Our Urban Future by Emily Talen - ISBN: 9780262546843
Paperback
Learn urban sustainability: practical techniques for creating sustainable cities now.

Our Urban Future

An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities

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  • Paperback

    164 pages

  • Release Date

    9 January 2024

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Summary

A practical, comprehensive textbook that uses active learning techniques to teach about the challenges and opportunities associated with urban sustainability.

While the problem of urban sustainability has long been a subject of great scholarly interest, there has, until now, been no single source providing a multi-disciplinary, exhaustive view of how it can be effectively taught. Filling this gap, Our Urban Future uses active learning techniques to comprehensively relate the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262546843
ISBN-10:0262546841
Author:Emily Talen, Sabina Shaikh
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:164
Release Date:9 January 2024
Weight:357g
Dimensions:252mm x 178mm x 10mm
About The Author

Emily Talen

Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago, where she teaches urban design and directs the Urbanism Lab, and author of Neighborhood, among many other books. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Sabina Shaikh is Senior Instructional Professor in the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization at the University of Chicago, where she is the Director of Academic Programs, and conducts research on environment and migration in Southeast Asia. She is the faculty director of Chicago Studies and the co-lead of the Environmental Frontiers Initiative at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation.

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