Wild cities: spatial planning in the urban age

"For urban and environmental planners seeking to support sustainability-led change charting the task ahead remains complex, turbulent and unclear. Is it possible for planning to better serve, protect and nurture our human and non-human worlds? Many have serious doubts about the prospects for planning but there is a real opportunity for planning to better engage with how real places and spaces are produced and change. This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges of planning wild cities in a climate of change. Drawing on the international literature and case-study examples from the developed and developing country contexts, key issues around urban (in)security, critical infrastructure and the rights to the city for both humans and nature are highlighted. It is within this context that this book focuses on the need to better understand how contemporary cities have changed and the relational role of planning within it. Planning Wild Cities will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies and sustainable development"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Weather of mass destruction -- Black summer -- We are the wildfire -- Our house is on fire -- Lucky country -- Cities in a climate of change -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Finding Homo urbanis -- 5D movies on speed -- A nation of cities -- The angel of (urban) history -- Planning in Pandora's shadow -- Beyond borders -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Through the security glass darkly -- We be monsters -- The city of extremes -- Climate security -- Climate-security narrative 1 - critical urban infrastructure -- Climate-security narrative 2 - a strategic defence and military agenda -- Climate-security narrative 3 - declaring a state of emergency -- The age of anxiety -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Seeking the good city -- Lost horizon -- The urban pulse -- Repair -- Relatedness -- Rights -- Re-enchantment -- The good enough city? -- Future cities -- Staying with the trouble -- The swing of the pendulum -- Notes -- Chapter 5: We are the wild city -- The language of cities -- Castell's wild city -- Wild country -- Urban wildness -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Planning in climate change -- The need for speed -- Planning in a cul-de-sac -- Planning and reform -- Planning and climate change -- Planning about climate change -- Planning for climate change -- Planning in climate change -- Our beds are burning -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Can the wild city be tamed? -- The nature of crisis -- A tamed city -- Urban resilience matters -- More-than-human cities -- The post-human turn -- Urban care and wildness -- Notes -- Index.