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oapen-20.500.12657-615992024-03-27T14:14:35Z Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City Singh, Binti Berger, Tania Parmar, Manoj Architecture;City and town planning: architectural aspects;Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design::AMVD City and town planning: architectural aspects thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general 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. 2023-03-03T10:58:24Z 2023-03-03T10:58:24Z 2023 book 9781032289434 9781003299264 9781032440378 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61599 eng Urban Futures application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000842562.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003299264 10.4324/9781003299264 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781032289434 9781003299264 9781032440378 Routledge 209 open access
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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.
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