Urban sustainability: a global perspective

More than half the world's population currently lives in urban areas, and virtually all of the world's population growth over the next three decades is expected to be in cities. What impact will this growth have on the environment? What can we do now to pave the way for resource longevity? Sustainability has received considerable attention in recent years, though conceptions of the term remain vague. Using a wide array of cities around the globe as case studies, this timely book explores the varying nature of global urban-environmental stresses and the complexities involved in defining sustai.

Advancing toward urban sustainability : the pursuit of equity / Igor Vojnovic -- Urban environmental management in Shanghai : a multiscale perspective / Wei Tu, Daniel Sui, and Weichun Ma -- The urban expansion and sustainability challenge of cities in China's west : the case of Urumqi / Jiaguo Qi, Peilei Fan, and Xi Chen -- Sustainable manufacturing in Nagoya : exploring the dynamics of Japan's competitive advantage / Ronald Kalafsky -- The sufficiency economy, sustainable development, and agricultural towns in Thailand : the case of Nang Rong / Pariwate Varnakovida and Joseph Messina -- Deconcentration in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area : governance, markets, and the quest for sustainability / Eran Razin -- The crisis of consociational democracy in Beirut : conflict transformation and sustainability through electoral reform / Imad Salamey -- Segmentation and enclavization in urban development : the sustainable city in India / Darshini Mahadevia -- Urban sustainability and automobile dependence in an Australian context / Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy -- Urban sustainability rhetoric and neoliberal realities : Durban--a city in transition / Brij Maharaj and Sultan Khan -- Resi…