Elgar companion to sustainable cities
Subtitle: strategies, methods and outlook
By: Daniel A. Mazmanian ; Hilda Blanco
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780857939982
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: City planning; Environmental aspects; Sustainable urban development; Urban ecology (Sociology)
Description: Against a backdrop of unprecedented levels of urbanization, 21st century cities across the globe share concerns for the challenges they face. This Companion provides a framework for understanding the city as a critical building block for a more sustainable future within broader subnational, national, and continental contexts, and ultimately, within a global systems context. It discusses the sustainable strategies being devised, as well as the methods and tools for achieving them. Examples of social, economic, political and environmental sustainable policy strategies are presented, and the extent to which they actually increase sustainability is analyzed.