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This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both
critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional
wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of
projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and
innovatively about the situations they are addressing. The book
consists of original contributions from academics working in the
fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and
international sustainable development. Drawing on case study
research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an
original, interdisciplinary approach to both theory and practice,
illustrating the challenges and opportunities facing policy-makers
and practitioners attempting to develop, manage and maintain
sustainable communities. The authors argue that the dominant
approach of 'how to do' small scale social sustainability fails to
locate it within broader social processes. Ignoring the context not
only sustains, but also actively reproduces wider inequalities. The
book presents a new, more coherent and more complete approach to
issues of social sustainability in urban areas. The book approaches
current urban policy discourses in three different ways,
represented by three sections: firstly focusing on small places
within the urban fabric, secondly addressing the whole urban fabric
by examining whether changing urban living and working patterns.
The third section explores some of the ways that funding can be
secured to achieve the aims of social sustainability and the social
planning associated with it.
This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both
critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional
wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of
projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and
innovatively about the situations they are addressing. The book
consists of original contributions from academics working in the
fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and
international sustainable development. Drawing on case study
research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an
original, interdisciplinary approach to both theory and practice,
illustrating the challenges and opportunities facing policy-makers
and practitioners attempting to develop, manage and maintain
sustainable communities. The authors argue that the dominant
approach of 'how to do' small scale social sustainability fails to
locate it within broader social processes. Ignoring the context not
only sustains, but also actively reproduces wider inequalities. The
book presents a new, more coherent and more complete approach to
issues of social sustainability in urban areas. The book approaches
current urban policy discourses in three different ways,
represented by three sections: firstly focusing on small places
within the urban fabric, secondly addressing the whole urban fabric
by examining whether changing urban living and working patterns.
The third section explores some of the ways that funding can be
secured to achieve the aims of social sustainability and the social
planning associated with it.
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