Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World).

Intro -- About IP -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword - Garrett Fitzgerald -- Foreword - Eduardo da Costa Paes -- Acknowledgments -- World's Cities at a Glance - Gary Gardner -- Cities as Human Constructs -- 1. Imagining a Sustainable City - Gary Gardner -- 2. Cities in the Arc of Human History: A Materials Perspective - Gary Gardner -- 3. The City: A System of Systems - Gary Gardner -- 4. Toward a Vision of Sustainable Cities - Gary Gardner -- 5. The Energy Wildcard: Possible Energy Constraints to Further Urbanization - Richard Heinberg -- The Urban Climate Challenge -- 6. Cities and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Scope of the Challenge - Tom Prugh and Michael Renner -- 7. Urbanism and Global Sprawl - Peter Calthorpe -- City View: Shanghai, China - Haibing Ma -- 8. Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Buildings - Michael Renner -- City View: Freiburg, Germany - Simone Ariane Pflaum -- 9. Energy Efficiency in Buildings: A Crisis of Opportunity - Gregory H. Kats -- City View: Melbourne, Australia - Robert Doyle -- 10. Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Cities Possible? - Betsy Agar and Michael Renner -- City View: Vancouver, Canada - Gregor Robertson -- 11. Supporting Sustainable Transportation - Michael Renner -- 12. Urban Transport and Climate Change - Cornie Huizenga, Karl Peet, and Sudhir Gota -- City View: Singapore - Geoffrey Davison and Ang Wei Ping -- 13. Source Reduction and Recycling of Waste - Michael Renner -- City View: Ahmedabad and Pune, India - Kartikeya Sarabhai, Madhavi Joshi, and Sanskriti Menon -- 14. Solid Waste and Climate Change - Perinaz Bhada-Tata and Daniel Hoornweg -- City View: Barcelona, Spain - Martí Boada Juncà, Roser Maneja Zaragoza, and Pablo Knobel Guelar -- 15. Rural-Urban Migration, Lifestyles, and Deforestation - Tom Prugh -- Politics, Equity, and Livability.

16. Remunicipalization, the Low-Carbon Transition, and Energy Democracy - Andrew Cumbers -- City View: Portland, Oregon, United States - Brian Holland and Juan Wei -- 17. The Vital Role of Biodiversity in Urban Sustainability - Martí Boada Juncà, Roser Maneja Zaragoza, and Pablo Knobel Guelar -- City View: Jerusalem, Israel - Martí Boada Juncà, Roser Maneja Zaragoza, and Pablo Knobel Guelar -- 18. The Inclusive City: Urban Planning for Diversity and Social Cohesion - Franziska Schreiber and Alexander Carius -- City View: Durban, South Africa - Debra Roberts and Sean O'Donoghue -- 19. Urbanization, Inclusion, and Social Justice - Jim Jarvie and Richard Friend -- Notes -- Index -- IP Board of Directors.

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