Contents

1. Welcome to the book of blogs

   Jenna Condie, University of Western Sydney, Australia, and Anna Mary Cooper, University of Salford, UK

2. Foreword

   Laura van Veenendaal, International Social Science Council

3. Foreword

   Etienne Nel, Comparative Research on Urban Poverty Programme (CROP)

4. I. Definitions of Sustainability

   1. 1. Principles for sustainable urban places: the why, what and how

      Christopher Luederitz and Beatrice John, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

   2. 2. Social sustainability: Towards some explanation

      Taimaz Larimian, University of Otago, New Zealand

5. II. Urban Governance

   1. 3. A tale of two cities: Density regulations vs reality

      Arif Hasan, International Institute of Environment and Development, Pakistan

   2. 4. Using urban planning to create a culture of sustainability

      Natalie Rosales Pérez, El Colegio Mexiquense, Mexico

   3. 5. Negotiating sustainability with Sustainability Assessment

      Samuel Hayes, University of Liverpool, UK

   4. 6. Promoting urban sustainability through managing ecological systems

      Kerry Bobbins, Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), South Africa

   5. 7. In defence of top-down sustainability planning: The case of Sejong City

      Robert Cowley, University of Westminster, UK

   6. 8. Human security, risk management and urban sustainability in Lagos mega-city, Nigeria

      Olayinka Akanle, University of Ibada, Nigeria

   7. 9. Food Sustainability in Urban Africa

      Chijioke J. Evoh, Independent Researcher, New York

   8. 10. Dilemmas of urban governance and infrastructure deficit in Africa

      Peter Elias, University of Lagos, Nigeria

   9. 11. The paradox of urban policy

      Lee Pugalis, Northumbria University, UK

6. III. Engaged Citizens

   1. 12. Coordination vs organisation: a communitarian bottom-up approach in urban planning

      Domenico Maria Caprioli, University of Naples, Italy

   2. 13. Making most of the European Capital of Culture brand through inclusive urban governance

      Ágnes Németh, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

   3. 14. Participatory budgeting in Pune city: A mirage!

      Pooja Shetty, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

   4. 15. Sustainable Development in the Canadian Polar Region

      Nabil Malik, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Canada

   5. 16. Improving housing in Asia and turning traditional top-down funding on its head

      Diana Mitlin, International Institute of Environment and Development, UK

   6. 17. Co-creating a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for sustainable and liveable urban futures

      Jonas Bylund, JPI Urban Europe

   7. 18. Assessing and communicating urban sustainability: comparing the Ecological Footprint and the CERCLE multi-criteria indicator set

      Tobias Luthe, University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur, and Jan Silberberger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

7. IV. Urban Divides

   1. 19. Gated communities of Istanbul: Spaces of upper class exclusivity, escapism and stigma

      Basak Tanulku, Independent Consultant, Turkey

   2. 20. Gated neighbourhoods in Vilnius region: Socio-spatial residential differentiation

      Gintarė Pociūtė-Sereikienė, Lithuanian Social Research Centre; Dovilė Krupickaitė, Vilnius University, and Laura Peciukonytė, Public Policy and Management Institute Group, Lithuania

   3. 21. #BlackLivesMatter: Envisioning urban futures

      Rachael Baker, York University, Canada

   4. 22. Unsustainable status quo: A new approach to understanding inaction in empty home ownership in the North West of England

      Danielle Butler, University of Salford, and John Hughes, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, UK

   5. 23. Compact housing for demographic change in Auckland, New Zealand

      Mohammad Shadab Khan, University of Auckland, New Zealand

   6. 24. The future of slums hinges on sustainability

      Mukesh Kumar Gupta, Central European University, Hungary

   7. 25. Resettlement and environmental impacts on the Subaltern slum: accumulation by dispossession in the Philippine slum

      Christopher John “CJ” Chanco, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines

8. V. Movement and Mobilities

   1. 26. Whither a sustainable urban automobility?

      Jonathan Kershaw, Coventry University, UK

   2. 27. Make room for a planet of transit metropolises

      Yoav Lerman, Tel Aviv University, Israel

   3. 28. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and sustainable urban development in the global south

      Pedro Henrique C. Torres, PUC-Rio University, Brazil

   4. 29. More money, more cars, more city, less walking: Is this the future of Tirana?

      Paulo Rui Anciaes, University College London, UK

   5. 30. Inhabiting infrastructure: explaining cycling's complexity

      Alan Latham, University College London, and Peter Wood, The Open University, UK

   6. 31. Innovations, policies and ideas - An urban mobility perspective

      Nihan Akyelken, University of Oxford, UK

   7. 32. Moving to the city / Movement as the city

      Johan Gärdebo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

   8. 33. The built environment, active design and public health: the impact of office design on activity

      Anna Mary Cooper and Alex Clarke-Cornwell, University of Salford, UK

9. VI. China

   1. 34. Growing urban China - at what cost?

