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Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A city-centred strategy to lift urban productivity must reduce deficits of urban innovation and of infrastructure investment: the new limits to growth. The outlook of more frequent and more costly crises to come - environmental, health, and even economic - makes these deficits more alarming. Yet governments seem incapable of setting out a vision for the future of cities. Things may get worse before they get better.We may need radical reforms to get practical solutions to improve urban economic performance and to reduce the impact of urban disasters and crises: our major challenges. Putting cities at the centre of policy will challenge how governments, structured by sectors and levels, work. Paradigm shifts in economic governance have been undertaken successfully in the past; we are just out of practice. Drawing on dozens of reports from the OECD to illuminate recent trends, emerging risks and initiatives to improve decision-making, Cities and crisis is about the future, starting where we are. This book is essential for anyone interested in the lessons of the 2008 crisis for the future of cities in the twenty-first century, and is suitable for classroom use in politics, urban studies, development and business.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. --- Urban economics. --- Crisis. --- Economic governance and paradigms. --- Infrastructure. --- Innovation. --- Interdependence. --- Risk. --- Sustainable cities and communities.

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Sustainable urban development. --- City planning --- Urbanisme durable. --- City planning --- Sustainable urban development. --- City planning --- sustainable cities --- green cities --- just cities --- urban accessibility --- accessible cities --- fair cities --- urban transformation --- Sustainability --- Sustainable city --- Urban density --- Urban planning --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- sustainable cities --- green cities --- just cities --- urban accessibility --- accessible cities --- fair cities --- urban transformation --- Sustainability --- Sustainable city --- Urban density --- Urban planning

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Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today. Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers? environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this "weak recycling waste regime," Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston?s local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.

Refuse and refuse disposal --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) --- waste management, recycling, waste studies, post-consumer, consumption studies, environmental studies, urban planning, environmental planning, sustainability, sustainable cities. --- E-books --- Washington (State) --- United States --- Massachusetts

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Urbanisme durable. --- City planning --- Sustainable urban development. --- Environmental aspects. --- sustainable cities --- green cities --- just cities --- urban accessibility --- accessible cities --- fair cities --- urban transformation --- Sustainability --- Sustainable city --- Urban density --- Urban planning