Reframing Cities for Resilience : Embracing Complex & Uncertain Futures

Jain, Arun

Routledge（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 290 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367233433

Full Description

We live in times of profuse change, where hyperconnectivity and fast-shifting influences are radically changing how we live, consume, work, and play. By challenging the traditional realms in which urban design and planning operate, this book asserts that not only must we do better, but that we can.

Arun argues that the first step toward adaptive and resilient futures is making a fuller spectrum of the complexity of cities comprehensible to all. Drawing upon diverse disciplines like cultural anthropology, evolutionary biology, economic theory, behavioral sciences, systems thinking, and technology, he provides fresh foundations for addressing decades of physical and social underinvestment and neglect across a range of urban challenges. They include transportation, homelessness, housing affordability, healthcare, the elderly, education, and aspects of economic underinvestment. The need for adaptive governance is also discussed.

Arun's narrative underscores how we must better embrace uncertainty to make our cities vibrant, comfortable, healthy, and inclusive while also being resilient and adaptive. He posits we do not need to predict the future to do this.

This book is essential for urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and postgraduate students in these fields. It is also a good primer for anyone wanting to understand the complex dynamics of cities.

Contents

Foreword by Jon Lang

Preface

Introduction: Embracing Complex and Uncertain Futures

1. Change

2. Seeing Cities Differently

3. Thinking Differently

4. Complexity, Uncertainty, and Urgency

5. Urban Development and Technology

6. Integrated Approaches

7. An Urban Development Approach for the Future

Appendix - Key Terms