Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City: Austin, Curitiba, and FrankfurtDr. Steven A. Moore investigates the exemplary cities of Austin, Texas, Curitiba, Brazil, and Frankfurt, Germany to examine how each city has approached and maintained sustainability, and thus stimulated economic growth, preserved threatened ecosystems, and improved social equity. These three cities have successfully developed different dispositions toward politics, nature, and technology, proving that there is no single abstract model or universal checklist but different approaches for different people. |
Contents
A Tale of Three Cities | 1 |
11 Methodology and Methods | 2 |
12 Sustainability and Stories | 5 |
13 Political Dispositions | 12 |
14 Environmental Dispositions | 14 |
15 Technological Dispositions | 18 |
16 The Question and Structure of the Inquiry | 22 |
The Springs of Austin | 29 |
45 Summary | 144 |
Story versus Space | 153 |
51 Evolution of Development | 158 |
52 Public Parks and Open Space | 162 |
53 Public Transportation | 166 |
54 Density | 171 |
55 Income Distribution | 176 |
56 Summary | 188 |
21 Received Stories | 32 |
22 Cycles of Planning | 36 |
23 Forms of Governance | 46 |
24 Austins Dominant Story Line Rugged Individualism | 50 |
25 Austins CounterStory Line Environmentalist Preservation | 56 |
26 Summary | 67 |
The Miracle of Curitiba | 73 |
31 Settlement and Development | 74 |
32 The Clients View | 81 |
33 The Citizens View | 97 |
34 Curitibas Dominant Story Line Technocracy | 102 |
35 Curitibas CounterStory Line Social Democracy | 105 |
36 Summary | 108 |
The Banks of Frankfurt | 117 |
41 Tolerance and Banking | 119 |
42 The Commerzbank Tower | 125 |
43 Frankfurts Dominant Story Line Progressive Capitalism | 132 |
44 Frankfurts CounterStory Line RedGreen | 135 |
Sustainability and Democracy | 193 |
61 Stories and Spaces of Coalition | 196 |
63 Efficient and Inclusive Systems | 199 |
64 Scarce and Abundant Resources | 201 |
65 Coevolution of Nature and Technology | 203 |
66 Technological Codes and Human Habits | 206 |
67 Technological and Wicked Problems | 208 |
68 Qualities and Consequences of Action | 211 |
69 Truth and Events | 213 |
610 Models and Lists | 215 |
611 Mobs Clients and Citizens | 216 |
612 Conceptualization and Implementation | 218 |
Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City | 223 |
72 Twelve Abductive Tools | 226 |
Methodology | 231 |
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