Enabling Eco-Cities Defining, Planning, and Creating a Thriving Futu
Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city. This book features chapters by researchers using regenerative development and transitions theories to envisage how Eco-Cit
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Dominique Hes and Judy Bush
Enabling Eco-Cities
Dominique Hes • Judy Bush Editors
Enabling Eco-Cities Defining, Planning, and Creating a Thriving Future
Editors Dominique Hes Thrive Research Hub, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia
Judy Bush Thrive Research Hub, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia
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To those working towards a thriving future, and to our kids and grandkids, and their place within the wonder and awe of our amazing planet.
Foreword
We have entered the so-called urban age—a time when human prospect depends as never before on the sustainability of cities and larger human settlements. The concept of the Anthropocene, widely debated in the sciences, reminds us that the future of non-human existence—indeed, planetary well-being—will be decided by our increasingly urban species. Aside from rapid urbanisation, a set of great and inevitable transitions is underway—in climate systems, human settlement and movement, the integrity of the biota, and political organisation and expression, to name a few. Epochal change is inevitable and in motion. The challenge is to prevent the destructive, limiting changes from gaining the upper hand and to give precedence and strength to those fo
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