{"product_id":"9783031983818","title":"Contesting Megaprojects: Complex Impacts, Urban Disruption and the Quest for Sustainability","description":"\u003ch1\u003eContesting Megaprojects: Complex Impacts, Urban Disruption and the Quest for Sustainability\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003edel Cerro Santamaría, Gerardo\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegaprojects 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. In fact, megaprojects undermine efforts to tackle the global impacts associated with both the destructive creation of capitalism and the new climate regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on 18 megaprojects in 16 cities around the world (inter alia, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Boston, New York and Shanghai), \u003cem\u003eContesting Megaprojects\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates urban-regional trajectories over the past fifty years. These trajectories show the coexistence of property development, culture, and iconic architecture, together with a more recent interest in science and technology, innovation, and sustainability as strategies to foster urban competitiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMegaprojects 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 emerging complex web of interrelated megaproject impacts (\u003cem\u003edisruptive complexity\u003c\/em\u003e), the book develops the concept of \u003cem\u003ecomplex sustainability\u003c\/em\u003e, a transdisciplinary approach to urban sustainability, through socioeconomic sustainability and deep sustainability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe critical outlook of this book contributes to fundamental debates around capitalist development: trickle-down urbanism, spectacularization, high-tech innovation and AI, planetary boundaries, global risks, resilience, the right to the city, geopolitics, democracy, prosperity, and power. \u003cem\u003eContesting Megaprojects\u003c\/em\u003e can help urban scholars and analysts, practitioners, policymakers, and residents of cities better understand the complex impacts of urban megaprojects, their magnitude and consequences, and identify pathways of analysis and action toward a more sustainable and just future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-11-23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031983818\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-98382-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 353\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44309922054284,"sku":"9783031983818","price":67.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031983818.jpg?v=1776098161","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031983818","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}