Rethinking Sustainable Cities by David Simon
Sustainable urbanization has moved to the forefront of political debate and policy agendas for numerous reasons. Among the most important are a growing appreciation both of the implications of rapid urbanization now occurring in China, India, and many other low and middle income countries with historically low urbanization levels and of the related challenges posed to urban areas worldwide by climate and environmental change. Conceptualizing urban sustainability for this new era, this compact book makes a clear contribution to the sustainable urbanization agenda through authoritative interventions that contextualize, assess, and explain the importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere: that they should be fair, green, and accessible.
"This timely and lively book builds on several empirical examples to help with the challenges that planners, policy makers, professors and students face in making words like 'green' or 'sustainable' understandable and approachable" Garth Myers, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA
“Using three themes of accessibility, greenness and fairness, this excellent short book provides a highly readable and timely overview of current debates about sustainable cities.” Debby Potts, Urban Futures Research Domain, Geography Department, King's College London
?“A timely and fresh perspective on what sustainable development means for contemporary urbanization, discussing which sustainability actions can be truly transformative.” Vanesa Castan Broto, University College London
“Essential reading, of value to a wide range of audiences, addresses the most urgent and prominent urban challenges of our time.” John Flint, University of Sheffield
“Using three themes of accessibility, greenness and fairness, this excellent short book provides a highly readable and timely overview of current debates about sustainable cities.” Debby Potts, Urban Futures Research Domain, Geography Department, King's College London
?“A timely and fresh perspective on what sustainable development means for contemporary urbanization, discussing which sustainability actions can be truly transformative.” Vanesa Castan Broto, University College London
“Essential reading, of value to a wide range of audiences, addresses the most urgent and prominent urban challenges of our time.” John Flint, University of Sheffield
David Simon is Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, and Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He specialises in development– environment issues, with particular reference to cities, climate change and sustainability, and the relationships between theory, policy and practice, on all of which he has published extensively.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447332848 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447332849 |
| Title | Rethinking Sustainable Cities |
| Author | David Simon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press |
| Year published | 2016-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
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