Cities Demanding the Earth: A New Understanding of the Climate Emergency

Unless We Make Drastic Changes, The Climate Damage That We Are Causing By Living In Cities Will Result In Terminal Consumption. Providing A Radical New Argument That Integrates Global Understandings Of Making Nature And Making Cities, The Authors Move Beyond Current Policies Of Mitigation And Adaption Towards Making Cities Spaces For Activism. List Of Tables And Figures -- About The Authors -- Preface -- 1. Declarations: Root And Branch Unthinking -- 2. Alternate: Jane Jacobs' Legacy -- 3. Inside Out: Fourteen Antitheses Authenticating Cities -- 4. Reset: Anthropogenic Climate Change Is Urban, Not Modern -- 5. Action: Can We Stop Terminal Consumption? -- References -- Appendix: Primer On Climate Change Policy -- Index. Peter J. Taylor, Geoff O'brien And Phil O'keefe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.