TY - CHAP
T1 - Reconceptualizing land for sustainable urbanity
AU - Boone, Christopher
AU - Redman, Charles
AU - Blanco, Hilda
AU - Haase, Dagmar
AU - Koch, Jennifer
AU - Lwasa, Shuaib
AU - Nagendra, Harini
AU - Pauleit, Stephan
AU - Pickett, Steward T A
AU - Seto, Karen C.
AU - Yokohari, Makoto
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Current systems to classify land are insufficient, as is the delineation of Earth’s surface into discrete categories of land covers and uses, because they ignore the multiple functions that land provides and the movement of people, materials, information, and energy they facilitate. To address sustainability challenges related to urban lifestyles, livelihoods, connectivity, and places, new conceptualizations are needed which have the potential to acknowledge and redefine the extent, intensity, and quality of urbanness on Earth. This chapter proposes a framework which focuses on people and institutions as agents of change and examines changes in urban lifestyles and livelihoods over larger regions, regardless of whether an area is delineated as "urban" or "rural." It views urbanization and the urban era to be an integrated system and provides a multivariable approach to urbanity. It discusses a n ew l and e thic and highlights challenges that exist to facilitate a sustainability transition.
AB - Current systems to classify land are insufficient, as is the delineation of Earth’s surface into discrete categories of land covers and uses, because they ignore the multiple functions that land provides and the movement of people, materials, information, and energy they facilitate. To address sustainability challenges related to urban lifestyles, livelihoods, connectivity, and places, new conceptualizations are needed which have the potential to acknowledge and redefine the extent, intensity, and quality of urbanness on Earth. This chapter proposes a framework which focuses on people and institutions as agents of change and examines changes in urban lifestyles and livelihoods over larger regions, regardless of whether an area is delineated as "urban" or "rural." It views urbanization and the urban era to be an integrated system and provides a multivariable approach to urbanity. It discusses a n ew l and e thic and highlights challenges that exist to facilitate a sustainability transition.
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M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84928968742
SN - 9780262322126
SN - 9780262026901
SP - 313
EP - 330
BT - Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era
PB - MIT Press
ER -