Urban meltdown [[electronic resource] ] : cities, climate change and politics as usual / / Clive Doucet
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Doucet Clive
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Urban meltdown [[electronic resource] ] : cities, climate change and politics as usual / / Clive Doucet
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| Pubblicazione: | Gabriola Island, BC, : New Society Publishers, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.738/74/091732 |
| Soggetto topico: | Urban ecology (Sociology) |
| Global warming - Political aspects | |
| Climatic changes | |
| Municipal government | |
| Urbanization - Environmental aspects | |
| City planning - Environmental aspects | |
| Environmental degradation | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-245) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Stopping global warming isn't about better planning, it's about politics. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Urban meltdown |
| ISBN: | 1-282-46521-X |
| 1-55092-347-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454604103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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