Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City Singh Binti
Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City Singh Binti This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with…
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Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City Singh Binti
This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. In so doing, the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular, nuanced understanding of cities--of the interrelations between people in places, everyday urbanisms, social relationships, cultural practices and histories. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city--urban assets, such as land, infrastructure and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city--social capital and community networks.
The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North, and engages with city-specific cases from Africa, India and Europe for a deeper
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