This book provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development in the contemporary era. It examines how different cities have sought to realize knowledge-based urban development.
This book provides an overview of the problems related to water pollution in China. It describes how and why China has ended up in such a dire situati..
This book explores the ways in which cities are both the biggest threat to sustainability, and the most powerful tool to get us to sustainable develop..
As city dwellers begin to outnumber country dwellers globally, this book traces the evolution of the modern city, the energy sources that power it and..
This book asserts that post-industrial urban greenspaces are contested places where different individuals, groups, plants and animals negotiate power ..
Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "greening" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Throu..
This book presents a comprehensive, research-based overview of the various features, benefits and values associated with urban allotment gardening in ..
This book provides the standards for equitable bicycle advocacy, policy, and planning by defining and operationalizing bicycle justice. In synthesizin..
This book describes the journey of Singapore´s development and the fundamental role that water has had in shaping it. What makes this case so unique i..
With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environmen..
The most prolific and persistent product of the unfolding vision of ‘liveable cities’ and ‘cities for people’ has been the genesis and growth of ‘comp..
Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy a..
While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissi..