Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City

Acting in the common place
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-12110-2
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

Reihe: Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series

What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking, in today’s cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute sustainability in city building, from a pragmatic perspective? Today, we are faced with a mountain of reasons to lose hope in any prospect of moving closer to justice and sustainability from our present position in civilization.

Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City: Acting in the Common Place offers a critical and philosophical approach to revaluating the way in which we think and talk about the "sustainable city" to ensure that we neither lose the thread of our urban history, nor the means to live well amidst diversity of all kinds. By building and rebuilding better habits of urban thinking, this book promotes the reconstruction of moral thinking, paving the way for a new urban sustainability model of justice.

Utilizing multidisciplinary case studies and building upon anti-foundationalist principles, this book offers a pragmatic interpretation of sustainable development concepts within our emerging global urban context and will be a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics and professionals in the areas of urban and planning policy, sociology, and urban and environmental geography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holden, Meg

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Foreword

PART I.

Chapter 1 Our starting point: sustainability and justice made urban

Chapter 2 Sustainability as a slippery and a sticky concept

Chapter 3 Celebrating the city, for all the wrong reasons?

PART II.

Prelude: An urban way forward in a pragmatic view

Chapter 4 An urban shot at authenticity

Chapter 5 Empowerment in urban communities

Chapter 6 Risk and resilience

Chapter 7 Conclusion: A better urban life to be lived

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Meg Holden is Associate Professor in the Urban Studies Program and Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.