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How might a city look and its life be lived if it satisfied the requirements for sustainable development? A city, in other words, whose residents used no more than their share of the earth’s resources than what our globe can reasonably endure. That is the main question this book asks. It is an important question as just conurbations have shown themselves a special problem in discussions of how sustainable development might be attained and an especially hard one to master since it is a societal type that will always be dependent for its survival on external resources to feed its frequently rapid growth. At the same time and in other contexts, the city has quite contrarily been described as particularly well suited for developing resource efficient and thereby sustainable solutions to the shared support problems.
Chapter written by Bosse Bergman, Paul Fuehrer, Anders Gullberg, Mattias Höjer and Ronny Pettersson.
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Höjer, M., Gullberg, A., Pettersson, R. (2011). Urban Cores 2050 – Fast and Slow. In: Images of the Future City. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0653-8_22
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