Social Sustainability in Urban Areas – Communities, Connectivity and the Urban Fabric

Citation

(2010), "Social Sustainability in Urban Areas – Communities, Connectivity and the Urban Fabric", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 21 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2010.08321fae.004

Social Sustainability in Urban Areas – Communities, Connectivity and the Urban Fabric

Social Sustainability in Urban Areas – Communities, Connectivity and the Urban Fabric

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 21, Issue 6

Edited by Tony Manzi, Karen Lucas, Tony Lloyd Jones and Judith AllenEarthscanLondon256 pp.ISBN 9781844076741£49.99

The book consists of original contributions from academics working in the fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and international sustainable development. Drawing on case study research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an original, interdisciplinary approach to both theory and practice, illustrating the challenges and opportunities facing policy-makers and practitioners attempting to develop, manage and maintain sustainable communities. The authors argue that the dominant approach of “how to do” small scale social sustainability fails to locate it within broader social processes. Ignoring the context not only sustains, but also actively reproduces wider inequalities.

The book presents a new, more coherent and more complete approach to issues of social sustainability in urban areas. The book approaches current urban policy discourses in three different ways, represented by three sections: first, focusing on small places within the urban fabric, and second, addressing the whole urban fabric by examining whether changing urban living and working patterns. The third section explores some of the ways that funding can be secured to achieve the aims of social sustainability and the social planning associated with it.