Handbook of cities and the environment / edited by Kevin Archer, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Central Washington University, USA, Kris Bezdecny, Department of Geosciences and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Kris Bezdecny -- Urban imaginaries of city and nature / John Rennie Short -- Re-naturing cities: great promises, deadlock...and new beginnings? / Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika -- Urban resilience, the local and the politics of the Anthropocene: reflections on the future of the urban environment / Lazaros Karaliotas and Giovanni Bettini -- North American and European sustainable urbanism: toward a theoretical model for sustainable urban design / Rafael E. Pizarro -- Sustainable urban futures: contested transitions and creative pathways / Joe Ravetz -- Towards an urban metabolic analysis of the informal city / Louise Guibrunet and Vanesa Castán Broto -- Urbanization, climate change, and regional integration in the Mekong / Richard M. Friend and Pakamas Thinphanga -- Urban resilience to climate change challenges in Africa / Robert H. Wilson and Todd G. Smith -- Urban flooding, vulnerability, and justice / Donald Houston -- The group and ideological bases of local sustainability policies and programs / Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey M. Berry -- Green space in urban sustainability plans: trends and best practices / Lisa Benton-Short, Melissa Keeley and Jennifer Rowland -- Mending fences: constituting urban subjects through envronmental stewardship / Nate Gabriel -- "Restoring" Seattle's river: competing conceptions of the Duwamish socio-nature / Kevin Archer and Kris Bezdecny -- City sensing and urban aesthetics / Jennifer Kitson and Jonathan Bratt -- Making Moorhen / Ryan Jones -- The new urban assertions: no prospect there / Kathryn Davidson and Brendan Gleeson -- Sustainability and the city / Timothy W. Luke.