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Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems

Part of the GeoJournal Library Book Series (volume 112)

Editors: Davies, Wayne K.D.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9655-2

ISBN: 978-94-017-9654-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Mar 24, 2015

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Pages: 1 –16

[The explosive growth of the world population is unprecedented in history, leading not only to more people living in urban places, but in larger centres, which means that urbanization will absorb most of the predicted extra 2.4 billion people by 2050. A review of the main contextual changes...
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Chapter 2New Urbanisms: From Neo-Traditional Neighbourhoods to New Regionalism

Davies, Wayne K.D.; Townshend, Ivan J.

Pages: 17 –61

[In 1996 the New Urbanism Charter was developed by Americans who advocated a new approach to urban planning, outlining a series of principles at various scales to address contemporary problems. Since many ideas from older cities were used for new community designs, the approach is often described...
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Chapter 3Progress Towards Just Cities

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Pages: 63 –112

[In recent decades a revival of interest in questions of redistributive justice in cities has occurred, based especially on the value of ‘fairness’. This issue has become more relevant with recognition of the negative features of globalization and the effects of the neo-liberal agendas adopted by...
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Chapter 4Green Towns and Cities

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Pages: 113 –150

[Although the term ‘green cities’ is often used as a surrogate for the general sustainability agenda, there are sufficiently distinctive features associated with the ‘literal’ greening of cities to consider it as a separate theme in urban development with its own policies. A review of the motives...
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Chapter 5Background to Sustainable Cities

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Pages: 151 –205

[A review of the major schemes that attempt to define sustainability illustrates the multi-dimensional nature of the concept and the difficulty of creating precise measurements. The variation in the degree of sustainability in major cities as shown by the Siemens Green Index and leads to...
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Chapter 6Sustainable City Policies

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Pages: 207 –246

[Many policies designed to increase the sustainability of settlements have been implemented by governments cities and companies. Coping with the growing amounts of waste has led to various initiatives to reduce, re-cycle and re-use discarded material, often using new technical advances. The...
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Chapter 7Transition Towns and EcoDistricts: Local Sustainable Initiatives

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Pages: 247 –275

[During the last decade grass-roots community organizations have grown up to create more sustainable and locally resilient towns and districts. The Transition Town movement was motivated by the need to assist towns to transition to a new future because of the predicted negative effects of Peak...
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Chapter 8Winter Cities

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Pages: 277 –310

[The Winter City movement was one of the first late-twentieth century examples of a world-wide trend of researchers and urban places to focus on the problems associated with a particular type of city, namely those affected by cold, snow and ice. It has developed and shared ways of solving the...
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Chapter 9Resilient Cities: Coping With Natural Hazards

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Pages: 311 –357

[Cities throughout history have been seriously affected by a wide variety of episodic natural hazards, from the effects of geological processes, such as earthquakes and volcanic action, to extreme weather conditions, such as those that produce storms and floods. These have often led to the...
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Chapter 10Creative Cities

Moore-Cherry, Niamh

Pages: 359 –379

[Although creativity has always been associated with successful cities throughout history, the contemporary role of creative workers in stimulating urban growth and employment has been the subject of intense recent discussions, with the cultural creative sector viewed as an increasing part of the...

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