Buch, Englisch, 1015 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 2006 g
Buch, Englisch, 1015 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 2006 g
Reihe: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies
ISBN: 978-0-415-67099-9
Verlag: Routledge
‘Sustainability’ is widely recognized as a key objective of urban development in the twenty-first century. But how is it realized in practice? What are its historical origins and its theoretical underpinnings? How does it connect to, or inform, related movements which seek to create more liveable cities, achieve more equitable development, or reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? What are the best examples of sustainable cities in practice, and how did they get there? Can ‘megacities’ really be sustainable? And how do sustainability aspirations compare between developed and developing nations?
These and other questions are addressed in this new three-volume collection from Routledge. Edited by two leading scholars in the field, the collection is a unique, one-stop reference resource enabling users to make sense of a huge—and rapidly growing—corpus of scholarship.
Volume I examines the history, theory, and approaches related to sustainability, including smart growth, the new urbanism, transit-orientated development, and environmental justice. Volume II, meanwhile, provides case studies of cities that have succeeded in their pursuit of sustainable development, coupled with instances of cities that have not been able to surmount political, organizational, or other barriers to sustainability. The number of cities of more than five million residents is expanding dramatically, and the vital question that frames the final volume is whether such ‘megacities’ are sustainably governable. The materials gathered here assemble the best and most influential thinking on governance for sustainability, and how ‘success’ should be measured.
With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Cities and Sustainability is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a useful tool permitting rapid access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts. For researchers, students, practitioners, and policy-makers, it is a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
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VOLUME I Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters, Introduction 1 Sustainable development: a transdisciplinary overview of the literature 2 The evolution of green community planning, scholarship, and practice: an introduction to the special issue 3 Global environmental stewardship: implementing Agenda 21 and other international legal instruments for sustainable development 4 Linking the local to the global: can sustainable development work in practice? 5 Local Agenda 21: the pursuit of sustainable development in subnational domains 6 Green cities, growing cities, just cities? Urban planning and the contradictions of sustainable development 7 Land use planning challenges: coping with conflicts in visions of sustainable development and livable communities 8 Sustainability, the environment, and New Urbanism: an assessment and agenda for research 9 ‘Third wave’ sustainability? Smart growth and regional development in the USA 10 Sustainable development for some: green urban development and affordability 11 Toward just sustainability in urban communities: building equity rights with sustainable solutions 12 Urban sustainability and the limits of classical environmentalism 13 Introduction to Exploring Sustainable Development 14 Making cities more sustainable: people, plans and participation. VOLUME II Introduction 15 Urban sustainability: learning from best practice? 16 What makes a good sustainable development plan? An analysis of factors that influence principles of sustainable development 17 Ecological modernisation as a framework for sustainable development: a case study in Sweden 18 Environmental premises in planning for sustainability at local level in large Southern cities: a case study in Kolkata, India and use of the PRETAB planning process model 19 Overcoming legal barriers to hydrological sustainability of urban systems 20 Financial, economic, and institutional barriers to “green” urban development: the case of stormwater 21 Theory and practice in planning the suburbs: challenges to implementing new urbanism, smart growth, and sustainability principles 22 Durban’s Local Agenda 21 programme: tackling sustainable development in a post-apartheid city 23 Anatomy of a failed sustainability initiative: government and community resistance to sustainable landscaping in a Canadian city 24 Urban drainage at cross-roads: four future scenarios ranging from business-as-usual to sustainability 25 Smart Growth and development reality: the difficult co-ordination of land use and transport objectives 26 Rethinking sustainable urban regeneration: ambiguity, creativity, and the shared territory. VOLUME III Introduction 27 Governance for sustainable development: moving from theory to practice 28 The work of policy: actor networks, governmentality, and local action on climate change in Portland, Oregon 29 Indicators as a governmental technology? The lessons of community-based sustainability indicator projects 30 Sustainable development indicators: a case study on the city of Flagstaff and Coconino county 31 Learning communities, cities and regions for sustainable development and global citizenship 32 Conflict, collaboration and climate change: participatory democracy and urban environmental struggles in Durban, South Africa 33 The use of local sustainability indicators: case studies in two Swedish municipalities 34 Accountable governance, accountable sustainability? A case study of accountability in the governance for sustainability 35 Urban governance and the transition of energy systems: institutional change and shifting energy and climate policies in Berlin 36 Regions, megaregions, and sustainability 37 Cities and the multilevel governance of global climate change 38 Multi-level governance and global climate change in East Asia 39 Sustainability decision-making frameworks and the application of systems thinking: an urban context 40 Anticipatory governance: a tool for climate change adaptation Index
