Livability and sustainability of urbanism : an interdisciplinary study on history and theory of urban settlement This book is a fascinating wide reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social sciences research comprising cutting edge theoretical and empirical investigations of urban livability and sustainability. Urban livability is explored as a phenomenon of happenings that gather people things and domains in the specific spatiotemporal context of the city; this context is the life world of urbanism. Meanwhile sustainability is conceived of as the capacity of urbanism that enables people to cultivate their sociocultural and economic existence and development without the depletion of their current resources in the future. In this study phenomenology is uniquely incorporated as a way of seeing things according to their presence in space and time Introduction PART I Chapter 1 Ontology of Urban Place Chapter 2 Urbanism Residency and Society Chapter 3 Lesson Learned from the Ancient Greek Polis Chapter 4 Urban Planning and Development Chapter 5 Urban Design and Urbanism Chapter 6 Environmentally Friendly Urbanism Chapter 7 Urbanism and the Global Age PART II EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION Chapter 8 Everyday Life of Urbanism in the West Malay World Chapter 9 Urbanism Society and Culture in the Malay Peninsular World: Bandar Malacca Chapter 10 Urbanism and Planning System in Malaysia Chapter 11 Urban Intentionality and Global Urbanism: Toronto as a case study Postscript References