Urban meltdown : cities, climate change and politics as usual / Clive Doucet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doucet, Clive.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Global warming--Political aspects.

Global warming.

Climatic changes.

Municipal government.

Urbanization--Environmental aspects.

Urbanization.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Environmental degradation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, c2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Stopping global warming isn't about better planning, it's about politics.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Part One: A Poet Goes to City Hall; Chapter One: Global Cities and Horse and Buggy Nations; Chapter Two: Neighborhoods to Love; Chapter Three: The Barbell Society and Just-in-Time Delivery; Chapter Four: From Mont Tremblant to Ski Tremblant; Chapter Five: Along Bayswater Street; Chapter Six: Urban Villages; Chapter Seven: It ain't Planning. It's Politics; Chapter Eight: Citizenship versus Faithship; Part Two: The Idea of Progress and Why We Got it Wrong; Chapter Nine: The Mayor of Hiroshima and Intimations of God

Chapter Ten: The Idea of Progress and the First Nations Chapter Eleven: Biological and Social Phase Transitions; Chapter Twelve: Cod, Government and the Transpiration Cycle; Chapter Thirteen: Care of the Soul/Care of the City/Care for the Planet; Chapter Fourteen: 1984-2004: Poets and Visions; Chapter Fifteen: Cape Breton Beaches and the Gulf of Mexico; Part Three: Trying to Create a New Order of Things; Chapter Sixteen: The Rise of Cities and Decline of the Planet; Chapter Seventeen: 689 Spadina and Coming of Age in Toronto

Chapter Eighteen: The 1960's: A global paradigm shift that never happened Chapter Nineteen: The World Social Forum II and; Chapter Twenty: The World Social Forum III and; Chapter Twenty-One: Saving the World with Stephen Lewis?; Chapter Twenty-Two: The Bush Bubble Comes to Ottawa; Chapter Twenty-Three: Jean de La Fontaine; Chapter Twenty-Four: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual; Epilogue; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-245) and index.

ISBN:

9781282465213

128246521X

9781550923476

1550923471

OCLC:

476106895