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Consuming Cities - The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio (Hardcover): Ingemar Elander, Brendan Gleeson, Rolf... Consuming Cities - The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio (Hardcover)
Ingemar Elander, Brendan Gleeson, Rolf Lidskog, Nicholas Low
R5,543 Discovery Miles 55 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Post-Capitalist Futures - Paradigms, Politics, and Prospects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Samuel Alexander, Sangeetha... Post-Capitalist Futures - Paradigms, Politics, and Prospects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Samuel Alexander, Sangeetha Chandrashekeran, Brendan Gleeson
R1,809 R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Save R772 (43%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

New Developments in Urban Governance - Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity: Jonathan S. Davies, Ismael Blanco,... New Developments in Urban Governance - Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity
Jonathan S. Davies, Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, …
R917 R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Save R116 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Degrowth in the Suburbs - A Radical Urban Imaginary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson Degrowth in the Suburbs - A Radical Urban Imaginary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Urban Condition (Paperback): Brendan Gleeson The Urban Condition (Paperback)
Brendan Gleeson
R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

New Developments in Urban Governance - Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity (Hardcover): Jonathan S. Davies, Ismael... New Developments in Urban Governance - Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity (Hardcover)
Jonathan S. Davies, Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Merce Cortina-Oriol, …
R2,758 R2,302 Discovery Miles 23 020 Save R456 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 - New Perspectives and Prospects (Hardcover): Brendan Gleeson, Neil Sipe Creating Child Friendly Cities - New Perspectives and Prospects (Hardcover)
Brendan Gleeson, Neil Sipe
R4,922 Discovery Miles 49 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"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.

Geographies of Disability (Hardcover, New): Brendan Gleeson Geographies of Disability (Hardcover, New)
Brendan Gleeson
R5,822 Discovery Miles 58 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Author Biography:
Brendan Gleeson is a Research Fellow at the Urban Research Program, Australian National University

Justice, Society and Nature - An Exploration of Political Ecology (Hardcover): Brendan Gleeson, Nicholas Low Justice, Society and Nature - An Exploration of Political Ecology (Hardcover)
Brendan Gleeson, Nicholas Low
R5,536 Discovery Miles 55 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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 - An Exploration of Political Ecology (Paperback): Brendan Gleeson, Nicholas Low Justice, Society and Nature - An Exploration of Political Ecology (Paperback)
Brendan Gleeson, Nicholas Low
R1,823 Discovery Miles 18 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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.

The Public City - Essays in Honour of Paul Mees (Paperback): Brendan Gleeson, Beau B. Beza The Public City - Essays in Honour of Paul Mees (Paperback)
Brendan Gleeson, Beau B. Beza
R1,310 Discovery Miles 13 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Consuming Cities - The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio (Paperback, New): Ingemar Elander, Brendan Gleeson,... Consuming Cities - The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio (Paperback, New)
Ingemar Elander, Brendan Gleeson, Rolf Lidskog, Nicholas Low
R1,841 Discovery Miles 18 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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.

The Urban Condition (Hardcover): Brendan Gleeson The Urban Condition (Hardcover)
Brendan Gleeson
R4,772 Discovery Miles 47 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Creating Child Friendly Cities - New Perspectives and Prospects (Paperback): Brendan Gleeson, Neil Sipe Creating Child Friendly Cities - New Perspectives and Prospects (Paperback)
Brendan Gleeson, Neil Sipe
R1,787 Discovery Miles 17 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Geographies of Disability (Paperback, Revised): Brendan Gleeson Geographies of Disability (Paperback, Revised)
Brendan Gleeson
R2,608 Discovery Miles 26 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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.

Urban Awakenings - Disturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Samuel Alexander, Brendan... Urban Awakenings - Disturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson
R1,073 R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Records of The Loss Property Department of Gardiner Reserve (Paperback): Brendan Gleeson Records of The Loss Property Department of Gardiner Reserve (Paperback)
Brendan Gleeson
R486 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Degrowth in the Suburbs - A Radical Urban Imaginary (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019): Samuel... Degrowth in the Suburbs - A Radical Urban Imaginary (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019)
Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Screams from My Father - Stories by Paul F. Gleeson (Paperback): Kevin Gleeson Screams from My Father - Stories by Paul F. Gleeson (Paperback)
Kevin Gleeson; Illustrated by Brendan Gleeson; Paul F Gleeson
R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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