Advocates of sustainable urban development often privilege the region as a scale for
coordinated action and investment. However, discourses of sustainability institutionalised …

Urban waterfronts around the world, once the location of industry and trade, have
transitioned to new uses. This shift raises important questions for the city-regions they serve …

The renovation of the waterfronts, such as those in the main public spaces of large cities,
started in 1970s. Core industries had found other places to develop far from the city; …

Is there a way to convert the vast, fast growing, low-density urban areas of the world to
sustainability other than attempting to contain the growth and increase the density of existing …

The City of Vancouver is situated amongst beautiful scenery (mountains, ocean and
temperate forests) and has capitalized on this with carefully cultivated environmental …

This chapter discusses how a methodology for the development of a sustainable waterfront
might be shaped through an understanding and consideration of environmental remediation …

Sustainable development has become a touchstone of contemporary planning. This paper
considers the nature of sustainability issues within the planning process, and the sources …

Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies.
This is due to the combination of growing urban populations and increased action on the …

A framework for assessing cities as contributors to sustainable development (SD) is
proposed. Differentiating between SD and ecological modernization (EM), we contend that …

The anthropology of time has achieved at least three things. Empirically, it explored the
many ways humans relate to time and all things temporal. Theoretically, it embedded the …