| Description |
xv, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword : managing the future city / Gordon McGranahan -- Introduction / Marco Keiner, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr and Willy A. Schmid -- Asian urbanization and local and global environmental challenges / Hans J.A. van Ginkel and Peter J. Marcotullio -- Sustaining urban development in Latin America in an unpredictable world / Alan Gilbert -- The urban challenge in Africa / Carole Rakodi -- The global city : strategic site, new frontier / Saskia Sassen -- A question of boundaries : planning and Asian urban transitions / Michael Leaf -- Shifting drivers of change, time-space telescoping and urban environmental transitions in Asia Pacific cities / Peter J. Marcotullio -- Civil society revisited : travels in Latin America and China / John Friedmann -- State and space in Brazil : from modernist planning to democratic intervention / Teresa Caldeira and James Holston -- The chronic poor in Rio de Janeiro : what has changed in 30 years? / Janice E. Perlman -- Unsustainable trends in spatial development in China : situation analysis and exploration of alternative development paths demonstrated by case studies of Kunming (urban) and Shaxi Valley (rural) / Jacques P. Feiner and Diego Salmerón -- Sustaining cosmopolis : managing multicultural cities / Leonie Sandercock -- Towards gigapolis? : from urban growth to evolutionable medium-sized cities / Marco Keiner -- Urban planning in the North -- Blueprint for the South? / Klaus R. Kunzmann |
| Summary |
"By comparing the challenges of urbanization in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, this book puts forward a new way of thinking about mega- and million-cities in developing countries - one that promotes their vital function in society as engines of ideas, technologies, societal change, democratic transformation and loci of political will to build a new regime of global sustainability."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index |
| Subject |
City planning -- Developing countries.
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Urbanization -- Developing countries.
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Developing countries.
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| Author |
Koll-Schretzenmayr, Martina, 1967-
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Keiner, Marco, 1963-
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Schmid, Willy A.
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| LC no. |
2005003240 |
| ISBN |
0754644170 alkaline paper |
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