Institutional and social innovation for sustainable urban development /
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| Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013. |
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| Description: | xvi, 421 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in sustainable development ; [1] Routledge studies in sustainable development ; [1]. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8964362 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I. Social innovations for sustainability
- 1. HES-based transdisciplinary case studies: the example of sustainable transformation of leisure traffic in the city of Basel
- 2. Smart Growth: sustainability innovations
- 3. Participatory budgeting and urban sustainability: reviewing lessons from Latin America
- 4. Urban governance and climate-change experiments
- 5. Rubanisation
- 6. Resource-oriented monitoring of sustainable urban development
- Part II. Urban transformations
- 7. The social dimensions of urban transformation: contemporary diversity in Global North cities and the challenges for urban cohesion
- 8. Privatization, urban fragmentation, and sustainable development
- 9. "New urban players" in Africa and Asia: the role of Grassroots Organizations
- 10. Does size matter? A critical assessment of the megacity-discourse
- 11. Urban development, climate change, and associated risks in Ho Chi Minh City: vulnerabilities and adaptation challenges for a rapidly growing megacity
- 12. Mumbai, the megacity and the global city: a view of the spatial dimension of urban resilience
- Part III. Urban transition management - from an institutionalized perspective
- 13. Managing metropolises by negotiating urban growth
- 14. Cross-national urban sustainability learning: a case study on "continuous interaction" in green infrastructure policies
- 15. Case study: the idea of sustainable city budgets in Germany
- 16. Syntegrating city management
- 17. "Sustainability is self-evident in high quality planning": the role of the international urban planner
- 18. The city as a customer: Siemens and sustainable urban infrastructure
- Part IV. The (new) role of science
- 19. Transdisciplinarity
- 20. Towards a socio-metabolic history of cities
- 21. Urban transdisciplinarity in a national program for applied megacity research
- 22. The institutionalization of interfaces as a prerequisite in transformations towards sustainability
- 23. The changing role of the science and technology policy advisor in a new global context
- 24. The role of universities in fostering urban and regional sustainability
- City Index
- Index
