A new book on “Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments. Challenges and solutions for resilient cities“, edited by Saija Toivonen, Sirkka Heinonen, Co-Chair of the Helsinki Node of The Millennium Project, Ira Verma, Raúl Castaño-Rosa, and Sara Wilkinson has been just published with Routledge.

The aim of the book is to promote the dynamic resilience of societies by identifying, analysing, and exemplifying the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations.

The book brings together the expertise of a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate economics, and presents a novel understanding of the direct and indirect impacts of possible crises in the space and land use context. It goes on to discuss the concept of resilience and exemplifies potential solutions and offers a holistic and forward-looking approach for crisis management through a lens of social sustainability and wellbeing, making an important contribution to the promotion of wellbeing in the built environment, especially in terms of land and residential space and building use.

The work follows the activities related to the RESCUE project coordinated by the Helsinki Node, for which The Millennium Project is collaborating network. Moreover, the chapter on “A Mindshift Towards Futures Resilience and Anticipatory Urban Governance” by Sirkka Heinonen, Joni Karjalainen, and Amos Taylor refers to the Millennium Project Session that was conducted the 2023 FFRC Conference.

The book is open access and available at www.routledge.com/9781032755700.