Remaking Sustainable Urbanism
Space, Scale and Governance in the New Urban Era
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Beschreibung
This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China. While the guiding themes are space, scale, and governance of cities, the book focuses on three interrelated prevailing processes of local green space reproduction, cross-scale mediation of eco-city planning ideology and mobilized social-economic-political intricacies among different countries.
This book addresses the ongoing global diffusion and diversification of sustainable urbanism discourses, debates and practices to portray, evaluate, remake and implement a sustainable form of urban development, using China as a national example. As eco-city practice becomes a city-branding instrument worldwide, this new urban development vision is also well embraced by Chinese local governments. In these contexts, the Chinese government has initiated and endorsed a number of massive projects to promote green urbanism, steering urbanization onto a more sustainable trajectory. The construction of these “ecotopias” involves a multitude of processes ranging from policy transfer/mobility to institutional design, from innovation in green technologies to the promotion of green buildings, and from policy implementation to public participation.
This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China. While the guiding themes are space, scale, and governance of cities, the book focuses on three interrelated prevailing processes of local green space reproduction, cross-scale mediation of eco-city planning ideology and mobilized social-economic-political intricacies among different countries.
This book addresses the ongoing global diffusion and diversification of sustainable urbanism discourses, debates and practices to portray, evaluate, remake and implement a sustainable form of urban development, using China as a national example. As eco-city practice becomes a city-branding instrument worldwide, this new urban development vision is also well embraced by Chinese local governments. In these contexts, the Chinese government has initiated and endorsed a number of massive projects to promote green urbanism, steering urbanization onto a more sustainable trajectory. The construction of these “ecotopias” involves a multitude of processes ranging from policy transfer/mobility to institutional design, from innovation in green technologies to the promotion of green buildings, and from policy implementation to public participation.
Brings together the contributions of many leading scholars in the field of urbanization, urban planning and environmental policy in China Draws a panoramic view of the rapid urbanization process in the past decades in China with each chapter dealing with a specific aspect of sustainable urbanization Provides penetrating analyses and updated accounts of green urbanism in China in a comprehensive and systematic manner A significant contribution to the literature on sustainable urbanism and how this is related to spatial governance in China and elsewhere Essential reading for students and scholars interested in sustainability issues underpinning China’s massive urban revolution, as well as to planners, architects and other professionals whose works help steer the country’s urban developmental trajectories
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Xiaoling Zhang
Themen in »Remaking Sustainable Urbanism«
sustainable urbanism green cities sustainable cities ethical cities China studies comparative politics comparative governance urbanization developing countries Urban governance urban geography and urbanism