Futureproof city : ten immediate paths to urban resilience / Barry D. Wilson.

By: Wilson, Barry D [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022Copyright date: �2022Description: 1 online resource : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781003112488; 100311248X; 9781000436150; 1000436152; 1000436144; 9781000436143.Call No.: HT241 .W55 2022 Subject(s): Sustainable urban development | City planning -- Environmental aspects | Urban policy | City planning -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable urban development | Urban policy | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development | ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / UrbanGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Futureproof cityDDC classification: 307.1/416 Online resources: EBSCOhost Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Local Note(s): Added to collection customer.56279.3Summary: "The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis. A paradigm shift is urgently required in the means of conceiving, delivering, and managing city development to create better places to live. This book brings to the fore many new solutions currently being proposed and piloted globally, identifying ten key areas affecting the physical fabric of our cities where governments, planners, investors, and the individuals responsible for shaping lives can refocus their understanding, priorities, and funding in order to more effectively utilise the limited financial, natural, and time resources available. It will be key reading for every policy maker and professional working in sustainability, development, technology, health and welfare, investment, and risk issues in cities today"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis. A paradigm shift is urgently required in the means of conceiving, delivering, and managing city development to create better places to live. This book brings to the fore many new solutions currently being proposed and piloted globally, identifying ten key areas affecting the physical fabric of our cities where governments, planners, investors, and the individuals responsible for shaping lives can refocus their understanding, priorities, and funding in order to more effectively utilise the limited financial, natural, and time resources available. It will be key reading for every policy maker and professional working in sustainability, development, technology, health and welfare, investment, and risk issues in cities today"-- Provided by publisher.

Barry D. Wilson was born in London and has lived and worked across four continents in a career spanning over 30 years as a multi-skilled, design and construction professional and mediator. He received an award from the China International Urbanization Development Strategy Research Committee for his contribution to China's urbanisation transformation in 2012 and was awarded the Reed Mallik Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2019. He is a Fellow of both the Hong Kong Institutes of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong.

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