Reframing Cities for Resilience: Embracing Complex Uncertain Futures [Paperback]

Foreword by Jon Lang

Preface

Introduction: Embracing Complex and Uncertain Futures

1. Change

2. Seeing Cities Differently

3. Thinking Differently

4. Complexity, Uncertainty, and Urgency

5. Urban Development and Technology

6. Integrated Approaches

7. An Urban Development Approach for the Future

Appendix  Key Terms

This book argues that the first step towards adaptive and resilient futures is making a fuller spectrum of the complexity of cities comprehensible to all. It?provides fresh foundations for addressing decades of physical and social underinvestment and neglect across a range of urban challenges.

Arun Jain is a multidisciplinary urban designer and strategist with over four decades of experience across professional practice, academia, institutions, city executive roles, and the UN. His professional contributions span 165 cities across 46 countries, impacting over 90 public and private sector urban development projects. Arun enjoys cooking and is an avid collector of books and music.

We live in times of profuse change, where hyperconnectivity and fast-shifting influences are radically changing how we live, consume, work, and play. By challenging the traditional realms in which urban design and planning operate, this book asserts that not only must we do better, but that we can.

Arun argues that the first step toward adaptive and resilient futures is making a fuller spectrum of the complexity of cities comprehensible to all. Drawing upon diverse disciplines like cultural anthropology, evolutionary biology, economic theory, behavioral sciences, systems thinking, and technology, he provides fresh foundations for addressing decades of physical and social underinvestment and neglect across alӃ