Sustainability in the Global City (eBook, ePUB)

Myth and Practice
Redaktion: Isenhour, Cindy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316189771
• Artikelnr.: 52989961

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Melissa Checker, Gary McDonogh and Cindy Isenhour; Part I.
Building the Myth: Branding the Green Global City: 1. 'We're not that kind
of developing country': environmental awareness in contemporary China
Jennifer Hubbert; 2. Green capitals reconsidered Cindy Isenhour; Snapshot
1. Transparency, consumerism, and governmentality: lessons from a very
small place Gary McDonogh; 3. Going green?: washing stones in world-class
Delhi Varsha Patel; Part II. Planning, Design, and Sustainability in the
Wake of Crisis: 4. 'The sustainability edge': the postcrisis promise of
eco-city branding Miriam Greenberg; Snapshot 2. Developing sustainable
visions for post-catastrophe communities Daniel Slone; 5. 'I've got a house
but no room for my hammock': the tragedy of the commons; or, another common
tragedy among the Añu of Sinamaica, Venezuela Ana Servigna and Alí
Fernandez; 6. Green is the new brown: 'old school toxics' and environmental
gentrification on a New York City waterfront Melissa Checker; Snapshot 3.
Producing sustainable futures in post-genocide Kigali, Rwanda Samuel
Shearer; Part III. Everyday Engagements with Urbanity and 'Nature': 7.
Whose urban forest?: the political ecology of gathering urban nontimber
forest products Patrick Hurley, Marla R. Emery, Rebecca McLain, Melissa
Poe, Brian Grabbatin and Cari Goetcheus; Snapshot 4. One man's trash Brad
Rogers; 8. Shopping on Main Street: a model of a community-based food
economy Kathleen Bubinas; 9. Spokespeople for a mute nature: the case of
the Villa Rodrigo Bueno in Buenos Aires María Carman; Part IV. Cities
Divided: Urban Intensification, Neoliberalism, and Urban Activism: 10.
Combining sustainability and social justice in the Paris metropolitan
region François Mancebo; 11. Shifting gears: the intersections of race and
sustainability in Memphis Matthew Farr, Keri Brondo and Scout Anglin; 12.
Can human infrastructure combat green gentrification?: ethnographic
research on bicycling in Los Angeles and Seattle Adonia Lugo; 13. Urban
sustainability as a 'boundary object': interrogating discourses of urban
intensification in Ottawa Donald Leffers; 14. Learning 'just'
sustainability: a collaboration between the Preserve East Austin
Affordability Campaign and the frontiers of geography class Eliot Tretter;
Snapshot 5. After sustainability: Barcelona in a time of crisis Gary
McDonogh; Afterword Alf Hornborg.