TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yanarella,Ernest J.
AU  - Levine,Richard S.
TI  - The city as fulcrum of global sustainability
SN  - 9780857284006 (ebook)
AV  - HT241 .Y37 2011
U1  - 307.76 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Anthem Press
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Sustainability
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015); Does sustainable development lead to sustainability? -- The sustainable cities manifesto -- Variations on a "green" theme : overcoming semantics in the sustainability debate -- Don't pick the low-hanging fruit? -- From the city to the city-region : the sustainable area budget, rural partnerland, and the sustainability engine -- The sustainable city game as a game and a tool of urban design -- Urban dreams of global sustainability -- The promise and pitfalls of Chattanooga's entrepreneurial "sustainability" strategy -- Sustainability comes to Okotoks, Alberta -- Vienna's Westbahnhof sustainable urban implantation-city-as-a-hill -- The success of SUCCESS : the Chinese village as catalyst of future Chinese sustainable cities -- The long march to sustainability in China -- Conclusion taking the road less traveled
N2  - This book finds short- and long-term solutions to twenty-first century global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for introducing sustainability around the world
UR  - http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780857284006/type/BOOK
ER  -