Lexington Books
Pages: 262
Trim: 6½ x 9¾
978-0-7391-1533-6 • Hardback • November 2006 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
978-0-7391-1534-3 • Paperback • May 2007 • $58.99 • (£45.00)
Steven A. Moore is the Bartlett Cocke Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of Texas at Austin.
Chapter 1 A Tale of Three Cities
Chapter 2 The Springs of Austin
Chapter 3 The Miracle of Curitiba
Chapter 4 The Banks of Frankfurt
Chapter 5 Story versus Space
Chapter 6 Sustainability and Democracy
Chapter 7 Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City
Moore's ideas are stimulating . . . the book will be of interest to Ph.D. students and professors in urban environmental planning.
— Tom Daniels; H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online
With its rich discussion of philosophical and methodological foundations, its clear presentation, and its engaging narrative style, this book can be read straight through as a complete text, or piecemeal as distinct case studies, or as a source book enhanced by the generous bibliographies closing each chapter.
— .; Technology and Culture, April 2008
This book offers a unique, pragmatic approach to questions of sustainable urbanism. By looking at three cities with different histories and politics, Moore allows the reader to see the difference between approaches to sustainability that are prescriptive and ideal, and those that are pragmatic and contextual. The book is timely and should be enormously useful to policy makers, planners and environmentalists. This is a significant contribution in a field that is still trying to find its way.
— Howard Davis, professor of architecture, University of Oregon