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oapen-20.500.12657-321662022-04-26T12:26:07Z Rethinking sustainable cities: Accessible, green and fair Simon, David sustainable cities green cities just cities urban accessibility accessible cities fair cities urban transformation Sustainability Sustainable city Urban density Urban planning bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTF Development studies Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally at a time when urban areas worldwide are threatened by climate/environmental change. This compact book is designed to make a signal contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining clearly the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere, namely that they should be accessible, green and fair. These three terms form key tenets of the work of Mistra Urban Futures (MUF; http://www.mistraurbanfutures.org/en), an international research centre on sustainable urbanisation based in Gothenburg, Sweden, and working through transdisciplinary research platforms there, in Greater Manchester (UK), Cape Town (South Africa) and Kisumu (Kenya). Additional platforms are being established in southern Sweden, Asia and Africa. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2018-06-29 13:54:25 2020-04-01T13:59:57Z 2020-04-01T13:59:57Z 2016 book 613676 OCN: 972011022 9781447332855 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32166 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 613676.pdf http://policypress.co.uk/rethinkingsustainablecities Policy Press 10.26530/OAPEN_613676 10.26530/OAPEN_613676 f394f44e-e957-4b77-91b6-32fe9c22978a 90c9b00a-f0fc-441c-b87a-1d08f4825ac4 9781447332855 152 Bristol MISTRA Urban Futures open access
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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally at a time when urban areas worldwide are threatened by climate/environmental change. This compact book is designed to make a signal contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining clearly the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere, namely that they should be accessible, green and fair. These three terms form key tenets of the work of Mistra Urban Futures (MUF; http://www.mistraurbanfutures.org/en), an international research centre on sustainable urbanisation based in Gothenburg, Sweden, and working through transdisciplinary research platforms there, in Greater Manchester (UK), Cape Town (South Africa) and Kisumu (Kenya). Additional platforms are being established in southern Sweden, Asia and Africa.
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