Reframing Cities for Resilience

Embracing Complex & Uncertain Futures

Arun Jain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-23343-3 (ISBN)

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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.

We live in times of profuse change, where hyper connectivity 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 argues that not only must we do better, but that we can.

Arun argues that the first step towards 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 a range of urban challenges. They include transportation, homelessness, housing affordability, healthcare, the elderly, education, and aspects of economic underinvestment. The need for adaptive governance is also discussed.

Arun’s narrative underscores how we must better embrace uncertainty to make our cities vibrant, comfortable, healthy, and inclusive while also being resilient and adaptive. He posits we do not need to predict the future to do this.

This book is essential for urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and postgraduate students in these fields. It is also a good primer for anyone wanting to understand the complex dynamics of cities.

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 work spans 46 countries and 150 cities, impacting over 90 public and private sector urban development projects. Arun enjoys cooking and is an avid collector of books and music.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2026
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white; 33 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Architektur
	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-10	0-367-23343-6 / 0367233436
ISBN-13	978-0-367-23343-3 / 9780367233433
Zustand	Neuware