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Geographic Perspectives on Urban Sustainability book cover

1st Edition

Geographic Perspectives on Urban Sustainability

Edited By V. Kelly Turner, David H. Kaplan Copyright 2021
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge
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The 21st century has been called the "century of the city." Unprecedented and uneven urban growth and expansion coupled with climate change have compounded concerns that current urbanization pathways are not sustainable. Calls for scholarship on urban sustainability among geographers cite strengths in both examining human-environment interactions and unravelling urbanization patterns and... Read more

1. Geographic perspectives on urban sustainability: past, current, and future research trajectories

V. Kelly Turner and David H. Kaplan

2. Transportation sustainability in the urban context: a comprehensive review

Selima Sultana, Deborah Salon and Michael Kuby

3. Urban resilience for whom, what, when, where, and why?

Sara Meerow and Joshua P. Newell

4. Green infrastructure, green space, and sustainable urbanism: geography’s important role

Lisa Benton-Short, Melissa Keeley and Jennifer Rowland

5. Uneven urban metabolisms: toward and integrative (ex)urban political ecology of sustainability in and around the city

Innisfree McKinnon, Patrick T Hurley, Colleen C Myles, Megan Maccaroni and Trina Filan

Biography

V. Kelly Turner is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Associate Director of Urban Environmental Research at the Luskin Center for Innovation in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, USA. She holds a PhD in Geography from Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

David H. Kaplan is Professor of Geography at Kent State University, USA. He is the past President of the American Association of Geographers and the Editor-in-Chief of Geographical Review.

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