Towards a More-than-Human Approach to Smart and Sustainable Urban Development: Designing for Multispecies Justice

Walter Fieuw, Marcus Foth and Glenda Amayo Caldwell
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Walter Fieuw: QUT Design Lab, School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4000, Australia
Marcus Foth: QUT Design Lab, School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4000, Australia
Glenda Amayo Caldwell: QUT Design Lab, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4000, Australia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: The term ‘sustainability’ has become an overused umbrella term that encompasses a range of climate actions and environmental infrastructure investments; however, there is still an urgent need for transformative reform work. Scholars of urban studies have made compelling cases for a more-than-human conceptualisation of urban and environmental planning and also share a common interest in translating theory into practical approaches and implications that recognise (i) our ecological entanglements with planetary systems and (ii) the urgent need for multispecies justice in the reconceptualisation of genuinely sustainable cities. More-than-human sensibility draws on a range of disciplines and encompasses conventional and non-conventional research methods and design approaches. In this article, we offer a horizon scan type of review of key posthuman and more-than-human literature sources at the intersection of urban studies and environmental humanities. The aim of this review is to (i) contribute to the emerging discourse that is starting to operationalise a more-than-human approach to smart and sustainable urban development, and; (ii) to articulate a nascent framework for more-than-human spatial planning policy and practice.

Keywords: urban planning; more-than-human; post-Anthropocene; environmental humanities; multispecies justice; sustainable cities; smart cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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