Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City Austin, Curitiba, and Frankfurt

Dr. Steven A. Moore investigates the exemplary cities of Austin, Texas, Curitiba, Brazil, and Frankfurt, Germany to examine how each city has approached and maintained sustainability, and thus stimulated economic growth, preserved threatened ecosystems, and improved social equity. These three cities have successfully developed different dispositions toward politics, nature, and technology, proving that there is no single abstract model or universal checklist but different approaches for different people.

Steven A. Moore is the Bartlett Cocke Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of Texas at Austin