Sustainability in the Global City : Myth and Practice /
Sustainability in the Global City : Myth and Practice /
edited by Cindy Isenhour, Gary McDonogh, Melissa Checker.
- 1 online resource (426 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- New Directions in Sustainability and Society .
- New Directions in Sustainability and Society. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2017).
Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life, particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
9781139923316 (ebook)
Sustainable urban development
Urban anthropology
Urban ecology (Sociology)
HT241 / .S86 2015
307.76
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2017).
Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life, particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
9781139923316 (ebook)
Sustainable urban development
Urban anthropology
Urban ecology (Sociology)
HT241 / .S86 2015
307.76