Lifeboat cities /

Today we find ourselves exhausted and depleted by natural and economic disruption. Worse, we face more of the same but on a greater, even more frightening scale. Hopeful and provocative, this book considers the principal social and ecological threats facing Australia, and outlines ways in which thes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gleeson, Brendan, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2010.
Temas:
2000-2099
Social evolution.
Social change > Australia.
Urban policy > Australia.
Cultural Evolution
Évolution sociale.
Politique urbaine > Australie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Social change
Social evolution
Social conditions
Urban policy
Australia > Social conditions > 21st century.
Australie > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Australia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A new Australia here
  • Coming Through Slaughter
  • 2. 'Fire in the heavens'
  • 3. Cities on the edge
  • 4. A crisis of underconsumption
  • 5. A crisis of overproduction
  • 6. Children of the self-absorbed
  • Learning to See the Earth
  • 7. A crumbling empire
  • 8. The urban vortex
  • 9. The guardian state
  • 10. Lifeboat cities
  • 11. Lining up for change
  • To the Next World
  • 12. To love freedom
  • 13. Freedom to love
  • 14. The good city.

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