Global Planning Innovations for Urban Sustainability (Routledge Studies in Sustainability)

Glen Searle, S�bastien Darchen

ISBN 10: 0815357575 / ISBN 13: 9780815357575

Published by Routledge 2018-11-12, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Planning Innovations for Urban Sustainability (Routledge Studies in Sustainability)
• Publisher: Routledge 2018-11-12
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815357575
• ISBN 13: 9780815357575
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

As the world becomes more urbanised, solutions are required to solve current challenges for three arenas of sustainability: social sustainability, environmental sustainability and urban economic sustainability.

This edited volume interrogates innovative solutions for sustainability in cities around the world. The book draws on a group of 12 international case studies, including Vancouver and Calgary in Canada, San Francisco and Los Angeles in the US (North America), Yogyakarta in Indonesia, Seoul in Korea (South-East Asia), Medellin in Colombia (South America), Helsinki in Finland, Freiburg in Germany and Seville in Spain (Europe). Each case study provides key facts about the city, presents the particular urban sustainability challenge and the planning innovation process and examines what trade-offs were made between social, environmental and economic sustainability. Importantly, the book analyses to what extent these planning innovations can be translated from one context to another.

This book will be essential reading to students, academics and practitioners of urban planning, urban sustainability, urban geography, architecture, urban design, environmental sciences, urban studies and politics.

About the Author

Sébastien Darchen is Lecturer in Planning at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Glen Searle is Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Earth and Environment Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia, and at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, Australia.