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The future of sustainable cities : critical reflections /
This book investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought in response to the economic downturn and the credit crunch. In this ground-breaking contribution, prominent scholars provide up to date coverage of the impacts of recent changes on key areas of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The future of sustainable cities
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Section 1: The 'new' politics of sustainable urbanism
- 1. Introduction: Characterising the 'new' politics of sustainability: from managing growth to coping with crisis
- Introduction
- From globalisation to recession: the changing contexts of sustainability planning
- Post-politics of sustainability planning
- Governing the post-recession sustainable city: from managing growth to (re)creating growth
- Contributions and the structure of the book.
- 2. The sustainable city: an obituary? On the future form and prospects of sustainable urbanism
- Introduction: Urban economic recovery and/or sustainable development
- Birth: the origins of sustainable urbanism
- Death I: hyper-liberalism and experiments in sub-prime urbanism
- Death II: urban transition movements and neo-localisation
- Death III: win-lose-lose and the rise of municipal pragmatism
- Resurrection? The future of the sustainable city
- Key conclusions
- 3. Sustainable communities and English spatial policy
- Introduction
- Sustainability and sustainable communities.
- 6. Emerging strategies of urban reproduction and the pursuit of low carbon cities
- Introduction
- A new urban politics: the rise and rise of climate change
- UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
- making space for the city?
- Conceptualising cities in low carbon transition plan: a typology
- Conclusions
- Key conclusions
- 7. Transport in a sustainable urban future
- Introduction
- Transport and the reproduction of cities
- Transport
- a trailblazer for neoliberalism
- Competitiveness agenda
- After the financial crisis
- what kind of (sustainable) future?
- Key conclusions.
- Lost in space
- Spatialising social policy
- Sustainable communities as drivers of uneven development
- Realism, utopianism and sustainable communities
- Key conclusions
- 4. Constructions of the carbon city
- Introduction
- Carbon control
- Calculative practices of governing
- Calculation and carbon management
- Local area agreements
- Constructing the calculative currency
- Constructing the calculable object
- Implementing the calculation as targets for cities
- Implications for local politics: transitions or stop-gaps?
- Conclusions
- Key conclusions.
- Section 2: Building the sustainable city: policy fields, current issues and themes
- 5. The property industry and the construction of urban spaces: crisis or opportunity?
- Introduction
- Background and context
- Structural change in the UK property industry: the role of the financial institutions and the private sector
- New drivers for change: sustainability and responsible investment
- Development of new urban regeneration vehicles
- Urban regeneration
- measuring success?
- The future: crisis or opportunity?
- Key conclusions.