." Lawrence Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA"I can think of no better way to learn about the state of the art of designing and planning cities than Richard LeGates’s City and Regional Planning textbook. It explains concisely the techniques planners use in creating and improving the quality of places, and offers avenues for further study to those who wish to pursue subjects in greater depth." Gary Hack, Professor Emeritus of Urban Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania, USA"City and Regional Planning is a very timely refreshing text on solving complex contemporary urban challenges including climate change. LeGates’s textbook will appeal to planners in Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the U.S. and other countries." Professor Barbara Norman, Chair and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Canberra, Australia"LeGates' broad overview of key planning concepts is readily accessible and engaging, laying the groundwork for both an informed planner and thoughtful citizen." Margaret Wilder, Executive Director, Urban Affairs Association"The editor of seven editions of The City Reader, Richard LeGates has long been a leader in charting the domain of planning knowledge. In City and Regional Planning LeGates thoughtfully articulates the history and current practice of urban planning in accessible language aiming to engage a new generation of planners." Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard University, USA"This sweeping introduction to American urban planning by one of the field’s most perceptive observers does a wonderful job of highlighting key issues and debates. The up-to-date material on sustainable urban development and climate action planning is a welcome addition." Steven Wheeler, Professor of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA"Richard LeGates investigates the complete history of city and regional planning thoroughly in this milestone encyclopedic book. It will be a source of inspiration for many generations of planners." Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London, UK"City and Regional Planning is a veritable almanac of American planning from 1607 to the present, covering landmarks in styles, approaches, theories, visions, visionaries, scholars and scholarship and much more. LeGates’s wide experience as an international and interdisciplinary writer, teacher and practitioner, lends authority at every turn. The reader has the sense of being taken on an epic tour through a vast and rather overwhelming city by someone who sees significance in each of its buildings and spaces, and uses their stories to explain how the city started and what may become of it. Superb." Chris Webster, Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Chair Professor (Urban Planning and Development Economics), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong"This long overdue textbook is a gift for planning students, educators, and scholars in Australia, China, and other countries—developed or developing. For the first time, it places urban planning and design in a global context and makes planning theory and practice accessible worldwide. The exhaustive and up-to-date references are a wonderful resource." Richard Hu, Professor of Urban Planning and Design & Director, Globalization and Cities Research Program, University of Canberra, Australia"LeGates integrates planning scholarship and practice better than any previous text, across the full range of planning topics and issues. It is a major step forward in introducing the field." Michael Hibbard, Professor Emeritus, Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon, USA"An energetic, fact-filled overview of contemporary challenges combined with a wide-ranging survey of planning past and present. LeGates’s accessible text reinforces crucial interconnections with broader social imperatives of sustainability, equity and respect." Robert Freestone, Professor of Planning, University of New South Wales, Australia"Professor LeGates’s City and Regional Planning is a masterpiece. Its intellectual depth and clear explanations will make it an indispensable reference for academics in China and everywhere in the Global South as well as the Global North." Qin Bo, Professor of Urban Planning and Management, Renmin University of China, China"This book is a comprehensive panorama of city and regional planning by a highly qualified author with a longstanding track record of seminal collections in urban studies." Ali Madanipour, Professor of Urban Design and Director of the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at Newcastle University, UK"City and Regional Planning covers all the concepts and knowledge an urban planning student needs to know. Understanding how urban planning has evolved in the United States will provide students in other parts of the world a framework to understand the evolution of urban planning concepts and systems in their own city." Anthony Yeh, Chair Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong, Founding Secretary General of the Asian Planning Schools Association"Professor LeGates has produced a remarkably readable, detailed, and useful textbook for everyone studying urban planning, urban design, and all related academic fields. With admirable clarity and precision, he captures the full scope of how planning cities and urban regions guides the on-going development of human civilization. It is a magisterial contribution to our understanding of the history, theory, and