City in Need

Urban Resilience and City Management in Disruptive Disease Outbreak Events

AvAli Cheshmehzangi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Further, it presents a comprehensive urban resilience approach used to support city management in the recent outbreaks in Chinese cities, which can be applied in cities around the globe to strengthen their resilience and maximise the practicality of urban resilience and minimise urban vulnerabilities during disease outbreaks.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-09
Mått:155 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt:653 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Upplaga:20001
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811554865

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Ali Cheshmehzangi, urbanist/urban designer by profession, is Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is also Director of the Urban Innovation Lab, which is pursuing two on-going projects on ‘integrated urban information modeling’ and ‘resilient city strategies’. Ali has four other published books: Identity of Cities and City of Identities; Sustainable Urban Development in the Age of Climate Change; Eco-Development in China (Springer Award 2018); Designing Cooler Cities.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The City during Outbreak Events.- How cities cope in outbreak events?.- Preparedness through Urban Resilience.- Responsiveness through City Management.- Managing the City in Need, Saving the City in Need.- Conclusions and Lessons learnt: for ‘the City in Need’.