Download or read book Urban Regions Now & Tomorrow written by Sonja Deppisch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book points to three dominant concepts of how to deal with long-term or surprising and also sudden catastrophic changes, with a main focus on resilience. It is dealing with past, current and future change processes in European, Northern American as well as Australian cities and urban regions, and with the challenges they pose to a resilient urban development. Additionally, contributions deal with potential transformations of urban and regional development and related planning and governance approaches.