best practices of an enormously consequential profession." Frederic Stout, Lecturer in Urban Studies, Program on Urban Studies"City and Regional Planning provides an excellent introduction to the rapidly evolving field of city and regional planning. Its rich collection of international examples provides readers current planning ideas and paradigms, new roles for planners and communities, and the diversity of specialized programs and practices in internationally unique contexts." Sun Sheng Han, Professor of Urban Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia"An essential starting-point for anyone wanting to understand the American planning system, including the history and theory behind why we plan, and the difficult planning challenges facing communities today. LeGates’ textbook provides impressive depth and detail on the key issues facing cities today. I can’t think of another single volume that so effectively and fully delivers what planners need to know." Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA"This text addresses the foundations of city and regional problems brilliantly, but also what planning should be, which is the art and science of affecting change." Ivis Garcia, Assistant Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah, USA"Our views of city planning originate from the observations and the writings of the early pioneers such as Patrick Geddes and Lewis Mumford. LeGates does a magnificent job in setting the contemporary development of city and regional planning with respect to this history. City and Regional Planning is built around the way urbanists and planners have developed their science and art in response to the evolution of cities. It is a wonderful description of the challenges facing society in dealing with contemporary problems of urbanism." Michael Batty, Chair, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, UK"Richard LeGates’s textbook synthesizes an entire urban and regional planning curriculum maintaining a thoughtful theoretical and social justice perspective that elevates it into a platform for many scholarly debates. A true magnum opus." Rachelle Alterman, Professor Emerita of Planning and Law, Tecknion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel"LeGates captures the robust scope of urban planning from urban sprawl to climate change. Biographical briefs punctuate the narrative with exemplary tales showing how individual contributions matter. Passionate artistry and cool analysis combine to make good plans for places." Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA"This comprehensive journey through the history and contemporary practices of city and regional planning offers insights for us all. A must read for students of planning worldwide." Matthew Carmona, Professor of Planning and Urban Design, The Bartlett School, UK"This book is more than a 'must read' for anyone who wants to see the enormous diversity of the planning discipline presented in its context. It tells the story with ease, elegantly drawing its path dependence and presenting the fine balance between all the issues that matter, including complexity, non-linearity and transformation, the latest advances in the field." Gert de Roo, Professor of Spatial Planning, University of Groningen, the Netherlands"City and Regional Planning will be of interest to both students and practitioners of urban and regional planning, and to the general public who want to understand how planning impacts their lives and communities. It will be of interest to people outside of the USA who want to understand the American planning system." Penny Gurstein, Professor of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada"In this introductory textbook, Richard LeGates incorporates all of the genre's desired qualities: extensive coverage of the field, general concepts accompanied by concrete examples and illustrations, easy-to-read and up-to-date text, and succinct descriptions of substantive interests and procedural concerns. This book is a welcoming introduction for those considering a career in city and regional planning." Robert A. Beauregard, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Columbia University, USA"A comprehensive view of what city and regional planners do in that part of the world (US) which has influenced planning internationally, and a source for reflection for southern planners." Vanessa Watson, Professor of City Planning, University of Cape Town, South Africa"The City Reader now for the first time provides an extensive integration of the work of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Planner of Color Interest Group on a range of challenges facing workplaces, institutions and communities, racial equity-based policy solutions, and culturally competent community planning." April Jackson, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA"City and Regional Planning is an excellent addition to the literature on city and regional planning theory and practice in the United States. It provides a solid basis for scholars and planners in Canada and other countries who wish to undertake a comparative analysis to other planning systems." David Amborski, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University, CanadaTable of Contents1. The Art and Science of City and Regional Planning Chapter 2. The Evolution of Cities, and City and Regional Planning 1607 - 1933 3. Urban Design and Placemaking 4. The Politics of City and Regional Planning 5. Planning Theory 6. Visions 7. Comprehensive (General) Plans 8. Implementing Plans 9. Community Planning, Citizen Participation and Social Justice 10. Regional and National Planning 11. Planning for an Urban Planet 12. The Evolution of Cities, and City and Regional Planning 1933 – Present 13. Environmental Planning 14. Transportation Planning 15. Housing Planning and Policy 16. Urban Development and Revitalization 17. Climate Change and Energy Planning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sacred Civics
