Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City Austin, Curitiba, and Frankfurt

Name: Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City Austin, Curitiba, and Frankfurt
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ISBN: 9780739115343

ISBN-10: 0739115340

ISBN-13: 9780739115343

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Authors: Steven A. Moore

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Dr. Steven A. Moore investigates the exemplary cities of Austin, Texas, Curitiba, Brazil, and Frankfurt, Germany to examine how each city has approached and maintained sustainability, and thus stimulated economic growth, preserved threatened ecosystems, and improved social equity. These three cities have successfully developed different dispositions toward politics, nature, and technology, proving that there is no single abstract model or universal checklist but different approaches for different people.

Book details

List price: $55.99
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication date: 5/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



A Tale of Three Cities



Methodology and Methods



Sustainability and Stories



Political Dispositions



Environmental Dispositions



Technological Dispositions



The Question and Structure of the Inquiry



The Springs of Austin



Received Stories



Cycles of Planning



Forms of Governance



Austin's Dominant Story Line-Rugged Individualism



Austin's Counter-Story Line-Environmental Preservation



Summary



The Miracle of Curitiba



Settlement and Development



The Clients' View



The Citizens' View



Curitiba's Dominant Story Line-Technocracy



Curitiba's Counter-Story Line-Social Democracy



Summary



The Banks of Frankfurt



Tolerance and Banking



The Commerzbank Tower



Frankfurt's Dominant Story Line-Progressive Capitalism



Frankfurt's Counter-Story Line-Red / Green



Summary



Story versus Space



Evolution of Development



Public Parks and Open Space



Public Transportation



Density



Income Distribution



Summary



Sustainability and Democracy



Stories and Spaces of Coalition



Technical and Cultural Rationality



Efficient and Inclusive Systems



Scarce and Abundant Resources



Coevolution of Nature and Technology



Technological Codes and Human Habits



Technological and "Wicked" Problems



Qualities and Consequences of Action



Truth and Events



Models and Lists



Mobs, Clients, and Citizens



Conceptualization and Implementation



Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City



Master- or Meta-Story Lines



Twelve Abductive Tools



Methodology


Index


About the Author