Compound urban crises

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The crises that cities face—such as climate change, pandemics, economic downturn, and racism—are tightly interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper addresses compound urban crises as a unique type of problem, in which discrete solutions that tackle each crisis independently are insufficient. Few scholarly debates address compound urban crises and there is, to date, a lack of interdisciplinary insights to inform urban governance responses. Combining ideas from complex adaptive systems and critical urban studies, we develop a set of boundary concepts (unsettlement, unevenness, and unbounding) to understand the complexities of compound urban crises from an interdisciplinary perspective. We employ these concepts to set a research agenda on compound urban crises, highlighting multiple interconnections between urban politics and global dynamics. We conclude by suggesting how these entry points provide a theoretical anchor to develop practical insights to inform and reform urban governance.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Westman, L. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4599-4996 Patterson, J. Macrorie, R. Orr, C.J. Ashcraft, C.M. Castán Broto, V. Dolan, D. Gupta, M. van der Heijden, J. Hickmann, T. Hobbins, R. Papin, M. Robin, E. Rosan, C. Torrens, J. Webb, R.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2022. Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords:	Cities; Complex adaptive systems; Compound urban crises; Critical urban studies; Governance
Dates:	Published: June 2022 Published (online): 14 February 2022 Accepted: 22 December 2021
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield)
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 804051
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2022 15:22
Last Modified:	28 Jan 2023 01:24
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1007/s13280-021-01697-6
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184348

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