Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and ... - 9781032948874

Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized CitiesAuthor(s): Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Matthew Abunyewah, Stephen Leonard Mensah\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032948874, 978-1032948874\nSynopsis\nSmall 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, acces.