MA/MSc Sustainable Cities – Preliminary Reading List
7SSG5179 Understanding the Sustainable City (compulsory module for both pathways)
Brand, P., (2007), Green subjection: The politics of neoliberal urban environmental management, International
Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31, 3, 616-632.
Brand, P. with Thomas, M., (2005), Urban Environmentalism: Global Change and the Mediation of Local
Conflict, Routledge, London, chapters 1 and 2.
Swyngedouw, E. and Haynen, N., (2003), Urban political ecology, justice and the politics of scale, Antipode,
898-918.
Swyngedouw, E. and Kaïka, M., (2003), The making of 'glocal' urban modernities: exploring the cracks in the
mirror, City, 7, 1, 5 – 21.
Whitehead, M, (2006), Spaces of Sustainability: Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society,
Routledge, London.
7SSG5180 Governing the Sustainable City (compulsory module for both pathway)
Cochrane, A., (2007), Understanding Urban Policy – A Critical Introduction, Blackwell, Oxford.
Flint, J. and Raco, M. (eds) (2012), The Future of Sustainable Cities: Critical Reflections, Policy Press, Bristol.
Gibbs, D., (2002), Local Economic Development and the Environment, Routledge, London.
Leitmann, J., (1999), Sustaining Cities: Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design, McGrawHill, New York.
Pacione, M. (2009), Britain’s Cities, third edition, Routledge, London, chapters 8 and 9.
Redclift, M., (ed.), (2005), Sustainability, Routledge, London.
Satterthwaite, D, (2001), The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities, Earthscan Publications, London.
7SSG5146 Understanding and Managing Urban Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems
(compulsory module for the MSc pathway)
Forman, R.T.T., (2008), Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Francis, R.A. and Chadwick, M., (2013), Urban Ecosystems: Understanding the Human Environment
Earthscan from Routledge, Abingdon.
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Francis, R.A., Lorimer, J. and Raco, M., (2012), Urban ecosystems as 'natural' homes for biogeographical
boundary crossings, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37: 183-190
Gaston, K.J. (ed), (2010), Urban Ecology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Pickett, S.T.A., Cadenasso, M.L., Grove, J.M., Boone, C.G., Groffman, P.M., Irwin, E., Kaushal, S.S., Marshall,
V., McGrath, B.P., Nilon, C.H., Pouyat, R.V., Szlavecz, K., Troy, A. and Warren, P., (2011), Urban ecological
systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress, Journal of Environmental Management, 92: 331362.
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