Riding the rapids: urban life in an age of complexity / Charles Landry

Foreword -- Preface -- Setting the scene -- Conceptual framework -- Faultlines: Faith or secular worldviews ; Environmental ethics and economic rationality -- Battlegrounds: Multiculturalism of interculturalism ; Environmental sensitivity ; Social equity ; Central or local ; Chain power and distinctive shopping ; Compaction or dispersal ; Authenticity and global markets ; Holism and specialisms ; Hard and soft indicators -- Paradoxes: Creativity and risk policy ; Calculating tangibles in a world of intangibles ; Accessibility ; Porousness and identity ; City and country ; Age and technology -- Drivers: Pre-existing decisions ; Dominant ideas and mindsets ; Demographics ; Climate change ; Energy supply ; Waste and recycling ; Space ; Safety and surveillance ; Health and urban design ; Time and speed ; Price differentials ; Global terms of trade ; Boundary blurring ; Breakdown of the unified canon ; Living with diversity ; The real, the virtual and the fake ; Distinctiveness and authenticity ; Localism and rethinking democracy -- Pulling the threads together -- Spatial dynamics: London, the global hub ; The north-South divide ; Re-colonisation ; Managing decline gracefully -- Managing change -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Recommended reading