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

by Steven A. Moore

Overview

Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City offers a unique and thorough analysis of three major cities and their individual paths toward sustainable development. 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. Incorporating interviews with the citizens themselves with current topographical research, Moore critically questions the relationship between sustainability and democracy. Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City is a necessary and pivotal read that will appeal to scholars of environmental studies and those interested in city development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739115343
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	05/17/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Steven A. Moore is the Bartlett Cocke Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Tale of Three Cities
Chapter 2 The Springs of Austin
Chapter 3 The Miracle of Curitiba
Chapter 4 The Banks of Frankfurt
Chapter 5 Story versus Space
Chapter 6 Sustainability and Democracy
Chapter 7 Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City

Editorial Reviews

With its rich discussion of philosophical and methodological foundations, its clear presentation, and its engaging narrative style, this book can be read straight through as a complete text, or piecemeal as distinct case studies, or as a source book enhanced by the generous bibliographies closing each chapter.

Technology and Culture - .

Moore's ideas are stimulating. .. the book will be of interest to Ph.D. students and professors in urban environmental planning.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online - Tom Daniels

This book offers a unique, pragmatic approach to questions of sustainable urbanism. By looking at three cities with different histories and politics, Moore allows the reader to see the difference between approaches to sustainability that are prescriptive and ideal, and those that are pragmatic and contextual. The book is timely and should be enormously useful to policy makers, planners and environmentalists. This is a significant contribution in a field that is still trying to find its way.

Howard Davis

With its rich discussion of philosophical and methodological foundations, its clear presentation, and its engaging narrative style, this book can be read straight through as a complete text, or piecemeal as distinct case studies, or as a source book enhanced by the generous bibliographies closing each chapter.

Technology and Culture, April 2008 - .

Moore's ideas are stimulating . . . the book will be of interest to Ph.D. students and professors in urban environmental planning.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online - Tom Daniels

With its rich discussion of philosophical and methodological foundations, its clear presentation, and its engaging narrative style, this book can be read straight through as a complete text, or piecemeal as distinct case studies, or as a source book enhanced by the generous bibliographies closing each chapter.

Technology and Culture - April 2008

Moore's ideas are stimulating . . . the book will be of interest to Ph.D. students and professors in urban environmental planning.
— Tom Daniels

H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online

With its rich discussion of philosophical and methodological foundations, its clear presentation, and its engaging narrative style, this book can be read straight through as a complete text, or piecemeal as distinct case studies, or as a source book enhanced by the generous bibliographies closing each chapter.
— April 2008

Technology and Culture

Moore's ideas are stimulating . . . the book will be of interest to Ph.D. students and professors in urban environmental planning.
— Tom Daniels

H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online