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An exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
List of contents
Foreword ~ Ben Rogers; Preface ~ Yvonne Rydin; Part 1: Sustaining London: the key challenges; Introduction: London's (de) future and sustainable city building ~ Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees; Privatising London: A conversation with Anna Minton; Just Space: Towards a just sustainable London ~ Robin Brown, Michael Edwards, Richard Lee; Part 2: Sustaining London in an era of austerity; Sustainable governance and planning in austerity London ~ Emma Street; Privatisation, managerialism, and the changing politics of sustainability planning in London ~ Mike Raco; Sustaining a global city at work: the resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour from boom to bust in London ~ Cathy McIlwaine and Kavita Datta; Sustaining London's welfare in an age of austerity ~ Chris Hamnett; Part 3: The challenges for a socially sustainable London; The death of sustainable communities in London? ~ Loretta Lees; From supermarkets to community building: Tesco plc, sustainable place making and urban regeneration ~ Rob Imrie and Mike Dolton; Educating London: sustainable social reproduction versus symbolic violence? ~ Tim Butler; Sustaining the public: the future of public space in London? ~ James Field; Part 4: Sustaining London's environmental future; Rhetoric in Transitioning to Sustainable Travel? ~ Robin Hickman; Building the healthy city in London ~ Clare Herrick; Urban greening and sustaining urban natures in London ~ Franklin Ginn and Robert A Francis; Part 5: Postscript; 'Urban Sustainability' and 'Urban Resilience': moving London beyond rhetoric and reality towards a socially just sustainable future ~ Loretta Lees and Rob Imrie.
About the author
Rob Imrie is Chair in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the director of a European Research Council funded project (2013-16) investigating universal design, disability and the designed environment. Loretta Lees is Chair of Human Geography at the University of Leicester. She is an international expert on gentrification and urban regeneration and is working on an Anti-Gentrification Toolkit for London with Just Space, SNAG and The London Tenants Federation.
Summary
An exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
