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Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy

Urban Ecology, Innovations in Housing Policy and the Future of Cities: Towards Sustainability in Neighbourhood Communities

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements


Chapter 1
Introduction: Urban Living at a Turning Point


-- PART A: URBAN ECOLOGY --

Chapter 2
The Sustainability Paradigm - Setting the Context

Chapter 3
The Ecological City: From Experiment to Groundswell?

Chapter 4
The Interplay of Technology, Community and Individual Behaviour in Urban Resource Management

Chapter 5
Resident Participation and Community Networks in Sustainable Housing Policy

Chapter 6
Urban Sustainability from a User Perspective: The Contribution of Lifestyle Choices


-- PART B: URBAN FUTURES --

Chapter 7
Changing Economies, Changing Society

Chapter 8
Automobile Dependence and Urban Form: Sustainability in the Work of Newman and Kenworthy

Chapter 9
Can Urban Expansion Be Sustainable? Sprawl Apologists and Smart Growth in the New World

Chapter 10
Compact City Policy: How Europe Rediscovered its History and Met Resistance

Chapter 11
Dispersal Pragmatists and the Zwischenstadt: Urban Sustainability as Seen from the Periphery

Chapter 12
A Phenology of Urban Dissonance: Summary and Contextualisation


-- PART C: PRACTICAL INNOVATIONS --

Chapter 13
Fieldwork in Ecological and Car-Reduced Residential Areas

Chapter 14
Urban Ecology and Mass Housing: Top-down and Bottom-up Planning

Chapter 15
Urban and Rural Eco-Communities: Who Lives More Sustainably?

Chapter 16
Promoting the Urban Ecology and Mobility Connection: The Carfree Housing Movement in European Cities

16.1. The Importance of Mobility Management in Sustainable Housing Policies
16.2. A Brief History of Carfree Housing
16.3. GWL-Terrein, Amsterdam: Carfree Public Housing
16.4. Slateford Green, Edinburgh: A Mixed-Tenure Carfree Housing Development
16.5. Saarlandstraße, Hamburg: Carfree Housing in a Non-Profit Cooperative
16.6. Stadthaus Schlump, Hamburg: A Developer's Model for Mobility Management
16.7. Autofreie Mustersiedlung Floridsdorf, Vienna: A Carfree Demonstration Project
16.8. Insights from Carfree Housing Pioneer Projects

Chapter 17
Bridges to Utopia? A Sustainable Urban District in Freiburg, Germany

Chapter 18
Towards Ecological Innovation in Urban Living: Mobility-Conscious Neighbourhood Concepts and the Sustainable City

Bibliography

Appendix

Overview of Indicators from the Residents' Survey in Nine Case Study Areas