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SUSTAINABLE CITY (sustainable + city)
Selected AbstractsVANCOUVER: THE SUSTAINABLE CITYJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 4 2008EMMANUEL BRUNET-JAILLY ABSTRACT:,Vancouver exemplifies the richness of the many processes that set the civic culture of large contemporary cities. This paper focuses on what drives the social and economic construction of Vancouver, pointing to the complex linkages that tie agents to their environment. It shows that, in Vancouver, power arises from strong popular control and local democratic and participatory values, where group interactions produce and co-produce community development. The Vancouver regime is open yet stable, socially progressive yet fiscally conservative and pro-development. It is a regime that upholds an activist, tolerant and entrepreneurial civic culture. It emerges from an on-going process where the openness of the regime is re-negotiated in each neighbourhood and around each policy arena leading to the emergence of a culture of ongoing participation where civic, neighbourhood, ethnic and business groups constantly re-invent the city. [source] Sustainable Cities: Japanese Perspectives on Physical and Social Structures edited by Hidenori TamagawaJOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 3 2009Stephanie E. Chang First page of article [source] URBAN HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN CITIESAUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2009Lionel Frost Australian cities; sustainability; urban history; urbanisation Urban growth is a major theme in economic development and a policy imperative for developed countries that seek to create sustainable cities. We argue that the past weighs heavily on the ability of societies to sustainably manage urban environments. The policy implications of urban history are revealed in comparisons of cities across times and between places. The special issue presents some of the best recent work on the economic and social history of Australian cities. We aim to encourage historians to incorporate urban variables into studies of historical processes and to persuade policymakers to consider historical trends in their analysis. [source] Towards a geographical research agenda for social enterpriseAREA, Issue 3 2010Sarah-Anne Muņoz It has been recognised that there is potential for the study of social enterprise to engage to a greater degree with the social science disciplines. This paper demonstrates that some of the research gaps relating to social enterprise and socially enterprising behaviour within the UK could be tackled within a geographical research agenda for social enterprise that recognises the place-based aspects of such activity. There is scope for a greater focus on the relationship between socially enterprising behaviour and the spaces of social enterprise within current discourses on the ,sustainable' city and ,cohesive' communities in particular. There is a need to investigate in more detail the role of social enterprise in tackling social exclusion and the creation of spaces of empowerment for marginalised and excluded groups. This paper puts forward the case for a research agenda for social enterprise that draws on the discipline of geography but also suggests ways in which geographers can bring their spatial lens to the development of interdisciplinary work on social enterprise. Through literature review the paper highlights knowledge gaps that geographers would be well-placed to fill and draws out some key avenues for future research that could be tackled within a redefined research agenda for social enterprise. [source] | ||||||||||