Wendy Steele

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now have serious doubts about the prospects for humanity to live within cities that are socially just and responsive to planetary limits. Is it possible for planning to better serve, protect and nurture our human and non-human worlds? This book argues it is.Drawing on international literature and Australian case examples, this book explores issues around climate change, colonization, urban (in)security and the rights to the city for both humans and nature. It is within this context that this book focuses on the urgent need to better understand how contemporary cities have changed, and the relational role of planning within it. Planning Wild Cities will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies, and sustainable development, and for all those invested in re-shaping our ‘wild’ city futures.

Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban regeneration. Hot Cities offers insights from eminent academics and practitioners, providing both a practical and theoretical outlook on strategy, design and policy development in a climate crisis. Chapters call for urgent responses to the urban heat problem, providing future design projections to illustrate why this is important.Contributing authors include:Cathy Applegate, Xuemei Bai, Christian Barry, David Bowman, David Carlin, Danielle Celermajer, Mark Crosweller, Niki Frantzeskaki, Tony Fry, Isabella Gerometta, Jody Graham, Stephen Healy, Jean Hillier, Simon Kerr, Eric Klinenberg, Jo Lane, Crystal Legacy, Michelle Maloney, Simon Marvin, Darryn McEvoy, Timon McPhearson, Abby Mellick Lopes, Therese Milanovic, Eleni Myrivili, John Nairn, Alan Pears, Sarah Pink, Libby Porter, Stephen Pyne, Lauren Rickards, Kaossara Sani, Wendy Sarkissian, Benedict Sibley, Katie Steele, Will Steffen, Yolande Strengers, Pakamas Thinphanga, Blair Trewin, and Cam Walker.This book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and policy-makers in human geography, urban planning, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, environmental humanities, urban design, education, the creative arts and community development.

This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the heart of “sustainable development” is the legacy of unsustainable development with its roots in modernity and colonialism. Critical engagement with the SDGs involves recognising these roots are shared by universities and the reciprocal need for maintenance, repair and regeneration. Universities are not just enablers of change, but also important targets of change. By focusing on the role of education about, for and through the SDGs, the authors seek to advance critical engagement with higher education that is both progressive and meaningful. We are all responsible for bearing witness to our age. This book will appeal to all those who hope that more sustainable future worlds are still possible.

This book focuses on the potential and possibilities for socially innovative responses to the climate emergency at the local scale. Climate change has intensified the need for communities to find creative and meaningful ways to address the sustainability of their environments. The authors focus on the creative and collaborative ways local- scale climate action reflects the extra-ordinary measures taken by ordinary people. This includes critical engagement with the ways in which novel social practices and partnerships emerge between people, organisations, institutions, governance arrangements and eco-systems. The book successfully highlights the transformative power of socially innovative activities and initiatives in response to the climate crisis; and critically explores how different individuals and groups undertake climate action as ‘quiet activism’ – the embodied acts of collective disruption, subversion, creativity and care at the local scale.

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now have serious doubts about the prospects for humanity to live within cities that are socially just and responsive to planetary limits. Is it possible for planning to better serve, protect and nurture our human and non-human worlds? This book argues it is.Drawing on international literature and Australian case examples, this book explores issues around climate change, colonization, urban (in)security and the rights to the city for both humans and nature. It is within this context that this book focuses on the urgent need to better understand how contemporary cities have changed, and the relational role of planning within it. Planning Wild Cities will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies, and sustainable development, and for all those invested in re-shaping our ‘wild’ city futures.

Plaisted Publishing House presents our latest Anthology. Ghostly Rites Anthology 2019, is full of horror, humour, scares, and not for the faint of heart.We DARE YOU to grab YOUR copy and read it on the darkest night to get the best fright for All Hallow's Eve.Here to scare you this year are some of our favourite authors: Wendy Steele, Eve Merrick-Williams, Pamela Joyce Silva, Mary Woldering, Michael Lynes, M J Mallon, Karen J Mossman, Cathy-Lee Chopping, Lynn Mullican, Elizabeth Green, Claire Plaisted, Maddy Hag and Mara ReitsmaStories are in Various English & Grammar

Lizzie Martin has chosen pottery to be her new career...But the teacher from hell threatens to thwart her ambitions before she starts.She has support from her best friend Louise and Evan, another pottery tutor, but Rowan, her fifteen year old daughter is restless, Josh, her ex-husband is colluding with her aunt and though her mother is alive, access to her is forbidden. When The Morrigan appears in her sacred circle, Lizzie knows she has a battle on her hands.There is hope though.Stardust the chicken brings a new creature into Lizzie's life and a long awaited meeting with her Aunt Matilda brings Lizzie's past into perspective.Lizzie's magic ventures beyond The Sanctuary, into the Welsh landscape and the realms of the fae.

Lizzie Martin's new boss has asked her to 'bare all' and become more corporate. For Lizzie, swapping paisley for pin stripe is like asking a parrot to wear pea hen.She has to choose between her job and her integrity, cope with an unexpected stay in hospital, monitor her fourteen year old daughter's latest crush, continue seeking the truth about her father's death and juggle two new men in her life. There is hope though. At the bottom of the garden is a little wooden shed that Lizzie calls Sanctuary. Within its warm and welcoming walls, Lizzie surrounds herself with magic...

Rachel arrives in Wales to begin a new life but will Marcus jeopardise their future together before it's begun?Candy knows the punishment for leaving Station 23 unguarded. Will she succeed in convincing Paul to obey the Lesson?Fern loves her life in the village but when the Tall Folk arrive with metal working skills, will her peace be shattered forever?Though distanced by time and space, three women find the Standing Stone and the teachings of the Great Mother, Binah.

Can Rachel forgive and forget the betrayal by the men in her life and be strong enough to live her own life, embracing the spirit of the horse?Will Candy remain steadfast to her promise to protect the Land and people of the Badland or will Aaron entice her back to the villages?Has Fern lost Adalwin to the lure of Mara's painted body? Can she be the warrior leader her village need while maintaining the heart of a goddess?Inspired by the goddess Rhiannon, three women tread new and exciting life paths.

'Rachel and Marcus are both committed to a new start in Wales....or are they?Candy confronts the regime in the Dome...will one voice make a difference?Fern's place is as the wise woman of the village, following her mother's line but can she stand up to Nia and Adalbern and secure the peace her village craves?Three women, linked across time and space by the Standing Stone, are inspired by the Goddess Ishtar.'

Angel Parsons - wife, lover, entrepreneur and witch - is back and though she strives to put her past behind her, Lilith the Dark Goddess has other ideas.Angel has the power at her finger tips. The choice is hers. Will she evoke her wrath to take her revenge on Lilith or will she summon nature's forces and the strongest emotion on earth to put right the wrongs of the Dark Goddess?