Capital cities and urban sustainability

by Orttung, Robert W.

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Title Statements

Full title :Capital cities and urban sustainability / edited by Robert W. Orttung.

Summary

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy solutions to promote sustainability. Cities are taking a leading role in defining a sustainable future at a time when national, state, and regional governments in several countries do not provide sufficient leadership. Capital cities stand out among cities as likely leading drivers in the effort to empower sustainable innovation as they provide a hub for connecting a variety of key constituencies. While acknowledging the successes capital cities have achieved, the international, multi-disciplinary contributors to this work discuss how there is room to do more and improve. The promotion of specific sustainability policies in crucial areas such as clean water provision, high tech innovation, public procurement contracting, and improving flood control in capital cities is examined through various global case studies. The examples range from relatively rich capital cities, such as Copenhagen, where the well-financed hub would be expected to succeed in generating sustainable policies, to poorer cities such as Phnom Penh, where such an optimistic outcome can seem less likely.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.
Edition:1 Edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429426049, 0429426046, 9780429759789, 0429759789, 9780429759796, 0429759797, 9780429759772, 0429759770
DOI:10.4324/9780429426049
oclc:on1091895052
LC Classification:HT151
Dewey Decimal:307.1/216

Theoretical overview -- Capital cities as innovators in sustainability policy and practice / Robert W. Orttung -- Capital cities and regions: a general comparative overview / Hal Wolman -- Indicators for measuring the performance of smart and sustainable capital cities / Stanislav E. Shmelev and Irina A. Shmeleva -- Case studies -- Moving the capital to promote sustainability innovations : analyzing Cairo's future plans / Sahar Attia and Costis Toregas -- Stockholm: where sustainability meets technology / Anna Helm and Nicole Forsberg with Christina Johannsen -- Using public procurement to promote sustainability in Copenhagen / Marta Andrecka and Alexandra Andhov -- Innovations in public participation for sustainability and resilience in Hanoi / Linda J. Yarr and Nguy?n Ngc Lý -- Delivering clean water in an African capital / Jennifer Lessick -- Phnom Penh, an unsustainable capital city / Anthony Gad Bigio -- Conclusion: missed opportunities / Robert Orttung.

Subjects

ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planni… BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development Capitals (Cities) -- Case studies. -- E… Capitals (Cities) -- Economic aspects Case studies Cities and towns -- Case studies. -- Gr… Cities and towns -- Growth City planning -- Case studies. -- Envir… City planning -- Environmental aspects Écologie urbaine -- Études de cas NATURE -- Ecology Urban ecology (Sociology) Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Case studi… Villes -- Études de cas. -- Croissance