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• The sustainable city : civic action and democratic institutionalism
• Urban water and air in the early postwar decades : movement and settlement
• Urban land conflicts and professional shifts
• Biking, walking, and farming in cities
• Urban rivers and watersheds
• Governance pathways to urban sustainability
• Framing and enabling the sustainable cities field
• Democratic resilience : civic action, democratic professionalism, and a culture of hope
• Postscript : towards a civic green New Deal

We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy. Located at the crux of these crises, sustainable cities build on the foundations and resources of democracy to make our increasingly urban world more resilient and just. Sustainable Cities in American Democracy focuses on this effort as it emerged and developed over the past decades in the institutional field of sustainable cities - a vital response to environmental degradation and climate change that is shaped by civic and democratic action. Carmen Sirianni shows how various kinds of civic associations and grassroots mobilizing figure in this story, especially as they began to explicitly link conservation to the future of our democracy and then develop sustainable cities as a democratic project. These organizations are national, local, or multitiered, from the League of Women Voters to the Natural Resources Defense Council to bicycle and watershed associations. Some challenge city government agencies contentiously, while others seek collaboration; many do both at some point. Sirianni uses a range of analytic approaches - from scholarly disciplines, policy design, urban governance, social movements, democratic theory, public administration, and planning - to understand how such diverse civic and professional associations have come to be both an ecology of organizations and a systemic and coherent project. The institutional field of sustainable cities has emerged with some core democratic norms and civic practices but also with many tensions and trade-offs that must be crafted and revised strategically in the face of new opportunities and persistent shortfalls. Sirianni's account draws ambitious yet pragmatic and hopeful lessons for a 'Civic Green New Deal'a policy design for building sustainable and resilient cities on much more robust foundations in the decades ahead while also addressing democratic deficits in our polarized political culture.
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• Chapter 1: The Weather of Catastrophe and the Vertical Field
• Chapter 2: Alternative Sprawls, Junk Cities: Buenos Aires Libre and Horizontal Urban Knowledges
• Interlude: Urban Sprawl
• Chapter 3: YOUR MILLION DOLLAR HOUSES WILL SOON BE UNDERWATER: Coming Catastrophe in Miami and the Plastic City
• Interlude: Messy Terrain
• Chapter 4: From the Ground Up: Aerial Tactics and Top-Down Strategies in Los Angeles
• Interlude: Plastic City
• Chapter 5: Conclusion (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the City).
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This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century. It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster and that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in the Americas in which forms of play and imaginations of catastrophe intersect in the vertical field. Schifani explores a diverse range of resistant urban interventions, imagining the city as on the verge of or enmeshed in catastrophe. She also presents a model of ecocriticism that addresses aesthetic practices and forms of play in the urban environment. Tracing the historical roots of such tactics as well as mapping their hopes for the future will help the reader to locate the impacts of climate change not only on the physical space of the city, but also on the epistemological and aesthetic strategies that cities can help to engender. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and the broad and interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.
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• Berlin walls
• Old Berlin
• Metropolis
• Nazi Berlin
• Divided Berlin
• Capital of the new Germany
• Afterword: two decades later
• Chronology of Berlin's history

