How Cities Will Save the World

Urban Innovation in the Face of Population Flows, Climate Change and Economic Inequality

By: Ray Brescia, John Travis Marshall

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Hardcover | 4 April 2016 | Edition Number 1

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314 Pages

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Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current threats to communities across the U.S. and the globe. They draw on first-hand experience with, and accounts of, the crises already precipitated by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality. This volume is distinguished, however, by its central objective of traveling beyond a description of problems and a discussion of their serious implications. Each of the thirteen chapters frame specific recommendations and guidance on the range of core capacities and interventions that 21st Century cities would be prudent to consider in mapping their immediate and future responses to these critical problems. How Cities Will Save the World brings together authors with frontline experience in the fields of city redevelopment, urban infrastructure, healthcare, planning, immigration, historic preservation, and local government administration. They not only offer their ground level view of threats caused by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality, but they provide solution-driven narratives identifying promising innovations to help cities tackle this centurya (TM)s greatest adversities.

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'With many national and state governments adrift, cities have become the vanguard of problem solving in the United States and elsewhere. Brescia and Marshall highlight some of the best urban innovations as well as offering new tools and rules so that the cycle of city policy replication, adaptation and scaling can be accelerated. This is an important contribution to the new imperative of city power.' Bruce Katz, The Brookings Institution, USA, and co-author of The Metropolitan Revolution

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