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Rethinking sustainable cities: Accessible, green and fair
David Simon
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Description for Rethinking sustainable cities: Accessible, green and fair
Paperback. Makes a significant contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere; that they be accessible, green and fair. Editor(s): Simon, David. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; RNU; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. This compact book is designed to make a signal contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining clearly the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere, namely that they should be accessible, green and fair.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. This compact book is designed to make a signal contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining clearly the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere, namely that they should be accessible, green and fair.
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447332848
SKU
V9781447332848
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About David Simon
David Simon is Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, and Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He specialises in development- environment issues, with particular reference to cities, climate change and sustainability, and the relationships between theory, policy and practice, on all of which he has published extensively.
Reviews for Rethinking sustainable cities: Accessible, green and fair
This timely and lively book builds on several empirical examples to help with the challenges that planners, policy makers, professors and students face in making words like 'green' or 'sustainable' understandable and approachable. Garth Myers, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA Using three themes of accessibility, greenness and fairness, this excellent short book provides a highly readable and timely ... Read more