Inclusive Urbanization: Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research in the Age of Climate Change

How do we include and represent all people in cities? As the world rapidly urbanizes, and climate change creates global winners and losers, understanding how to design cities that provide for all their citizens is of the utmost importance. Inclusive Urbanization attempts to not only provide meaningful, practical guidance to urban designers, managers, and local actors, but also create a definition of inclusion that incorporates strategies bigger than the welfare state, and tactics that bring local actors and the state into meaningful dialogue.

Written by a team of experienced academics, designers, and NGO professionals, Inclusive Urbanization shows how urbanization policy and management can be used to make more inclusive, climate resilient cities, through a series of 18 case studies in South Asia. By creating a model of urban life and processes that takes into account social, spatial, cultural, regulatory and economic dimensions, the book finds a way to make both the processes and outcomes of urban design representative of all of the city’s inhabitants.

Krishna K. Shrestha is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Hemant R. Ojha is Research Fellow with the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and also the Chair of Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), Nepal.

Phil McManus is Professor of Urban and Environmental Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Anna Rubbo, formerly Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia, is a senior scholar in the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development in the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, USA.

Krishna K. Dhote is Professor of Architecture at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, India.