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Paperback – 256 pages
6 Inches × 9 Inches (w × h)
Weight: 425 Grams
BISAC:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Publisher:
New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865714991
Pub. Date: 2003-12-05
About the Author
Gwendolyn Hallsmith has worked on sustainable development in many different capacities, including positions such as Deputy Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, the Town Manager of Randolph, Vermont, as the Regional Planning Director in Franklin County, Massachusetts, and as a Senior Planner for the Massachusetts Office of Energy Resources. She has a Master's degree in Public Policy from Brown University, and has had over twenty years of experience working on environmental issues. She is currently Campaign Coordinator for the Vermont Earth Charter and a Pastor with the United Federated Church in Williamstown.
The Key to Sustainable Cities
Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems
by Gwendolyn Hallsmith
Most of the world's population now lives in cities, but despite wide agreement on the core values of sustainable societies, municipalities are so busy solving current problems they don't have the time or resources to plan effective action for sustainability.
The Key to Sustainable Cities uses the principles of system dynamics to demonstrate how today's problems were yesterday's solutions. The book points to a new approach to city planning that builds on assets as a starting point for cities to develop healthy social, governance, economic, and environmental systems.
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