Contents -- Chapter One Conceptions of Sustainability and Urban Sustainable Development -- Cities Urbanisation and the Sustainable Development Debate -- Understanding the Implications of Sustainable Development and Sustainability -- Sustainable Development - Concepts and Debates -- Applying the Concept of Sustainability to Cities -- A Framework for Sustainability and Sustainable Development for Cities -- Sustainability and Urbanisation in Asia -- Urban Practices - Environmental Management and the Growth of Human Settlements -- Situating Singapore in the Sustainability Debate -- Clarifying the Implications of Sustainability and Sustainable Development for Cities -- Chapter Two Urban Sustainable Development Initiatives - Responses of Cities and City Governments -- Initiatives of Local Authorities in Support of Agenda 21 -- Regional Differences -- Initiatives by Small Cities in Developing Countries -- Initiatives of Cities in Developed Countries -- Melbourne's initiatives for Thriving and Sustainable City -- Initiatives of Smaller Cities -- Processes in Urban Sustainable Development initiatives -- Chapter Three Sustainability Indicators for Cities -- Debating the Usefulness of indicators -- Spatialising and Scaling indicators -- Assessing Urban Sustainability and its Policy Relevance -- Indicators and a Sustainable Development index for Cities -- Urban Sustainable Development indicators and index -- Chapter Four Singapore - Assessing the Progress Towards Sustainability -- Transformation of a City-State - Physical and Economic Agendas -- Economic Objectives in the Development of Singapore -- Going Beyond the Garden City Framework - Time for a New Analog? -- Shifting to the Deveiopment of the Environment City rather than Sustainabiiity -- The Role of Civil Society in Nature Conservation.

Strategies of Environmental Planning -- Focus on the Built Environment -- Managing the impact of Rapid Urbanisation and Industrialisation -- Role of Sustainability in Environmental Pianning and Management -- Chapter Five Urban Environmental Quality -- Infrastructural Framework for Controls -- Monitoring Framework for Controls -- Legal and Enforcement Framework for Controls -- Air Pollution Controls -- Vehicular Emission Control -- Water Pollution Controls -- Managing Water Resources -- Air Quality -- Water Quality -- Urban Environmental Quality and indicators of Sustainability -- Chapter Six Housing - Relating Urban Basic Needs to Urban Sustainable Development -- Urban Housing issues -- Housing Health and the Environment -- Sustainability issues in the Choice of Housing and Urban Form -- Urban Sprawl ond Sustainability -- Urban Travellng and Commuting Patterns -- Housing Poiicy in Singapore -- Challenge of Sustainability -- Chapter Seven Population and Urban Sustainable Development -- Urban Population Densities -- Population Planning in Singapore and implications for Sustainability -- "Stopping at Two" Policy Outcome -- The Demographic Transition and the Ageing of the Singapore Population -- The "Foreign Talent" Policy and Baby Bonuses -- Population and Sustainability -- Chapter Eight Urban Transport and Sustainability -- Land Transport Policy in Singapore -- Public Transport as the Main Mode of Transport -- Restricting the Level of Car Ownership and Use of the Car -- Planning for Pedestrians -- Coordinating Transport and Sustainable Development -- Chapter Nine Management of Non-Hazardous Solid Waste and Urban Sustainability -- Trends in Waste Generation and Urban Growth -- The Legal Framework -- Waste Management -- Waste Recycling - The More Sustainable Solution.

Chapter Ten Health and Health Indicators for Sustainable Development -- The Environment-Health Relationship -- Sustainability and Health in Singapore -- Health Care infrastructure and Personnel -- Preventive Health initiatives -- Public Health -- Primary and Preventive Health Care - Linking Health and Sustainable Development for Cities -- Chapter Eleven Formulating an Urban Sustainable Development Index -- Indexing Sustainable Development -- Indicators Considered for the Urban Sustainable Development index -- Equal Weighted Rank index -- Considering Singapore with other Medium-Density Cities -- Summary -- Chapter Twelve The Neglected Agenda - Biodiversity Ecological Integrity and Public Participation -- Biodiversity and Ecological Trade-offs -- The Urban Ecology -- Energy Conservation -- Urban Crime and Safety -- Public Participation -- Bibliography -- Index.