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Instead, the book applies certain systems-theoretical concepts-cycles, stocks and flows, leverage points, dynamics and feedback loops-to cities and communities (these two are consistently conflated throughout) in an attempt to show how city planning and local governance can produce sustainable urban development.

This book tackles two issues: sustainable environmental development and urban development. It brings together the insights of environmental science, the social science and management.

Urban sustainability as a new paradigm -- Energy-environmental policy as a focal point of sustainable cities -- Recent developments in local energy and environmental planning -- Methods for urban energy-environmental impact studies -- Energy policy and urban sustainability -- A retrospective interpretation of the cities results -- European cities and sustainability policy -- Sustainable cities : retrospect and prospect.

Worldwide, urbanization is steadily increasing, yet many modern cities are becoming less and less able to accommodate the growth in their population. Congestion, pollution, low-quality housing, social fragmentation, noise, crime and inadequate social services all contribute to a declining quality of urban life. Planners and policy makers are battling to alleviate the problems with a variety of urban renewal initiatives, and energy-environmental policies have become central to their quest for urban sustainability. Sustainable Cities in Europe gives a comprehensive introduction to the available u.

A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs. After Sustainable Cities critically reviews what has happened to these priorities and asks whether these social commitments have been abandoned in a period of austerity governance and climate change and replaced by a darker and unfair city. This book provides the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the new eco-logics reshaping conventional sustainable cities discourse and environmental priorities of cities in both the global north and south. The dominant discourse on sustainable cities, with a commitment to intergenerational equity, social justice and global responsibility, has come under increasing pressure. Under conditions of global ecological change, international financial and economic crisis and austerity governance new eco-logics are entering the urban sustainability lexicon - climate change, green growth, smart growth, resilience and vulnerability, ecological security. This book explores how these new eco-logics reshape our understanding of equity, justice and global responsibility, and how these more technologically and economically driven themes resonate and dissonate with conventional sustainable cities discourse. This book provides a warning that a more technologically driven and narrowly constructed economic agenda is driving ecological policy and weakening previous commitment to social justice and equity. After Sustainable Cities brings together leading researchers to provide a critical examination of these new logics and identity what sort of city is now emerging, as well as consider the longer-term implication on sustainable cities research and policy. Mike Hodson is Rearch Fellow in the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Simon Marvin is the Carillion Chair of Low Carbon Cities in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. Publisher's note.

The new paradigm of sustainable development (SD) is examined, focusing on its consequence for European cities & the prospects for knowledge-based development. It is argued that the old model of industrial growth gave undue emphasis to science & technology, & that the paradigm of SD offers a policy framework for democratizing & humanizing science. It is further contended that the potential of the SD model will not be realized unless cities reassert their role as civilizing forces, which can be best accomplished by integrating local & global knowledge at the city & regional level. A model of knowledge-based development is presented & applied to the city of Delft, Netherlands. It is concluded that cities must become more responsible for locally-based knowledge, whether organizational or institutional, & that cities need to establish a knowledge infrastructure roundtable to identify & formulate strategies for strengthening their knowledge cultures. 2 Tables, 11 References. W. Howard

This book emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism is illuminated. From a philosophical point of view, the city is seen as an organism, following complex ecosystemic principles, shining light on Indigenous perspectives to become beneficial for sustainable design and core questions are asked whether current architectural practice is really sustainable. Simultaneously concrete practices are presented for cities in transformation, focusing on green infrastructure, smart city principles and health.

Chapter 1 Designing the Sustainable City -- Chapter 2 The Role of Indigenous Paradigms and Traditional Knowledge Systems in Modern Humanity's Sustainability Quest – Future foundations from past knowledge -- Chapter 3 Born, not made: designing the productive city -- Chapter 4 A new model for place development – bringing together regenerative and placemaking processes -- Chapter 5 The key role of systems thinking in sustainable architecture -- Chapter 6 Liveable Green Cities; integrating climate adaptive solutions and circular economy into the built environment -- Chapter 7 Post-earthquake recovery in Nepal: A study and analysis of post disaster perception and needs for housing recovery after 2015 earthquake -- Chapter 8 Tackling urban open space encroachment in a South African township: an exploratory study -- Chapter 9 The role of smart city initiatives in driving partnerships: A case study of the Smart Social Spaces Project, Sydney Australia -- Chapter 10 Fostering successful smart campus transitions through consensus-building: a university of technology case study -- Chapter 11 The role of landscape architectural designers in landscape construction health and safety -- Chapter 12 Sustainability, ReciproCity, Radicality -- Index.