This book investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought in response to the economic downturn and the credit crunch. In this ground-breaking contribution, prominent scholars provide up to date coverage of the impacts of recent changes on key areas of urban planning, including housing, transport, and the environment, and map out core areas for future research.
Section 1: Introduction: The 'New' politics of sustainable urbanism; Introduction: Characterising the 'new' politics of sustainability: From managing growth to coping with crisis ~ Mike Raco and John Flint; The sustainable city: an obituary? On the future form and prospects of sustainable urbanism ~ Mark Whitehead; Sustainable communities and English spatial policy ~ Allan Cochrane; Constructions of the carbon city ~ Will Eadson; Section 2: Building the sustainable city: Policy fields, current issues and themes; The property industry and the construction of urban spaces: crisis or opportunity? ~ Tim Dixon; Emerging strategies of urban reproduction and the pursuit of low carbon cities ~ Harriet Bulkeley, Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin; Transport in a sustainable urban future ~ Iain Docherty and Jon Shaw; Understanding UK sustainable housing policy ~ Chris Pickvance; Section 3: Placing sustainability: Contexts and conflicts; Urban ecological accounting: A new calculus for planning urban parks in the era of sustainability ~ Sarah Dooling; Neighbourhood Sustainability: Residents' perceptions and perspectives ~ John Flint; Global city planning ~Peter Newman; Conclusions: Towards new politics of urban sustainability ~ John Flint and Mike Raco.
