The future of sustainable cities : Critical reflections

Intro -- The future of sustainable cities -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Section 1: The 'new' politics of sustainable urbanism -- 1. Introduction: Characterising the 'new' politics of sustainability: from managing growth to coping with crisis -- Introduction -- From globalisation to recession: the changing contexts of sustainability planning -- Post-politics of sustainability planning -- Governing the post-recession sustainable city: from managing growth to (re)creating growth -- Contributions and the structure of the book -- 2. The sustainable city: an obituary? On the future form and prospects of sustainable urbanism -- Introduction: Urban economic recovery and/or sustainable development -- Birth: the origins of sustainable urbanism -- Death I: hyper-liberalism and experiments in sub-prime urbanism -- Death II: urban transition movements and neo-localisation -- Death III: win-lose-lose and the rise of municipal pragmatism -- Resurrection? The future of the sustainable city -- Key conclusions -- 3. Sustainable communities and English spatial policy -- Introduction -- Sustainability and sustainable communities -- Lost in space -- Spatialising social policy -- Sustainable communities as drivers of uneven development -- Realism, utopianism and sustainable communities -- Key conclusions -- 4. Constructions of the carbon city -- Introduction -- Carbon control -- Calculative practices of governing -- Calculation and carbon management -- Local area agreements -- Constructing the calculative currency -- Constructing the calculable object -- Implementing the calculation as targets for cities -- Implications for local politics: transitions or stop-gaps? -- Conclusions -- Key conclusions -- Section 2: Building the sustainable city: policy fields, current issues and themes.