Relationships between cities and energy, water, waste and transport networks are changing. World Cities and Climate Change argues that this is not something that is happening naturally but is the product of social, economic, political and spatial processes and that these changes have profound implications for the shape of contemporary and future cities.
 Drawing on research and examples from London, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Shanghai, San Francisco and other world cities, Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin pose a critical question:
<ul><li> Are visions of future urbanism socially and ecologically progressive or do they promote the selective and partial re-bounding of particular social groups and places predicated on new - often hidden - interdependencies?</li></ul>
They develop a critical synthesis of dominant, new infrastructure styles that they argue are emerging as responses to the systemic pressures of climate change and resource constraint confronting cities and networks. The book outlines the key elements of these new strategies and critically assesses their implications and relevance to other urban contexts.
 World Cities and Climate Change is key reading for students, academics, researchers and policy makers with an interest in urban politics, technology and ecology.

World cities and climate change (Issues in Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hodson, Mike

Marvin, Simon

Sociology

Open University Press

Relationships between cities and energy, water, waste and transport networks are changing. World Cities and Climate Change argues that this is not something that is happening naturally but is the product of social, economic, political and spatial processes and that these changes have profound implications for the shape of contemporary and future cities.
 Drawing on research and examples from London, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Shanghai, San Francisco and other world cities, Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin pose a critical question:
<ul><li> Are visions of future urbanism socially and ecologically progressive or do they promote the selective and partial re-bounding of particular social groups and places predicated on new - often hidden - interdependencies?</li></ul>
They develop a critical synthesis of dominant, new infrastructure styles that they argue are emerging as responses to the systemic pressures of climate change and resource constraint confronting cities and networks. The book outlines the key elements of these new strategies and critically assesses their implications and relevance to other urban contexts.
 World Cities and Climate Change is key reading for students, academics, researchers and policy makers with an interest in urban politics, technology and ecology.

World Cities And Climate Change: Producing Urban Ecological Security (Issues in Society)

Social Sciences

Low Carbon Nation?

What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country? Does it reinforce existing ‘business as usual’ or create new transformational opportunities? Low Carbon Nation? takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle this critical question, by looking across the different dimensions of technological, scientific, social and economic change within the diverse city and regional contexts of the UK. Hodson and Marvin set out how the transition to low carbon futures needs to be understood as a dual response to the wider financial and economic crisis and to critical ecological concerns about the implications of global climate change. The book develops a novel framework for understanding how the transition to low carbon is informed by historical legacies that shape the geographical, political and cultural dimensions of low carbon responses. Through a programme of research in Scotland, Wales, the North East of England, Greater London, and Greater Manchester, the authors set out different styles of low carbon urban and regional response. Through in-depth illustration of this in newly devolved nations, an old industrial region, a global city-region and in an entrepreneurial city, international lessons can be drawn about the limits and the unrealised opportunities of low carbon transition.  This book is key reading for students on geography, economics, planning and social science degrees, as well as those studying sustainability in related contexts trying to understand the urban and regional politics of low carbon transition. It is also an essential resource for policymakers, public officials, elected representatives, environmentalists and business leaders concerned with shaping the direction and type of transition.

Reference

Routledge

Business & Money

Economics

This book started as a letter to my oldest son on how to be a man. Over the past 20 years, I have learned a few things on purpose and some things on accident. I've also learned one or two things, the hardest way possible and I have the scars, regrets and a few bad tattoos to prove it.My path to becoming a man is not a normal or traditional one. I've learned from parents, pastors, policemen, drug dealers, ex-cons, high school kids, dead men, theologians, punks, comic books, and cartoons. My journey has gone from drugs and alcohol, punk rock clubs and street gangs, through the loss of faith and the rejection of God to standing firm in God's Word. This isn't a "How-To Book" but a letter from one man to another on the same journey. These are my words of advice, warnings, and prayers designed to challenge, encourage, and help you become a Focused Man. My desire is to reach fellow outsiders, rebels, oddballs, outcasts and everyone else sitting in the back row of life. Or maybe help you reach the person in your life who might not fit into societies social norms.The content of this book speaks to every man, old and young. It is about authentic manhood. It is how to be a man in today's world. A workbook will soon be published to accompany the book allowing men to go through a six-week study either on their own or with a group of other men. It is also a great study for men to journey through with their sons. This world needs strong, courageous, and authentic men; it needs Focused men.

The Focused Man: A Letter to My Son

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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