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Contesting megaprojectscomplex impacts, urban disruption and the quest for sustainability /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contesting megaprojectsby Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría.
Reminder of title:	complex impacts, urban disruption and the quest for sustainability /
Author:	Cerro Santamaría, Gerardo del.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xxxv, 353 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Sociology, Urban.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98382-5
ISBN:	9783031983825$q(electronic bk.)

Contesting megaprojectscomplex impacts, urban disruption and the quest for sustainability /
Cerro Santamaría, Gerardo del.

Contesting megaprojectscomplex impacts, urban disruption and the quest for sustainability /[electronic resource] :by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xxxv, 353 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

1 An Age of Megaprojects -- 2 Trajectories and Transitions -- 3 Landscapes of Disruption -- 4 Emblems of Capitalism -- 5 High-Tech Megaprojects -- 6 Greening Megaprojects -- 7 Disruptive Impacts -- 8 Complex Sustainability -- 9 Contesting Megaprojects.

Megaprojects are not merely transformative, but rather, they are inherently disruptive. They are incompatible with any approach to urban sustainability that prioritizes the well-being of urbanites and the boundaries of the Earth system. The reason for this state of affairs is not cost overruns and poor megaproject management, but the disruptive impacts that megaprojects have on urban areas. This book emphasizes the impacts imperative in megaproject planning: the importance of identifying disruptive impacts as a prerequisite for critically assessing whether megaprojects should be built. Drawing on 18 megaprojects in 16 cities around the world (inter alia, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Boston, New York and Shanghai), Contesting Megaprojects illustrates the trajectories and transitions in urban-regional political economies over the past fifty years. Megaprojects cause massive disruptions everywhere, and the book offers a typology of megaproject impacts: socioeconomic, environmental, spatial, political and geopolitical, financial, cultural and systemic. As a response to this disruptive complexity (the emerging complex web of interrelated megaproject impacts), the book develops the concept of complex sustainability, a transdisciplinary approach to urban sustainability, through socioeconomic sustainability and deep sustainability. Contesting Megaprojects may be the most essential read since Altshuler and Luberoff's 2003 book detailing the politics behind Boston's Big Dig project. Professor John Landis, University of Pennsylvania In this important book, del Cerro shows how "green capitalism" is primarily symbolic with limited benefits to the larger population that continues to suffer from environmental degradation and widening inequality. Professor Susan Fainstein, Harvard University This must-read book has sealed Gerardo del Cerro's reputation as a leading scholar of megaprojects. Professor Diane Davis, Harvard University Contesting Megaprojects is another impressive and thoughtful contribution from one of the most knowledgeable critics of urban megaprojects. Professor Robert Beauregard, Columbia University Gerardo del Cerro identifies cities as the "heat islands" that are mostly responsible for our sustainability crisis, and indicts megaprojects as the main culprits. This book is a must read. Professor Mauro Guillén, University of Pennsylvania This book systematically dismantles the convenient fiction that megaprojects are advancing sustainable development as well as economic growth. A must read. Professor Tim Bunnell, National University of Singapore.

ISBN: 9783031983825$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-98382-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

198343
Sociology, Urban.

LC Class. No.: HT241

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76

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