Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Environmental Justice and the Sustainable City

by Graham Haughton

As the debate on sustainable development and environmental justice has gathered momentum, considerable attention has been paid to identify key peinciples. In this paper, I highlight a number of core principles and then move on to examine differing styles of policy approach, which have gained favor among different sources, for moving toward the sustainable city from market-based neo-liberal reformism to deep green ecologically centered approaches. I highlighr four broad categories of approach to sustainable urban development and begin linking those to the core principles of sustainable development.

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more about sustainable development:

Sustainable Urban Forms Their Typologies, Models, and Concepts

The Economics of Sustainable Cities: Four Key Components

FIVE PLANNING PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESSFUL URBAN DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT - RECENT EXAMPLES FROM GERMANY

The eco-city: ten key transport and planning dimensions for sustainable city development

Sustainability on the Urban Scale: ‘Green Urbanism’

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