Urban Sustainability: Reconnecting Space and Place

by Ann Dale, William Dushenko, Pamela J. Robinson

Overview

Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.

Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead in this area. Bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore leading innovations on the ground, this volume combines the theoretical underpinnings of urban sustainability with current practices through highly readable narrative case studies. The contributors also provide fresh perspectives on how issues related to sustainable urban planning and development can be reconciled through collaborative partnerships and engagement processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442661783
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	09/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Ann Dale is a professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development at Royal Roads University.
William T. Dushenko is Vice-President Academics at Yukon College and former Dean of the School of Sustainable Building and Environmental Management at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
Pamela Robinson is an associate professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and a regular contributor to Spacing magazine.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Contributors

1. Introduction
   Ann Dale (Royal Roads University)

1. Generational Responses—Why a Third?
   Pamela Robinson (Ryerson University) and Ann Dale

1. Sustainability and Integrated Approaches to Regional Planning
   Kevin Hanna (Wilfrid Laurier University) and D. Scott Slocombe (Wilfrid Laurier University)

1. Mapmaking as Placemaking: Building Social Capital for Urban Sustainability
   Nina-Marie Lister (Ryerson University)

1. Planning for Sustainability: Moving from Plan to Action
   Pamela Robinson (Ryerson University)

1. Towards Walkable Urban Neighbourhoods
   Lenore Newman (University of the Fraser Valley) and Levi Waldron (Harvard University)

1. United We Can—A Street Charity that Makes a Difference
   Ann Dale

1. Chickens in the City—The Urban Agriculture Movement
   Nick Weigeldt (Clean Air Partnership)

1. Finding Opportunities for Urban Sustainability in Cottage Life
   Nik Luka (McGill University)

1. Urban/Rural Tensions, Place and Community Sustainability
   William T. Dushenko (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)

1. Sustainable Buildings: A Necessary Component for Urban Sustainability
   Rodney C. McDonald (McDonald Sustainability Group Inc.)

1. Conclusions
   Ann Dale and William T. Dushenko

Editorial Reviews

‘The editors have assembled a thought provoking set of case studies of urban sustainability in Canada… The volume does an additional service by provoking broader, and challenging, questions about how to combine and coordinate pluralist approaches to urban sustainability in the service of system-level sustainability.’

—David Gordon, Urban Studies vol 51:04:2015

From the Publisher

‘The editors have assembled a thought provoking set of case studies of urban sustainability in Canada... The volume does an additional service by provoking broader, and challenging, questions about how to combine and coordinate pluralist approaches to urban sustainability in the service of system-level sustainability.’

Urban Studies vol 51:04:2015 - David Gordon

‘The editors have assembled a thought provoking set of case studies of urban sustainability in Canada... The volume does an additional service by provoking broader, and challenging, questions about how to combine and coordinate pluralist approaches to urban sustainability in the service of system-level sustainability.’

Urban Studies vol 51:04:2015 - David Gordon