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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gleeson, Brendan, 1964- Lifeboat cities. Sydney, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2010 (OCoLC)528530247 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brendan Gleeson |
ISBN: | 9781742231259 174223125X 9781742240046 1742240046 |
OCLC Number: | 701095626 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (206 pages) |
Contents: | 1. A new Australia here -- Coming Through Slaughter -- 2. 'Fire in the heavens' -- 3. Cities on the edge -- 4. A crisis of underconsumption -- 5. A crisis of overproduction -- 6. Children of the self-absorbed -- Learning to See the Earth -- 7. A crumbling empire -- 8. The urban vortex -- 9. The guardian state -- 10. Lifeboat cities -- 11. Lining up for change -- To the Next World -- 12. To love freedom -- 13. Freedom to love -- 14. The good city. |
Responsibility: | Brendan Gleeson. |
Abstract:
Today we find ourselves exhausted and depleted by natural and economic disruption. Worse, we face more of the same but on a greater, even more frightening scale. Hopeful and provocative, this book considers the principle social and ecological threats facing Australia, and outlines ways in which these crises need to be confronted and addressed.
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by Macailbert updated 2015-02-23