ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book develops the concept of the sustainable imaginary as a society's understanding of how resources are being used and should be used to ensure socio-environmental reproduction. It produces a starting point for the sustainable imaginary of each place: the city as a garden. In the case of Chicago and Melbourne, this visual aspect of the imaginary also makes the city-as-garden connection even more clear. The book explicits the vision in each region of the desired future socio-environment. It discusses how different modalities of power should be brought to bear on the part of local government to get citizens, businesses, peers, and higher levels of government to do what sustainability staff want them to do. It includes what the appropriate relationship should be between citizens and government, paralleling existing arguments for why local governments should be involved in sustainability work.
