How to Save the City: A Guide for Emergency Action Chatterton Paul
How to Save the City: A Guide for Emergency Action Chatterton Paul In How to Save the City, Paul Chatterton invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time…
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How to Save the City: A Guide for Emergency Action Chatterton Paul
In How to Save the City, Paul Chatterton invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conflating emergencies have become more pressing and connected. These emergencies are playing out in acute ways in urban areas. While the climate crisis is the most urgent, we also face deep social crises in housing, gender and race inequalities, the breakdown of our natural world, our energy consumption, and the deep ripples resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The city has to change, but how and by whom?Chatterton engages, inspires and empowers the Locked in to high energy, high resource use, cities are responsible for about three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions, have ecological and carbon footprints far bigger than their city limits, and are the beating heart of our pro-growth, unequal, consumer-saturated way of life.