Full Description
This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets, such as land, infrastructure, and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city—social capital and community networks. In so doing, the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular, nuanced understanding of cities—of the interrelations between people in places, everyday urbanisms, social relationships, cultural practices, and histories. The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North and engages with city-specific cases from Africa, India, and Europe for a deeper understanding of resilience.
Part of the Urban Futures series, it will be of great interest to students and researchers of urban studies, urban planning, urban management, architecture, urban sociology, urban design, ecology, conservation, and urban sustainability. It will also be useful for urbanists, architects, urban sociologists, city and town planners, policy makers, and those interested in a deeper understanding of the contemporary and future city.
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword: Adapt or Die
Acknowledgements
1 Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City
PART I: City and Its Vulnerabilities
2 Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods and the New Meaning of "Community" in the Global North
3 Resilient Tactics and Everyday Lives in the Textile Mill Areas of Mumbai
4 Informal Housing of Migrants in Italy
5 Cities, Housing Exclusion, and Homelessness from a European Perspective
6 Just and Healthy Cities in Times of Global Threats: Perspectives from the Global North
The Case of Settling Deonar Dump Yard Site, Mumbai
Environmental Injustice: Air Pollution and Data Inequity in Kibera, Nairobi
PART II: Relocation, Resettlement, and Resilience
7 Resilience at the City Margins—Roma Settlements in Bulgaria
8 Tolerance to Heat as a Coping Strategy of Low-Income Households in India and Austria
9 Home-Based Income Generation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
10 "Nothing Is to Be Gained by Involving Them": Exploring Residents' Lived Experiences of Resettlement in a Medium-Sized City in India
11 The Vertical versus Horizontal City: Why Vertical Resettlement (Mostly) Does Not Work for the Urban Poor
12 Conclusion: Towards Just Resilience
