Cities: steering towards sustainability

By:

Jacquet, Pierre

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2010 TERI Press New DelhiDescription: 271 pISBN:

9788179931318

Subject(s):

Sustainability

DDC classification:

333.7830995 C4

Summary: The twenty-first century is already an urban one. Cities are pivotal to sustainability concerns globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation.Today's urban actors, both citizens and their leaders, have a major responsibility as trustees of the future: their present actions will influence the shape and structure of cities, so that the generation to come may live healthy and contended lives. This volume takes the reader straight to the heart of how cities work, and identifies contemporary trends, mechanism and tools that can influence current strategies and choices. (http://bookstore.teriin.org/book_inside.php?material_id=568)

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The twenty-first century is already an urban one. Cities are pivotal to sustainability concerns globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation.Today's urban actors, both citizens and their leaders, have a major responsibility as trustees of the future: their present actions will influence the shape and structure of cities, so that the generation to come may live healthy and contended lives. This volume takes the reader straight to the heart of how cities work, and identifies contemporary trends, mechanism and tools that can influence current strategies and choices. (http://bookstore.teriin.org/book_inside.php?material_id=568)

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