This book examines the sustainability of cities and regions and concludes that currently sustainability is not achievable. By identifying how cities and regions in the past have maintained or lost sustainability and how cities and regions of today might achieve sustainability in the future, it

• gives a clear definition, and an understanding of the true meaning, of sustainability
• provides a new conceptual framework for the assessment of the sustainability of cities and regions
• reveals what options are available for humankind to...

This book examines the sustainability of cities and regions and concludes that currently sustainability is not achievable. By identifying how cities and regions in the past have maintained or lost sustainability and how cities and regions of today might achieve sustainability in the future, it

• gives a clear definition, and an understanding of the true meaning, of sustainability
• provides a new conceptual framework for the assessment of the sustainability of cities and regions
• reveals what options are available for humankind to...