SUSTAINABLE LONDON?

Contents

List of tables, figures and boxes

Tables

Figures

Boxes

Acknowledgements

Notes on the editors and contributors

Editors

Contributors

Preface

Foreword

1. London’s future and sustainable city building

Introduction

London and sustainable development discourse

London’s un-sustainment and the significance of re-directive practice

The collection

References

2. Privatising London

Introduction

References

3. Just Space: towards a just, sustainable London

Origins of Just Space

Resources and organisation

The London Plan

Issues raised by Just Space

Regeneration policy

Rent levels in ‘affordable’ housing

Link with the local level

Community and regeneration

Neighbourhood planning

Community planning networks

Economies of London

Challenges and prospects for London

References

4. Sustainable governance and planning in London

Introduction

Framing the future growth of London

Imagining and governing a sustainable global city

Governing sustainable development

Governing sustainable growth at the local level

A sustainable future for London

References

5. Privatisation, managerialism and the changing politics of sustainability planning in London

Introduction

Governing sustainability, privatisation and the changing nature of the state

Planning for sustainability and the emergence of a London model

The coming of the Private Finance Initiative to London

PFI in London and the restructuring of the welfare state

The future of sustainability governance in London and the disruptions of democracy

Conclusion

References

6. Sustaining a global city at work: resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour

Introduction

‘The migrant division of labour’: from boom to bust

Transnational geographies of the migrant division of labour during recession in London

Surviving the migrant division of labour during recession in London

Conclusion: sustainable London, sustainable migration?

References

7. Sustaining London’s welfare in an age of austerity

Introduction

Scale and distribution of benefits

Nature and impact of government welfare cuts

Current structure of welfare expenditure and the incidence of benefits by region

The Coalition government’s welfare cuts

Cuts to Housing Benefit

Welfare benefit cap

Council Tax Benefit

Summary and conclusion

References

8. The death of sustainable communities in London?

Social sustainability and social mixing

Top-down social sustainability: mixed communities policy in London

Displacement from the Heygate Estate in Southwark

The turn away from mixed communities policy in London

Bottom-up fight for social sustainability: the case of the Southwark Notes Archive Group9

Inner London is damned if they do mixed communities policy and damned if they don’t…

References

9. From supermarkets to community building: Tesco PLC, sustainable place-making and urban regeneration

Introduction

Corporate governance and the politics of urban regeneration

Regeneration and the (post-)politics of shaping places: the case of Bromley-by-Bow

Conclusion

References

10. Educating London: sustainable social reproduction versus symbolic violence?

Introduction

Circuits of schooling and London’s education market

East London and the competition for school places

Conclusion

References

11. Sustaining the public: the future of public space in London?

Introduction

Problematic publics and the importance of public space

Conflicting publics: Southbank Centre Undercroft skate park

Canary Wharf, a blueprint for the future of public space?

Future of public space in London?

Conclusion

References

12. Rhetoric in transitioning to sustainable travel

Introduction

Potential low transport CO2 futures

Framing of the policy debate

Case study: cycling

Towards a transition?

References

13. Building the ‘healthy city’ in London

Introduction

Changing landscape of health governance in England post-2010

Governing health and urban sustainability in London: the case of TB

Conclusion

References

144. Urban greening and sustaining urban natures in London

Introduction

Connectivity: sustaining species and ecological processes

Beyond connectivity: urban saturation and domestic space

Conclusion: beyond sustaining nature

References

15. Beyond urban sustainability and urban resilience: towards a socially just future for London

References

Index