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Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice - Circles of sustainability (Paperback)
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Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice - Circles of sustainability (Paperback)
Series: Advances in Urban Sustainability
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Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human
adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing
of life on this planet. However, for this to be realized in more
than an ad hoc way, a substantial rethinking of current approaches
and practices needs to occur. Urban Sustainability in Theory and
Practice responds to the crises of sustainability in the world
today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to
thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of
reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of
working practically for positive social development and projected
change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of
sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those
practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated
understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant
understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line
approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and
social questions to background issues. The book is a practical and
conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement.A timely and
much-needed contribution to rethinking the practice of urban
sustainability, this book collates connected concepts and
principles into an integrated approach for understanding urban
areas in local-global context. Covering the full range of
sustainability domains and bridging discourses aimed at academics
and practitioners, this is an essential read for all those
studying, researching and working in urban geography,
sustainability assessment, urban planning, urban sociology and
politics, sustainable development and environmental studies.
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