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Book SynopsisSustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance examines sustainable development challenges in law, planning, and policy, and offers municipal actors strategies for overcoming them.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Hoi L. Kong and Tanya Monforte Part I. Social Movements & Innovation 1. Folco “Beyond Smart/Sustainable Cities: Toward a Citizen-Centric Rebel Cities Transition” 2. Manaugh & Dreszer “Mobilisons-Nous: ‘Violent Infrastructure’ and Pedestrian Space in Montreal” 3. Shearmur “Boroughs, Small Municipalities and Sustainability: What is Municipal Innovation and Can it Make a Difference?” Part II. The Role of Law & Overcoming Collective Action Problems 1. Curran “Sustainable Development and Property Rights: Citizen Participation in Dismantling Urban Environmental Regulation in British Columbia, Canada” 2. Kong “Sustainable Urban Design: The Case of Montreal” 3. Flynn “The Implications of Stakeholder Group Involvement in Urban Sustainable Development” 4. Luka “Complimenting Citizen Engagement with Innovative Forms of Professional Coproduction: a Case for Transdisciplinary Charrettes” Afterword: Thinking Through Transdisciplinarity in Urban Sustainability Tanya Monforte
