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The city as fulcrum of global sustainability / by Ernest J. Yanarella and Richard S. Levine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Anthem Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780857284006 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 307.76 23
LOC classification:
  • HT241 .Y37 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Does sustainable development lead to sustainability? -- The sustainable cities manifesto -- Variations on a "green" theme : overcoming semantics in the sustainability debate -- Don't pick the low-hanging fruit? -- From the city to the city-region : the sustainable area budget, rural partnerland, and the sustainability engine -- The sustainable city game as a game and a tool of urban design -- Urban dreams of global sustainability -- The promise and pitfalls of Chattanooga's entrepreneurial "sustainability" strategy -- Sustainability comes to Okotoks, Alberta -- Vienna's Westbahnhof sustainable urban implantation-city-as-a-hill -- The success of SUCCESS : the Chinese village as catalyst of future Chinese sustainable cities -- The long march to sustainability in China -- Conclusion taking the road less traveled.
Summary: This book finds short- and long-term solutions to twenty-first century global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for introducing sustainability around the world.
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Does sustainable development lead to sustainability? -- The sustainable cities manifesto -- Variations on a "green" theme : overcoming semantics in the sustainability debate -- Don't pick the low-hanging fruit? -- From the city to the city-region : the sustainable area budget, rural partnerland, and the sustainability engine -- The sustainable city game as a game and a tool of urban design -- Urban dreams of global sustainability -- The promise and pitfalls of Chattanooga's entrepreneurial "sustainability" strategy -- Sustainability comes to Okotoks, Alberta -- Vienna's Westbahnhof sustainable urban implantation-city-as-a-hill -- The success of SUCCESS : the Chinese village as catalyst of future Chinese sustainable cities -- The long march to sustainability in China -- Conclusion taking the road less traveled.

This book finds short- and long-term solutions to twenty-first century global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for introducing sustainability around the world.

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