After Sustainable Cities?

After Sustainable Cities provides the reader with the first comprehensive, critical and comparative analysis of the new eco-logics reshaping conventional sustainable cities discourse. It brings together leading researchers on smart cities, green growth, resource flows, vulnerability and resilience, ecological security and climate change who critically examine how these new eco-logics are reshaping the environmental priorities of cities in both the global north and south. Each chapter carefully considers what these new logics do to the original precepts of sustainable cities and identify what sort of city is now emerging. After Sustainable Cities provides a warning that a much darker more technologically driven and narrowly constructed economic agenda is driving ecological policy and weakening previous commitment to social justice and equity.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Disasters, Vulnerability and Resilience of Cities 3. A Green New Deal: Why Green, How New, and What is the Deal? 4. Carbon Regulation and Low-Carbon Urban Restructuring 5. Urban Decoupling and Transitions Analysis 6. Smart Urbanism: Cities, Grids and Alternatives? 7. Securitisation of Urban Environments: Sustainable Urbanism or Premium Ecological Enclaves? 8. The Politics of Urban Experiments: Radical Change or Business as Usual? 9. Conclusion References

About the author

Mike Hodson is Rearch Fellow in the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, UK.
Simon Marvin is the Carillion Chair of Low Carbon Cities in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Mike (University of Salford Hodson, Mike Marvin Hodson
• Assisted by: Mike Hodson (Editor), Hodson Mike (Editor), Simon Marvin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415659864
• ISBN: 978-0-415-65986-4
• No. of pages: 146
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, The environment, Urban & municipal planning, Interdisciplinary studies, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building