Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Accessible, Green and Fair
Author:   David Simon (Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, and Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781447332848


Pages:   152
Publication Date:   31 August 2016
Format:   Paperback

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Author:   David Simon (Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, and Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781447332848


ISBN 10:   1447332849
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   31 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Table of Contents

Foreword ~ Julio Dávila; Introduction: Sustainable cities in sustainable societies ~ David Simon; Changing ideas and practices for making cities fair ~ Susan Parnell; Green cities: from tokenism to incrementalism and transformation ~ David Simon; Accessible cities: from urban density to multidimensional access ~ James Waters; Conclusions and implications ~ David Simon and Henrietta Palmer.

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This timely and lively book builds on several empirical examples to help with the challenges that planners, policy makers, professors and students face in making words like 'green' or 'sustainable' understandable and approachable. Garth Myers, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA


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David Simon is Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, and Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He specialises in development environment issues, with particular reference to cities, climate change and sustainability, and the relationships between theory, policy and practice, on all of which he has published extensively.

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