Urban meltdown : cities, climate change and politics as usual /

Urban Meltdown anchors climate change in cities where 80 percent of the greenhouse gases are generated. An insiders take on how city council really works, it calls for a radical change in how cities grow, are managed and are governed.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doucet, Clive (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2007]
Temas:
Global warming > Political aspects.
Climatic changes.
Municipal government.
Urbanization > Environmental aspects.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Environmental degradation.
Environmental protection > Citizen participation.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban ecology (Biology)
Climate Change
Réchauffement de la Terre > Aspect politique.
Climat > Changements.
Administration municipale.
Urbanisation > Aspect de l'environnement.
Urbanisme > Aspect de l'environnement.
Environnement > Dégradation.
Environnement > Protection > Participation des citoyens.
Écologie urbaine.
climate change.
municipal government.
urban environments.
Environmental protection > Citizen participation
City planning > Environmental aspects
Climatic changes
Environmental degradation
Global warming > Political aspects
Municipal government
Urbanization > Environmental aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Part I. A poet goes to city hall
  • 1. Global cities and horse and buggy nations
  • 2. Neighborhoods to love
  • 3. The barbell society and just-in-time delivery
  • 4. From Mont Tremblant to Ski Tremblant
  • 5. Along Bayswater Street
  • 6. Urban villages
  • 7. It ain't planning. It's politics
  • 8. Citizenship versus faithship
  • Part II. The idea of progress and why we got it wrong
  • 9. The mayor of Hiroshima and intimations of God
  • 10. The idea of progress and First Nations
  • 11. Biological and social phase transitions
  • 12. Cod, government and the transpiration cycle
  • 13. Care of the soul/care of the city/care for the planet
  • 14. 1984-2004 : poets and visions
  • 15. Cape Breton beaches and the Gulf of Mexico
  • Part III. Trying to create a new order of things
  • 16. The rise of cities and decline of the planet
  • 17. 689 Spadina and coming of age in Toronto
  • 18. The 1960s : a global paradin shift that never happened and how the same pattern is repeating itself
  • 19. The World Social Forum II and trying to change things
  • 20. The World Social Forum III and failing to change things
  • 21. Saving the world with Stephen Lewis?
  • 22. The Bush bubble comes to Ottawa
  • 23. Jean de La Fontaine
  • 24. Cities, climate change and politics as usual.

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