“Goh provides a fresh perspective on what is needed to achieve a more just and resilient urban future. A must-read for urban climate scholars and practitioners.”
Karen Seto, Professor, Yale University; Coordinating Lead Author of the Urban Mitigation Chapter, IPCC 5th and 6th Assessment Reports
“Bringing critically important new insights into the politics of climate urbanism, Goh shows how historically uneven development and global interconnections between cities shape struggles over climate just urban futures.”
Harriet Bulkeley, Professor, Durham University and Utrecht University
“In Form and Flow Kian Goh explores urban environmental futures as a series of intersecting fields of contestation and intervention unfolding at a variety of spatial scales. Her comparative global framework advances the field of political ecology in innovative directions.”
Matthew Gandy, Professor, University of Cambridge; author of The Fabric of Space and Natura Urbana
“Goh's erudite narrative is precautionary, prophetic, and poetic. Mingling the currents of tenuous design, evolving global networks, and climate power plays, Goh lets loose the dams.”
Carlos Martín, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
“A timely contribution to the field... Form and Flow contributes to a better understanding of the visions of urban futures developed in response to climate change.”
Merve Bedir
Landscape Architecture Magazine
“A great look into the near future for these three cities—New York City, Rotterdam, and Jakarta—and a warning to other cities.”
Choice
“This book beautifully renders visible the connections and tensions between high-profile, expert oriented climate initiatives and on-the-ground, situated activist visions for more just urban futures under climate change.”
Urban Studies
“This book is a valuable resource for those working in, studying or interested in emerging urban formations and how they inform effective approaches to global climate change action.”
Environment & Urbanization
“With Form and Flow, Goh has admirably, and lovingly, challenged the entire field of design to take their seats in the construction of more just futures. She is also one of the few people in a position as both social science researcher and designer, to be able to take up the dual endeavour of envisioning both social science and design as mutually filled with transformative potential. Not only is Form and Flow required reading in this respect, but I very much look forward to exploring how this relationship continues to unfold in her future work.”
Antipode
“Thanks to Goh's ability to thread together theoretical arguments with an ambitious empirical outlook, the book will find a wide and diverse audience among social scientists, designers and planning practitioners. As it becomes increasingly clear that climate change and social inequality are major contemporary crises, Form and Flow offers a timely contribution to the critical scholarship of cities writ large.”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
