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Defining the eco-city: A discursive approach
Posted on: 16 April 2014
By: mackene
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No universally accepted definition of the eco-city exists. There may be some general agreement about the sorts of broad principles on which it should be based, but in practice eco-city initiatives remain characterised by tremendous conceptual, contextual, and practical diversity. In this paper the authors explore this empirical diversity, using discourse analysis to compare and contrast a series of initiatives around the world, and then discuss its implications. They conclude that a search for a prescriptive definition may not be so fruitful; instead, it may be useful to consider the eco-city as an ambition or objective which there will be multiple ways to achieve.
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