Enabling Eco-Cities

Bringing together the work of five leading researchers, this book practically outlines how the cities of today can transition to a thriving future. Provides invaluable frameworks and standards to help guide city planners and policy-makers into future years and decades. Valuable resource for researchers and students in the fields of urban planning and development, city design, architecture, property and governance.

Dominique Hes is Director of the Thrive Research Hub at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Judy Bush is a researcher and lecturer in environmental policy and practice at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Introduction: Creating Eco-Cities-From Sustaining to Thriving by Dominique Hes and Judy Bush.- Chapter 2Regenerative Development and Transitions Thinking by Dominique Hes and Lars Coenen.- Chapter 3Innovation: Creativity as a Renewable Resource for the Eco-CityBy Tanja Beer, David Curtis and Julie Collins.- Chapter 4 Urban Green Space in the Transition to the Eco-City: Policies, Multifunctionality and Narrative by Judy Bush and Dominique Hes.- Chapter 5 Niches: Small-Scale Interventions or Radical Innovations to Build Up Internal Momentumby Andréanne Doyon.- Chapter 6 Benefit Driven Design Process: An Inclusive and Transdisciplinary Approach Towards Enabling More Resilient and Thriving Outcomes by Angelica Rojas-Gracia.- Chapter 7 The Problem, the Potential, the Future: Creating a Thriving Futureby Dominque Hes and Judy Bush.