      Brooke Wilmsen, La Trobe University, Australia

   2. 35. Sustainable urbanization in China: Courtyard housing and cultural sustainability

      Donia Zhang, York University, Canada

   3. 36. Urbanization and inequality in China's mega-cities: A perspective from Chinese industrial workers

      Jake Lin, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

   4. 37. The sustainable renewal of a historical community in Beijing’s Old City

      Shangyi Zhou and Shaobo Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China

   5. 38. Governance of sustainable development in China: A case study of the bamboo shoot production in Lin’an County, China

      Kin Wing Chan, University of Cardiff, UK

10. VII. Making Places

    1. 39. Sustainable urbanization in North America: Courtyard housing and architectural multiculturalism

       Donia Zhang, York University, Canada

    2. 40. Reconfiguring ‘sustainability’ in Mumbai: From environmental racism to digital governmobilities after Slumdog Millionaire

       Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds, UK

    3. 41. Political conflict and financialized ‘eco-chic’ urban renewal, a case from Milan

       Guido Anselmi, Università degli studi Milano Bicocca, Italy

    4. 42. Consuming Master-Planned Estates in Australia

       Kamel Taoum, University of Western Sydney, Australia

    5. 43. A finger on the pulse of happiness in an urbanised island context

       Marie Briguglio, University of Malta, Malta

    6. 44. Post-earthquake monument stewardship – a case of the Radha-Krishna Temple at Swotha, Lalitpur, Nepal

       Swati Pujari, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    7. 45. The cohabitation of urban stimulation and natural restoration

       Sarah Payne, Herriott-Watt University, UK

11. VIII. Environment

    1. 46. The status of water supply and sanitation in a rapidly urbanized world: A case study of Dhaka City

       Mahin Al Nahian, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

    2. 47. Urban pollution, health, and sustainable development in Delhi

       Aakriti Grover and R.B. Singh, University of Delhi, India

    3. 48. Malta's EU accession, environmental sustainability and ENGO activism

       Michael Briguglio, University of Malta, Malta

    4. 49. The role of landscape in the sustainable transition towards a new urban waste management system

       Piergiuseppe Morone, Unitelma-Sapienza University of Rome, and Antonio Lopolito, University of Foggia, Italy

    5. 50. Challenges and opportunities of sustainable urbanization in Delhi, India

       Gaurav Sikka, University of Delhi, India

    6. 51. Climate adaptation vs. urban politics? Some evidence from Colombian cities

       Florian Koch, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Germany

    7. 52. The Hydrocitizenship Project Celebrates World Water Day 2015

       Tom Payne, University of Aberystwyth; Katherine Jones, University of the West of England, and Owain Jones, Bath Spa University, UK

12. IX. Low Carbon Futures

    1. 53. Roles of design in sustainability and low-carbon transitions in cities

       İdil Gaziulusoy, University of Melbourne, Australia

    2. 54. The role of water for sustainable urban planning

       Danijela Milosevic and Martina Winker, ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Germany

    3. 55. Cooperatively owned renewable energy facilities – Unlocking urban community power

       Sigrid Kusch, University of Southampton, UK, and Giovanni Beggio, University of Padua, Italy

    4. 56. Solar hydrogen energy systems: A magic bullet for global sustainable urbanisation

       Moshe C. Kinn, University of Salford, UK

    5. 57. Sustainable consumption across 24 OECD metropolitan areas

       Alex Lo, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

13. X. Alternative Economies

    1. 58. Against neoliberal capitalism: Post-political urban configurations in post-Haiyan Tacloban (Philippines)

       Dakila Kim P. Yee, University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College, Philippines

    2. 59. Post-socialist cities between suburbanisation and reurbanisation

       Adam Radzimski, Gran Sasso Science Insitute, Italy, and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

    3. 60. Public-private partnerships and the new squatters of capital

       Christopher John “CJ” Chanco, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Phillipines

    4. 61. Social entrepreneurial ecosystems as a means for creating sustainable urban development

       Michael Wirtz and Christine Volkmann, University of Wuppertal, Germany

    5. 62. Building consensus for another possible economy at municipal level

       Mark Burton, Steady State Manchester, UK

    6. 63. Radioactivity and the city - what might Iwaki in Japan tell us about urban life under major environmental change?

       Leslie Mabon, Robert Gordon University, UK

    7. 64. The impact of the labor movement and social transitions at the urban level

       Steve McFarland, University of Tampa, USA

14. XI. Digital Futures

    1. 65. Towards knowledge cities: turning redundant spaces into essential places with ICT in East Asia

       Chih-Hung Chen and Lin-Fang Hsu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

    2. 66. Now Open: The Smart City

       Lily Bui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    3. 67. Planning for smart cities and environmental sustainability in India

       Kamal Asif, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India

    4. 68. Uni-Fi: Reimagining Technologies for the Urban Poor

       Santosh Kesavan, Crosslinks Foundation, India

    5. 69. Urban digital divides: A threat to sustainable urbanisation

       Therese Kenna, University College Cork, Ireland

    6. 70. Social media for social housing in the UK and Australia

       Jenna Condie, University of Western Sydney, Australia

    7. 71. Smart and sustainable? Towards future conceptualisations of sustainable urban development in the digital world

       Veronika Anna Neumeier, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

    8. 72. Sense in the city: Urban sensing as a digital intervention for planning

       Lily Bui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    9. 73. An invitation to the Hydrocitizens online community

       Katherine Jones, University of the West of England; Tom Payne, University of Aberystwyth, and Owain Jones, Bath Spa University, UK

    10. 74. Concluding Thoughts: Urban Social Research in the Digital Age

        Jenna Condie, University of Western Sydney, Australia

15. Reflections