Political Science City Planning & Urban Development
Urban Sustainability
Reconnecting Space and Place
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2012
- Category
- City Planning & Urban Development, Regional Planning, Environmental Policy
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442644816
- Publish Date
- Oct 2012
- List Price
- $85.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442612884
- Publish Date
- Sep 2012
- List Price
- $44.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442661783
- Publish Date
- Sep 2012
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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 related to sustainable urban planning and development can be reconciled through collaborative partnerships and engagement processes.
About the authors
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.
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Pamela Robinson is an associate professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and a regular contributor to Spacing magazine.
Editorial Reviews
‘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.’
Urban Studies vol 51:04:2015
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