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This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's
environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It
looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio
Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a
difference. Consuming Cities examines this impact using case
studies from around the world including: the USA, Japan, Germany,
the UK, China, India, Sweden, Poland, Australia and Indonesia The
contributors all have direct experience of the urban environment
and urban policies in the countries on which they write and offer
an authoritative commentary which brings the urban 'consumption'
dimension of sustainable development into focus.
As the crises of capitalism continue to intensify, radical thinkers
must conjure realistic and inspirational alternative futures beyond
this failing social order. This book presents a stimulating array
of essays exploring such post-capitalist futures. With
contributions and perspectives from the Global North and Global
South, central topics include ecosocialism, ecofeminism, degrowth,
community economies, and the Green New Deal. There are also
chapters offering analyses of land, energy, technology, universal
basic services, and (re)localisation of economies. The book is in
three parts. The first presents various alternative paradigms for
thinking about - and working toward - post-capitalist futures. The
second section offers perspectives on alternative governance
strategies and approaches for post-capitalist futures. The closing
section gathers various analyses of post-capitalist geographies and
resistance. Going beyond critique and instead envisioning
alternative imaginaries, this collection should challenge and
inspire readers to think and act upon the range of possibilities
immanent in our crisis-ridden present.
This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in
eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona,
Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montréal and Nantes). It offers
comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative
governance and its limitations. An international collaborative from
across the social sciences, the book discusses ways that citizens,
activists and local states collaborate and come into conflict in
attempting to build just cities. It examines the development of
egalitarian collaborative governance strategies, provides
innovative ideas and tools to extend emancipatory governance
practices and shows hopeful possibilities for cities beyond
austerity and neoliberalism.
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make
the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and
sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors
argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot,
is the only feasible principle for suburban renewal. They depart
from the anti-suburban sentiment of much environmentalism to show
that existing suburbia can be the centre-ground of transition to a
new social dispensation based on the principle of self-limitation.
The book offers a radical new urban imaginary, that of degrowth
suburbia, which can arise Phoenix like from the increasingly
stressed cities of the affluent Global North and guide urbanisation
in a world at risk. This means dispensing with much contemporary
green thinking, including blind faith in electric vehicles and
high-density urbanism, and accepting the inevitability and the
benefits of planned energy descent. A radical but necessary vision
for the times.
This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A
majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The
city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human
heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and
its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and
threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social
division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these
threats are encountered and countered in the urban age, focusing on
the issue of human knowledge and self-awareness, just as Hannah
Arendt's influential The Human Condition did half a century ago.
The Human Condition is now The Urban Condition. And it is this
condition that will define human prospects in an age of default and
risk. Gleeson expertly explores the concept through three main
themes. The first is an exploration of what defines the current
human condition, especially the expanding cities that are at the
heart of an over-consumptive world economic order. The second
exposes and reviews the reawakening of forms of knowledge
('naturalism') that are likely to worsen not improve our
comprehension of the crisis. The new 'science of urbanism' in
popular new literature exemplifies this dangerous trend. The third
and last part of the book considers prospects for a new urban, and
therefore human, dispensation, 'The Good City'. We must first
journey in our urban vessels through troubled times. But can we now
start to plot the way to new shores, to a safer, more resilient
city that provides for human flourishing? The Urban Condition
attempts this ideal, conceiving a new urbanism based on the old
idea of self-limitation. The Urban Condition is an original, timely
book that reconsiders and redeploys Arendt's famous notion of The
Human Condition in an age of cities and risk. It brings together
several important strands of human consideration, urbanisation,
climate threat, resource depletion, economic default and critical
knowledge and weaves them into a new analysis of the times. It also
looks to a future that is nearly with us-of changed climate,
resource scarcity and economic stress. The book journeys into these
troubled times, proposing the idea of Lifeboat Cities as a way of
thinking about the human journey to come
This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in
eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona,
Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montreal and Nantes). It offers
comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative
governance and its limitations. An international collaborative from
across the social sciences, the book discusses ways that citizens,
activists and local states collaborate and come into conflict in
attempting to build just cities. It examines the development of
egalitarian collaborative governance strategies, provides
innovative ideas and tools to extend emancipatory governance
practices and shows hopeful possibilities for cities beyond
austerity and neoliberalism.
