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Utilizing Urban Living Laboratories for Social Innovation

Mccormick, Kes LU ; Naumann, Sandra ; Davis, McKenna and Moore, Michelle-Lee (2018) p.198-198
Abstract
Cities have long been recognized as potential hubs of knowledge, social and cultural diversity, jobs, education, public services, and infrastructure. Alongside these opportunities, however, cities also face a changing climate, reduced availability of raw materials and natural resources, and dwindling physical space for the built environment. These challenges are accompanied by increasing disparities in income and resultant social inequalities; mounting threats to human health, well-being, and food security; growing refugee and migration influxes; and demographic changes. These concerns and associated governance challenges increase the urgency for new socially, ecologically, and culturally sensitive approaches to urban development. Such... (More)
Cities have long been recognized as potential hubs of knowledge, social and cultural diversity, jobs, education, public services, and infrastructure. Alongside these opportunities, however, cities also face a changing climate, reduced availability of raw materials and natural resources, and dwindling physical space for the built environment. These challenges are accompanied by increasing disparities in income and resultant social inequalities; mounting threats to human health, well-being, and food security; growing refugee and migration influxes; and demographic changes. These concerns and associated governance challenges increase the urgency for new socially, ecologically, and culturally sensitive approaches to urban development. Such approaches need not only to reduce human vulnerability and environmental footprints, but also to build social cohesion and support ecological sustainability, cultural integration, and the establishment of a shared identity between citizens within a just system of distribution and access to urban resources and wealth. (Less)
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Urban Planet : Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities - Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities
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218 pages
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Cambridge University Press
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English
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  abstract     = {{Cities have long been recognized as potential hubs of knowledge, social and cultural diversity, jobs, education, public services, and infrastructure. Alongside these opportunities, however, cities also face a changing climate, reduced availability of raw materials and natural resources, and dwindling physical space for the built environment. These challenges are accompanied by increasing disparities in income and resultant social inequalities; mounting threats to human health, well-being, and food security; growing refugee and migration influxes; and demographic changes. These concerns and associated governance challenges increase the urgency for new socially, ecologically, and culturally sensitive approaches to urban development. Such approaches need not only to reduce human vulnerability and environmental footprints, but also to build social cohesion and support ecological sustainability, cultural integration, and the establishment of a shared identity between citizens within a just system of distribution and access to urban resources and wealth.}},
  author       = {{Mccormick, Kes and Naumann, Sandra and Davis, McKenna and Moore, Michelle-Lee}},
  booktitle    = {{Urban Planet : Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{198--198}},
  publisher    = {{Cambridge University Press}},
  title        = {{Utilizing Urban Living Laboratories for Social Innovation}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/58102996/Naumann_et_al._2018.pdf}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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