Overview
Bringing together the work of five leading researchers, this book practically outlines how the cities of today can transition to a thriving future
Provides invaluable frameworks and standards to help guide city planners and policy-makers into future years and decades
Valuable resource for researchers and students in the fields of urban planning and development, city design, architecture, property and governance
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- eco-city
- sustainable cities
- Urban Environmental Policy and Planning
- Planning Urban Sustainability
- urban development
- property rights
- city governance
- scenography
- resilient cities
- New Urban Agenda
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Built environment
- urban sustainable development
- Regenerative development
- eco theatre
- nature-based solutions
- social-ecological systems
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
The book will appeal to planners, city makers, urban researchers, students and practitioners, including planners, designers, architects and sustainability managers, and all those seeking to envisage the steps along the path to thriving cities of the future.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Judy Bush is a researcher and lecturer in environmental policy and practice at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enabling Eco-Cities
Book Subtitle: Defining, Planning, and Creating a Thriving Future
Editors: Dominique Hes, Judy Bush
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7320-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7319-9Published: 08 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7320-5Published: 27 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 127
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Urbanism, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Landscape Architecture