Book SynopsisSacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies,Trade Review"Creative, hopeful, audacious. Here is a book that the city building professions have been, unknowingly, waiting for. Transcending technical and policy ‘fixes’, this book addresses the cultural and spiritual dimensions of shaping cities as if people, land, and nature were sacred. An impressive, pluriversal collection of essays, asking arguably THE most important question of our era: what will it take to build seven generation cities?" Leonie Sandercock, FRSC, Professor in Community Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada"Sacred Civics offers a forward-looking framework that re-imagines what our cities can be if we change our mindset to a more relational one. Through the voices of scholars and practitioners, the book gives a blueprint for how to put into practice the transformative ideas and principles so well articulated here. A wonderful achievement."Sheila R. Foster, Professor at Georgetown University, USA"The old metaphors for cities have run dry. Cities as machines or technologies or mechanisms aren’t getting us anywhere. They aren't computers…they aren’t smart. But they are systems that are built and managed by communities of humans and their non-human allies. As such, the values that we bear in mind as we do the work of city-ing matters. The work that we do together matters. It should be seen as sacred. Even the act of figuring out what this means is something that we should do together, and as such is a sacred process. This book ties many of the relevant threads together into the pattern we need for doing the work of cities in the 21st century. It liberates us from the mechanistic models of the past. It liberates us to figure out what's next for cities. Those of us who work to build just cities and communities need this book."Nigel Jacob, Co-Chair / Co-Founder, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, USA"Nature and the sacred have long been banished from the city. Yet can cities become the site of wisdom, wholeness, and healing? This is the urgent question this unique and wonderfully creative volume tackles by weaving together indigenous ontologies, the relational turn in urban studies, and decoloniality to persuasively develop the principles of "sacred civics" and "seven-generation cities" as the foundation for a substantial rethinking of city building and the democratization of city futures. Chung-Tiam-Fook, Agyeman, and Engle have assembled a truly outstanding and diverse group of indigenous and nonindigenous writers and artists, including some of today’s leading scholars in urban studies, to offer us a cogent framework of urban design as a praxis for the just co-existence of all within a living cosmos. Their call for a relational accountability for the urban worlds we design, grounded on a renewed Earth spirituality and a paradigm of interdependence and care, couldn’t be timelier. Along the way, readers are invited to inspiring and rigorous analyses on the implications of such rethinking for commons, property, governance, nature, and the economy. The book will be of great value to urban planners and designers as well as to scholars and students in indigenous and decolonial studies and those concerned with urban natures, transitions, pluriversality, and the sacred." Arturo Escobar, Arturo Escobar, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of North Carolina, USA"Cities need big ideas to fill small spaces. This book reveals how life's details might better correspond with life's broader sources to create healthier urban futures. I am impressed with the rich and varied angles of vision found in Sacred Civics. The book is practical and poetic. It cultivates hope even as it recognizes the significant challenges we face."John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Imagine Shaping Cities as if People, Land, and Nature Were Sacred; 2 Awakening Seven Generation Cities; PART I Space; 3 Honouring the Sacred in Cities: Indigenous Teachings for City Building; 4 The Black Commons: A Framework for Recognition, Reconciliation, Reparations; 5 (Un)situated Improvisation; 6 Co-creating the Cities We Deserve through Indigenous Knowledge; PART II Time; 7 Unsettling the Coloniality of Foresight; 8 Inhabiting the Edge; 9 Reconciling Relationships with the Land through Land Acknowledgements; 10 Urban Planning Oscillations: Seeking a Tongan Way before and after the 2006 Riots; PART III Agency; 11 Social Infrastructure for Our Times: Building Participatory Systems that Value the Creativity of Everyone; 12 The Ceremony of Reclaiming Agency through Wonder; 13 Feminist, Antiracist Values for Climate Justice: Moving beyond Climate Isolationism; PART IV Togetherness; 14 Participatory Futures: Reimagining the City Together; 15 Basque Civics; 16 Commons Economies in Action: Mutualizing Urban Provisioning Systems; 17 Radicle Civics—Unconstituting Society: Building 21st-Century Civic Infrastructures
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