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What is "urban"? How can it be described and contextualised? How is it used in theory and practice? Urban processes feature in key international policy and practice discourses. They are at the core of research agendas across traditional academic disciplines and emerging interdisciplinary fields. However, the concept of "the urban" remains highly contested, both as material reality and imaginary construct. The urban remains imprecisely defined. Defining the Urban is an indispensable guide for the urban transdisciplinary thinker and practitioner. Parts I and II focus on how "Academic Disciplines" and "Professional Practices," respectively, understand and engage with the urban. Included, among others, are Architecture, Ecology, Governance and Sociology. Part III, "Emerging Approaches," outlines how elements from theory and practice combine to form transdisciplinary tools and perspectives. Written by eminent experts in their respective fields, Defining the Urban provides a stepping stone for the development of a common language?a shared ontology-in the disjointed fields of urban research and practice. It is a comprehensive and accessible resource for anyone with an interest in understanding how urban scholars and practitioners can work together on this complex theme Book jacket

Chapter 1. Introduction: trajectories of infrastructural entanglement in cities of the Global South -- Chapter 2. Fragmented Infrastructure Systems in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: Assessment from an Environmental Resource Nexus and Public Health Perspective -- Chapter 3. What Lies Behind the Acute Crises: The Social and Infrasystems Links with Disasters in Brazil -- Chapter 4. Teaching, Therapy and Tourism: Infrastructural Transformations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre -- Chapter 5. The Infrastructures of Land: Heterogeneous Land Administration in Urban Ghana -- Chapter 6. Land Market Procedures and Market Preferences in Land Use Change: The Case of Greater Cairo -- Chapter 7. Sustainability of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Bolivian cities: Challenges, opportunities, and responses -- Chapter 8. Building Inequality: Infrastructure and Intra-Urban Inequality in the Capitalist City -- Chapter 9. Creating Age-Friendly Informal Settlements? Challenges to Enabling Health and Well-being for Older People in Informal Urban Harare -- Chapter 10. Transitioning Infrastructures and Socio-cultural Practices at the Idol-making Cluster of Kolkata' Kumartuli -- Chapter 11. Construction site assemblages: relationships of synergy and exploitation in the (re)configuration of Lekki, Nigeria -- Chapter 12. One Size Does Not Fit All: Sanitation Solutions in Shanghai's Older and Under-serviced Inner-city Neighbourhoods -- Chapter 13. Manufacturing open defecation free cities: punishing people and collapsing toilets, unpacking paradoxes of Mumbai's sanitation landscape -- Chapter 14. Modelling Chinese Urban Residential Stock Turnover Uncertainties Using System Dynamics and Bayesian Statistical Inference -- Chapter 15. A Strategic Planning Problem: The Unpredictability of Urban Transformation Based on the Changing Temporal Order of Planned Projects -- Chapter 16. The Importance of Social Infrastructure in Supporting Physical Infrastructure and Enabling the Development of Sustainable Cities -- Chapter 17. Architecture, Sanitation and COVID-19: design interventions in resource-limited settings (Accra, Ghana) -- Chapter 18. Speculative Futures of Global South Infrastructures -- Chapter 19. Infrastructuring with Care in Cities of the Global South.

Part I Eastern Africa -- Tackling child malnutrition by strengthening the linkage between agricultural production, food security and nutrition in rural Rwanda -- Weather Shocks, Gender and Household Consumption: Evidence from Urban Households in the Teso Sub-region, Uganda -- Indigenous and Local Knowledge practices and innovations for enhancing food security under climate change: Examples from Mijikenda communities in coastal Kenya -- Reframing the challenges and opportunities for improved sanitation services in eastern Africa through Sustainability Science -- Part II Southern Africa -- Ethanol as a clean cooking alternative in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from sugarcane production and ethanol adoption sites in Malawi and Mozambique -- The effect of introduced Opuntia (Cactaceae) species on landscape connectivity and ecosystem service provision in southern Madagascar -- The Legacy of Mine Closure in Kabwe, Zambia: What can resilience thinking offer to the mining sustainability discourse? -- Knowledge co-production in Sub-Saharan African cities: Building capacity for the Urban Age -- Part III Synthesis -- Harnessing science-policy interface processes to tackle sustainability challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Sustainability challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trade-offs, opportunities and priority areas for Sustainability Science.

­Sustainability challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- 2. Enabling sustainable bioenergy transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: strategic issues for achieving climate-compatible development -- 3. Linking industrial crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa: local, national and continental perspectives -- Large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and corporate social responsibility (CSR): Insights from Italian investments -- Determinants of foreign investment and international aid for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: a visual cognitive review of the literature -- Perceived community resilience to floods and droughts induced by climate change in semi-arid Ghana -- Linking rural livelihoods and fuelwood demand from mangroves and upland forests in the coastal region of Guinea -- Strategic partnerships between universities and non-academic institutions for sustainability and innovation: Insights from the University of Ghana -- Long-term vegetation change in central Africa: the need for an integrated management framework for forests and savannas -- Forest-agriculture in the Center-South region of Cameroon: how does traditional knowledge inform integrated management approaches?.

City governments are fundamental to implement international environmental agreements, such as the convention on biological diversity (CBD). Even though many of them are not directly involved in the negotiation of international agreements, which are signed by national governments, most of those agreements are in fact implemented at the city level. The importance of city governance to tackle the challenges of biodiversity loss has increased as urban population has grown enormously in the last decades, particularly in developing countries. The way cities are designed, planned and governed influences the magnitude of their direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity.