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Planning on the Edge explores the reality behind the rhetoric of Vancouver's reputation as a sustainable city and paves the way for developing Vancouver and its region into a place that is both economically sustainable and socially just.
List of contents
Prologue: Twenty-One Suburbs in Search of a City: A View of the Vancouver Metropolitan Area /
John Friedmann Introduction /
Tom Hutton and Penny GursteinPart 1: Situating Vancouver in Space and Time1 Planning since Time Immemorial: Musqueam Perspectives /
Howard Grant, Leona Sparrow, Larissa Grant, and Jemma Scoble2 City on the Edge: Vancouver and Circuits of Capital, Control, and Culture /
Tom HuttonPart 2: Sustainability and Resilience in Metro Vancouver's Urban Systems3 Vancouver's Sustainability Gap and Lessons from the Southeast False Creek Model Sustainable Community /
Jennie Moore, Cornelia Sussmann, and William E. Rees4 Vancouverism and Sustainable Urban Design: Past Its Prime and Needing to Evolve /
Maged Senbel and Mark Stevens5 Transportation: Vancouver
the City and Vancouver
the Region /
Lawrence D. Frank and Alexander Y. Bigazzi6 Dynamics and Governance of Risk in Metro Vancouver /
Stephanie E. Chang, Timothy L. McDaniels, Lily Yumagulova, and Mark Stevens7 The Sustainability Gap for Water Management in the Vancouver Region /
Jordi Honey-RosésPart 3: A People-Centred Approach to Planning and Development in Vancouver8 Beyond the Downtown Eastside: A Regional Perspective on Affordability, Displacement, and Social Justice /
Nathan J. Edelson, Penny Gurstein, Karla Kloepper, and Jeremy T. Stone9 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice? The Past, Present, and Future of Housing in Vancouver's Planning Legacy /
Penny Gurstein and Andy Yan10 Canada's Cosmopolis on the Coast: How Immigration Has Shaped and Reshaped Vancouver /
Lisi Feng and Michael Leaf11 Building Civic Capacity in the Shadow of Neoliberalism: Patterns and Challenges in Metro Vancouver's Immigrant Social Integration /
Leonora C. Angeles and Olga ShcherbynaEpilogue: Beyond Cosmopolis: Dreaming Coexistence as Indigenous Justice /
Leonie SandercockIndex
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Edited by Penny Gurstein and Tom Hutton
Summary
Planning on the Edge explores the reality behind the rhetoric of Vancouver's reputation as a sustainable city and paves the way for developing Vancouver and its region into a place that is both economically sustainable and socially just.
