The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities

This reader brings togther contributions from 24 different authors on how urban development can meet human needs and ensure ecological sustainability. It includes
- Papers focussing on cities and environmental justice, poverty, health, transport, industry, agriculture, planning, designing with nature and waste management;
- Case studies of cities with successful local agenda 21s and innovative green plans;
- Discussions of cities' ecological footprints and of innovations in urban technology;
- Conceptual papers and city case studies on indicators for sustainable development; how best to assess, measure and monitor progress within cities and nations; and
- Reviews of how 'sustainable city plans' can help address regional and global environmental degradation.

It also includes short sections with recommendations for further reading after each section. By providing a broad and detailed introduction to the subject, the Reader will be of interest to a wide range of people including: students in urban geography, planning and environmental studies; professionals involved with planning and management of cities; and researchers and teachers working on sustainable development issues.

CONTENTS
Preface
I. SUSTAINABLE CITIES: AN INTRODUCTION
1. The key issues and the works included - David Satterthwaite
2. Achieving sustainability: reform or transformation - William E. Rees

II. LINKING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CITIES
3. Cities as solutions in an urbanizing world - U.N. Centre for Human Settlements
4. Environmental justice and the sustainable city - Graham Haughton
5. Sustainable cities or cities that contribute to sustainable development? - David Satterthwaite
6. Sustainability, poverty and urban environmental transitions - Gordon McGranahan, Jacob Songsore and Marianne Kjellén
Further reading

III. DIFFERENT SECTORAL PROGRAMMES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN CITIES
7. HEALTH: Creating healthy cities in the 21st Century - World Health Organization
8. TRANSPORT: Reducing automobile dependence - Peter Newman
9. PRODUCTION: Producing, providing, trading: manufacturing industry and sustainable cities - Nick Robins and Ritu Kumar
10. AGRICULTURE: Urban agriculture for sustainable cities: using wastes and idle land and water bodies as resources - Jac Smit and Joe Nasr
11. BUILDING AND DESIGNING WITH NATURE: Urban design - Joan Roelofs
12. PLANNING: Green cities, growing cities, just cities? Urban planning and the contradiction of sustainable development - Scott Campbell
13. RESOURCES: Resource conservation and waste management - U.N. Centre for Human Settlements
Further reading

IV. SEEKING ACTION AT CITY LEVEL
14. Agenda 21: a form of joint environmental management in Manizales, Colombia - Luz Estella Velásquez
15. Lets build cities for life - The National Campaign of Local Agenda 21s in Peru - Liliana Miranda and Micky Hordijk
16. Developing indicators of sustainable community: lessons from Sustainable Seattle - Alan AtKisson
17. Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development - Donella Meadows
18. Is there method in our measurement? The use of indicators in local sustainable development planning - Jeb Brugmann
Further reading

V. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR CITIES WITHIN A REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT
19. Sustainable cities: a contradiction in terms? - Herbert Girardet
20. The rural, regional and global impacts of cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America - Jorge E. Hardoy, Diana Mitlin and David Satterthwaite
Further reading
Index