ABSTRACT
As global urbanism comes to be deeply tied into questions of climate change and its future, this chapter explores how and why people have come to understand climate change in relation to the urban and at the same time to question the ways in which climate has come to change the nature of urbanism. The growing urbanisation of climate change as an issue and a political arena over the twenty first century has had consequences for cities – the concerns, visions, interventions, and struggles over climate change have come to change urbanism. Climate change is also serving as a means through which new forms of urban politics are being generated and existing political matters reconsidered. The twenty first century have seen a growth of experimentation as a mode of urban climate politics. A transformative agenda for urban climate action is about achieving decarbonised and resilient urban systems, as well as reconfiguring structures of power towards more just ends.
