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Introduction; Part I. Dynamic Urban Planet: 1. Global Urbanization: Perspectives and Trends; 2. Embracing Urban Complexity; 3. Understanding, Implementing, and Tracking Urban Metabolism is Key to Urban Futures; 4. Live with Risk while Reducing Vulnerability; 5. Harness Urban Complexity for Health and Wellbeing; 6. Macro-Economy and Urban Productivity; Part II. Global Urban Sustainable development: 7. Rethinking Urban Sustainability and Resilience; 8. Indicators for Measuring Urban Sustainable Development and Resilience; 9. The UN, the Urban Sustainable Development Goal and the New Urban Agenda; 10. Utilizing Urban Living Laboratories for Social Innovation; 11. Can Big Data Make A Difference for Urban Management?; 12. Collaborative and Equitable Urban Citizen Science; Part III. Urban Transformations to Sustainability: 13. Sustainability Transformation Emerging from Better Governance; 14. To Transform Cities, Support Civil Society; 15. Governance and the New Politics of Collaboration and Contestation; 16. Seeds of the Future, Found in the Present; Part IV. Provocations from Practice: 17. Sustainability, Karachi, and Other Irreconcilables; 18. What Knowledge Do the Cities Themselves Need?; 19. Banksy and the Biologist: Redrawing the Twenty-First Century City; 20. Every Community Needs a Forest of Imagination; 21. How Can We Shift from a Imaged-Based City to a Life-Based City?; 22. A Chimera Called Smart Cities; 23. Beyond Fill-in-the-Blank Cities; 24. Persuading Policy Makers to Implement Sustainable City Plans; 25. To Live or Not to Live: Urbanisation and the Knowledge Worker; 26. City Fragmentation and the Commons; 26. City Fragmentation and the Commons ; 27. Cities as Global Organisms; 28. From Concrete Structures to Green Diversity: Ecological Landscape Design for Restoring Urban Nature and Children's Play; 29. Building Cities: A View From India; 30. The Barking Dog Syndrome; 31. Overcoming Inertia and Reinventing "Retreat"; 32. Money for Old Rope; 33. An Aesthetic Appreciation of Tagging; 34. Understanding Arab Cities; 35. Who Can Implement the Sustainable Development Goals?; 36. Achieving Sustainable Cities by Focusing on Urban Underserved; 37. The Rebellion of Memory; 38. Cities Don't Need "Big" Data- They Need Innovations that Connect to the Local; 39. Digital Urbanisation and the End of Big Cities; 40. The Art of Engagement / Activating Curiosity; 41. Nairobi's Illegal City Makers Lorraine; 42. Active Environmental Citizens with Receptive Government Officials Can Enact Change; 43. The Sea Wall; 44. Academics and Non-Academics: Who's Who in Changing the Culture of Knowledge Creation?; 45. Private Fears in Public Spaces; 46. Leadership: Science and Policy as Uncomfortable Bedfellows; 47.Sketches of an Emotional Geography Towards a New Citizenship; 48. The Shift in Urban Technology Innovation; 49. Greening Cities: Our Pressing Moral Imperative; 50. Recognition Deficit and Struggle for Unifying City Fragments; 51. Disrespecting the Knowledge of Place; 52. Broadening our Vision to Find a New Eco-Spiritual Way of Living.