Overview
- Provides an accessible introduction to a range of new and exciting ideas in urban development
- Offers a comprehensive review of major urban problems and presents suggested solutions
- Features examples from cities all over the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 112)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Keywords
- Building Sustainability
- Cittaslow
- City Beautification
- Disaster Preparedness
- Environmental Restoration
- Festival Impacts
- Green Infrastructure
- Neo-Traditional Designs
- New Regionalism
- Redistributive Urban Justice
- Sustainability Concepts
- Transition Towns
- Urban Agriculture
- Urban Crime
- Urban Medical Challenges
- Urban Resilience
- Winter Designs
- World Urban Trends
- landscape/regional and urban planning
- world regional geography
About this book
This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various approaches and their potential to improve urban life.
New Urbanism: creating new areas based on a more humane scale with neighbourhood cohesion
Just Cities: creating more fairness in decision-making so all residents can participate and benefit.
Green Cities: helping places become greener with environmental rehabilitation and protection
Sustainable Cities: avoiding the waste of resources and harmful pollution in settlements
Transition Towns: developing local initiatives for more sustainable actions
Winter Cities: making cities in cold climates more comfortable and enjoyable
Resilient Cities: strengthening cities to better enable them to withstand natural hazards
Creative Cities: supporting cultural industries and attracting talented individuals
Knowledge Cities: creating, renewing and spreading knowledge and innovation
Safe Cities: ensuring that citizens are better protected against criminal actions
Healthy Cities: making improvements in the health of people in cities
Festive Cities: rediscovering the utility of festive events in settlements
Slow Cities: enhancing locally unique activities, such as local cuisines and community interactions
This volume offers a host of approaches designed to give a new direction and focus to planning policies, helping readers to fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of each potential idea. It seeks to solve the many current problems associated with urban developments, making it a valuable resource for university and college students in urban geography, urban planning, urban sociology and urban studies as well as to planners and the general public.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Wayne Davies is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography, University of Calgary, with main research interests in Urban Geography. In addition to teaching in the Geography Department and in the Urban Studies programme, he served eight years as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies in Calgary. Educated in the University of Wales he held lecturing positions in Southampton and Swansea before moving to Canada. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Swansea and Adjunct Professor in the University of Lethbridge. He has written or edited ten books, including Factorial Ecology, Communities within Cities and Writing Geographical Exploration, in addition to publishing over 120 research papers and acting as consultant to planning and government organizations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems
Editors: Wayne K.D. Davies
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9655-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9654-5Published: 31 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7802-2Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9655-2Published: 23 March 2015
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 615
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions)