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Author Metzger, Jonathan

Title Sustainable Stockholm : Exploring Urban Sustainability in Europe's Greenest City
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents Cover; Sustainable Stockholm; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Greenest City?; 1.1 Structure of the Book; Chapter 2 From Ugly Duckling to Europe's First Green Capital: A Historical Perspective on the Development of Stockholm's Urban Environment; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Stockholm in the Global Urban System; 2.3 Stockholm 1850-1914; 2.4 A Peaceful Era of Sowing Seeds, 1914-1945; 2.5 Reaping Harvests After 1945; 2.6 The Past 40 Years
2.7 Conclusions: Looking Back and Looking ForwardChapter 3 Using the Concept of Sustainability: Interpretations in Academia, Policy, and Planning; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Concept of Sustainable Development; 3.3 The Political Discourse on Sustainable Development; 3.4 What Happens in Reality?; Chapter 4 A Sustainable Urban Fabric: The Development and Application of Analytical Urban Design Theory; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Contemporary Trends in Urban Design; 4.3 Analytical Theories of Sustainable Cities; 4.4 Toward an Analytically Supported Urban Design Theory; 3.5 Discussion and Conclusions
4.5 Albano: Toward Principles of Social-Ecological Urban Design4.6 Discussion: Design Theory as an Epistemological Framework; Chapter 5 Sustainable Urban Flows and Networks: Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Infrastructure Development and Planning; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 What is Infrastructure?; 5.3 Challenges in Stockholm's Infrastructure Systems; 5.4 Sustainable Infrastructure Scenarios for Stockholm; 5.5 Concluding Discussion; Chapter 6 The Economics of Green Buildings; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Environmental Rating Tools in Sweden; 6.3 Commercial And Residential Green Buildings in Stockholm
6.4 Economic Studies of Green Buildings in Sweden: New Construction6.5 Greening the Existing Building Stock; 6.6 Concluding Discussion; Chapter 7 Performing Sustainability: Institutions, Inertia, and the Practices of Everyday Life; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Institutions, Path Dependency, and Discourses; 7.3 From Teacher to Preacher: The Story of Glashusett; 7.4 Imposing Responsible Lifestyles in the Royal Seaport: Eco-Fascism or Individual Choice?; 7.5 The (In)Visible whip: The Introduction and Permanent Establishment of Congestion Charging; 7.6 Concluding Discussion
Chapter 8 From Eco-Modernizing to Political Ecologizing: Future Challenges for the Green Capital8.1 Introduction; 8.2 A Growing but Strained Stockholm; 8.3 Framing the Green Capital; 8.4 From Light Green Sustainability to Political Ecology; 8.5 Challenges for a more Environmentally Just Development; 8.6 Concluding Discussion: Being at the Forefront Internationally; Chapter 9 Urban Sustainable Development the Stockholm Way; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Credit where credit is due: How did Stockholm get here?; 9.3 Particularities and Blind Spots
Summary Sustainable Stockholm provides a historical overview of Stockholm's environmental development, and also discusses a number of cross-disciplinary themes presenting the urban sustainability work behind Stockholm's unique position, and importantly the question of how well Stockholm's practices can be exported and transposed to other places and contexts. By using the case of Stockholm as the pivot of discussions, Sustainable Stockholm investigates the core issues of sustainable urban environmental development and planning, in all their entanglements. The book show
Notes 9.4 Key Strategic Parameters for Urban Sustainable Development: Lessons from Stockholm
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Subject Sustainable urban development -- Sweden -- Stockholm
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Sweden -- Stockholm
City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Sweden -- Stockholm
City planning -- Environmental aspects
Ecology
Sustainable urban development
Urban ecology (Sociology)
SUBJECT Stockholm (Sweden) -- Environmental conditions
Subject Sweden -- Stockholm
Form Electronic book
Author Rader Olsson, Amy
ISBN 9781135036188
1135036187