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What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking,
in today's cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices
of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute
sustainability in city building, from a pragmatic perspective?
Today, we are faced with a mountain of reasons to lose hope in any
prospect of moving closer to justice and sustainability from our
present position in civilization. Pragmatic Justifications for the
Sustainable City: Acting in the Common Place offers a critical and
philosophical approach to revaluating the way in which we think and
talk about the "sustainable city" to ensure that we neither lose
the thread of our urban history, nor the means to live well amidst
diversity of all kinds. By building and rebuilding better habits of
urban thinking, this book promotes the reconstruction of moral
thinking, paving the way for a new urban sustainability model of
justice. Utilizing multidisciplinary case studies and building upon
anti-foundationalist principles, this book offers a pragmatic
interpretation of sustainable development concepts within our
emerging global urban context and will be a valuable resource for
both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics
and professionals in the areas of urban and planning policy,
sociology, and urban and environmental geography.
What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking,
in today's cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices
of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute
sustainability in city building, from a pragmatic perspective?
Today, we are faced with a mountain of reasons to lose hope in any
prospect of moving closer to justice and sustainability from our
present position in civilization. Pragmatic Justifications for the
Sustainable City: Acting in the Common Place offers a critical and
philosophical approach to revaluating the way in which we think and
talk about the "sustainable city" to ensure that we neither lose
the thread of our urban history, nor the means to live well amidst
diversity of all kinds. By building and rebuilding better habits of
urban thinking, this book promotes the reconstruction of moral
thinking, paving the way for a new urban sustainability model of
justice. Utilizing multidisciplinary case studies and building upon
anti-foundationalist principles, this book offers a pragmatic
interpretation of sustainable development concepts within our
emerging global urban context and will be a valuable resource for
both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics
and professionals in the areas of urban and planning policy,
sociology, and urban and environmental geography.
This book is the seventh volume in a series covering best practices
in community quality of life indicators. The case studies and
analysis in this volume demonstrate how community indicators
projects today operate within a need to amplify the voice of
disadvantaged communities, seriously explore the increasing use of
information technology, produce positive community change and
sustain these efforts over time. The work presented here spans
North American and Australian community work and demonstrates how
the field of community indicators has undergone a rapid evolution
in only a few decades. Today as in their original formulations,
community indicators projects are designed to gauge the social,
economic and physical health and well-being of communities.
This book is the seventh volume in a series covering best practices
in community quality of life indicators. The case studies and
analysis in this volume demonstrate how community indicators
projects today operate within a need to amplify the voice of
disadvantaged communities, seriously explore the increasing use of
information technology, produce positive community change and
sustain these efforts over time. The work presented here spans
North American and Australian community work and demonstrates how
the field of community indicators has undergone a rapid evolution
in only a few decades. Today as in their original formulations,
community indicators projects are designed to gauge the social,
economic and physical health and well-being of communities.
This collection of urban studies research and interpretation
crosses the country from Quebec to B.C., comparing trends and
perspectives over the past decade and across and beyond
disciplines. Core questions of research, policy and practice facing
Montreal and Vancouver—those featuring housing and
transportation, in particular—are featured in terms of new and
innovative directions. Emerging questions—about urban
indigeneity, food systems, climate action—are broached in
challenging ways. The twenty authors whose original work is
compiled here demonstrate the scope for continued, critical,
comparative conversation across francophone and anglophone divides.
The book offers a significant resource for understanding the
intersecting field and practice of urban studies in Quebec and in
B.C. and for spurring its further evolution. A French version of
this book is also available.
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