· 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...

This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management. Drawing on the results of a four-year multidisciplinary research project, the book examines how factors such as urban households' access to services and jobs, land use mixes and provision of public transport impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The authors analyse data from a wide range of sources including 4677 sample households from four major Chinese cities - Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Xi'an - with diverse locations, urban spatial...

"Mediterranean Noir with a comic twist." Roy Groves has led a colourful career in business, during which he battled with corporate politics, deception, and even vicious criminals. But now Roy has retired and he is looking forward to a quieter life. He and his wife, Donna, have bought an apartment in an exclusive development on Spain's Costa del Sol. He soon learns, however, that there are financial problems: the community is, in effect, bankrupt. Roy is persuaded to take on the role of president of the community, confident that, with his extensive business experience, he should easily...