Communicating sustainability in the city

In the pursuit of environmental sustainability, it is necessary to consider both communication as something more than an instrumental tool and communicating sustainability as more than a functional challenge of getting a message through to rational citizens. Taking seriously the discursive means available to populations tells us how actors come to formulate their interests and decide and act in line with urban sustainability citizenship. Both Bruno Latour's 'talking politically' and examples of communicative practices - from Australian media coverage of elections to recent interactive websites exploring decarbonisation - are considered in this analysis of the formation of citizens and publics for sustainability.