Sustainable cities for the third millennium : the odyssey of urban excellence / Voula P. Mega.
This book offers a 360 degree view of the challenges facing cities at the dawn of the millennium in terms of growth, governance, institutions and infrastructures, environmental well-being, social integration, science, culture and the arts, urban renaissance and planning, local democracy and citizens...
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Table of Contents:
- Note continued: 4.4. Energy Ethics: For Science with a Conscience
- 4.5. Prospects for Nuclear Fusion: A Competitor for Renewables?
- Watercolour 5 Stockholm: Green Capital of Europe 2010
- 5. Competitive and Attractive Cities
- 5.1. Cities, Players in the Knowledge Economy in Crisis
- 5.2. Aligning Green Growth with Sustainability
- 5.3. Employment, the Cornerstone of Sustainable Cities
- 5.4. Quality of Life as an Asset for Cities
- 5.5. Competitive Edge of Cities
- Watercolour 6 Helsinki: A Competitive and Attractive City?
- 6. Social Justice and Solidarity in Cities
- 6.1. From Distressed to Fulfilling Cities
- 6.2. Youths and Women: The Actors of Urban Solidarity and the Stake of Education
- 6.3. Sustainable Housing: The Living Cells of the Cities
- 6.4. Public Health, Well-Being and Safety
- 6.5. Urban Peripheries: From Tensions to Hope
- Watercolour 7 Prague: A City to Exercise Social Solidarity
- 7. Cities of Sciences, Culture and the Arts
- 7.1. Cities as Beehives of Creativity, the Spark of Excellence and Change
- 7.2. Knowledge Cities and Helices: Investing in Innovation
- 7.3. Cities, Epicentres of Cultural Energy
- 7.4. Cities as Theatres of Artistic Creation
- Watercolour 8 Madrid: A City for Science, Culture and the Arts
- 8. Urban Renaissance of the Third Millennium
- 8.1. Recreating Cities as Beacons of Civilisation
- 8.2. Sustainable Regeneration Rather Than Expansion
- 8.3. Cities on the Waterfront: Chances and Challenges
- 8.4. New Landmarks for the Urban Futures
- 8.5. Strategic (Spatial and Time) Planning
- Watercolour 9 Malaga: Urban Renaissance for Spaces and Functions
- 9. Cities of the Citizens
- 9.1. "What is the City but the People?" (William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, 3.1.199)
- 9.2. Institutional Innovation and Local Governance
- Note continued: 9.3. Rights and Duties to the City: Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
- 9.4. World Pact for Cities and Citizens: For a Global Coalition of Excellence
- Watercolour 10 Athens: The Birthlight of Urban Democracy
- 10. Sustainability Indicators: The Benchmarks of Urban Excellence
- 10.1. Robust and Significant Indicators to Assess and Compare Progress
- 10.2. Principles for a Meaningful Set of Urban Indicators
- 10.3. Indicative Set of Headline Urban Indicators
- Watercolour 11 Cities of the Mind/Homaga to P. Klee
- Selected Web Sites
- Watercolour 12 Bangkok: The Temple of the Dawn
- Annex: Twenty International Networks and Movements of Cities.