Governing resilient cities for planetary flourishing in the Asia-Pacific

Miller, Michelle Ann; Douglass, Mike; Rigg, Jonathan

doi:10.1177/0042098020903955

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“…Similarly, Beilin and Wilkinson’s (2015) work on resilience suggests that ‘the urban’ can be fertile ground for experimenting with change, but makes no reference to degrowth. Also focusing on resilience, urban transitions and environmental governance, the Urban Studies SI edited by Miller et al (2020) links urbanisation with climate change and environmental disaster, focusing on urban gardens, commons, and environmental governance. But again, it makes no reference to degrowth.…”

Section: Urban Studies and Degrowth: A Nascent Dialoguementioning

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Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency

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We call for coupling degrowth with urban studies and planning agendas as an academically salient and politically urgent endeavour. Our aim is threefold: to explore ways for ‘operationalising’ degrowth concepts into urban and regional everyday spatial practices; to sketch pathways for taking degrowth conceptually and methodologically beyond localised experiments and inform larger scale planning practices and international agendas; and to critically assess the multiple ways in which such a radical urban degrowth agenda will have to differ in the Global North and in the Global South. We outline five steps for such a programmatic, yet paradigmatic, urban degrowth agenda. These are: (1) grounding current degrowth debates within their historical–geographical context; (2) engaging (planning) institutions in linking degrowth practices to urbanisation policies; (3) examining how urban insurgent degrowth alliances can be scaled up without co-optation; (4) focusing on the role of experts and professionals in bringing degrowth principles into everyday urban practice; and (5) prefiguring how degrowth agendas can confront the diverse and unequal urban social relations and uneven outcomes in the Global North and South.

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Section: Urban Studies and Degrowth: A Nascent Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, Beilin and Wilkinson's (2015) work on resilience suggests that 'the urban' can be fertile ground for experimenting with change, but makes no reference to degrowth. Also focusing on resilience, urban transitions and environmental governance, the Urban Studies SI edited by Miller et al (2020) .…”

Section: Urban Studies and Degrowth: A Nascent Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency

et al. 2023

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“…Our commentary aims to resolve such conceptual imprecision in the use of ‘adaptation’ and ‘transformation’ in urban studies. The ambition is to add nuance and clarity to the ‘resilience’ debates currently in vogue amongst scholars of urban change (for instance, in this journal: Beilin and Wilkinson, 2015; Gleeson, 2008; Miller et al, 2020).…”

Section: Adaptation Versus Transformation Of Cities: the Conceptual P...mentioning

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‘Remaining the same or becoming another?’ Adaptive resilience versus transformative urban change

Leixnering

Höllerer

2021

Urban Studies

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Structural change of cities has long been a central theme in urban studies. Recent manifestations of urban change have been described either as instances of ‘adaptation’, often associated with flexible adjustment and reorganisation, or of ‘transformation’, implying a deeper and more radical scope of change. The conceptual difference between these two ideas, however, remains surprisingly under-theorised and ambiguous in the extant literature. We find both notions casually (and at times even interchangeably) employed in recent debates on ‘resilient cities’. Addressing this conceptual imprecision, our commentary focuses on the structure–identity relationship, coupling resilience thinking with an institutional perspective that has provided the intellectual moorings for recent scholarly approaches to city identity. Through this prism, city identity is firmly conceptualised as a distinctive set of socio-political values; the structure of a city, then, provides the means to realise these values. In consequence, we are able to offer a precise conceptual differentiation between what we here dub ‘adaptive resilience’ and ‘transformative urban change’ as the two facets of change in city contexts: if structural change is accompanied by a shift in socio-political values (and thus a change in identity), we refer to this as transformative; if no such identity shift takes place, this is an instance of adaptive urban change, primarily on the level of structures. We illustrate our argument with the empirical case of the city of Vienna. Overall, our commentary’s ambition is to add nuance, clarity and conceptual precision to the debates on resilience currently raging in the field of urban change.

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“…With this fragmented (or splintered) implementation of urban development, critical questions of environmental justice arise (for whom, when and to what end?) (Miller et al 2020). As Miller (2020) notes environment justice considerations are relevant "to the equity of outcomes (distribution), and the fairness (procedure) and inclusiveness (recognition) of a process".…”

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Urban megaprojects and water justice in Southeast Asia: Between global economies and community transitions

Hawken

Avazpour

Harris

et al. 2021

Cities

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Governing resilient cities for planetary flourishing in the Asia-Pacific

Cited by 12 publications

References 61 publications

Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency

Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency

‘Remaining the same or becoming another?’ Adaptive resilience versus transformative urban change

Urban megaprojects and water justice in Southeast Asia: Between global economies and community transitions

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