(Re)analysing the sustainable city: Nature, urbanisation and the regulation of socio-environmental relations in the UK

Urban Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1183-1206

  Whitehead, Mark ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; REGULATORY APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0038610580     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000084550     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. AGLIETTA, M. (1979) A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience. London: Verso.
2. AMIN, A. and GRAHAM, S. (1997) The ordinary city, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 22, pp. 411-429.
3. BAKSHI, P., GOODWIN, M., PAINTER, J. and SOUTHERN, A. (1995) Gender, race and class in the local welfare state: moving beyond regulation theory in analysing the transition from Fordism, Environment and Planning A, 27, pp. 1539-1554.
4. Birmingham Post (1999) Consultants warn of site shortages, 8th July, p. 21.
5. BLACK COUNTRY URBAN FORESTRY UNIT (1995) The Black Country Urban Forest: a strategy for development. Birmingham: Black Country Urban Forestry Unit.
6. BLOWERS, A. and PAIN, K. (1999) The unsustainable city, in: S. PILE, C. BROOK and G. MOONEY (Eds) Unruly Cities?, pp. 247-298. London: Routledge.
7. BOYER, K. (1997) Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning. London: The MIT Press.
8. BOYER, R. (1979) Wage formation in historical perspective: the French experience, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 3, pp. 99-118.
9. BRIDGE, G. (1998) Excavating nature: environmental narratives and discursive Regulation in the mining industry, in: A. HEROD, G. O'TUATHAIL and S. ROBERTS (Eds) Unruly Worlds? Globalization, Governance and Geography, pp. 219-243. London: Routledge.
10. BRIDGE, G. and MCMANUS, P. (2000) Sticks and stones: environmental narratives and discursive regulation in the forestry and mining sectors, Antipode, 32, pp. 10-47.
11. CRONON, W. (1991) Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. London: W. W. Norton.
12. DAVIS, M. (1998) City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. London: Pimlico.
13. DAVIS, M. (1999) Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. London: Picador.
14. DETR (1998) The Single Regeneration Budget: A Guide for Partnerships. London: DETR.
15. DETR (1999a) Towards an Urban Renaissance - Final Report of the Urban Task Force. London: E and FN SPON.
16. DETR (1999b) A Better Quality of Life. London: DETR.
17. DETR (2000) Our Towns and Cities: the Future, Delivering and Urban Renaissance. London: DETR.
18. DOE (1990) This Common Inheritance: Britain's Environmental Strategy. London: HMSO.
19. DOE (1994) Sustainable Development: The UK Strategy. London: HMSO.
20. DOE (1995) The Impacts of Environmental Improvements in Urban Regeneration. London: HMSO.
21. DOE (1996) UK National Report for Habitat II. London: HMSO.
22. DOH (1998) This Healthier Nation. London: DOH.
23. DRIVER, F. (1988) Moral geographies: social science and the urban environment in mid-nineteenth century England, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 13, pp. 275-287.
24. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (1990) European Commission's Green Paper on the Urban Environment. Luxembourg: OOPEC.
25. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (1996) European sustainable cities: report/expert group on the urban environment. Luxembourg: OOPEC.
26. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (1998) European sustainable cities project. Luxembourg: OOPEC.
27. GALBRAITH, K. (1962) The Affluent Society. London: Pelican Books.
28. GANDY, M. (1996) The making of a regulatory crisis: restructuring New York City's water supply, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 22, pp. 338-358.
29. GILBERT, G., STEVENSON, D., GIRARDET, H. and STREN, R. (1996) Making Cities Work: The Role of Local Authorities in the Urban Environment. London: Earthscan.
30. GOODWIN, M. and PAINTER, J. (1996) Local governance, the crisis of Fordism and the changing geographies of regulation, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 21, pp. 635-648.
31. HAJER, M. (1995) The Politics of Environmental Discourse. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
32. HALL, P. (1999) Sustainable Cities or Town Cramming? London: Entec.
33. HALL, P. (2001) Sustainable cities or town cramming?, in: A. LAYARD, S. DAVOUDI and S. BATTY (Eds) Planning for a Sustainable Future, pp. 101-114. London: Spon Press.
34. HALL, T. (1998) Urban Geography. London: Routledge.
35. HARDOY, J. and SATTERTHWAITE, D. (1992) Towns and cities: empowering people, in: J. PORRITT (Ed.) Save the Earth, pp. 123-129. London: Dorling Kindersley.
36. HARVEY, D. (1973) Social Justice and the City. London: Edward Arnold.
37. HARVEY, D. (1989) From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation in urban governance in late capitalism, Geografiska Annaler, 71, pp. 3-17.
