Ebook: Sustainability and the city: urban poetics and politics

This book rethinks cities' relationships to sustainable development from a cultural studies perspective with social justice as its goal. Chapter authors are optimistic that cities can achieve sustainability, but insist that cities will if participation in the effort is inclusive of all groups.;Lauren Curtright: introduction: the role of the humanities in urban sustainability. Conceptualizing urban sustainability. Christopher Schliephake: The imaginative fabrics of urban sustainability: from metaphor to matter and from management to culture in eco(logical) city (re-)design -- Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright: Wilderness as city: conflicting values in framing sustainable urbanism -- Karim Wagih, Fawzi Youssef: Unraveling the poles of suburb and city -- Luliu Ratiu: The rhetoric of sustainability: teaching writing to (mostly) engineering students in an urban setting -- In situ sustainable urbanism. Lea Rekow: In a fragile context: exploring the challenges of informal sector urban gardening Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Heide Imai: Back to the city: creativity and sustainability as a new approach to revive the city from the inside -- Claudia Mantovan: Coexistence, conflict, and governance in multi-ethnic districts: two case studies in the municipalities of Padua and Venice, Italy -- Joseph Donica: The erosion of the cultural commons and the possibilities of participatory urbanism: public art in New Orleans, Detroit, and Port-Au-Prince -- Representations of sustainability and the city. Alexander Kleinschrodt: The ambivalence of noise: requiem for fossil fuels by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger -- Lisa Fitzgerald: Urban ecology: envisioning and aestheticizing modernity in Samuel Beckett's Not I -- Katarzyna Szalewska: Sustainable urban development and literature: a Central-European view -- Mehdi Kochbati: Exploring the American city's environment: friction between fluctuating urban sustainability, modern myths of space, and memory places in the works of Paul Auster -- Caitlin Yocco-Locascio: Trash that connects: the everyday rhizome of Cédric Klapisch's Paris.