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After Sustainable Cities? (Paperback, New)
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After Sustainable Cities? (Paperback, New)
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A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most
common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet
the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two
ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and
not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs.
After Sustainable Cities critically reviews what has happened to
these priorities and asks whether these social commitments have
been abandoned in a period of austerity governance and climate
change and replaced by a darker and unfair city. This book provides
the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the new
eco-logics reshaping conventional sustainable cities discourse and
environmental priorities of cities in both the global north and
south. The dominant discourse on sustainable cities, with a
commitment to intergenerational equity, social justice and global
responsibility, has come under increasing pressure. Under
conditions of global ecological change, international financial and
economic crisis and austerity governance new eco-logics are
entering the urban sustainability lexicon - climate change, green
growth, smart growth, resilience and vulnerability, ecological
security. This book explores how these new eco-logics reshape our
understanding of equity, justice and global responsibility, and how
these more technologically and economically driven themes resonate
and dissonate with conventional sustainable cities discourse. This
book provides a warning that a more technologically driven and
narrowly constructed economic agenda is driving ecological policy
and weakening previous commitment to social justice and equity.
After Sustainable Cities brings together leading researchers to
provide a critical examination of these new logics and identity
what sort of city is now emerging, as well as consider the
longer-term implication on sustainable cities research and policy.
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