Remaking Sustainable Urbanism: Space, Scale and Governance in the New Urban Era

Introduction.- Part 1 The Theoretical Critique of the Sustainable Urbanism Narrative.- Of Tesla and Eco-City: Urban Sustainability as Territorial Local Trap?.- Making an Urban Ecotopia in China: Knowledge, Power, and Governmentality.- Political Ecology of Chinese Smart Eco-Cities.- Part 2 The Dynamics of "Glocal" Governance and Policy Mobility of Sustainable Urbanism.- City Branding in Chinese Cities: From Tactical Greenwashing to Successful Industrial Transformation.- From Shannon to Shenzhen and Back: Sustainable Urbanism and Inter-City Partnerships in China and Europe.- Policy Mobility in Green Urbanism: a Comparative Case Study of Suzhou and Tianjin.- Part 3 Social Inclusiveness of Sustainable Urbanization in China.- Making Urbanization Socially Inclusive: Integrating In-Situ Rural Development with City-Centered Urbanization.- Livelihood Transitions during China's Ecological Urbanization: An Ethnographic Observation.- The Quality of Life of the Land-Lost Peasants and Informal Development on the Rural-Urban Fringe in Beijing.- Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811333491
• ISBN13: 9789811333491
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"