Urban Sustainability: Reconnecting Space and Place

Ann Dale; William Dushenko; Pamela J. Robinson

Published by University of Toronto Press 2012

Urban Sustainability

Reconnecting Space and Place

Ann Dale , William Dushenko and Pamela J. Robinson

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442661776

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About this book

This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.

Author / Editor information

Dale Ann :

Ann Dale is a professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development at Royal Roads University.Dushenko William :

William T. Dushenko is Vice-President Academics at Yukon College and former Dean of the School of Sustainable Building and Environmental Management at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.Robinson Pamela J. :

Pamela Robinson is an associate professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and a regular contributor to Spacing magazine.

Reviews

David Gordon:

‘The editors have assembled a thought provoking set of case studies of urban sustainability in Canada… The volume does an additional service by provoking broader, and challenging, questions about how to combine and coordinate pluralist approaches to urban sustainability in the service of system-level sustainability.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Ann Dale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Bridging Solitudes, Silos, and Stovepipes
PART I Bridging Solitudes, Silos, and Stovepipes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
1 Generational Responses: Why a Third? Pamela Robinson and Ann Dale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 Sustainability and Integrated Approaches to Regional Planning Kevin Hanna and D. Scott Slocombe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3 Map-making as Place-making: Building Social Capital for Urban Sustainability Nina-Marie Lister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
PART II Social Capital and the Built Environment
4 Planning for Sustainability: Moving from Plan to Action Pamela Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5 Towards Walkable Urban Neighbourhoods Lenore Newman and Levi Waldron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
6 United We Can: A Street Charity that Makes a Difference Ann Dale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
PART III Reconnecting Place and Space in the Rural-Urban Divide
7 Chickens in the City: The Urban Agriculture Movement Nick Weigeldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8 Finding Opportunities for Urban Sustainability in Cottage Life Nik Luka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
9 Urban-Rural Tensions, Place, and Community Sustainability William T. Dushenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
10 Sustainable Buildings: A Necessary Component of Sustainable Communities Rodney C Mcdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Refl ections Ann Dale and William T. Dushenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Other: 20 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w tables

eBook

Published: November 8, 2012
ISBN: 9781442661776