Urban Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Planet write by Thomas Elmqvist. This book was released on 2018. Urban Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology, geography, economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects, journalists, artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective, connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing, we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together, grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability.
Towards Sustainable Cities
Towards Sustainable Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards Sustainable Cities write by Peter J. Marcotullio. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Towards Sustainable Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 18 Urban Growth Management and Housing Supply in the Capital Region of South Korea -- Part IV: Conclusions -- 19 Towards Land Management Policies for More Sustainable Cities
Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions
Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions write by Karen Chapple. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought. California is at the cutting edge of this movement, not only because its regulations actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also because its pioneering environmental regulation, market innovation, and Left Coast politics show how to blend the "three Es" of sustainability--environment, economy, and equity. Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions is the first book to explain what this grand experiment tells us about the most just path moving forward for cities and regions across the globe. The book offers chapters about neighbourhoods, the economy, and poverty, using stories from practice to help solve puzzles posed by academic research. Based on the most recent demographic and economic trends, it overturns conventional ideas about how to build more livable places and vibrant economies that offer opportunity to all. This thought-provoking book provides a framework to deal with the new inequities created by the movement for more livable - and expensive - cities, so that our best plans for sustainability are promoting more equitable development as well. This book will appeal to students of urban studies, urban planning and sustainability as well as policymakers, planning practitioners, and sustainability advocates around the world.
Growing a Sustainable City?
Growing a Sustainable City? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing a Sustainable City? write by Christina D. Rosan. This book was released on 2017-01-01. Growing a Sustainable City? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities' broader goal of "sustainability," but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge in cities as urban agriculture is incorporated into the policymaking framework. Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical analysis of the development of urban agriculture policies and their role in making post-industrial cities more sustainable. Christina Rosan and Hamil Pearsall's intriguing and illuminating case study of Philadelphia reveals how growing in the city has become a symbol of urban economic revitalization, sustainability, and - increasingly - gentrification. Their comprehensive research includes interviews with urban farmers, gardeners, and city officials, and reveals that the transition to "sustainability" is marked by a series of tensions along race, class, and generational lines. The book evaluates the role of urban agriculture in sustainability planning and policy by placing it within the context of a large city struggling to manage competing sustainability objectives. They highlight the challenges and opportunities of institutionalizing urban agriculture into formal city policy. Rosan and Pearsall tell the story of change and growing pains as a city attempts to reinvent itself as sustainable, livable, and economically competitive.
Unlocking Sustainable Cities
Unlocking Sustainable Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unlocking Sustainable Cities write by Paul Chatterton. This book was released on 2019. Unlocking Sustainable Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A toolkit for realising a more sustainable and co-operative urban future.
