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Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments and ensuring that new urban development reaches the highest standards is a major challenge. The core focus of this book is the decarbonization of urban development, exemplified by the UK government's commitment that new residential development achieve 'zero-carbon' by 2016 and all development be zero-carbon by 2019.
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1. Sustainable Development and the Urban Agenda## 2. Dimensions of Sustainable Urban Development### 3. Producing Urban Development##### 4. Governing for Sustainability##### 5. Governing and Learning###### 6. Information and Sustainable Urban Development## 7. Financial Incentives and Sustainable Urban Development# 8. Spatial Planning for Sustainable Urban Development## 9. Regulating for Sustainable Urban Development### 10. Prospects for Sustainable Urban Development
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Yvonne Rydin is a Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL and Co-Director of the UCL Environment Institute. She is the author of five books including Urban and Environmental Planning in the UK (Palgrave, 2nd ed. 2003.)