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Urban Sustainability: Reconnecting Space and Place

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Description for Urban Sustainability: Reconnecting Space and Place Paperback. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20. BIC Classification: JPQB; RNU; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.

Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.

Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead in this area. Bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore leading innovations on the ground, this volume combines the theoretical underpinnings of urban sustainability with current practices through highly readable narrative case studies. The contributors also provide fresh perspectives on how issues ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442612884
SKU
V9781442612884
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12

About Ann Dale
Ann Dale is a professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development at Royal Roads University. William T. Dushenko is Vice-President Academics at Yukon College and former Dean of the School of Sustainable Building and Environmental Management at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. ... Read more

Reviews for Urban Sustainability: Reconnecting Space and Place
‘The editors have assembled a thought provoking set of case studies of urban sustainability in Canada… The volume does an additional service by provoking broader, and challenging, questions about how to combine and coordinate pluralist approaches to urban sustainability in the service of system-level sustainability.’
David Gordon
Urban Studies vol 51:04:2015

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