In the twenty years since its original publication, The Ghosts of Berlin has become a classic, an unparalleled guide to understanding the presence of history in our built environment, especially in a space as historically contested--and emotionally fraught--as Berlin. Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Returning to the city frequently, Ladd continues to survey the urban landscape, traversing its ruins, contemplating its buildings and memorials, and carefully deconstructing the public debates and political controversies emerging from its past.
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• Publisher's Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Introduction: An Uncivil City Part I: Remaking Landscapes and Lives Making Plans and Places Sealing Factories and Fates Playing Games Part II: Contesting the Commons Cows, Cars and Cycle-Rickshaws The River The Ridge Part III: Conclusion and Coda City Limits and Beyond Climate Change, Uncertainty and the City Glossary Bibliography Index.
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As cities become habitat for most of humanity, the question of their ecological capacity to sustain lives worth living becomes ever more critical. Yet, when we listen to debates about city planning and governance, and observe urban environmental campaigns on the ground, we notice that they have little to do with ecology or justice. To examine this contradiction, Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi looks at two decades of environmental politics in Delhi-across homes and workplaces, ordinary streets and extraordinary spectacles, and the river and the Ridge. It argues that the terms of the discourse-what is an environmental issue, who is authorised to speak, and which modes of action count as legitimate-are partial, particularistic and perverse. 'Bourgeois environmentalists', who claim to speak in the public interest, for nature and society, have made the city what it is: unfair and unliveable. Only citizenship and civility will save the commons-air, water, space and trees-upon which cities depend for survival. .
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Many cities and urban centers around the world experience high air pollution episodes attributable to increased anthropogenic alterations of natural environmental systems. World Health Organization estimates indicate strong exceedances of prescribed limits in developing countries. However, the evidence on local pollution measures is limited for such cities and Uganda is no exception. Informed by the practical realities of air quality monitoring, this paper employs a low-cost approach using passive and active monitors to obtain characterization of pollution levels based on particulate matter 2.5, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone over a six-month period (starting in December 2018) for selected urban centers in three of the four macro-regions in Uganda. This is the first attempt to comprehensively assess pollution levels at a near-national level in Uganda. A combination of distributed stationary monitors and mobile monitors installed on motorcycle taxis (boda-boda) was employed in selected parishes to obtain spatiotemporal variations in the pollutant concentrations. The results suggest that seasonal particulate levels heavily depend on precipitation patterns with a strong inverse relation, which further corroborates the need for longer monitoring periods to reflect actual seasonal variations. Informed by the observed level of data completeness and quality in all the monitoring scenarios, the paper highlights the practicability and potential of a low-cost approach to air quality monitoring and the potential to use this information to inform citizens

Many cities and urban centers around the world experience high air pollution episodes attributable to increased anthropogenic alterations of natural environmental systems. World Health Organization estimates indicate strong exceedances of prescribed limits in developing countries. However, the evidence on local pollution measures is limited for such cities and Uganda is no exception. Informed by the practical realities of air quality monitoring, this paper employs a low-cost approach using passive and active monitors to obtain characterization of pollution levels based on particulate matter 2.5, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone over a six-month period (starting in December 2018) for selected urban centers in three of the four macro-regions in Uganda. This is the first attempt to comprehensively assess pollution levels at a near-national level in Uganda. A combination of distributed stationary monitors and mobile monitors installed on motorcycle taxis (boda-boda) was employed in selected parishes to obtain spatiotemporal variations in the pollutant concentrations. The results suggest that seasonal particulate levels heavily depend on precipitation patterns with a strong inverse relation, which further corroborates the need for longer monitoring periods to reflect actual seasonal variations. Informed by the observed level of data completeness and quality in all the monitoring scenarios, the paper highlights the practicability and potential of a low-cost approach to air quality monitoring and the potential to use this information to inform citizens

