City in an Era of Cascading Risks

John Zacharias is Chair Professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape at Peking University, Beijing, China where he leads a laboratory investigating urban policy. He is an urban planner by training. He was recruited by China in the Thousand Talents Programme in 2012. His published works can be found in leading journals in the urban planning, environmental psychology, transportation and urban policy fields.Mr. Claude Meutchehe Ngomsi is the Regional Adviser in charge of Central Africa Region, Mauritania, Guinea and Madagascar as Programme Management Officer at the Regional Office for Africa (since January 2020). He previously served as Human Settlements Officer in charge of Francophone countries in Africa (November 2015-December 2019). He has more 20 years of experience in international urban development, housing, and crime and conflict prevention. He led the formulation of the Rwanda National Urbanisation Policy between 2013 and 2015, and the modernization of the Ouagadougou Municipal Police by establishing the Urban Safety Observatory in Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso (2010 to 2013). He holds a Ph.D. in Urban Geography and Crime Prevention (University of Yaoundé I) and a master’s in Human Geography.Liqin Zhang is a professor at China’s University of GeoSciences (China), expertizing in land cover change, land use planning and management, as well as tourism plan and management. She received her second Ph.D. of urban geography at the University of Ottawa (Canada), specializing in urban and regional studies, particularly on topics related to urbanization, social ecology, urban land growth and sustainability. Professor Zhang has led and co-led over forty transdisciplinary research and training projects funded from Canada and China. She published many articles and chapters in well-known academic journals and professional books. She works as co-founder and publication chair of ICCCASU (www.icccasu2021.org). She is currently the executive editor-in-chief and founder of Sci-Hall Press, an open access academic publisher (www.sci-hall.com). Elizabeth Wamuchiru, PhD, is currently a lecturer at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Nairobi, Kenya. She is a trained and experienced urban and regional planner both in the academics and in practice. She holds a degree in Urban and Regional Planning (University of Nairobi); Master degree in Urban and Regional Planning (University of Nairobi); Master degree in Human Settlements (KU Leuven, Belgium); and a PhD in Planning (TU Darmstadt, Germany). Her research interests mainly focus on urban infrastructure systems, mobility studies, community participation, urban housing, informality and inequality debates. Her recent research focus on policy-practice agenda for disability-inclusive urban transport system in Accra and Nairobi; and impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in the Global South. Dr. Huhua Cao is currently a professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He specializes in urban studies, particularly on topics related to city, population, mobility and environment, from an international perspective. In recent years, Dr. Cao’s research has focused on engaging urban indigenous and ethnic minority peoples in urban contexts. Professor Cao has directed various national and international transdisciplinary research and training projects. He has also written numerous books, articles, chapters and reports while collaborating with academics, professionals, and politicians all over the world. Since 2015, as the founding co-president, Dr. Cao has led a joint initiative with The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat): The International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization (ICCCASU). ICCCASU is an international think-tank for sharing the latest research and best practices on sustainable urban development, focusing a triangular dialogue that altogetheraccounts for more than 30 percent of the world’s urban population (www.ICCCASU2020.ORG or www.ICCCASU.ORG).

• SECTION I. IMPACTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON CITY BUILDING.- Chapter 1. Youth-led Response to COVID-19 in Informal Settlements: Case study in Nairobi, Kenya.- Chapter 2. COVID-19 In Angola’s Slums: Evidence and A Roadmap for Participatory Slum Upgrading in Pandemic Times.- Chapter 3. Corporate Social Responsibility Response to COVID-19 in Africa: Towards Healthy Cities.- Chapter 4. Beyond COVID-19: Planning the Mobility and Cities following “city in 15 minutes” Paradigm.- Chapter 5. Digital City in Response to COVID-19 -A Comparative Study of Health Code of Wuhan in China and Daegu in South Korea.- Chapter 6. Appraising the Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic and Climate Change on Urban Residents.- SECTION II. CITY RESILIENCE in the face of URBAN RISKS.- Chapter 7. The Transport System as a Process of Territorial Development or the Risk of Social Segregation.- Chapter 8. The Heritage of Social Housing, A Model of Ordinary Urban Resilience?.- Chapter 9. Small Towns Ageing—Searching for Linkages between Population Processes.- Chapter 10. The city-state of Hamburg, Germany: Metropolization, Port Functions and Urban Resilience.- Chapter 11. China’s Integrated Urban-Rural Development: A Development Mode Outside the Planetary Urbanization Paradigm?.- Chapter 12. The Cities of the South faced with the Essential Preparation for Floods, What Contribution of Geospatial Analysis?.- SECTION III. URBAN DEVELOPMENT FROM SOCIOECONOMIC & POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES.- Chapter 13. Global cities: African cities in the Era of Globalization.- Chapter 14. Location Choices of Micro Creative Enterprises in China: Evidence from Two Creative Clusters in Shanghai, China.- Chapter 15. Inclusive Urban Development of Tibetan Commodity Streets in Chengdu City, China.- Chapter 16. Rescaling of Chinese Urban Space: from the Perspective of Spatial Politics.