Global populations have grown rapidly in recent decades, leading to ever increasing
demands for shelter, resources, energy and utilities. Coupled with the worldwide need to …

Human capital development, attractions of sustainable living standards and renewed
concerns for the planet have redirected city planners to a new frontier: the creation of …

Publisher Summary Among the most significant environmental challenges are global climate
change, excessive fossil fuel dependency, and the growing demand for energy–all likely to …

The last five years have brought an enormous growth in the literature on how urban
development can meet human needs and ensure ecological sustainability. This collection …

Containing the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and
Sustainability this book addresses the multi-disciplinary aspects of urban planning; a result …

This report summarizes the sustainability issues faced by cities and points toward the road
ahead. It reviews successes in policy as well as investment, and discusses what is needed …

This book examines the sustainability of cities and regions and concludes that currently
sustainability is not achievable. By identifying how cities and regions in the past have …

Akey long-term problem facing our species is sustain-ability, that is, in a well known, but
somewhat simplified definition, a world development,“which meets present needs without …

IN our increasingly urbanized world, cities must begin to play ever more important roles in
addressing long-term environmental problems such as global climate change and …

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three
quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental …