Synopses & Reviews
London is one of the most dense, vibrant, and influential urban centers in the world, and this book takes a close look at how it is addressing one of the key questions of our time: environmental sustainability. An impressive group of contributors from a wide range of fields takes on questions of transportation, housing, property development, education, and more, looking at the effects of sustainability initiatives not only on the environment but also on inequality, urban accessibility, and more.
Synopsis
How is London responding to social and economic crises, and to the challenges of sustaining its population, economy and global status? Sustainable development discourse has come to permeate different policy fields, including transport, housing, property development and education. In this exciting book, authors highlight the uneven impacts and effects of these policies in London, including the creation of new social and economic inequalities. The contributors seek to move sustainable city debates and policies in London towards a progressive, socially just future that advances the public good. The book is essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
Synopsis
An exploration of the rise of sustainable development policies in London by international authors. Essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
About the Author
Rob Imrie is chair of sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.Loretta Lees is professor of human geography and director of research in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester, UK.
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
~ Ben Rogers
Part 1: Sustaining London: the key challenges
Londons future and sustainable city building
~ Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees
Privatising London: a conversation with Anna Minton
Just Space: towards a just, sustainable London
~ Robin Brown, Michael Edwards, Richard Lee
Part 2: Sustaining London in an era of austerity
Sustainable governance and planning in London
~ Emma Street
Privatisation, managerialism and the changing politics of sustainability planning in London
~ Mike Raco
Sustaining a global city at work: resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour
~ Cathy McIlwaine and Kavita Datta
Sustaining Londons welfare in an age of austerity
~ Chris Hamnett
Part 3: The challenges for a socially sustainable London
The death of sustainable communities in London?
~ Loretta Lees
From supermarkets to community building: Tesco PLC, sustainable place making and urban regeneration
~ Rob Imrie and Mike Dolton
Educating London: sustainable social reproduction versus symbolic violence?
~ Tim Butler
Sustaining the public: the future of public space in London?
~ James Fournière
Part 4: Sustaining Londons environmental future
Rhetoric in transitioning to sustainable travel
~ Robin Hickman
Building the healthy city in London
~ Clare Herrick
Urban greening and sustaining urban natures in London
~ Franklin Ginn and Robert A Francis
Part 5: Postscript
Beyond urban sustainability and urban resilience: towards a socially just future for London
~ Loretta Lees and Rob Imrie