Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois, talks about the challenges of regional planning in the United States. As opposed to Europe where spatial planning prevails, the notion of urban planning is more dominant here, and Hoch uses the Chicago region as a case study.
Belinda Yuen, a town planner and expert in mass housing, presents an account of Singapore’s public housing, the evolution of concepts and strategies for high-rise urban planning, and the diverse common spaces that have been designed for a higher quality of life.
May Tan-Mullins looks at the decision-making processes involved in developing the Sino-Singaporean Tianjin Eco-city in China.
Nir Barak explores the limits of techno-managerial approaches towards creating greener cities.
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma discuss the history of green urban visions, looking at historical precedents of the modern green city.
Rigby reimagines green cities from an interdisciplinary environmental humanities perspective to see how they can also be sites of more-than-human prosperity.
Jennifer Hamilton’s article for the “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities” section rethinks “labor” as a useful concept for the Environmental Humanities, by troubling the spectacle of the skyline of Sydney’s Central Business District: a sublime image of late Capitalist growth.
What follows is a selected bibliography on Munich’s environmental history. The list is not comprehensive, but is intended merely as an introduction for readers interested in learning more about some of the research from which the exhibition Ecopolis draws. Most titles are in German.
Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München. 125 Jahre Münchner Müllabfuhr. Jubiläumsschrift 1891–2016. München: Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München, 2016.
Ecopolis München: Environmental Histories of a City is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories and showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
