Pub Date : 2021-12-10DOI: 10.36019/9781978820524-003
One can hardly be sanguine about the fate of the Earth and the prospects of humankind flourishing over the remainder of the twenty-first century, given the many challenges facing socio-nature as a result of the continuing forces of technological modernity and the palpable threats stemming from the proliferation of neo-liberalism and right-wing populism across much of the West. Yet the resources of hope reside around us, often in the most unexpected places that blend threat and promise, if we but look for them. This book is in many respects the culmination of over thirty-five years of collaboration between a political scientist and an urban architect. Having initially crossed paths on the quadrangle of the University of Kentucky in the early 1980s, Richard S. Levine and I launched a conversation about the pressing need for the world to achieve sustainability and the role of the city as the space and place for bringing this goal to realization—a conversation that continues today. Little did we think then that that initial colloquy would animate our theoretical, design, and policy efforts through the remainder of our academic careers and into our individual retirements. Levine was the first to turn attention to China as a laboratory for advancing sustainability, playing a crucial role in the writing and selection of a multi-million dollar grant proposal, funded by the European Commission (project number: FP ICA4-CT-2002-10007). Titled “Sustainable Users Concepts for China Engaging Scientific Scenarios (SUCCESS),” this grant, awarded to Oikodrom—the Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability— and the project team, provided funds to conduct interdisciplinary research and sustainability-oriented projects with rural villagers in seven Chinese peri-urban and rural settlements in six different provinces in China. Many of the tools of the strategy of sustainable city-regions (multiple scenario-building, expert-stakeholder participation, the Sustainable Area Budget, etc.) were utilized by Levine and other team members in these proto-sustainable settlements. Yanarella’s introduction to China’s sustainability programs occurred in 2013 when he taught a course on urban sustainability to undergraduates in Shanghai University’s short summer program and then was invited back the following summer (2014) to teach an undergraduate course on urban and water sustainability. These experiences led to inaugurating a course in summer 2015 and then again the next summer on Shantou as a living laboratory for sustainability solutions to advanced undergraduates at Shantou University
由于技术现代化的持续力量和新自由主义和右翼民粹主义在西方大部分地区的扩散所带来的明显威胁，社会自然面临着许多挑战，人们很难对地球的命运和人类在21世纪剩余时间里的繁荣前景感到乐观。然而，希望的源泉就在我们身边，往往在最意想不到的地方，威胁和希望交织在一起，如果我们去寻找的话。这本书在很多方面都是一位政治学家和一位城市建筑师超过35年合作的结晶。上世纪80年代初，理查德·s·莱文(Richard S. Levine)和我在肯塔基大学的四合院相遇，开始了一场关于世界实现可持续发展的迫切需要以及城市作为实现这一目标的空间和场所的角色的对话——这场对话一直持续到今天。我们当时并没有想到，最初的那次谈话会在我们的学术生涯乃至个人退休后，激发我们在理论、设计和政策方面的努力。莱文是第一个将中国作为推进可持续发展的实验室的人，在撰写和选择由欧盟委员会资助的数百万美元赠款提案(项目编号:FP ICA4-CT-2002-10007)中发挥了关键作用。这项名为“中国参与科学场景的可持续用户概念(SUCCESS)”的资助由维也纳城市可持续发展研究所(oikodrom)及其项目团队获得，为在中国6个不同省份的7个中国城郊和农村居民点开展跨学科研究和面向可持续发展的项目提供资金。Levine和其他团队成员在这些原型可持续住区中使用了可持续城市区域战略的许多工具(多场景构建、专家-利益相关者参与、可持续区域预算等)。2013年，他在上海大学的短期暑期项目中为本科生讲授了一门关于城市可持续发展的课程，随后在第二年夏天(2014年)被邀请回来教授一门关于城市和水可持续发展的本科课程，这是他对中国可持续发展项目的介绍。这些经历促使我们在2015年夏天开设了一门课程，并于第二年夏天在汕头开设了一门课程，作为汕头大学本科生可持续发展解决方案的生活实验室
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Pub Date : 2021-12-10DOI: 10.36019/9781978820524-004
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