By Debra Solomon

Multispecies urbanism (MU) puts forward a just urban development, policy, and practice driven by giving primacy to reciprocal relations between humans and non-humans. MU reorients urbanisation processes towards the strategies implemented by non-humans as a means to survive societies’ crises of democracy, planetary climate catastrophe, and uneven resource distribution. Crises, such as the current global pandemic caused by Covid-19, are further exacerbated by poor health conditions that could be substantially decreased by applying the principles of MU as a development model. Describing the methods, values, and domains in which the natural world’s inhabitants acquire agency, and in which humans become participants in multispecies communities, this new urban planning and design paradigm has yet to take place on scale.

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Debra Solomon

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