Download or read book From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions written by Ernest J. Yanarella and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political scientist and an urban architect explore China’s odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions is the first book-length study combining analysis of politics and power, urban design and planning issues derived from the co-authors’ interdisciplinary research, and on-site fieldwork from their political science and architectural area specialties.