Integrated Urban Environment Management and Resilience: From the Contemporary City to Sustainable Urbanity

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The city appears as an artefact, a more or less homogeneous technical ensemble, but also as a production of space, the privileged place where social relations in all historical forms take place. The city, which is crossed by all socialities and their contradictions, is directly influenced by them and is even their privileged vector. Introducing the technical developments that are expressed in a multidisciplinary approach into the lived social world facilitates the understanding of the city and the way in which it adapts to the difficulties it faces. We propose the morpho-sociological approach, which gives a representation of the state of the contemporary city and the conditions of its production; the geographical approach with the problems of development and the sharing of these areas; the economic approach with the modalities specific to a development model, making urban composition the answer to the problems of the sustainable city; and the sociological approach when it comes up against the effects of the now dominant digital world. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Morpho-Sociological Approach to the City 1.1. Introduction: socio-morphological analysis as a tool for understanding the city 1.2. The city’s modes of production 1.2.1. Combining different modes 1.2.2. Urban sprawl and morphological changes 1.3. Difficulties of apprehension 1.4. The city: object or subject? 1.5. The shapes and form of the city 1.6. Representations of the city: “drawings and designs” 1.6.1. Drawings 1.6.2. Designs 1.7. The constituent elements of the city 1.7.1. Limits 1.7.2. Structure 1.7.3. Layout 1.7.4. Plot division and private property 1.7.5. The city block 1.7.6. The street 1.7.7. The square 1.7.8. Unique elements 1.8. Conclusion 1.9. References Chapter 2. Space, Production and Urban Forms 2.1. General introduction 2.2. The city between space and time 2.2.1. Back to the concept of space 2.2.2. Produced urban space and social production 2.2.3. Mode of production, production relationships and urban composition: the weight of history 2.3. Forms of accumulation and urban forms 2.3.1. Capitalism, regulation and the regime of accumulation 2.3.2. Fordist accumulation and urban growth 2.3.3. Digitization and service accumulation 2.4. Urban space, environment and resilience 2.4.1. Demography and urbanization: a major challenge for the environment 2.4.2. From the Fordist city to the sustainable city: a gamble? 2.4.3. Cities and resilience 2.5. The city under the regime of service accumulation 2.5.1. From the center to the periphery or the peripheral expansion of commerce 2.5.2. Smart city and sustainable city 2.6. A provisional conclusion 2.7. References Chapter 3. A Territorial Approach to Urban Spaces between Sustainability and Liveability 3.1. Urban diversification and transformation 3.1.1. The criteria for necessary urban differentiation 3.1.2. Urbanization as a global phenomenon 3.2. The urban issue through the prism of housing 3.2.1. Urban housing in transformation 3.2.2. Housing policies in question 3.3. Urban spaces and mobilities 3.3.1. Residential mobility 3.3.2. Daily and leisure urban mobility 3.4. An urban agriculture... 3.4.1. Multifunctional urban agriculture 3.4.2. … But a diversified agriculture 3.4.3. Six types of urban agriculture activities 3.4.4. The establishment of food governance 3.4.5. The sustainability challenges for urban agriculture 3.5. The interface between urban spaces and climate 3.5.1. The city and climate change 3.5.2. Mobility and buildings: prime urban targets for mitigation 3.5.3. The urban microclimate: a new challenge for urban livability 3.5.4. Putting the climate issue on the urban policy agenda 3.5.5. How does this translate into urban planning practices? 3.6. Conclusion 3.7. References Chapter 4. The City: A Space for Tensions in Modernity 4.1. Living together in urban societies 4.1.1. City dwellers: liberated, but with a weakened collective conscience 4.1.2. The diversity of the urban population: a threat to the social connection? 4.1.3. Producing urban solidarity 4.2. The socio-spatial dynamics of the urban population 4.2.1. The fragmentation of urban society from above 4.2.2. The fragmentation of urban society from below 4.2.3. The disunity of the city 4.3. The city in search of sustainability 4.3.1. City and nature: an unlikely union 4.3.2. The sustainable urban project: the city as a solution 4.4. References List of Authors Index EULA