Urban Planet

Global urbanization promises better services stronger economies and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology geography economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects journalists artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability. This title is also available Open Access.