This timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalue public planning, sensitive to the social context in which it takes place. Aiming to define the social and political basis of planning, the book highlights how our neo-liberal world has lost touch with the importance of a well-resourced, impartial, professional and permanent public service to democracy. It does so by exploring the role of planning in long-term social and economic change, different understandings of social power and class and how human-nature relationships might influence ecological governance. Planning scholars, particularly those focusing on urban and environmental planning, will find this book an inspiring and accessible read, integrating a wide range of social theories with social and ecological justice.

- What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most people live, work and move?
- Can we keep what we love about city and suburban life and still save the environment?
- What new methods of planning and building will be needed in the 21st century?
A genuinely innovative book, "The Green City," considers and answers these three basic questions, and challenges the way we think about our cities, the environment and planning for the future.
It presents a new and controversial challenge to ideas about sustainability and rejects both economic and environmental orthodoxy. In a nutshell, its message is that the sustainable city can be built by a thousand well-directed small changes. To illustrate this, "The Green City "draws on diverse practical case material from Australia, Europe the USA and Asia, and features a photographic essay of 34 colour photographs.
In "The GreenCity" a team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how one idea - ecological sustainability - can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.
This genuinely innovative book challenges the way we think about our cities, the environment and about planning for the future. A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.
The book considers - and answers - three basic questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most people live, work and move? Can we keep what we love about city andsuburban life and still save the environment? And what new methods of planning and building will be needed in the 21st century?
The Green City presents a controversial new approach to sustainability that rejects both economic and environmental orthodoxy. In a nutshell, its message is that the sustainable city can be built by a thousand well-directed small changes. It draws on lots of practical case material from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and weaves together four critical aspects of urban life: housing, open space, workplaces and transport. The Green City also contains a 'photographic essay' of 32 colour plates that give impact to the ideas discussed in the book.

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.

In a world seeking to tackle global environmental problems such as climate change, the importance of local and national institutional change to deal most effectively with these issues is critical. This book presents an investigation of the institutional barriers preventing the development of a new vision for urban transport compatible with these realities and in those terms 'sustainable'. Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, the book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems become encrusted around investment to accommodate private cars, erecting an impenetrable barrier against more sustainable mobility and accessibility solutions. Representing a new approach to understanding transport policy, this book brings sophisticated political-institutional analysis to what has traditionally been the domain of engineering and technology. The authors connect the empirical content to this theory and the issue of sustainability making the findings applicable to most cities of the developed world, and to fields beyond transport planning. A strategy and program of action is outlined to take advantage of changing public perceptions and aimed at creating a new vision for urban transport.

In a world seeking to tackle global environmental problems such as climate change, the importance of local and national institutional change to deal most effectively with these issues is critical. This book presents an investigation of the institutional barriers preventing the development of a new vision for urban transport compatible with these realities and in those terms 'sustainable'. Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, the book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems become encrusted around investment to accommodate private cars, erecting an impenetrable barrier against more sustainable mobility and accessibility solutions. Representing a new approach to understanding transport policy, this book brings sophisticated political-institutional analysis to what has traditionally been the domain of engineering and technology. The authors connect the empirical content to this theory and the issue of sustainability making the findings applicable to most cities of the developed world, and to fields beyond transport planning. A strategy and program of action is outlined to take advantage of changing public perceptions and aimed at creating a new vision for urban transport.

As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues. This text explores these ethical issues from a range of perspectives and using a wide range of case studies. Chapters focus on: the impact of development in new industrial regions; the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature; the application of ethics in different cultural and institutional contexts; environmental injustice in the location of hazardous materials and processes; the ethics of the impact of a single event (Chernobyl) on the global community; and the ethics of transitional institutions. This collection aims to both stimulate debate and provide a resource for wide-ranging case study material and solid academic context.

Contents:
Introduction Nicholas Low. An Outline of the Problems Ahead Arne Naess. Part I: Environmental Justice Challenges. Environmental Justice Challenges at Home and Abroad Robert Bullard. Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalisation Vandana Shiva. Chernobyl, Global Environmental Injustice and Mutagenic Threats Kristin Shrader-Frechette. Justice, the Market and Climate Change Clive Hamilton. Part II: Environmental Justice: Issues of Principle. Considerations on the Environment of Justice David Harvey. Care Sensitive Ethics and Situated Universalism Karen Warren. Ethics Across the Species Boundary Peter Singer. Mapping Human Rights Tom Regan. Indigenous Ecologies and an Ethics of Connection Deborah Rose. Ecological Ethics from Rights to Recognition: Multiple Spheres of Justice for Humans, Animals and Nature Val Plumwood. Part III: Global Political Justice. Indigenous People, the Conservation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Goveranance Henrietta Fourmile. Fairness Matters: The Role of Equity in International Regime Formation Oran Young. Global Ecological Democracy John Dryzek. Restructuring the space of democracy, the effects of capitalist globalization and the ecological crisis on the form and substance of democracy Elmar Altvater.

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.

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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.

Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational policy and in underlying concepts of the purpose of education. Relations between schools and the working world are changing all the time and the implementation of ideas of vocationalism has forced a blurring of the time-honoured boundaries between education concerned with concepts, and training concerned with skills. Now the challenge is to define how schools can give young people the foundations for life in a working world in which they are likely to have to change jobs, and where work will fill a smaller proportion of their lives than ever before. Meeting this challenge will require profound changes in the educational and training systems in the direction of a core of fundamental studies for all young people, and a more broadly based approach to training. "The Vocational Quest" offers a critical assessment of the evolution of vocationalism in Britain in historical terms and examines how the particular forms that have come into being in the last few years, compare with developments in other parts of the world, including continental E

Focusing on planning as a political practice, this book looks at the theory of state, of politics and of planning. The topics covered in this book range from neo-Marxist theory and the philosophy of praxis, to Max Weber and the rational state. The author argues that although planning must still be accountable, neither the domination of the market nor traditional post-war planning ideologies are acceptable in the 1990s - that a new agenda and a major rethink of planning from first principles is required.

A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future. The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most people live, work and move? Can we keep what we love about suburban life and still save the environment? And what new methods of planning and building will be needed in the 21st century? Rejecting both economic and environmental orthodoxy, the book's essential message is that the sustainable city can be built by a thousand well-directed small changes. It draws on practical case material from around the world and weaves together four critical aspects of urban life: housing, open space, workplaces and transport. A 'photographic essay' of 32 colour plates illustrates the ideas discussed.

Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution. Changes in urban mobility and transport require local institutional policy action. To support such action, the book explores new methods of governance of transport in dispersed and concentrated cities, new techniques for assessing transport needs, ways of improving childhood mobility, guidelines for political mobilization, and norms of knowledge sharing. Drawing together leading scholars from different disciplines in Australia, Japan and China, this book provides a unique fusion of Asian and Australasian perspectives and engages with the coming needs of transport planning practitioners in both high density and dispersed cities. Complete with a companion website with a wealth of supporting material around the topic, this is essential read for all students and practitioners of transport planning. Companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/Low