Sustainable cities : governing for urban innovation / Simon Joss.

By:

Joss, Simon, 1968-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: xiv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781137006356 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 307.1216 SIM 015073

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Sustainability and the City? -- 2. Conceptualising Urban Sustainability: The Process Perspective -- 3. Past and Present Policy Discourses -- 4. The Global Picture -- 5. New Governance Challenges -- 6. The Rise of the Urban Sustainability Framework -- 7. Sustainability through Knowledge -- 8. Sustainable Cities: Towards a More Public Governance.

Summary: "Sustainability is a watchword of policy-makers and planners around the world, with cities providing the main focus for development. This comprehensive introduction to sustainability shows how cities are adopting sustainable practices, and considers how to achieve a public-governance approach for the urban age"--

List(s) this item appears in: Urban Ecology (Exhibition)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	307.1216 SIM 015073 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015073

"Sustainability is a watchword of policy-makers and planners around the world, with cities providing the main focus for development. This comprehensive introduction to sustainability shows how cities are adopting sustainable practices, and considers how to achieve a public-governance approach for the urban age"--

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