The Sustainable City

Steven Cohen

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

The Sustainable City

Steven Cohen

https://doi.org/10.7312/cohe18204

Overview
Contents

About this book

Steven Cohen presents an approachable and applicable guide to urban sustainability that highlights how new, greener trends in city development touch our lives on a daily basis. Replete with recommendations and insights, The Sustainable City has invaluable lessons for anyone seeking to link public policy to promoting a sustainable lifestyle.

Author / Editor information

Steven Cohen is executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and a professor in the practice of public affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is the director of the Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy and the Master of Science in Sustainability Management at Columbia. His books include Sustainability Management: Lessons from and for New York City, America, and the Planet (2011) and Understanding Environmental Policy (2014, second edition), both from Columbia University Press.

Reviews

Michael E. Kraft, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy:
At the city level, the question of how to handle water resources, energy use, and transportation is not abstract but concrete. Citizens, planners, businesspeople, and policy makers can easily see the problems and how a sustainable approach would be beneficial. Steven Cohen draws on his extensive teaching and public management experience in documenting the kinds of sustainability measures that have been successful in major cities around the world, and he points to what other cities realistically can do in the future.

William Eimicke, Columbia University:
Steven Cohen shows us how the great cities of the twenty-first century can use sustainable methods to thrive economically while simultaneously providing a higher quality of life for their residents. A must read for current and future leaders in a rapidly urbanizing world.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
PART I. CONCEPTS
1. DEFINING THE SUSTAINABLE CITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. SUSTAINABLE URBAN SYSTEMS: DEFINED AND EXPLAINED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. THE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE: DEFINED AND EXPLAINED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4. THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLY MANAGED ORGANIZATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5. THE ROLE OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
PART II. CASES IN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
6. WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NEW YORK CITY, HONG KONG, AND BEIJING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7. MASS AND PERSONAL TRANSIT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8. THE BUILDING OF THE SMART GRID: CASES OF MICROGRID DEVELOPMENT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9. PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
10. SUSTAINABLE URBAN LIVING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
PART III. CONCLUSIONS
11. TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE CITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9780231543972