| Resumo: | The crises that cities face—such as climate
change, pandemics, economic downturn, and racism—are
tightly interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation.
This paper addresses compound urban crises as a unique
type of problem, in which discrete solutions that tackle
each crisis independently are insufficient. Few scholarly
debates address compound urban crises and there is, to
date, a lack of interdisciplinary insights to inform urban
governance responses. Combining ideas from complex
adaptive systems and critical urban studies, we develop a
set of boundary concepts (unsettlement, unevenness, and
unbounding) to understand the complexities of compound
urban crises from an interdisciplinary perspective. We
employ these concepts to set a research agenda on
compound urban crises, highlighting multiple
interconnections between urban politics and global
dynamics. We conclude by suggesting how these entry
points provide a theoretical anchor to develop practical
insights to inform and reform urban governance.
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