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"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"--

"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"--

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.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore emerging synergies and tensions between the twin moves to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and online learning and teaching (L&T) in higher education institutions (HEIs).


Design/methodology/approach
A preliminary global exploration of universities' SDG-based L&T initiatives was undertaken, using publicly available grey and academic literature. Across a total sample of 179 HEIs – identified through global university rankings and analysis of all 42 Australian universities – 150 SDG-based L&T initiatives were identified. These were analysed to identify common approaches to embedding the SDGs.


Findings
Five key approaches to embedding the SDGs into online (and offline) HEI L&T were identified: designing curricula and pedagogy to address the SDGs; orienting the student experience towards the SDGs; aligning graduate outcomes with the SDGs; institutional leadership and capability building; and participating in cross-institutional networks and initiatives. Four preliminary conclusions were drawn from subsequent analysis of these themes and their relevance to online education. Firstly, approaches to SDG L&T varied in degree of alignment between theory and practice. Secondly, many initiatives observed already involve some component of online L&T. Thirdly, questions of equity need to be carefully built into the design of online SDG education. And fourthly, more work needs to be done to ensure that both online and offline L&T are delivering the transformational changes required for and by the SDGs.


Research limitations/implications
The research was limited by the availability of information on university websites accessible through a desk-top review in 2019; limited HEI representation; and the scope of the 2019 THE Impact Rankings.


Originality/value
To date, there are no other published reviews, of this scale, of SDG L&T initiatives in universities nor analysis of the intersection between these initiatives and the move to online L&T.

This special issue on housing and socio-spatial inclusion had its genesis in the 5th Housing Theory Symposium (HTS) on the theme of housing and space, held in Brisbane, Australia in 2013. In late 2013 we put out a call for papers in an attempt to collect an initial suite of theoretical and empirical scholarship on this theme. This collection of articles progresses our initial discussions about the theoretical implications of adding the "social" to the conceptual project of thinking through housing and space. We hope that this special issue will act as a springboard for a critical review of housing theory, which could locate housing at the centre of a much broader network of social and cultural practices across different temporal trajectories and spatial scales. This editorial presents an overview of the theoretical discussions at the HTS and summarises the six articles in this themed issue, which are: (1) The meaning of home in home birth experiences; (2) Reconceptualizing the "publicness" of public housing; (3) The provision of visitable housing in Australia; (4) The self-production of dwellings made by the Brazilian new middle class; (5) Innovative housing models and the struggle against social exclusion in cities; and (6) A theoretical and an empirical analysis of "poverty suburbanization".

Climate change is a highly contested policy issue in Australia, generating fierce debate at every level of governance. In this paper we explore a crucial tension in both the policy and the public debate: a seeming lack of attention to social inclusion and broader equity implications. We pay special attention to the municipal scale, where concerns about social difference and democratic participation are often foregrounded in political discourse, using South East Queensland—a recognised climate change 'hotspot'—as a case study. Mobilising critical discourse analysis techniques, we interrogate three local government climate change response strategies, and place these in the context of transscalar discourse networks which appear to sustain a technocratic, 'ecological modernisation' approach to the issue. Finally, we suggest a broad strategy for reimagining this approach to embed a notion of climate justice in our policy thinking about climate change.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- 1 Shifting borders in a climate of change -- Section I Borders in theory -- 2 Rethinking borders -- 3 Troubling the place of the border: on territory, community, space and place -- 4 The border/planning nexus -- Section II Borders in (international) practice -- 5 Beyond urban-rural boundaries: encouraging inter-municipal collaboration for climate change adaptation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- 6 Crossing borders: two contrasting approaches to interactions between natural and human ecosystems -- 7 Inter-sectoral and inner-sectoral borders across critical infrastructure: Lessons from the United States and Australia -- 8 Governance by re-bordering: comparing the rescaling of territorial boundaries as a spatial governance strategy in Auckland, Brisbane/South East Queensland, Vancouver, London and Manchester -- Section III Australian urban borders -- 9 Questions of borders and mobility: de- and re-territorialising approaches to urban and regional planning policy and governance -- 10 Planning across multiple borders -- 11 Beyond the boundaries of strategic interest -- 12 Competing processes of border-making: compact city planning and residents' everyday territorialisation of home -- Section IV Border futures -- 13 Emerging planetary boundaries and the sustainability perspective -- 14 Transgressing borders: imagining environmental justice in spatial planning -- 15 Virtual borders in the online world: How e-planning helps and hinders communicative planning practice -- Index.

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.