Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis

Urbanism for a Difficult Future provides practical responses to the climate crisis, offering measures for creating a landscape of resilience and designing a built environment that enables localization. It explores how to enable people to be creative, productive, and supportive at local levels, creating strong and diverse local economies that can sustain life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 172 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a comprehensive guide that is urgently needed to kickstart the next generation of land use planning and urbanism, enabling us to adapt to and survive the devastating consequences of climate change. This invaluable resource provides robust and straightforward strategies for creating a landscape of resilience through the establishment of self-sufficient pockets. It showcases how to secure vital systems such as energy, water, food, waste, and the production of essential goods, as well as establish political and social protocols that facilitate agile decision-making in effectively managing these systems at local levels. Furthermore, the book offers design principles for creating a built environment that fosters the localization necessary for adaptation. It delves into the possibility of creating a life that is not reliant on large-scale regional sustenance systems, which are likely to be disrupted or fail.

This book empowers individuals to be creative, productive, and supportive at the local level, fostering the development of strong and diverse local economies that can sustain life. It appeals to a wide range of professionals, including students, planners, and policy makers engaged in environmental studies, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. By embracing the insights and recommendations presented in this book, we can embark on a transformative journey toward a more resilient and sustainable future.

Weight: 510g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032022666