Waters Urbanisms East expands upon the first edition of Water Urbanisms, published in 2008. It gathers a number of leading practitioners and academics globally to reflect upon the growing challenges of water in the city, infra-structural landscapes and the reuniting of engineered and natural processes.
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Return of the Body to the City -- Chapter 2: Images of Cities -- Jogjakarta, Java, Indonesia -- Chapter 3: Why Did Urban Planning Go So Wrong? -- Fukuoka, Japan -- Chapter 4: Why Urban Planning Doesn't Help Us Understand Cities -- Istanbul, Turkey -- Chapter 5: Against the Word of UN-Habitat: The World Will Be All Urban -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- Chapter 6: Why Urban Planning Is in a Deadly Delay: The Environment -- Tashkent, Uzbekistan -- Chapter 7: Lies and Lost Opportunities for Involvement -- Shanghai, China -- Chapter 8: Against the Slogans of Urban Planning Glamour -- Milan, Italy -- Chapter 9: Slums: How to Get the Poor to Pay the Costs of the City -- Ragusa Ibla, Italy -- Chapter 10: Urbanicide and Street Food -- Minsk, Belarus -- Chapter 11: Paris as Province in the XXII Century -- A Note on the Text -- About the Authors.
An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change. For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-oriented innovations that address equity and ecological challenges. This book is rooted in the latter category, but recognises that if cities continue to evolve along current trajectories they will be where the large bulk of the most unsustainable and inequitable human activities are concentrated. By drawing on a range of case studies from both the global South and global North, this book is unique in its aim to develop an integrated social-ecological perspective on the challenge of sustainable urban development. Through the interdisciplinary and original research of a new generation of urban researchers across the global South and North, this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development. .
AbstractPark Won‐soon, the former mayor of Seoul, put forward a new vision of Seoul as a progressive city, and one of his signatures was the promotion of a new urban regeneration policy called the Seoul‐type Urban Regeneration Model (SUR). It was first presented as a solution to compressed and profit‐oriented urban redevelopment but evolved into an alternative model which conveyed the worlding desire of the Seoul Metropolitan Government to redefine Asian urbanism beyond developmentalism or neoliberalism. In this article, we argue that the SUR demonstrates a mixture of post‐developmentalist features and the lingering impact of neoliberal rationalities. Specifically, we problematize SUR's hybrid aspirations for urban competitiveness, improved quality of life and participatory governance by articulating how the pursuit of a globally competitive city conflicts with and overrides other values and how citizen‐centered governance was exploited as an efficient mechanism of neoliberal urbanism.
"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Title" -- "CONTENTS" -- "Foreword Delta Urbanism" -- "Preface Safe and Sustainable Delta Cities" -- "Introduction How to Deal With the Complexity of the Urbanized Delta" -- "PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE DUTCH DELTA" -- "Chapter 1: The Dynamics of the Dutch Delta" -- "Chapter 2: Draining, Dredging, Reclaiming: The Technology of Making a Dry, Safe, and Sustainable Delta Landscape" -- "Chapter 3: The Making of Dutch Delta Landscapes" -- "Chapter 4: Composition and Construction of Dutch Delta Cities" -- "Chapter 5: Governing a Complex Delta" -- "PART TWO: REINVENTING THE DUTCH DELTA" -- "Chapter 6: From West to East: Integrating Coastal Defense, Water Management, and Spatial Planning" -- "Chapter 7: The Southwest Delta: Toward a New Synergy" -- "Chapter 8: Delta City Rotterdam: Where It All Comes Together" -- "References" -- "Index".
"Drei Positionen dominieren die Diskussion um großräumige Variationen der Lebensführung: Die These der Nivellierung von Stadt-Land-Unterschieden geht auf Wirths (1938) Annahme einer Diffusion urbaner Lebensweisen zurück. In der Stadt- und Regionalforschung ist die Ansicht verbreitet, dass der Stadt-Land-Kontrast heute von regionalen Disparitäten prosperierender und schrumpfender Räume überlagert wird. Fischer (1975) postuliert ein Fortbestehen der Stadt-Land-Differenz, da erst eine 'kritische Masse' räumlich konzentrierter Personen die Institutionalisierung unkonventioneller Kulturpraxen ermögliche. Diese Positionen empirisch zu untersuchen, ist das erste Anliegen der Verfasser. Dazu stützen sie sich auf eine standardisierte Bevölkerungsumfrage in ländlichen und großstädtischen Gemeinden in vier Bundesländern. Als Messinstrument verwenden die Verfasser die von Otte (2004) konzipierte Lebensführungstypologie, die sie - das ist ihr zweites Ziel - erstmals überregional replizieren und validieren. Die Performanz des Instruments ist insgesamt überzeugend, wenn auch in Ostdeutschland mit Vorbehalten. Inhaltlich zeigen sich - bei Kontrolle sozialstruktureller Kompositionsunterschiede - Tendenzen zu modernen, unkonventionellen Lebensführungsmustern in Großstädten und eine geringe Verbreitung statusgehobener Muster in Ostdeutschland." (Autorenreferat)