UNLOCKING SUSTAINABLE CITIES

ISBN: 9780745337029 Géneros: Sinópsis: This book is a manifesto for real urban change Today our urban areas are held back by corporate greed loss of public space and rising inequality This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real changeAcross the world city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice from transforming abandoned public spaces and setting up community cooperatives to rewilding urban nature and powering up civic energyPaul Chatterton explores the power of these city experiments that harness the creative power of the collective focusing on five themes compassion imagination experimentation coproduction and transformation and four city systems mobility energy community and nature Imagining radical alternatives such as carfree postcarbon common and biocities this is a toolkit for unlocking real urban change