ISBN:
9781139923316
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9781107431720
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9781107076280
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 404 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
New directions in sustainability and society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sustainability in the global city
DDC:
307.116
Keywords:
Urbanization; Social aspects.
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Sustainable urban development.
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Urban anthropology.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urbanization Social aspects
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Sustainable urban development
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Urban anthropology
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urbanization ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Stadtentwicklung
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Nachhaltigkeit
Abstract:
Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life - particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Urban Sustainability as Myth and Practice; PartOne Building the myth: Branding the Green Global City; Chapter 1 ""We're Not that Kind of Developing Country"": Environmental Awareness in Contemporary China; Setting the Stage: Global Coronations, Local Conditions; ""The Future is 3D"": Linking Technology and the Environment; ""[We] are More EducatedWe Pay More Attention to the Environment"": Sustaining Quality and Privilege
Description / Table of Contents:
We are not the ""Sick Man of Asia"" Any Longer: Sustaining the State""The Expo is a Face Project"": Hidden Narratives/Critical Voices; Conclusion: Environmental Subjects in the Global Order; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Chapter 2 Green Capitals Reconsidered; Introduction: Sustainability in the City; The Pride of the Capital: Eco-Efficiency and the Ecological Footprint; Alternative Accounting and Frames of Vision: On Consumption and Global Justice; Beyond Eco-Efficiency: Reducing Embodied Emissions; Conclusion: Framing ""Environmental"" Problems and Imagining Solutions; Acknowledgments
Description / Table of Contents:
Works CitedSnapshot 1 Lessons of Unsustainability: Learning from Hong Kong; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Going Green? Washing Stones in World-Class Delhi; Introduction; ""Green City"" Aesthetics and Washerpeople; Shifting Contexts: From Washing Stones to ""Green"" Laundries; Going ""Greener""? The Sustainability of Already Green and ""Greening"" Laundries; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; PartTwo Planning, Design, and Sustainability in the Wake of Crisis; Chapter 4 ""The Sustainability Edge"": Competition, Crisis, and the Rise of Green Urban Branding
Description / Table of Contents:
Sustainability in the Neoliberal ""Urban Age""The Institutional Fields of Urban Sustainability Branding; Urban Sustainability Branding in Post-Crisis New York and New Orleans; TwoTwelve and Planyc 2030; Nolabound and Sustainable Entrepreneurial Culture; Conclusion; Works Cited; Snapshot 2 Developing Sustainable Visions for Post-Catastrophe Communities; Chapter 5 I've Got a House but No Room for My Hammock: the Tragedy of the Commons, or Another Common Tragedy Among the Añu of Sinamaica, Venezuela; Introduction; The context
Description / Table of Contents:
La Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela: Substituting Shacks for Suitable HousesI've got a House but No Room for My Hammock; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6 Green is the New Brown: "Old School Toxics" and Environmental Gentrification on a New York City Waterfront; Introduction: Of Ferris Wheels and Floods; Too Close for Comfort; Building the Bigger, ""Green"" Apple; Brown Spots on the Apple; Storage Wars; Constricted by the BOA; Conclusion: While You Were Out; Works Cited; Snapshot 3 Producing Sustainable Futures in Post-Genocide Kigali, Rwanda; Do-It-Yourself Sustainability
Description / Table of Contents:
Specters of a Sustainable Future
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139923316
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139923316
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