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  • Urban Studies
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Sociology

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  • Cities confront interconnected crises including climate change, pandemics, economic downturns, and racism.
  • These compound urban crises are complex and cannot be solved with isolated, single-issue approaches.
  • Existing scholarly discourse lacks interdisciplinary perspectives on compound urban crises.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the challenge of compound urban crises by developing an interdisciplinary framework.
  • To introduce novel boundary concepts for understanding the complexity of interconnected urban challenges.
  • To establish a research agenda for compound urban crises, linking urban politics with global dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Integration of theories from complex adaptive systems and critical urban studies.
  • Development of boundary concepts: unsettlement, unevenness, and unbounding.
  • Application of these concepts to analyze interconnections between urban politics and global dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Compound urban crises represent a distinct problem type requiring integrated solutions.
  • The proposed boundary concepts offer a novel interdisciplinary lens for analysis.
  • Identified multiple interconnections between urban politics and global dynamics.

Conclusions:

  • Discrete solutions are insufficient for compound urban crises; integrated approaches are necessary.
  • The developed concepts provide a theoretical foundation for understanding and addressing these crises.
  • This research offers practical insights to inform and reform urban governance for complex challenges.