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Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an unavoidable fact of everyday world affairs. This volume gathers a forum that integrates the extensive set of disciplinary dimensions to which the interdisciplinary concept of the global city can help to tackle the policy challenges of today's metropolises. Its chapters are drawn from viewpoints including the cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political dimensions of global cities. Tasked with providing a rejoinder to the global city scholarship from each of these perspectives, the authors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing these stances to the concept of the 'global city'. They rely not solely on theory but also on sample case studies either drawn from long-lived global cities such as New York, Shanghai and London, or emerging metropolises like Dubai, Cape Town and Sydney.

"Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban regeneration. Hot Cities offers insights from eminent academics and practitioners, providing both a practical and theoretical outlook on strategy development in a climate crisis. Chapters call for urgent responses to the urban heat problem, providing future projections to illustrate why this is important. They highlight that despite prominent issues within cities, such as maladaptive practices or unsustainable path dependency in city policy and planning, urban spaces are likely to be the safest and most protected locations from the uncompromising outcomes of global warming. This enlightening book will be incredibly useful for scholars of human geography, urban planning, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction, environmental humanities, urban design and urban and regional studies. Due to its broad applicability, it will also benefit design practitioners and community developers"--

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Addressing the Climate Emergency at the Local Scale -- Why Quiet? -- Why Local? -- The Role of Social Innovation -- The Australian Research Context -- Towards a Quiet Activist Framework -- Local Lines of Flight -- Chapter 2: Building and Bridging the Knowledge Base -- Climate Action Heartlands -- A Local Mandate for Climate Action -- Think + Act + Share = Change -- Local Community Climate Hub -- ReNew Initiatives -- The Quiet Stories of Change -- Chapter 3: Bringing Missing Actors to the Table -- Enabling Socially Innovative Practices -- Climate Action: A Seat at the Table -- Nature Conservation Trust: Care and Protection -- The Story of Capertree Valley -- Addressing Risk and Disruption -- Climate Valuation: The Website -- Missing Actors, a Shifting Designation? -- Bringing Local Community to the Table -- Rising Blue Line -- Building Local Community Activism -- Climate Response-Ability -- Chapter 4: Walking Together with Care -- Care in Weather-Worlds -- Turning Down the Heat -- Climarte: Art and Emotion -- Foregrounding Emotions -- One Planet: Climate Action Now -- Care-Full Community Practices -- Quiet Adaptation -- 'We Make the Weather' -- Chapter 5: Realising Transformative Potential -- New Normal/s -- Scaling Out, Up and Deep -- Solar aver -- Ecoburbia -- Scaling Out -- Scaling Up -- Scaling Deep -- Quiet Activism: Means and Ends -- Chapter 6: Making and Breaking Connections -- Quiet Innovation and Activist Practices -- Making Connections: Public Education and Awareness of Innovations -- Breaking Connections: Reforming Institutions in Greener Directions -- Making Connections: Direct Local Activism -- Breaking Connections: Confronting and Changing Institutional Practices -- "Critique, Subvert, Rework" -- Chapter 7: Quiet Activism in Climate Change.

Shifting borders in a climate of change / Wendy Steele -- Rethinking borders / Michael Neuman -- Troubling the place of the border : on territory, community, space and place / Jean Hillier -- The border/planning nexus / Enrico Gualini and Carola Fricke -- Beyond urban-rural boundaries : encouraging inter-municipal collaboration for climate change adaptation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Hayley Leck and Florence Crick -- Crossing borders : two contrasting approaches to interactions between natural and human ecosystems / Leila Eslami-Andargoli and Pat Dale -- Inter-sectoral and inner-sectoral borders across critical infrastructure : lessons from the United States and Australia / Tooran Alizadeh and Neil Sipe -- Governance by re-bordering : comparing the rescaling of territorial boundaries as a spatial governance strategy in Auckland, Brisban/South East Queensland, Vancouver, London and Manchester / Clare Mouat and Jago Dodson -- Questions or borders and mobility : de- and re-territorialising approaches to urban and regional planning policy and governance / Felicity Wray and Rae Dufty-Jones -- Planning across multiple borders / Kristian Ruming and Donna Houston -- Beyond the boundares of strategic interest / Crystal Legacy, Simon Pinnegar, Andrew Tice and Ilan Wiesel -- Competing processes of border-making : compact city planning and residents' everyday territorialisation of home / Nicole Cook, Elizabeth Taylor and Joe Hurley -- Emerging planetary boundaries and the sustainability perspective / Silvia Serrao-Neumann -- Transgressing borders : imagining environmental justice in spatial planning / Jason Byrne and Diana MacCallum -- Virtual borders in the online world : how e-planning helps and hinders communicative planning practice / Marco Amati.