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1 Introduction: Localizing SDGs and Empowering
Cities and Communities in North America
for Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
David B. Abraham and Seema D. Iyer
2 Localizing the SDGs in Baltimore: Challenges
and Opportunities of the USA Sustainable Cities Initiative . . . . 7
Seema D. Iyer
3 Los Angeles: Measuring Its Ambition to Achieve the SDGs . . . . 21
Tony Pipa
4 The Idea of Sustainability to Evaluate Growth
and Development in the Houston Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
David B. Abraham
5 Making the SDGs Relevant for Cities:
Using the Community Capital Tool in British Columbia . . . . . . 51
Maria Spiliotopoulou and Mark Roseland
6 How Local Communities Can Align with United Nations’
Sustainable Development Goals: A Santa Cruz
County Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Susan Brutschy, Jennifer Anderson-Ochoa, James Connery,
and Donna R. Maurillo
7 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
to the SDG Monitoring Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Jessica Espey
8 Data for Good for All: Enabling All Communities
to Track Progress Toward SDG Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Jennifer Temmer and Stefan Jungcurt
9 Helping the Neighborhood: Creating a Sustainability
Indicator of Substandard Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Luis Estevez
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