City in Need

Ali Cheshmehzangi, urbanist/urban designer by profession, is Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is also Director of the Urban Innovation Lab, which is pursuing two on-going projects on ‘integrated urban information modeling’ and ‘resilient city strategies’. Ali has four other published books: Identity of Cities and City of Identities; Sustainable Urban Development in the Age of Climate Change; Eco-Development in China (Springer Award 2018); Designing Cooler Cities.

• Introduction: The City during Outbreak Events.- How cities cope in outbreak events?.- Preparedness through Urban Resilience.- Responsiveness through City Management.- Managing the City in Need, Saving the City in Need.- Conclusions and Lessons learnt: for ‘the City in Need’.