"Creating Child Friendly Cities" seeks to assess the extent to
which the physical and social make up of Western cities
accommodates and nourishes the needs of children and youth.
Examining the areas of planning, design, social policy, transport,
housing, it outlines strengths and deficiencies in the processes
that govern urban development and change from the perspective of
children and youth.
The Book examines a diverse range of issues including children's
view of the city and why this is unique; how to work with kids to
create better cities; the consequences of Children's health and how
this is shaped by the make up of cities; the "obesity epidemic": is
it caused by cities?; the journey to school, and children's
transport needs generally and many more.
In the final chapter the editors look at development from a child
usage perspective' and put together an agenda for action, in order
to provide cities with places for children to play.
Author Biography: Brendan Gleeson is a Research Fellow at the Urban Research Program, Australian National University
Justice, Society and Nature traces the idea of the philosphy of justice, as it applies to environmental issues. Philosophical ideas are treated in a straightforward and easily understandable way with reference to practical examples. The authors explore the issues of environment and development, fair treatment of humans and non-humans, and the justice of the social and economic systems which affect the health and safety of the peoples of the world. Current grass-roots concerns such as the environmental justice movement in the USA, and the ethics of the international regulation of development are examined in depth. This book takes debates beyond mere complaint about the injustice of the world economy, and suggests what should now be done to do justice to nature. eBook available with sample pages: 0203006682
Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integrity. From its base in the idea of the self, through principles of political justice, to the justice of global institutions, the authors trace the layered structure of the philosophy of justice as it applies to environmental and ecological issues. Philosophical ideas are treated in a straightforward and easily understandable way with reference to practical examples. Moving straight to the heart of pressing international and national concerns, the authors explore the issues of environment and development, fair treatment of humans and non-humans, and the justice of the social and economic systems which affect the health and safety of the peoples of the world. Current grass-roots concerns such as the environmental justice movement in the USA, and the ethics of the international regulation of development are examined in depth. The authors take debates beyond mere complaint about the injustice of the world economy, and suggest what should now be done to do justice to nature.
Paul Mees' urban ideal counted on watchful, confident and
well-informed citizenry to work collectively in a quest for fair
and just cities. As such, The Public City is largely a critique of
neo-liberalism and its arguably negative influence on urban
prospects. As Mees explained it, neo-liberal urbanism was much more
than a political aberration; it was a threat that imposed many
costly failures in an age overshadowed by grave ecological
challenges. Fifteen of Australia and New Zealand's leading urban
scholars, including Professor Emeritus Jean Hillier and Professor
Brendan Gleeson, have contributed to this collection. The Public
City includes a foreword by the late Professor Sir Peter Hall, a
world leader in urban planning from Britain. Kenneth Davidson, one
of Australia's top economic columnists, has also contributed a
chapter. The collective works in this book extend beyond an
analysis of urban patterns to provide a blueprint for the
improvement of civic and institutional purpose in the creation of
the public city.
This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference. Consuming Cities examines this impact using three categories of countries for examples: firstly four countries from the world's core economies - the USA, Japan, Germany and Britain; secondly the experience of the 'giant' states of China and India; finally, the contributors consider the case of smaller countries by including two pairs of countries from the North and the SOuth: Sweden and Poland, Australia and Indonesia where each pair includes one 'developed' and one 'developing' country. The contributors all have direct experience of the urban environment and urban policies in the countries on which they write and offer an authoritative commentry which serves to bring the urban 'consumption' dimension of ecologically sustainable development to sharper focus, to critically evaluate hthe success of the Rio Declaration and to consider the wider question of global governance for the ecological regulation of cities.
