This book builds on recent publications on cities and climate change and looks at the ways in which current planning approaches will need to be adapted to embrace concepts including green growth, planetary boundaries, healthy cities and longer-term sustainability.

"This text takes a global perspective, seeking to address the need to work within the limits of the planet, whilst also addressing the needs of those living in cities?I finished reading Norman's book on my return to my home city of Glasgow, soon to be host to the COP26 summit where world leaders will congregate to report on their progress to the Paris Accord of 2015 and consider the next of their responses to climate change. It would be good if on their travels from across the globe, many of them and their advisors also take the time to read this book." - Robert Rogerson, Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde, UK