38. HARVEY, D. (1996) Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. Oxford: Blackwell.
39. HARVEY, D. (1998) The body as an accumulation strategy, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 16, pp. 401-421.
40. HARVEY, D. (2000) Spaces of Hope. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
41. HAUGHTON, G. and HUNTER, C. (1994) Sustainable Cities. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, for the Regional Studies Association.
42. HAY, C. and JESSOP, B. (1995) Introduction: local political economy: regulation and governance, Economy and Society, 24, pp. 303-306.
43. HOLLIDAY, J. (2000) Fifty years of development planning, in: D. CHAPMAN, C. HARRIDGE, G. HARRISON and J. HARRISON (Eds) Region and Renaissance: Reflections on Planning and Development in the West Midlands 1950-2000, pp. 5-14. Warwickshire: Brewin Books.
44. JARVIS, P. J. (1996) Planning for a green environment in Birmingham, in: A. J. GERRARD and T. R. SLATER (Eds) Managing a Conurbation: Birmingham and its Region, ch. 7. Warwickshire: Brewin Books.
45. JENSON, J. (1990) Representations in crisis: the roots of Canada's permeable Fordism, Canadian Journal of Political Economy, 23, pp. 653-683.
46. JENSON, J. (1991) All the world's a stage: ideas, space and times in Canadian political economy, Studies in Political Economy, 36, pp. 43-69.
47. JENSON, J. (1993) Naming nations: making nationalists claims in Canadian political discourse, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 303, pp. 337-358.
48. JENSON, J. (1995) Mapping, naming and remembering: globalisation at the end of the twentieth century, Review of International Political Economy, 2, pp. 96-116.
49. JESSOP, B. (1990) Regulation theories in retrospect and prospect, Economy and Society, 19, pp. 153-216.
50. JESSOP, B. (1997) Survey Article: The Regulation Approach, Journal of Political Philosophy, 5, pp. 287-326.
51. JESSOP, B. (1998) Twenty years of the regulation approach: has it been worth it? Paper presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.
52. JESSOP, B. (2001) Good governance and the urban question: on managing the contradictions of neo-liberalism. Department of Sociology, Lancaster University (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc075rj.html).
53. KATZ, C. (1998) Whose nature, whose culture: private productions of space and the 'preservation' of nature, in: N. CASTREE and B. BRAUN (Eds) Nature at the End of the Millennium: Remaking Reality at the End of the Twentieth Century, pp. 46-63, London: Routledge.
54. KATZ, C. (2001) Vagabond capitalism and the necessity of social reproduction, Antipode, 33, pp. 709-728.
55. KATZ, C. and KIRBY, A. (1991) In the nature of things: the environment and everyday life, Transactions of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, 16, pp. 259-271.
56. KEIL, R. and GRAHAM, J. (1999) Reasserting nature: constructing urban environments after Fordism, in: B. BRAUN and N. CASTREE (Eds) Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium, pp. 100-125. London: Routledge.
57. LATOUR, B. (1993) We Have Never Been Modern. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
58. LAW, M. (2000) Green belts in the West Midlands, in: D. CHAPMAN, C. HARRIDGE, G. HARRISON and J. HARRISON (Eds) Region and Renaissance: Reflections on Planning and Development in the West Midlands 1950-2000, pp. 5-14. Warwickshire: Brewin Books.
59. LAWRENCE, R. (1996) Urban environment, health and the economy: cues for conceptual clarification, in: C. PRICE and A. TSOUROS (Eds) Our Cities, Our Future: Policies and Action Plans for Health and Sustainable Development, pp. 38-64. Copenhagen: WHO European Office.
60. LEFEBVRE, H. (1970) La Revolution Urbaine. Paris: Gallimard.
61. LEYSHON, A. (1992) The transforming of regulatory order: regulating the global economy and the environment, Geoforum, 23, pp. 249-267.
62. LIPIETZ, A. (1980) Inter-regional polarisation and the tertiarisation of society, Papers of the Regional Science Association, 44, pp. 3-17.
63. LIPIETZ, A. (1992) Towards a New Economic Order: Post-Fordism, Ecology and Democracy. Cambridge: Polity Press,
64. LIPIETZ, A. (1996) Public voices: geography, ecology and democracy, Antipode, 28, pp. 219-228.
65. MACLEOD, G. (1997) Globalising Parisian thought-waves: recent advances in the study of social regulation, discourse and space, Progress in Human Geography, 21, pp. 530-554.
