Urban Eco-Communities in Australia Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets? /

• Main Authors: Cooper, Liam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Baer, Hans A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Human geography.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Sustainable development.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Human Geography.; Urban Ecology.; Sustainable Development.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbo...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Building the Future: Real Ecotopian Models in the Age of Climate Change
• 3 Christie Walk: An Urban Eco-Village in an Increasing Hot City
• 4 WestWyck: An Urban Eco-Village in the World's Putatively Most Liveable City
• 5 Enacting Real Ecotopia in the City: Ontological and Ecological Characteristics and Contradictions
• 6 Prefiguring Ecopolis: Ecotopian Cities or Niche Markets?
• 7 Conclusion.