Circular Cities

by Jo Williams

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe. This research-based book defines the circular city and circular development. It explains the shift in focus from a purely economic concept, which promotes circular business models in cities, to one that explores a new approach to urban development. This approach offers huge opportunities and addresses important sustainability resource consumption and waste; climate change; the health of urban populations; social inequalities and the creation of sustainable urban economies. It examines the different approaches to circular development, drawing on research conducted in four European Amsterdam, London, Paris and Stockholm. It explores different development pathways and levers for a circular urban transformation. It highlights the benefits of adopting a circular approach to development in cities, but acknowledges that these benefits are not shared equally across society. Finally, it focuses on the challenges to implementing circular development faced by urban actors. This ground-breaking book will be essential reading to scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in the circular economy, urban sustainability, urban ecology, urban planning, urban regeneration, urban resilience, adaptive cities and regenerative cities.

156 pages, Paperback

Published April 22, 2021

About the author

Hi, I'm Jo; the author of the Pepin View Manor Mystery Series. Although I have been writing stories since I was young, after my family's canvas business was sold, I was free to fulfill my dream - to publish a mystery.

The Secrets of Pepin View Manor was certainly a learning experience, especially as I self-published, and do not have a formal education in the English language and grammar. But I loved telling the story, and waded through re-edit after re-edit.

I found Create Space for publishing my second book "Sanctuary at Pepin View Manor," and then publishing became so easy and fun that I wrote three more.

So far a couple thousand people have ordered them on Kindle for .99 cents. I've received a lot of very nice reviews as well as a couple of bad ones, but I that doesn't stop me from having fun.

Next - I'm moving on to the Science Fiction genre. Another favorite of minne. Wish me luck.