Small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) are becoming the new frontiers of global urban growth and population change. Yet, they are overlooked in the policy and scholarship discourses about urban futures, particularly urban planning for resilient futures. This handbook aims to increase attention to the resilience of SMCs and explore the unique challenges they face, as well as provide practical recommendations for built environment practitioners to understand and respond to these challenges in global contexts. Chapters cover a range of important topics on the different dimensions of urban resilience such as climate-induced risks, heat resilience planning, access to urban infrastructure and services, socio-environmental inequities, urban safety, health resilience, walkability, and more. Contributors discuss ways to enhance policy and planning efforts to address these challenges and advocate for the need to pay attention to SMCs when promoting urban resilience to avert the risks often manifested in large cities. This handbook transcends disciplinary boundaries and expertise, bringing together a diverse range of contributions from scholars and practitioners in over fifteen countries across Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and Oceania to counter the apparent paucity of attention on SMCs in the global resilience agenda.
This handbook is essential for scholars and practitioners working in the built environment, such as city and regional planning, public policy, public health, environmental science, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, spatial planning, and geography.
| ISBN: | 9781032948874 |
| Publication date: | 4th November 2025 |
| Author: | Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Matthew Abunyewah, Stephen Leonard Mensah |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 510 pages |
| Series: | Routledge International Handbooks |
| Genres: |
Urban and municipal planning and policy City and town planning: architectural aspects Urban communities Public administration Public health and preventive medicine Sustainability Interdisciplinary studies Civil engineering, surveying and building |
Small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) are becoming the new frontiers of global urban growth and population change. Yet, they are overlooked in the policy and scholarship discourses about urban futures, particularly urban planning for resilient futures. This handbook aims to increase attention to the resilience of SMCs and explore the unique challenges they face, as well as provide practical recommendations for built environment practitioners to understand and respond to these challenges in global contexts. Chapters cover a range of important topics on the different dimensions of urban resilience such as climate-induced risks, heat resilience planning, access to urban infrastructure and services, socio-environmental inequities, urban safety, health resilience, walkability, and more. Contributors discuss ways to enhance policy and planning efforts to address these challenges and advocate for the need to pay attention to SMCs when promoting urban resilience to avert the risks often manifested in large cities. This handbook transcends disciplinary boundaries and expertise, bringing together a diverse range of contributions from scholars and practitioners in over fifteen countries across Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and Oceania to counter the apparent paucity of attention on SMCs in the global resilience agenda.
This handbook is essential for scholars and practitioners working in the built environment, such as city and regional planning, public policy, public health, environmental science, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, spatial planning, and geography.
Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities features in the following genres: Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Urban communities, Public administration, Public health and preventive medicine, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary studies, Civil engineering, surveying and building
Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities is available in Hardback
Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities was written by Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Matthew Abunyewah, Stephen Leonard Mensah and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities has 510 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge International Handbooks series
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