Toward Sustainable Communities : Resources

Towns and cities face increasing pressure to undertake development initiatives that are sustainable at the same time that more and more services are being downloaded to the municipal level. Caught in this trap between rising expectations on the one hand and increasing costs on the other, local governments are required to be more creative than ever before.

Mark Roseland is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia

Preface to the Third Edition

x

Foreword

xii

Acknowledgments

xv

Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Planet

1

(42)

The Context For Sustainable Communitiess

2

(15)

Thinking Globally

2

(1)

Sustainable Development

3

(1)

Community Capital

4

(8)

Doing Development Differently

12

(2)

References

14

(3)

Toward Sustainable Communities

17

(14)

Sustainable Communities North and South

17

(1)

The Unsustainable Community

18

(2)

The Sustainable Community

20

(6)

Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

26

(5)

Making Community Policy

31

(12)

Policy Issues for Local Governments

31

(1)

Policy Instruments

32

(7)

Constraints on Implementation

39

(4)

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

43

(146)

Greening the City

44

(16)

Rethinking Urban Green Space

45

(6)

Urban Agriculture

51

(3)

Urban Aquatic Systems

54

(2)

Resources

56

(4)

Water and Sewage

60

(14)

Supply and Demand

60

(5)

Water Quality and Sewage Treatment

65

(5)

Integrated Resource Planning

70

(1)

Resources

71

(3)

Waste Reduction and Recycling

74

(13)

Source Reduction

74

(2)

Reuse

76

(2)

Recycling and Recovery

78

(1)

Composting

79

(5)

Resources

84

(3)

Energy Efficiency and Renewables

87

(16)

Energy Efficiency

87

(7)

Environmentally Responsible Energy Supply

94

(4)

Community Planning and Management Issues

98

(2)

Resources

100

(3)

Atmospheric Change and Air Quality

103

(11)

Local Air Quality

103

(1)

Climate Change

104

(1)

Ozone Layer Depletion

104

(4)

Economic Benefits of Addressing Atmospheric Change

108

(3)

Resources

111

(3)

Transportation Planning and Traffic Management

114

(19)

True Costs of Driving

115

(2)

Technical Fixes

117

(1)

Reducing Automobile Dependency

118

(10)

Resources

128

(5)

Land Use and Urban Form

133

(21)

Land Use and Transportation

133

(2)

Density and Housing

135

(1)

The Costs of Sprawl

136

(2)

Changing the Pattern of Growth

138

(1)

New Urbanism

139

(6)

Social Benefits of Compact Communities

145

(5)

Resources

150

(4)

Housing and Community Development

154

(14)

More than a Roof over our Heads

154

(7)

Healthy Communities

161

(4)

Resources

165

(3)

Community Economic Development

168

(21)

Development Redefined

168

(5)

Environmental Responsibility

173

(9)

Rethinking Economic Development

182

(2)

Resources

184

(5)

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

189

(36)

Governing Sustainable Communities

190

(17)

Public Participation

190

(3)

The Role of Local Government

193

(3)

Planning for Action

196

(11)

Tools For Community Sustainability

207

(12)

Planning

207

(2)

Assessment

209

(2)

Tools in Action

211

(4)

Resources

215

(4)

Lessons and Challenges

219

(6)

Lessons for Policy-Making

220

(2)

The Challenges Ahead

222

(3)

Appendix: Sustainable Community Resources

225

(1)

Index --- General

226

(13)

About the Author

239

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Toward Sustainable Communities : Resources for Citizens and Their Governments

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