Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This book examines social sustainability and analyses its meaning. The authors offer a comprehensive European perspective to identify best practices in sustainable urban regeneration in five major cities in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. This authoritative overview of the scholarly literature makes the book essential reading for researchers and post-graduate students in sustainable development, real estate, geography, urban studies, and urban planning, as well as consultants and policy advisors in urban regeneration and the built environment.
Sobre o autor
Andrea Colantonio is Research Coordinator at LSE Cities,
London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, UK. He
is an urban geographer and economist who specialises in the
investigation of the complex linkages between urban growth,
sustainability and the geographies of development in both
developing and developed countries. He has worked and researched in
numerous international universities, and he is main author of
Urban Tourism and Development in the Socialist State, Havana
during the ‘Special Period’ (2006).
Tim Dixon is Director of the Oxford Institute of
Sustainable Development (OISD) and Professor of Real Estate in the
Department of Real Estate and Construction at Oxford Brookes
University. With more than 25 years’ experience of research,
education and professional practice in the built environment he is
a qualified fellow of the RICS and of the Higher Education Academy,
a member of SEEDA’s South East Excellence Advisory Board, as
well as the editorial boards of five leading international real
estate journals. He has worked on funded collaborative research
projects with UK and overseas academics and practitioners and his
personal research interests revolve around (1) the sustainability
agenda and its impact on property development, investment and
occupation, and (2) the impact of ICT on commercial property and
real estate markets. The research is based on a strong
interdisciplinary approach which incorporates policy and practice
impacts, and futures thinking. He is also a member of the CORENET
Sustainability Working Group, and a member of the Steering Group
for the ‘Future of Cities’ Research programme, based in
the James Martin 21st Century School at Oxford University. In 2009
he was awarded Honorary Fellow status of the Institute of Green
Professionals.