Living Space: Towards Sustainable Settlements in New Zealand - Softcover

Thompson-Fawcett, Michelle

9781877276453: Living Space: Towards Sustainable Settlements in New Zealand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877276456 ISBN 13: 9781877276453

Publisher: Otago University Press, 2003

The sustainable development of communities, regions, nations and the planet has been increasingly debated since the Rio Summit of 1992. Issues such as urban form, the relationship between urban areas and their rural hinterland, urban versus rural lifestyles, modes of transport, social justice, urban renewal and growing multicultural communities are all relevant. This book brings together the work of some of the people whose job it is to explore the concept of sustainability and its application to New Zealand settlements.

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Upon their arrival in New Zealand from the UK, Freeman and Thompson-Fawcett (both of the planning program of the U. of Otago, New Zealand) noted that the concept of sustainability and its application to the built environment had been relatively underdeveloped in New Zealand's academic environment. B

Review:

...a welcome addition...fresh and readable style...particularly appeal to ...geographers and planners -- Local Environment, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp315-7, June 2005

A critically important feature of Living Space is its contribution to the opening up of the debate about sustainability -- Urban Policy and Research, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp495-8, December 2004

The book is a rich source of ideas and information, and areas for future research are fleshed out. -- New Zealand Journal Of Ecology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp158-9, 2005

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