Flux Cities: Ontological Design for a Regenerative World

Greg Mews

doi:10.1007/978-981-96-9124-1

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Flux Cities: Ontological Design for a Regenerative World

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Flux Cities: Ontological Design for a Regenerative World

Greg Mews

Palgrave MacMillan

2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9124-1

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Abstract

Urban design

Design history, theory and criticism

Urban sociology and community studies

Social structure and health

Expanding knowledge in built environment and design

Social ethics

urban informality

urban health

subjective well-being

Urban form

Regenerative cities

Ontological Design

public space

sustainable urban development

participatory design

Do-It-Yourself Urbanism

Flux Cities

spatial justice

well-being

regenerative practices

As our larger life-giving systems that sustain livelihoods continue to erode at an unprecedented rate, and urban complexities continue to increase, this book presents a refreshingly unconventional, creative, and radical meditation on urbanism and city living. Greg Mews proposes the idea of ‘Flux Cities’ and offers provocative new ways to inquire into non-linear relations to the city, through questions such as: How can we design from the heart? How to approach the real city and produce for (co)existence? How to navigate the intangible city? How to improve well-being through Flux Cities? Full of agency, Mews presents deep and personal insights on informal settlements, public space, and the role of Do-It-Yourself Urbanism in enabling spatial justice and regenerative practices towards well-being. A compelling read for anyone willing to shake up the normative existential foundations of cities.

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Title: Flux Cities: Ontological Design for a Regenerative World
Authors: Greg Mews - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
Publication details: 206 pages
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date published: 2025
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-9124-1
ISBN: 9789819691234; 9789819691265; 9789819691241
Organisation Unit: Bioclimatic and Sociotechnical Cities Lab; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991131903102621
Output Type: Book

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