Environment & the City Books

New and Published Books

1. The Singapore Water Story

   Sustainable Development in an Urban City-State

   By Cecilia Tortajada, Yugal Kishore Joshi, Asit K. Biswas

   Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, long-term planning, forward-looking strategies and political will, as well as a relentless urge to improve, can result in strong foundations for...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Urban Ecosystems

   Understanding the Human Environment

   By Robert A. Francis, Michael A. Chadwick

   With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting of green space and the built environment, they harbour a wide range of species, yet are not well understood. This book aims...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. Emergence in Landscape Architecture

   By Rod Barnett

   All landscapes are complex systems which are continually changing as a result of relatively simple interactions. This condition of adaption and evolution is called emergence. Related to chaos theory and self-organising systems, emergence highlights the ever changing and developing urban...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Urban Energy Systems

   An Integrated Approach

   Edited by James Keirstead, Nilay Shah

   Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably. This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this. Drawing on analytical tools and case studies developed at Imperial College London, the book presents...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. Cities and Climate Change

   By Harriet Bulkeley

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. New Orleans and the Design Moment

   Edited by Jacob Wagner, Michael Frisch

   Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the city could be reorganized. Rather than defining the disaster recovery process as simply a matter of rebuilding the existing city, these voices called for a...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Transforming Urban Transport

   The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

   Edited by Nicholas Low

   Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution. Changes in urban mobility and transport...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

   Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance

   Spaces of Innovation, Places of Leadership

   By Sofie Bouteligier

   Series: Cities and Global Governance

   As a result of global dynamics—the increasing interconnection of people and places—innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia

    Green Sprawl

    Edited by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal...

    Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge