Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City. ISBN 9781032289434 from Practitioner Books

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city-urban assets, such as land, infrastructure and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city-social capital and community networks. In so doing, the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular, nuanced understanding of cities-of the interrelations between people in places, everyday urbanisms, social relationships, cultural practices, and histories. The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North and engages with city-specific cases from Africa, India, and Europe for a deeper understanding of resilience. Part of the Urban Futures series, it will be of great interest to students and researchers of urban studies, urban planning, urban management, architecture, urban sociology, urban design, ecology, conservation, and urban sustainability. It will also be useful for urbanists, architects, urban sociologists, city and town planners, policy makers and those interested in a deeper understanding of the contemporary and future city.

List of figures List of contributors Foreword: Adapt or Die by Sheela Patel Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Negotiating Resilience with Hard & Soft City Binti Singh, Tania Berger, Manoj Pamar Part I: City and Its Vulnerabilities 2. Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods and the New Meaning of "Community" in the Global North Tania Berger 3. Resilient Tactics and Everyday Lives in the Textile Mill Areas of Mumbai Dwiparna Chatterjee 4. Informal Housing of Migrants in Italy Flavia Albanese, Giovanna Marconi, Michela Semprebon 5. Cities, Housing Exclusion and Homelessness From a European Perspective Nicholas Pleace 6. Just and Healthy Cities in Times of Global Threats: Perspectives from the Global North Heike Koeckler a. The Case of Settling Deonar Dump Yard Site, Mumbai Mamta Patwardhan, Tania Berger b. Environmental Injustice: Air Pollution and Data Inequity in Kibera, Nairobi Surbhi Agrawal Part II: Relocation, Resettlement and Resilience 7. Resilience at the City Margins - Roma Settlements in Bulgaria Ilko Yordanov, Boyan Zahariev 8. Tolerance to Heat as a Coping Strategy of Low-Income Households in India and Austria Tania Berger, Faiz Ahmed Chundeli 9. Home-Based Income Generation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Alemea Girmay, Tania Berger 10. "Nothing Is to Be Gained by Involving Them" - Exploring Residents' Lived Experiences of Resettlement in a Medium-Sized City in India Hiranmayi Shankavaram, Janani Thiagarajan, Tania Berger 11. The Vertical vs. Horizontal City - Why Vertical Resettlement (Mostly) Does Not Work for the Urban Poor Tania Berger 12. Conclusion: Towards "Just" Resilience Tania Berger, Binti Singh, Manoj Pamar, Sandeep Balagangadharan Menon Index

Author(s)	Edited by Binti Singh (KRVIA, Mumbai, India), Tania Berger, Manoj Parmar (KRVIA, Mumbai, India).
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN	9781032289434
Format	Hardback
Pages	186
Published in	United Kingdom
Published	16 Mar 2023
Availability	Not yet available

Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

Quick Overview

We Accept