{"product_id":"now-urbanism-9780415717861","title":"Now Urbanism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking todayâs cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The contributions inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. \u003cem\u003eNow Urbanism\u003c\/em\u003e asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a framework of \u003ci\u003esituating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating,\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e enduring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Now Urbanism takes the reader through a fascinating journey of a diverse collection of cities, including Nairobi, New York, Mumbai, Manchester, Caracas and Las Vegas. The book examines cities from multiple perspectives: as hotbeds of production and pollution; as beacons of hope in seas of poverty; and as flagships for sustainability in a rapidly globalising world.\" - \u003cem\u003eTom Sanya, University of Cape Town, South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e, 1. Thick City, Now Urbanism (\u003ci\u003eJeffrey Hou, Ben Spencer, Thaisa Way, Ken Yocom)\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSituating\u003c\/b\u003e, 2. Messy Urbanism: Transformation and Transmutation of Cities under Globalization (\u003ci\u003eViren Brahmbhatt)\u003c\/i\u003e, 3. The Environmental Contradictions of High-Tech Urbanism (\u003ci\u003eMargaret O’Mara)\u003c\/i\u003e, 4. From Blues to Green: The Future of New Towns Worldwide (\u003ci\u003eDeni Ruggeri)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePart III: Grounding\u003c\/b\u003e, 5. 13,0001 A Waste Odyssey (\u003ci\u003eWilliam Morrish)\u003c\/i\u003e, 6. Contingent Ecological Urbanisms (\u003ci\u003eJon Christensen)\u003c\/i\u003e, 7. Processcapes: Dynamic Placemaking (\u003ci\u003eJudith Stilgenbauer)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Performing\u003c\/b\u003e, 8. \u003ci\u003eNosotros\u003c\/i\u003e (We): Two Cultures of Sustainability and the Present City of Las Vegas (\u003ci\u003eDaniel H. Ortega)\u003c\/i\u003e, 9. Making a Farm in the Heart of a City (\u003ci\u003eOsamu Nishida and Arisa Nakamura)\u003c\/i\u003e, 10. Border Urbanities: Embodied and Enacted Performances in a Transnational City (\u003ci\u003eIrma Ramirez)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePart V: Distributing\u003c\/b\u003e, 11. User-Generated Urbanism and the Right to the City (\u003ci\u003eJohn Bela)\u003c\/i\u003e, 12. Open Source City (\u003ci\u003eLaura Kozak)\u003c\/i\u003e, 13. The Kibera Public Space Project: Participation, Integration, and Networked Change (\u003ci\u003eChelina Odbert and Joseph Mulligan)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePart VI: Instigating\u003c\/b\u003e, 14. Forget about Utopia (\u003ci\u003eAlfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner)\u003c\/i\u003e, 15. The Informal Urban Communities Initiative: Lomas de Zapallal, Lima, Peru (\u003ci\u003eBen Spencer, Susan Bolton, Jorge Alarcon)\u003c\/i\u003e, 16. Shifting Landscape: reTHINKING Central and Eastern European Cities (\u003ci\u003eMartin Joseph Barry)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePart VII:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eEnduring\u003c\/b\u003e, 17. City Sink – Sinking Cities (\u003ci\u003eDenise Hoffman Brandt)\u003c\/i\u003e, 18. [GU]Growing Urbanism: An Evolutionary Urban Ecology in Cascadia (\u003ci\u003eGundula Proksch, Joshua Brevoort and Lisa Chun)\u003c\/i\u003e, 19. Pathways of Urban Nature: Diversity in the Greening of the Twenty-First Century City (\u003ci\u003eAndrew Karvonen)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePart VIII: Afterword\u003c\/strong\u003e, 20. Cities and Survival (\u003ci\u003eThomas Fisher)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402148454743,"sku":"9780415717861","price":50.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/now-urbanism-9780415717861","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}