Esther Charlesworth is the founding Director of Architects without Frontiers (Australia), a design non-profit organisation committed to working with communities in need. She is currently Senior Research Fellow in Architecture at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Rob Adams is Director of City Design at the City of Melbourne. In 2007 Rob was awarded an Order of Australia in recognition for services to urban design, town planning and architecture, and in 2008 named as the Australian Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year at the Banksia Awards.

1. The EcoEdge Part 1: Urban Design and a Sustainable City 2. Overview 3. Air in the City: The Place of Work 4. Assassination in the Sustainable City: The Netherlands and Beyond 5. Reprogramming the Cities for Increased Populations and Climate Change 6. Sustainability for Survival: Moving the United Kingdom beyond the Zero Carbon Agenda 7. Chaos and Resillience: The Johannesburg Experience Part 2: Infrastructure and a Sustainable City 8. Overview 9. Sustainable Drinking Water and Sanitation: Two Indian Cases 10. Sustainable Savannah in Georgia 11. Ecopolis: Small Steps Towards Urbanism as a Living System 12. The Greed Edge: China Between Hope and Hazard Part 3: Architecture and Sustainable City 13. Overview 14. A Landscape Framework for Urban Sustainability: Thu Thiem, Ho Chi Minh City 15. Networks Cities in China: Sustaining Culture, Economics and the Environment 16. The Responsive City: London South Bank Experiences 17. Small-Scale Sustainability: Parasite Las Palmas and Beyond 18. Sustainable and Sub-tropical City: An Architecture of Timberframed Landscapes 19. Beyond the EcoEdge