In this article, I argue that local governments have a potentially significant role to play in defining and attaining social, economic and ecological sustainability, but that many local governments lack the legal authority to implement place-based initiatives - including local land-use plans,...

Introduction to Local Sustainability and Functional Collective Action -- Setting the stage - A quantitative overview of cities and sustainability -- Functional Collective Action Framework -- Lead Agency Consolidation: Fort Collins, CO -- Lead Agency Coordination: Kansas City, MO and Orlando, FL...

This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...