Now Urbanism : The Future City is Here (Paperback)

Part I: Introduction, 1. Thick City, Now Urbanism (Jeffrey Hou, Ben Spencer, Thaisa Way, Ken Yocom), Part II: Situating, 2. Messy Urbanism: Transformation and Transmutation of Cities under Globalization (Viren Brahmbhatt), 3. The Environmental Contradictions of High-Tech Urbanism (Margaret O’Mara), 4. From Blues to Green: The Future of New Towns Worldwide (Deni Ruggeri), Part III: Grounding, 5. 13,0001 A Waste Odyssey (William Morrish), 6. Contingent Ecological Urbanisms (Jon Christensen), 7. Processcapes: Dynamic Placemaking (Judith Stilgenbauer), Part IV: Performing, 8. Nosotros (We): Two Cultures of Sustainability and the Present City of Las Vegas (Daniel H. Ortega), 9. Making a Farm in the Heart of a City (Osamu Nishida and Arisa Nakamura), 10. Border Urbanities: Embodied and Enacted Performances in a Transnational City (Irma Ramirez), Part V: Distributing, 11. User-Generated Urbanism and the Right to the City (John Bela), 12. Open Source City (Laura Kozak), 13. The Kibera Public Space Project: Participation, Integration, and Networked Change (Chelina Odbert and Joseph Mulligan), Part VI: Instigating, 14. Forget about Utopia (Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner), 15. The Informal Urban Communities Initiative: Lomas de Zapallal, Lima, Peru (Ben Spencer, Susan Bolton, Jorge Alarcon), 16. Shifting Landscape: reTHINKING Central and Eastern European Cities (Martin Joseph Barry), Part VII: Enduring, 17. City Sink ? Sinking Cities (Denise Hoffman Brandt), 18. [GU]Growing Urbanism: An Evolutionary Urban Ecology in Cascadia (Gundula Proksch, Joshua Brevoort and Lisa Chun), 19. Pathways of Urban Nature: Diversity in the Greening of the Twenty-First Century City (Andrew Karvonen), Part VIII: Afterword, 20. Cities and Survival (Thomas Fisher)