Infrastructures of the Global: Adding a Third Dimension to Urban Sustainability Discourses

1. A More Sustainable CityHopes for cities to solve the social, environmental, and economic problems of the early 21st century loom large over discourses on sustainability in the United States. On a rapidly urbanizing planet, it is often argued, the global challenge of creating a more sustainable k...

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第一著者: Vormann, Boris
フォーマット: Article ou chapitre numérique
出版事項: European journal of American studies 2015
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オンライン・アクセス:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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要約:1. A More Sustainable CityHopes for cities to solve the social, environmental, and economic problems of the early 21st century loom large over discourses on sustainability in the United States. On a rapidly urbanizing planet, it is often argued, the global challenge of creating a more sustainable kind of living can best be tackled in cities and by urban actors. Besides the widespread notion of an emerging urban era, this focus on cities can be explained by the common assumption that these ar...