Urban sustainable development the Stockholm way / Amy Rader Olsson and Jonathan Metzger. From ugly duckling to Europe's first green capital : a historical perspective on the development of Stockholm's urban environment / Björn Hårsman and Bo Wijkmark -- Using the concept of sustainability : interpretations in academia, policy, and planning / Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling, Karin Edvardsson Björnberg, and Göran Finnveden -- A sustainable urban fabric : the development and application of analytical urban design theory / Lars Marcus, Berit Balfours, and Tigran Haas -- Sustainable urban flows and networks : theoretical and practical aspects of infrastructure development and planning / Folke Snickars, Lars-Göran Mattsson, and Bo Olofsson -- The economics of green buildings / Hans Lind, Magnus Bonde, and Agnieszka Zalejska-Jonsson -- Performing sustainability : institutions, inertia, and the practices of everyday life / Ebba Högström, Josefin Wangel, and Greger Henriksson -- From eco-modernizing to political ecologizing : future challenges for the green capital / Karin Bradley, Anna Hult, and Göran Cars -- Urban sustainable development the Stockholm way / Amy Rader Olsson and Jonathan Metzger.
Summary:
Sustainable Stockholm provides a historical overview of Stockholm' s environmental development, and also discusses a number of cross-disciplinary themes presenting the urban sustainability work behind Stockholm' s unique position, and importantly the question of how well Stockholm' s practices can be exported and transposed to other places and contexts. By using the case of Stockholm as the pivot of discussions, Sustainable Stockholm investigates the core issues of sustainable urban environmental development and planning, in all...
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