Colantonio / Dixon Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability

Best Practice from European Cities
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-2945-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Real Estate Issues

Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This book examines social sustainability and analyses its meaning. The authors offer a comprehensive European perspective to identify best practices in sustainable urban regeneration in five major cities in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. This authoritative overview of the scholarly literature makes the book essential reading for researchers and post-graduate students in sustainable development, real estate, geography, urban studies, and urban planning, as well as consultants and policy advisors in urban regeneration and the built environment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colantonio, Andrea

Dixon, Tim

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Colantonio is Research Coordinator at LSE Cities,London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, UK. Heis an urban geographer and economist who specialises in theinvestigation of the complex linkages between urban growth,sustainability and the geographies of development in bothdeveloping and developed countries. He has worked and researched innumerous international universities, and he is main author ofUrban Tourism and Development in the Socialist State, Havanaduring the 'Special Period' (2006).
Tim Dixon is Director of the Oxford Institute ofSustainable Development (OISD) and Professor of Real Estate in theDepartment of Real Estate and Construction at Oxford BrookesUniversity. With more than 25 years' experience of research,education and professional practice in the built environment he isa qualified fellow of the RICS and of the Higher Education Academy,a member of SEEDA's South East Excellence Advisory Board, aswell as the editorial boards of five leading international realestate journals. He has worked on funded collaborative researchprojects with UK and overseas academics and practitioners and hispersonal research interests revolve around (1) the sustainabilityagenda and its impact on property development, investment andoccupation, and (2) the impact of ICT on commercial property andreal estate markets. The research is based on a stronginterdisciplinary approach which incorporates policy and practiceimpacts, and futures thinking. He is also a member of the CORENETSustainability Working Group, and a member of the Steering Groupfor the 'Future of Cities' Research programme, based inthe James Martin 21st Century School at Oxford University. In 2009he was awarded Honorary Fellow status of the Institute of GreenProfessionals.