• Chapter 1: Urban Risk and Tourism in Africa: An overview, Llewellyn Leonard, Regis Musavengane and Pius Siakwah Theme
• 1: Urban tourism and environmental pollution risks
• Chapter 2: Examining 'toxic tourism' as a new form of alternative urban tourism and for environmental justice: The case of the South Durban Industrial Basin, South Africa, Llewellyn Leonard and Robin Nunkoo
• Chapter 3: Waste management and urban risk in Livingstone City, Zambia: The sustainability of the hospitality sector, Wilma Sichombo Nchito and Euphemia Mwale
• Chapter 4: The political economy of unplanned urban sprawl, waste and tourism development in Ghana, Pius Siakwah
• Chapter 5: Environmental risk management and township tourism development in Alexandra, Johannesburg, South Africa, Llewellyn Leonard and Ayanda Dladla Theme
• 2: Peace tourism, battlefields and war risks
• Chapter 6: Megasport Events and Urban Risks: FIFA 2010, the African Bid and Xenophobic Violence, Brij Maharaj
• Chapter 7: Elections risk and urban tourism in Sub-Saharan African cities: Exploring peace through tourism in Harare, Zimbabwe, Regis Musavengane
• Chapter 8: The role of responsible tourism in peace-building and social inclusion in war risk cities: Evidence from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Clement Longondjo Etambakonga and Dieudonne Trinto Mugangu Theme
• 3: Tourism, climate change and flood risks
• Chapter 9: Factors influencing tourism accommodations' lack of preparedness for flooding in Lagos, Nigeria, Eromose Ebhuoma and Llewellyn Leonard
• Chapter 10: Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for tourism hotspots Mombasa and Cape Town, Francini van Staden
• Chapter 11: Risk of flood impacts on tourism in coastal cities of West Africa: a case study of Accra, Ghana, Raphael Ane Atanga and Tembi Tichaawa
• Chapter 12: The nexus of climate change and urban tourism in South Africa: Triaging challenges and optimising opportunities, Felix Donkor and Kevin Mearns Theme
• 4: Inclusive urban tourism and enclaves
• Chapter 13: Human Settlements and Tourism Development in Kenya: Prospects for Tackling Urban Risks in Informal Settlements, Prudence Khumalo
• Chapter 14: Conservation tourism challenges and opportunities on the Cape Flats, South Africa, Michael Dyssel
• Chapter 15: Resilience, Inclusiveness and Challenges of Cosmopolitan Cities' Heritage Tourism: The Case of the Balancing Rocks in Epworth, Harare, Zibanai Zhou
• Chapter 16: Prospects and challenges of sustainable urban tourism in Windhoek: poverty, inequality and urban risks linkages, Erisher Woyo
• Chapter 17: Navigating urban tourism amidst environmental, political and social risks: Conclusion, Regis Musavengane, Llewellyn Leonard and Pius Siakwah.
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This book investigates urban tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the challenges and risks involved, but also showcasing the potential benefits. Whilst much is written on Africa's rural environments, little has been written about the tourism potential of the vast natural, cultural and historical resources in the continent's urban areas. Yet these opportunities also come with considerable environmental, social and political challenges. This book interrogates the interactions between urban risks, tourism and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan African urban spaces. It addresses the underlying issues of governance, power, ownership, collaboration, justice, community empowerment and policies that influence tourism decision-making at local, national and regional levels. Interrogating the intricate relationships between tourism stakeholders, this book ultimately reflects on how urban risk can be mitigated, and how sustainable urban tourism can be harnessed for development. The important insights in this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners across Tourism, Geography, Urban Development, and African Studies.
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The World Health Organization attributes about 3.3 million annual premature deaths to outdoor air pollution in low- and middle-income countries. Comprehensive pollution monitoring in urban areas has been too costly for many developing countries; yet sparse information has hindered cost-effective pollution management strategies. Global information technologies offer a potential escape from this information trap, but their accuracy remains uncertain. This paper uses ground-based measures of fine particulates and nitrogen dioxide, provided by the CAMS-3 Darussalam monitoring station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to test three global technologies: the European Space Agency's Sentinel-5P, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, and Google Traffic. The results indicate that all three global technologies can provide useful information for extension of air pollution measurement beyond the few areas that are currently monitored by ground stations. Each technology tracks ground-based fine particulates measures with high significance, and the European Space Agency's Sentinel-5P and Google Traffic perform similarly for ground-based nitrogen dioxide measures. Google Traffic can provide accurate tracking at higher spatial and temporal resolution than the satellite sources, but only for emissions from motor vehicles in major metro areas. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the European Space Agency's Sentinel-5P capture the effects of emissions from other sources at all locations

In urban areas around the world, increasing motorization and growing travel demand make the urban transportation sector an ever-greater contributor to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The situation is particularly acute in developing countries, where growing metropolitan regions suffer some of the world's highest levels of air pollution. Policies that seek to develop and manage this transportation sector-to meet rising demand linked to economic growth and safeguard the environment and human health-have had strikingly different results, with some inadvertently exacerbating the traffic and pollution they seek to mitigate. This paper provides an overview of the findings of the recent literature on the impacts of a host of urban transportation policies used in developed and developing country settings. The paper identifies research challenges and future areas of study of transportation policies, which can have important, long-lasting impacts on urban life and global climate change

Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate development From state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City's unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In The Sustainability Myth, Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costs-and contradictions-of the city's ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally ambitious redevelopment imperatives. Focusing on industrial waterfronts and historically underserved places like Harlem and Staten Island's North Shore, Checker takes an in-depth look at the dynamics of environmental gentrification, documenting the symbiosis between eco-friendly initiatives and high-end redevelopment and its impact on out-of-the-way, non-gentrifying neighborhoods. At the same time, she highlights the valiant efforts of local environmental justice activists who work across racial, economic, and political divides to challenge sustainability's false promises and create truly viable communities. The Sustainability Myth is a cautionary, eye-opening tale, taking a hard-but ultimately hopeful-look at environmental justice activism and the politics of sustainability.
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• Introduction : The low wards
• From bottomlands to bottom neighborhoods
• Harlem Flats : New York, New York
• Black Bottom : Nashville, Tennessee
• Swede Hollow : Saint Paul, Minnesota
• The Flats : Los Angeles, California
• Landscapes of poverty and power
• Epilogue : lowland legacies

