How to Save the City

Paul Chatterton

Description

A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conflating emergencies have become more pressing and connected. While the climate crisis is the most urgent, we also face deep social crises in housing, gender and race inequalities, the breakdown of our natural world, our energy consumption, and the deep ripples resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. These emergencies are playing out in acute ways in urban areas. Locked in to high-energy, high-resource use, cities are responsible for about three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions, have ecological and carbon footprints far bigger than their city limits, and are the beating heart of our pro-growth, unequal, consumer-saturated way of life. The city has to change, but how and by whom? Paul Chatterton engages, inspires and empowers the reader to take action to make cities more sustainable, liveable and safer places. He guides the reader through a sequence of challenges, strategies, players, moves and practical tactics of how to save their city.

1. Introduction

2. Our decade of transformation

3. Strategy: our approach to change

4. Players: who will do it

5. Moves: making it happen

6. It’s the 2030s and we are saving the city

Sujets

• Public Policy
• Human Geography
• Sustainable Development
• Social Science
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Calentamiento global
• Geography
• Sustainability
• Global warming
• Index of urban studies articles
• Climate change
• Development

Informations

• Publié par: Agenda Publishing
• Date de parution: 05 octobre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781788214797
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

How to Save the City

A Guide for Emergency Action

Paul Chatterton

Illustrated by James McKay

agenda publishing

Dedicated to everyone, past, present and future, saving the city – our breakaway coalition of emergency first responders

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Acknowledgemens

1 INtRoDUctioN

Contents

2 OUR DecaDe oF tRaNsFoRmatioN

3 StRategy: oUR appRoach to chaNge

4 PlayeRs: who will Do it

5 Moves: makiNg it happeN

6 It’s the 2030s aND we aRe saviNg the city

Onlîne resources o suppor emergency acîon Reerences Index

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Acknowledgements

To produce a boo îe îs ere are so many peope o an. Fîrs, pro- jecs and groups aong e way ave provîded opporunîîes or me o earn, gaer and ry ou îdeas în îs boo – îac Coousîng, Kîrsa Vaey Deveopmen Trus, eeds Communîy Homes, Our Fuure eeds, Cîmae Acîon eeds, e eeds Dougnu Coaîîon, eeds ove î Sare î, e Racîa Jusîce Newor, e Trapese Popuar Educaîon Coecîve, e Camps or Cîmae Acîon, Radîca Roues, e Dougnu Economîcs Acîon ab. Many peope ave provîded suppor and enusîasm – my wonderu rîends a îac Grove, coeagues în e Scoo o Geograpy, and eow cîmae acîvîss a Our Fuure eeds and Cîmae Acîon eeds – Andy, Sîmon, Margo, Jennî, Andrew, Ma, Davîd, JeIm, Maîa, Tîm, Heen, ïrena, Anzîr; and as aways, my parner Tas and sons RaI and Mîo or beîng my guîdes and înspîraîon. Specîa ans o James McKay or provîdîng e capîvaîng îus- raîons a brîng îs boo o îe, Sea Darby or er suppor wî reerencîng, edîîng and îdeas, and Jenny Bu or desîgnîng my îusra- îons. Fînay, ans o e eam a Agenda Pubîsîng and especîay Seven Gerrard and Camîa Ersîne or nowîng a a boo îe îs îs urgeny needed.

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ïn 2018, dozens o peope dîed în Toyo as emperaures exceeded 40°C or severa conînuous days, and în Caîornîa e own o Paradîse was argey desroyed by a wîd Ire în jus a ew ours îîng 85 peope. ïn e summer o 2021, deady Las Loods îed scores o peope în e Bad Neuenar-Arweîer area o Germany. ïn eary 2022 Cycone Basîraî et 120 peope dead and nîne ou o en omes desroyed în Madagas- car’s coasa cîy Mananjary, wîe aer a year resîdens o Jacobabad în Paîsan endured emperaures amos înoerabe o umans a 51°C. As ese cîmae dîsasers unod, our urban word conînues o grow. One recen esîmae suggess a 290,000 m2 o naura abîa coud be convered o urban and beween 2000 and 2030, wî uge împîca- îons or abîa and bîodîversîy oss (McDonade al.2020). ïn e UK, beween 2006 and 2012, 22,000 ecares o green space as aready been os o urban spraw, e equîvaen o an enîre cîy, wîe în Sangaî urban greenspace decîned by 30 per cen beween 1980 and 2015 (Wu e al.2019). Equay worryîng are e persîsen socîa caenges acîng our urban word. ïn Arîca ony 15 per cen o resîdens în agos and Kampaa ave pîped waer o eîr dweîng (Beard & Mîîn 2021), wîe în e Demo- craîc Repubîc o Congo and Cad ony around 40 per cen o e urban popuaîon ave access o eecrîcîy (Our Word în Daa 2020). A recen sudy ound a 51,000 premaure deas coud be prevened eac year across 1,000 European cîîes î ey acîeved eves o sma parîcuae aîr pouîon (PM2.5) recommended by e Word Hea Organîsaîon

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(Knomenoe al. 2021). ïn New Yor, accordîng o e Evîcîon ab (2022), ere were amos 180,000 evîcîons Ied by andords beween 2020 and 2022.

GettiNg iNto emeRgeNcy moDe . . . hese exampes are no îsoaed or rîvîa. Wa we mae o em îs e core argumen o îs boo. hey are a seecîon o evens and acs a represen e broader cîmae, ecoogîca and socîa emergencîes curreny experîenced în our urban word. We now now a our goba cîmae sysem îs în breadown and a îs as unquesîonaby been caused by uman acîvîy over e as coupe o undred years sînce e îndusrîa revouîon and ossî-ue capîaîsm; we now a scîenîss ave warned a uness ere are îmmedîae, rapîd and arge-scae reducîons în green- ouse gas emîssîons soppîng dangerous eves o goba eaîng wî be beyond reac; we now a e as-growîng mode o urban deveop- men based on ceaseess economîc grow îs pusîng our naura word o îs îmîs, wî amos a o non-uman specîes now under rea; and we now a e ong-sandîng socîa caenges o povery, înequaîy, unger, manurîîon, oppressîon and ear are everyday reaîîes or oo many peope. We now a ese convergîng emergencîes are no naura penomena, bu uman-made probems, oc sepped wî e grow o our gobaîzed, corporae-domînaed, îndusrîaîzed urban word. How o Save e Cîyîs a wae-up ca abou wa we can a urgeny do aced wî wa ï ca e acceeraîng and convergîng rîpe emer- gencîes – cîmae, naure, socîa. Transormîng our cîîes îs no onger dîscreîonary. Wîou decîsîve acîon we are acîng e possîbîîy o an Ear a îs no sae and abîabe or umans. ïn sar erms, ere are no cîîes on a dead pane. hîs boo îs a guîde or wa we can a do o moun emergency responses, în order o, îeray, save e cîy. We ave a uge amoun o do în e decade aead; every year couns and îmmedîae canges are requîred. Our efors need o ocus on a ree emergencîes. A core ocus o îs boo îs a îs îs no jus abou reducîng greenouse

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