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This book focuses on the developing role that the city currently plays in dealing with the effects of climate change and the instruments that can be utilised to make them truly green. It presents case studies from four European cities, Bologna, Paris, Barcelona and Valencia, showing how they are facing this transformation.
List of contents
Introduction, Andrés Boix Palop and Giorgia Pavani; Part I: Cities and the European Union; 1. Green Cities and Local Governments in the European Framework, Giorgia Pavani; 2. Green urban planning across Europe: legal instruments, goals settled and implementation throughout the National Recovery and Resilience Plans, Andrés Boix and Clàudia Gimeno; Part II: Right to the city and NRRPs; 3. The path towards green and inclusive cities: points of reference on the case of France, Jean-Bernard Auby and Camille Mialot; 4. The City and its law: solidarity and sustainability. A Spanish perspective, Tomás Font i Llovet; 5. The role of cities in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Claudia Tubertini; 6. City Law, Right to the City and Participation: New Models Against the ‘Hostile City’, Marzia De Donno; Part III: European green and climate-neutral cities: Case studies; 7. The role of the University of Bologna in contributing to the Climate City Contract process for Bologna, Simona Tondelli, Angela Santangelo, Gian Luca Morini and Giacomo Bergamini; 8. Climate governance and climate planning: the case of Paris, Camille Mialot; 9. Towards a new model of the city. The Super-Block Program in Barcelona, Marc Vilalta Reixach; 10. València as selected European Green City 2024, Clàudia Gimeno Fernández; Afterword: Smart cities, landscape and urban regeneration: ranking methods, Giuseppe Franco Ferrari
About the author
Andrés Boix Palop is Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Valencia, Spain.
Giorgia Pavani is Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Summary
This book focuses on the developing role that the city currently plays in dealing with the effects of climate change and the instruments that can be utilised to make them truly green. It presents case studies from four European cities, Bologna, Paris, Barcelona and Valencia, showing how they are facing this transformation.