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective on the history of US urban development that stretches from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Moga reveals patterns of inequitable land use, economic dispossession, and social discrimination against poor and working-class residents. In attending to the landscapes of neighborhoods typically considered slums, Moga shows how physical and policy-driven containment has shaped the lives of the urban poor, while wealth and access to resources have been historically concentrated in elevated areas--truly "the heights." Moga's innovative framework expands our understanding of how planning and economic segregation alike have molded the American city.
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The climate has changed and communities across America are living with the consequences: rapid sea level rise, multi-state wildfires, heat waves, and enduring drought. Living with Climate Change: How Communities Are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate details the steps cities are taking now to protect lives and businesses, to reduce their.

• Acknowledgements, The Contributors, Introduction: What Is a Good City? Simon Goldhill, PART I ENGAGEMENT AND SPACE
• Chapter 1 The Public Realm Richard Sennett,
• Chapter 2 On Urban Failure Ash Amin,
• Chapter 3 On the Possibility of Urban Citizenship: Inclusive Identitities, Exclusive Spaces Nezar AlSayyad and Sujin Eom, PART II INFRASTRUCTURE AND AFFECT
• Chapter 4 Urban Atmospheres Matthew Gandy,
• Chapter 5 Atmospheric Urban Geopolitics Sara Fregonese,
• Chapter 6 Becoming a Crowd: Multiple Narratives, Identities and Ambiguities: People's Places in the Near East/Levant: Tahrir Square, Cairo, Taksim Square, Istanbul, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv Mike Turner and Yonka Erkan PART III CONFLICT AND STRUCTURE
• Chapter 7 The Conditions of Urbicide Wendy Pullan,
• Chapter 8 Sovereignty and the Urban Question: Exploring the Material Foundations for Imagined Communities of Allegiance in Conflict Cities Diane E. Davis,
• Chapter 9 Precariousness and Protest: Negotiating Urban Refuge in Cairo and Tel Aviv Irit Katz PART IV CURATING THE CITY
• Chapter 10 The Levantine Age: Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism in the Eastern Mediterranean Nasser Rabbat
• Chapter 11 Excavating Urban Imaginaries in Tehran Somaiyeh Falahat,
• Chapter 12 A Spectral Sumud: Jaffa in Kamal Aljafari's Port of Memory Mezna Qato and Sadia Shirazi, Index.
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In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains in his introduction, 'What is a good city?', five questions motivate the book: How can a city be systematically planned and yet maintain a possibility of flexibility, change, and the wellbeing of citizens? How does the city represent itself to itself, and image its past, its present and its future? What is it to dwell in, and experience, a city? How does violence erupt in and to a city, and what strategies of reconciliation and reconstruction can be employed? And finally, what is the relationship between the infrastructure of the city and the political process? Following the introduction, the twelve chapters are grouped into four sections: Engagement and Space; Infrastructure and Space; Conflict and Structures; and Curating the City. Through each chapter, the contributors reflect on aspects of urban infrastructure and culture, citizenship, belonging and exclusion, politics and conflict, with examples from across the Middle East, from Cairo to Tehran, Tel Aviv to Istanbul. Not only will Being Urban further understanding of the topography of citizenship in the Middle East and beyond, it will also contribute to answering one of today's key questions: What Is A Good City?
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• Foreword Preface
• 1. Plans
• 2. Energy and Electricity
• 3. Existing Buildings
• 4. New Buildings
• 5. Public Transportation
• 6. Personal and Other Transportation
• 7. Waste
• Epilogue Afterword.
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If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can - and because they must. Miller makes a clear-eyed and compelling case that, if replicated at pace and scale, the actions of leading global cities point the way to creating a more sustainable planet. Solved: How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis demonstrates that the initiatives cities have taken to control the climate crisis can make a real difference in reducing global emissions if implemented worldwide. By chronicling the stories of how cities have taken action to meet and exceed emissions targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, Miller empowers readers to fix the climate crisis. As much a "how to" guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens, Solved aims to inspire hope through its clear and factual analysis of what can be done - now, today - to mitigate our harmful emissions and pave the way to a 1.5-degree world.
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• Chapter 1: On Rome, by Way of Introduction
• Section 1: Foundational Systems
• Chapter 2: On a Geological Inheritance
• Chapter 3: On the Space of Flooding
• Section 2: Umbrellas and Indicators
• Chapter 4: On Climate, Fever, and Force
• Chapter 5: On the Projective City
• Chapter 6: On Ritual Urbanism and the Via Papalis
• Section 3: Keystones
• Chapter 7: On the Magnitude of Relics
• Chapter 8: On Stone, Continuity, and Romantias
• Chapter 9: On Time and the City
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome offers a new approach to exploring cities. Using Rome as a guide, the book follows familiar sites, geographies, and characters in search of their role within a larger narrative that includes the environmental processes required to generate enough space and material for the city, the emergent ecologies to which its buildings play host, and the social patterns its various structures help to organize. Through Time and the City argues that Rome is made and unmade by an endlessly evolving chorus that has, for better or worse, gained geological legitimacy; that the city absorbs and emits countless artifacts in its search for collective identity; that the city is a platform for the constant staging of negotiations between agents (humans, buildings, plants, animals, pathogens, goods, waste, water) that drive and are driven by the entanglements of climate and culture. This book provides textual and visual frameworks for identifying the material traces, emergent patterns, or speculated futures that expose a city as inseparable from its capacity to change.
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Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet - City of Lake and Prairie - with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections over centuries, from the Native Americans who first inhabited the region to the urban dwellers who built a metropolis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As one millennium ended and a new one began, these same features sparked a distinctive Midwestern environmentalism aimed at preserving local ecosystems. Drawing on its contributors' interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.
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• Introduction : The low wards
• From bottomlands to bottom neighborhoods
• Harlem Flats : New York, New York
• Black Bottom : Nashville, Tennessee
• Swede Hollow : Saint Paul, Minnesota
• The Flats : Los Angeles, California
• Landscapes of poverty and power
• Epilogue : lowland legacies

