TY  - BOOK
ED  - Simon, David
AB  - Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally at a time when urban areas worldwide are threatened by climate/environmental change. This compact book is designed to make a signal contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining clearly the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere, namely that they should be accessible, green and fair. These three terms form key tenets of the work of Mistra Urban Futures (MUF; http://www.mistraurbanfutures.org/en), an international research centre on sustainable urbanisation based in Gothenburg, Sweden, and working through transdisciplinary research platforms there, in Greater Manchester (UK), Cape Town (South Africa) and Kisumu (Kenya). Additional platforms are being established in southern Sweden, Asia and Africa.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_613676
ID  - OAPEN ID: 613676
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 972011022
KW  - sustainable cities
KW  - green cities
KW  - just cities
KW  - urban accessibility
KW  - accessible cities
KW  - fair cities
KW  - urban transformation
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Sustainable city
KW  - Urban density
KW  - Urban planning
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/2388ee8b-2e92-4c1e-b2fe-d95c6e6b69ef/613676.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32166
PB  - Policy Press
PP  - Bristol
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9781447332855
TI  - Rethinking sustainable cities: Accessible, green and fairnull
ER  - 