This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A
majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The
city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human
heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and
its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and
threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social
division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these
threats are encountered and countered in the urban age, focusing on
the issue of human knowledge and self-awareness, just as Hannah
Arendt's influential The Human Condition did half a century ago.
The Human Condition is now The Urban Condition. And it is this
condition that will define human prospects in an age of default and
risk. Gleeson expertly explores the concept through three main
themes. The first is an exploration of what defines the current
human condition, especially the expanding cities that are at the
heart of an over-consumptive world economic order. The second
exposes and reviews the reawakening of forms of knowledge
('naturalism') that are likely to worsen not improve our
comprehension of the crisis. The new 'science of urbanism' in
popular new literature exemplifies this dangerous trend. The third
and last part of the book considers prospects for a new urban, and
therefore human, dispensation, 'The Good City'. We must first
journey in our urban vessels through troubled times. But can we now
start to plot the way to new shores, to a safer, more resilient
city that provides for human flourishing? The Urban Condition
attempts this ideal, conceiving a new urbanism based on the old
idea of self-limitation. The Urban Condition is an original, timely
book that reconsiders and redeploys Arendt's famous notion of The
Human Condition in an age of cities and risk. It brings together
several important strands of human consideration, urbanisation,
climate threat, resource depletion, economic default and critical
knowledge and weaves them into a new analysis of the times. It also
looks to a future that is nearly with us-of changed climate,
resource scarcity and economic stress. The book journeys into these
troubled times, proposing the idea of Lifeboat Cities as a way of
thinking about the human journey to come
Leading planning and geography authors present this comprehensive
assessment of the extent to which the physical and social make up
of Western cities accommodates and nourishes the needs of children
and youth. Examining the areas of planning, design, social policy,
transport and housing, Creating Child Friendly Cities outlines
strengths and deficiencies in the processes that govern urban
development and change from the perspective of children and youth.
Issues explored include children's view of the city and why this is
unique; the 'obesity epidemic': is it caused by cities?; the
journey to school and children's transport needs generally. With
illustrations and case studies, Creating Child Friendly Cities
presents planning professionals with a solid case for
child-friendly cities and an action plan to create places for
children to play.
This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the pasta nd in contemporary societies. It: * includes a critical appraisal of theories of diability and a new disability model * uses case studies to explore how the transition to capitalism disadvantaged disabled people * explores the Western city and the policies of community care and accesbility regulation.
This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in
the metropolis of Melbourne. It is based on the idea that
'enchantment' as an affective state is important to ethical and
political engagement. Alexander and Gleeson argue that a sense of
enchantment can give people the impulse to care and engage in an
increasingly troubled world, whereas disenchantment can lead to
resignation. Applying and extending this theory to the urban
landscape, the authors walk their home city with eyes open to the
possibility of seeing and experiencing the industrial city in
different ways. This unique methodology, described as 'urban
tramping', positions the authors as freethinking freewalkers of the
city, encumbered only with the duty to look through the delusions
of industrial capitalism towards its troubled, contradictory soul.
These urban investigations were disrupted midway by COVID-19, a
plague that ended up confirming the book's central thesis of a
fractured modernity vulnerable to various internal contradictions.
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make
the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and
sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors
argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot,
is the only feasible principle for suburban renewal. They depart
from the anti-suburban sentiment of much environmentalism to show
that existing suburbia can be the centre-ground of transition to a
new social dispensation based on the principle of self-limitation.
The book offers a radical new urban imaginary, that of degrowth
suburbia, which can arise Phoenix like from the increasingly
stressed cities of the affluent Global North and guide urbanisation
in a world at risk. This means dispensing with much contemporary
green thinking, including blind faith in electric vehicles and
high-density urbanism, and accepting the inevitability and the
benefits of planned energy descent. A radical but necessary vision
for the times.
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