Regenerating Cities: Reviving Places and Planet (Cities and Nature)

Foreword
	Regenerating Cities?
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
	1.1 Background to Regenerative Sustainability and a Nature-Positive World
		1.1.1 The Urban Issue and the Challenges of the Anthropocene
		1.1.2 The Legacy of Modernism
		1.1.3 The Need of a Qualitative Shift
	1.2 Understanding the Value of Nature and the Urgency to Reconnect Human Mindset and Activity with the Natural World
	1.3 Shifting Worldviews
	1.4 Incorporating Social-Ecological Approaches to Urban Design and Planning
	1.5 Looking into the Future of Cities and the Next Generations
	1.6 Book Structure
	1.7 Use of Terms
	References
2 The Anthropocene and the Urbanising World
	2.1 Understanding the Anthropocene
		2.1.1 The Great Acceleration
		2.1.2 The Anthropogenic World and the Planetary Boundaries
	2.2 The Planetary Boundaries Framework Translation into Practice
	2.3 Cities in the Anthropocene and the Urgency to Address Their Challenges
	2.4 Urban Utopias of the Great Acceleration
		2.4.1 The Garden City
		2.4.2 Critiques of the Garden City
		2.4.3 The Modernist City
		2.4.4 Critiques of the Modernist City
	2.5 Conclusions
	References
3 Why Working with Worldviews and Paradigms?
	3.1 The Importance of Working with Worldviews and Paradigms
	3.2 The Shifting Worldview and Paradigms
		3.2.1 The Mechanistic Worldview and the Technological Paradigm
		3.2.2 The Ecological Worldview and the Regenerative Sustainability Paradigm
	3.3 Understanding the Built Environment as a Social-Ecological System
		3.3.1 Ecosystem Services and the Built Environment
		3.3.2 Socio-Cultural and Ecological Systems Co-evolution
	3.4 Conclusions
	References
4 Two Social-Ecological Design Approaches to Regenerative Sustainability
	4.1 Regenerative Sustainability Paradigm
	4.2 Biophilia, Biophilic Design and Biophilic Urbanism
		4.2.1 Biophilia at the Urban Scale
	4.3 Regenerative Development
		4.3.1 A Brief History of Regenerative Development Foundational Theory
		4.3.2 Regenerative Development and Design Framework and Methodology
		4.3.3 Core Principles of the Regenerative Methodology
		4.3.4 Main Concepts to Support Practice
		4.3.5 Regenerative Sustainability Theoretical Underpinning
	4.4 Conclusions
	References
5 An Integrated Framework for Designing Regenerative Sustainable Urban Environments
	5.1 Understanding Regenerative Sustainable Urbanism
	5.2 The Framework for Regenerative Sustainable Urbanism
		5.2.1 Place-Based Relationships
		5.2.2 Pattern Literacy
		5.2.3 Ecosystem Services
		5.2.4 Progressive Human-Nature Relationships
		5.2.5 Development + Design
		5.2.6 Community Engagement
		5.2.7 Beauty
		5.2.8 Liveability
	5.3 Applying the Framework to Practice
	5.4 Analytic Strategy
	5.5 Conclusions
	References
6 Curitiba Case Study
	6.1 Geographic Information
	6.2 Brief History
	6.3 Urban Planning History
		6.3.1 Critiques of the Planning Process
	6.4 Planning Methodology: A New Mindset for Urban Planning
		6.4.1 Urban Acupunctures
		6.4.2 Strange Archaeology
		6.4.3 Curitiba’s Green Plan
	6.5 The Biocity Program: Live Barigüi and Green Line Projects
		6.5.1 The Live Barigui Project
		6.5.2 The Green Line Project
	6.6 Green Policies and Incentives
		6.6.1 Summary of Environmental Laws, Green Policies and Incentives
		6.6.2 Green Areas Incentives
	6.7 Analytical Strategy Applied to Curitiba
		6.7.1 Urban Planning Approach and Processes Analysis
		6.7.2 Framework Application to Curitiba
	References
7 Singapore Case Study
	7.1 Geographic Information
	7.2 Brief History
	7.3 Urban Planning History
		7.3.1 Singapore’s Biophilic Vision
	7.4 Planning Methodologies
		7.4.1 An Innovative Process with a Focus on Urban Biodiversity
		7.4.2 Skyrise Greenery
		7.4.3 New Era of Greening Programs
		7.4.4 The Active, Beautiful and Clean (ABC) Waters Program
	7.5 Environmental Policies, Incentives and Campaigns
		7.5.1 Main Environmental Laws and Policies
		7.5.2 Greening Programs
	7.6 Analytical Strategy Applied to Singapore
		7.6.1 Urban Planning Approach and Processes Analysis
		7.6.2 Framework Application to Singapore
	References
8 Cross-Case Analysis
	8.1 Cross-Case Analysis
		8.1.1 Commonalities and Dissimilarities
		8.1.2 Convergence of Evidence
		8.1.3 What Can We Learn from These Cities?
		8.1.4 The Framework and Analytical Strategy Performance
		8.1.5 Can This Approach Be Applied Anywhere?
	8.2 Community Participation Versus Fast-Tracks Procedures in Urban Planning
	8.3 How to Translate These Ideas into Local Action?
	References
9 A New Agenda for Cities
	9.1 Why Cities to Boost the Change?
	9.2 The Importance of Integrating Social-Ecological Approaches to Urban Planning
	9.3 The Advantage of Working with Systemic Frameworks
	9.4 Urban Design and Planning as Social-Ecological Technologies
	9.5 Social Capital Enables Transformative Change
	9.6 Thoughts on Regenerative Sustainable Urbanism
	9.7 Going Forward Towards a Culture of Regeneration and a (Re)integrated Society into Nature
	References
Appendix A Regenerative Sustainable Urbanism (RSU) Framework
Appendix B Core Principles of Regenerative Development and Design
References