Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Qi6JNl Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice Circles of sustainability By: Paul James Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781138025721, 1138025720 eText ISBN: 9781317658351, 1317658353 Edition: 1st Pages: 282 Copyright year: 2015 Format: EPUB Available from $ 17.98 USD SKU 9781317658351R90 Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet. However, for this to be realized in more than an ad hoc way, a substantial rethinking of current approaches and practices needs to occur. Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social development and projected change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and social questions to background issues. The book is a much-needed practical and conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement. Covering the full range of sustainability domains and bridging discourses aimed at academics and practitioners, this is an essential read for all those studying, researching and working in urban geography, sustainability assessment, urban planning, urban sociology and politics, sustainable development and environmental studies. Additional ISBNs 9781138025721, 9781138025738, 1138025720, 1138025739
