ABSTRACT
This introduction considers the problems of urbanisation and previous attempts to make healthy cities. To tackle critical global problems, I argue we urgently need to think about cities differently, more particularly in much less human-centred ways. The chapter introduces more-than-human thinking and outlines the aims and structure of the book. Contextualised by three inter-related theoretical ‘turns’ in the social sciences and humanities, it presents what more-than-human approaches can offer in reimagining cities as dynamic habitats and sites for change.
