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_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aHT241
_b.Y37 2011
082 0 0 _a307.76
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100 1 _aYanarella, Ernest J.,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe city as fulcrum of global sustainability /
_cby Ernest J. Yanarella and Richard S. Levine.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bAnthem Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (xxxi, 285 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aDoes 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aUrban ecology (Sociology)
650 0 _aSustainable development.
650 0 _aCities and towns
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aSustainability.
700 1 _aLevine, Richard S.,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780857287724
856 4 0 _uhttp://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780857284006/type/BOOK
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