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Green City: Explorations and Visions of Urban Sustainability
About this issue
This volume explores the “green city” concept from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions examine the conflicts inherent in eco-modernization and investigate opportunities to respond meaningfully to urban environmental challenges.
Content
Branding the Green City
Barthold analyzes the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group to illustrate how city networks are powerful actors in the global dissemination of eco-modernization strategies aimed at decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.
Who Are Green Cities Actually For?
May Tan-Mullins looks at the decision-making processes involved in developing the Sino-Singaporean Tianjin Eco-city in China.
Green Visions: A Dialogue
Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma discuss the history of green urban visions, looking at historical precedents of the modern green city.
"We Are as Gods": The Green Technical Fix
Trim’s article focuses on “countercultural environmentalists” and an alternative development program in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The project’s history raises questions about the consequences of treating environmental issues as technical problems to be solved with innovation and new technology. This approach both depoliticizes environmental issues and embeds them into new political structures.
Die 4. Revolution: Energie Autonomie [The 4th Revolution: Energy Autonomy]
This film envisions a restructuring of global power relations and calls for individual action in order to create a 100 percent renewable energy economy.
Microtopia
This film displays ideas and experiments in art and architecture to design and dwell in portable, flexible, environmentally-friendly off-grid and compact homes.
Fuel
This film examines the history and future of energy in America. It advocates for a transition to green energy through individual action.
Bringing It Home
This film examines the environmental impact and uses of hemp, from nutrition to construction.