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective on the history of US urban development that stretches from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Moga reveals patterns of inequitable land use, economic dispossession, and social discrimination against poor and working-class residents. In attending to the landscapes of neighborhoods typically considered slums, Moga shows how physical and policy-driven containment has shaped the lives of the urban poor, while wealth and access to resources have been historically concentrated in elevated areas--truly "the heights." Moga's innovative framework expands our understanding of how planning and economic segregation alike have molded the American city.
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• Foreword
• Harm de Blij; Preface; Overview
• Jeb Brugmann; Advancing toward Urban Sustainability: The Pursuit of Equity
• Igor Vojnovic; Urban Environmental Management in Shanghai: A Multiscale Perspective
• Wei Tu, Daniel Sui, and Weichun Ma; The Urban Expansion and Sustainability Challenge of Cities in China's West: The Case of Urumqi
• Jiaguo Qi, Peilei Fan, and Xi Chen; Sustainable Manufacturing in Nagoya: Exploring the Dynamics of Japan's Competitive Advantage
• Ronald Kalafsky.

• The Sufficiency Economy, Sustainable Development, and Agricultural Townsin Thailand: The Case of Nang Rong
• Pariwate Varnakovida and Joseph MessinaDeconcentration in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area: Governance, Markets, and the Quest for Sustainability
• Eran Razin; The Crisis of Consociational Democracy in Beirut: Conflict Transformation and Sustainability through Electoral Reform
• Imad Salamey; Segmentation and Enclavization in Urban Development: The Sustainable City in India
• Darshini Mahadevia.

• Urban Sustainability and Automobile Dependence in an Australian Context
• Peter Newman and Jeffrey KenworthyUrban Sustainability Rhetoric and Neoliberal Realities: Durban
• A City in Transition
• Brij Maharaj and Sultan Khan; Residential Marginality, Erasure, and Intractability in Addis Ababa
• Assefa Mehretu and Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher; Water Provision for and by the Peri-urban Poor: Public-Community Partnerships or Citizens Coproduction?
• Adriana Allen.

