Pinderhughes, R: Alternative Urban Futures

Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop and manage essential urban infrastructures in ways that support sustainable development in the areas of waste management, water supply and management, energy production and use, building design and construction, land-use, transportation, and food systems. Each chapter features case studies that provide concrete examples of how ecologically and socially responsible urban and sustainable development planning and policy approaches have been successfully implemented in cities around the world. The book is especially effective in its emphasis on recently published statistics and writing supporting new planning and policy recommendations. Each chapter ends with a summary, accompanied by a list of questions that can be addressed with information provided in the text.

Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment.

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: Planning for Sustainable Urban Development Chapter 3 Urban Water Quality, Supply, and Management Chapter 4 Urban Solid Waste Disposal, Collection, and Management Chapter 5 Urban Energy Supply and Management Chapter 6 Urban Transportation Planning and Management Chapter 7 Urban Food Production Chapter 8 Towards Sustainable Development Planning in Cities Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index