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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Eco-cities in the Age of Crisis
Author : Federico Caprotti
Published in: Eco-Cities and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Climate change, Peak Oil, energy security, and hyper-urbanisation are increasingly being identified as the ‘crises’ that define contemporary politics and policy. The chapter opens by investigating the ‘Age of Crisis’: the notion that the post-2000 period is one characterised by anxiety and constructed notions of crisis, and that these crises are focused on the city. The chapter moves on to consider the emerging trend of proposing the construction of new-build eco-cities as ‘experimental cities’ where solutions to multiple crises can be tested and found. The chapter closes with a critical gaze at how experimental eco-city mega-projects are being used to experiment with transition towards low-carbon economies.