ABSTRACT
Chapter 10 constitutes the recommendations section of the book. It can be read as a stand-alone guide for urban development stakeholders and change agents wanting to implement socially aware planning for socially sustainable and climate-resilient urban communities in any country around the world. It summarises the current planetary challenges facing urban dwellers and urban planners, designers and builders. It then unveils 24 recommendations supported by the evidence offered in this book, each with illustrative examples from the book’s theories and cases studies. The recommendations are organised according to the four-stage socially aware planning process outlined. The full set is underpinned by the book’s central argument about the importance of building city structures and spaces that promote social capital and social cohesion as two vital social resources that, via communities exhibiting these concepts’ component sets of pro-community behaviours and psychological responses, strengthen the social sustainability and climate resilience of urban communities. Although the recommendations were formulated from evidence from diverse cultures, communities and countries, they are sufficiently universal that a locally specific incarnation of each is applicable in all contexts.
