Contingencies in Urban Future-Making
eBook - PDF

Contingencies in Urban Future-Making

Pitfalls, Potentialities, and Transformative Practices

  1. 403 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Contingencies in Urban Future-Making

Pitfalls, Potentialities, and Transformative Practices

About this book

In an era of rapid change and growing uncertainty, we are facing an urgent question: How can cities be built for futures that defy prediction? The contributors to this volume tackle this challenge by exploring the role of contingency in urban future-making. Through a range of case studies, they examine relevant aims, strategies, and decision-making processes in both past and present contexts. They reveal how unexpected events and unpredictable factors unsettle established urban conditions but also spark new ideas and possibilities for rethinking and reshaping the city. The volume shows how urban future-making involves navigating highly uncertain environments and extreme conditions, opening new spaces of knowledge and action.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. 1. Introduction to the volume
  4. Conceptualizing Contingency in Urban Future‐Making
  5. Leveraging History and Opening Futures
  6. Negotiating Objects and Creating Matter
  7. Shaping Decision‐Making and Advancing Policies
  8. Appendix

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