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Enabling Eco-Cities

Defining, Planning, and Creating a Thriving Future

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Dominique Hes

    1. Thrive Research Hub, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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  2. Judy Bush

    1. Thrive Research Hub, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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  • 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

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction: Creating Eco-Cities—From Sustaining to Thriving

    • Dominique Hes, Judy Bush
    Pages 1-8

  3. Regenerative Development and Transitions Thinking

    • Dominique Hes, Lars Coenen
    Pages 9-20

  4. Innovation: Creativity as a Renewable Resource for the Eco-City

    • Tanja Beer, David Curtis, Julie Collins
    Pages 21-41

  5. Urban Green Space in the Transition to the Eco-City: Policies, Multifunctionality and Narrative

    • Judy Bush, Dominique Hes
    Pages 43-63

  6. Niches: Small-Scale Interventions or Radical Innovations to Build Up Internal Momentum

    • Andréanne Doyon
    Pages 65-87

  7. Benefit Driven Design Process: An Inclusive and Transdisciplinary Approach Towards Enabling More Resilient and Thriving Outcomes

    • Angelica Rojas-Gracia
    Pages 89-108

  8. The Problem, the Potential, the Future: Creating a Thriving Future

    • Dominique Hes, Judy Bush
    Pages 109-122

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 123-127
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About this book

Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city. This book features chapters by researchers using regenerative development and transitions theories to envisage how Eco-Cities could be planned, designed and created, and concludes with practical tools and an outline of how this evolution could be facilitated. It examines two major questions: How can we use understandings of Eco-Cities to address the legacy of urban built form and existing practices which often make it difficult to create the systemic changes needed? And what are the elements of complex urban places and spaces that will enable the planning, creation and evolution of thriving cities?


The book will appeal to planners, city makers, urban researchers, students and practitioners, including planners, designers, architects and sustainability managers, and all those seeking to envisage the steps along the path to thriving cities of the future.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Thrive Research Hub, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Dominique Hes, Judy Bush

About the editors

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.



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