66. MARCUSE, P. (1998) Sustainability is not enough, Environment and Urbanization, 10, pp. 103-111.
67. MEGA, V. P. (1996) Our city, our future: sustainable development in European cities, Environment and Urbanization, 8, pp. 133-154.
68. MEGA, V. P. and PETRELLA, R. (Eds) (1997) Utopias and realities of urban sustainable development: new alliances between economy, environment and democracy for small and medium-sized cities. Luxembourg: OOPEC.
69. NATIONAL URBAN FORESTRY UNIT (1997) Sustainable Urban Forestry: Involving Local Communities. Wolverhampton: National Urban Forestry Unit.
70. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HEALTH AUTHORITY (1999) Working for Health: A Strategy for the Development of Health at Work in North Staffordshire. Stoke-on-Trent: North Staffordshire Health Authority.
71. OSBORNE, T. and ROSE, N. (1999) Governing cities: notes on the spatialisation of virtue, Environment and Planning D, 17, pp. 737-760.
72. PAINTER, J. and GOODWIN, M. (1995) Local governance and concrete research: investigating the uneven development of regulation, Economy and Society, 24, pp. 334-356.
73. PEARCE, G. (1994) Conservation as a component of urban regeneration, Regional Studies, 28, pp. 88-93.
74. PECK, J. and TICKELL, A. (1994) Jungle law breaks out: neoliberalism and global-local disorder, Area, 26, pp. 317-326.
75. PECK, J. and TICKELL, A. (1995) The social regulation of uneven development: 'regulatory deficit', England's South East and the collapse of Thatcherism, Environment and Planning A, 27, pp. 15-40.
76. RABAN, J. (1988) Soft City. London: Collins Harvill.
77. RABINOVITCH, J. (1992) Curitiba: towards sustainable urban development, Environment and Urbanization, 4, pp. 62-77.
78. SATTERTHWAITE, D. (1997) Sustainable cities or cities that contribute to sustainable development?, Urban Studies, 34, pp. 1667-1691.
79. SATTERTHWAITE, D. (Ed.) (1999) The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities. London: Earthscan.
80. The Sentinel (2000a) Heather lives life to the full in Fit City, Sentinel News Archive.
81. The Sentinel (2000b) Shake-up to change sick city to fit city, Sentinel News Archive.
82. The Sentinel (2001) Sick city is recovering, Sentinel News Archive.
83. The Sentinel (2002) Working out 9/11 sum total, Sentinel News Archive, 7 September.
84. SMITH, N. (1984) Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
85. SMITH, N. (1999) Nature at the millennium: production and re-enchantment, in: N. CASTREE and B. BRAUN (Eds) Nature at the End of the Millennium: Remaking Reality at the End of the Twentieth Century, ch. 12. London: Routledge.
86. SWYNGEDOUW, E. (1997) Power, nature and the city: the conquest of water and the political ecology of urbanisation in Guayaquil, Equador: 1880-1990, Environment and Planning A, 29, pp. 301-332.
87. SWYNGEDOUW, E. and KAÏKA, M. (2000) The environment of the city ... or the urbanization of nature, in: G. BRIDGE and S. WATSON (Eds) A Companion to The City, pp. 567-580. Oxford: Blackwell.
88. TICKELL, A. and PECK, J. (1992) Accumulation, regulation and the geographies of post-Fordism: missing links in regulation research, Progress in Human Geography, 16, pp. 190-218.
89. TICKELL, A. and PECK, J. (1995) Social Regulation after Fordism: regulation theory, neo-liberalism and the global-local nexus, Economy and Society, 24, pp. 357-386.
90. UNCHS (UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENT) (2001) The State of the World's Cities 2001. Nairobi: United Nations Centre for Human Settlement.
91. UNCHS/UNEP (2001) General information: sustainable cities and local governance (http://www.unchs.org/scp/info/general/general.htm).
92. UNEP (UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME) (2001) Report of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (http://www.unep.org/Documents/Default.asp?DocumentID = 97).
93. THE WEST MIDLANDS GROUP (1948) Conurbation: A Survey of Birmingham and the Black Country. London: The Architectural Press.
94. WHITEHEAD, M., JONES, R. and JONES, M. (2001) Taming Agenor: state politics and production of regional natures in the UK. University of Wales, Aberystwyth (mimeograph).
95. WHITTAKER, S. (Ed.) (1995) First steps: local Agenda 21 in practice; municipal strategies for sustainability as presented at Global Forum 94 in Manchester. London: HMSO.
96. WOOD, P. A. (1976) The West Midlands. Newton Abbott: David and Charles.
97. WORLD COMMISSION ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (1987) Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.