• Economic Reorganization, Social Transformation, and Urban Sustainability in Argentina: The Case of Metropolitan Buenos Aires
• Ricardo Gomez-Insausti and Analia S. ConteUrban Renewal, Favelas, and Guanabara Bay: Environmental Justice and Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro
• Brian J. Godfrey; Neoliberal Restructuring, Poverty, and Urban Sustainability in Kingston, Jamaica
• Beverley Mullings; Housing and Urban Sustainability: A Los Angeles Case Study
• Victoria Basolo.

• The Colors That Shaped a City: The Role of Racial and Class Tensions in Inhibiting Urban Sustainability, the Detroit Context
• Igor Vojnovic and Joe T. DardenThe Role of Ethnicity and Race in Supporting Sustainable Urban Environments
• June Manning Thomas; Recent Planning and Development in Toronto: Moving Toward Smart Growth?
• Pierre Filion; Planning for Sustainable Development in Montreal: A Qualified Success
• Raphaël Fischler and Jeanne M. Wolfe.

• Oil for Food
• Energy, Equity, and Evolution of Urban Supermarket Locations: An Edmonton, Alberta, Case Study
• Nairne Cameron, Karen E. Smoyer-Tomic, Vladimir Yasenovskiy, and Carl Amrhein.

More than half the world's population currently lives in urban areas, and virtually all of the world's population growth over the next three decades is expected to be in cities. What impact will this growth have on the environment? What can we do now to pave the way for resource longevity? Sustainability has received considerable attention in recent years, though conceptions of the term remain vague. Using a wide array of cities around the globe as case studies, this timely book explores the varying nature of global urban-environmental stresses and the complexities involved in defining sustainability policies. Working with six core themes, the editor examines the past, present, and future of urban sustainability within local, national, and global contexts.
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• List of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction
• 1 I. The Making of a Metropolitan Environment
• 1. The Porfirian Metropolitan Environment
• 19
• 2. Revolution and the Metropolitan Environment
• 51 II. Spaces of a Metropolitan Environment
• 3. Water and Hygiene in the City
• 81
• 4. The City and Its Forests
• 109
• 5. Desiccation, Dust, and Engineered Waterscapes
• 136
• 6. The Political Ecology of Working-Class Settlements
• 164
• 7. Industrialization and Environmental Technocracy
• 193 Conclusion
• 218 Notes
• 235 Bibliography
• 291 Index 321.
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In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization and environmental decline stemmed from numerous scientific and social disputes over water policy, housing, forestry, and sanitary engineering. From the prerevolutionary efforts to create a hygienic city supportive of capitalist growth, through revolutionary demands for a more democratic distribution of resources, to the mid-twentieth-century emergence of a technocratic bureaucracy that served the interests of urban elites, Mexico City's environmental history helps us better understand how urban power has been exercised, reproduced, and challenged throughout Latin America.
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• Introduction. Greenery scenery: Plant life in the city, seventeenth to twenty-first centuries
• Chapter 1. Why bring Nature into town?
• Chapter 2. Green fingers: Actors in the vegetalisation of towns
• Chapter 3. Turning the town green: A challenge
• Chapter 4. Vegetal theatre
• Chapter 5. Wellbeing, living well
• Chapter 6. The urban jungle? Plant life... wild life
• Chapter 7. The economics of the vegetal
• Chapter 8. Nature and learning.
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The time seems ripe for the greening of cities: green roofs and walls, planted pavements, shared or therapeutic gardens... Is the city discovering its vegetable nature? Exploring the place of nature in the French urban environment from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, this volume, translated from the original French by Moya Jones, reveals, rather than a monolithic narrative, a continuous, but fluctuating, interlacing of paving stones and plants. The focus of this liberally-illustrated book is not just gardens and parks, but also all the plants and plant matter that circulate in the space of the city - vegetable waste, market fruits and vegetables, cut flowers, etc. These various forms give a new inflection to the history of cities, taking us on a voyage back to their natural roots. We trace why the presence of certain aspects of nature in an urban environment has been accepted, sometimes encouraged; what actors have allowed it to take root and flourish; and what challenges have been faced along the way. In examining the vegetal nature of the city at the crossroads of social, economic, cultural and political history, green spaces and plants reveal themselves as instruments of urbanity or disorder; agents of stage setting, schooling and subsistence; objects of commerce, entertainment, scientific study, wellbeing or good living. From the gardens of the aristocracy of the Grand Siecle to the market of the Halles in Paris, from the parks of the Second Empire to botanical gardens, a whole new history is unveiled and throws the light of the past over our own time.
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