What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most people live, work and move? Can we keep what we love about city and suburban life and still save the environment? What new methods of planning and building will be needed in the 21st century? A genuinely innovative book, The Green City, considers and answers these three basic questions, and challenges the way we think about our cities, the environment and planning for the future. It presents a new and controversial challenge to ideas about sustainability and rejects both economic and environmental orthodoxy. In a nutshell, its message is that the sustainable city can be built by a thousand well-directed small changes. To illustrate this, The Green City draws on diverse practical case material from Australia, Europe the USA and Asia, and features a photographic essay of 34 colour photographs. In The Green City a team of city-building professionalsexplain in straightforward terms how one idea - ecological sustainability - can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future. This genuinely innovative book challenges the way we think about our cities, the environment and about planning for the future. A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future. The book considers - and answers - three basic questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most people live, work and move? Can we keep what we love about city and suburban life and still save the environment? And what new methods of planning and building will be needed in the 21st century? The Green City presents a controversial new approach to sustainability that rejects both economic and environmental orthodoxy.

In a nutshell, itsmessage is that the sustainable city can be built by a thousand well-directed small changes. It draws on lots of practical case material from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and weaves together four critical aspects of urban life: housing, open space, workplaces and transport. The Green City also contains a 'photographic essay' of 32 colour plates that give impact to the ideas discussed in the book.