| Description |
1 online resource (281 p.) |
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City Development: Issues and Best Practices |
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City development, issues and best practices
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Cities -- 1 Appraising the Impacts of COVID-19 and Climate Change on Urban Residents -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Statement of Problem -- 1.3 Aim and Objectives -- 1.4 Literature Review and Conceptual Issues -- 1.4.1 Literature Review -- 1.4.2 Conceptual Framework -- 1.5 The Study Area -- 1.6 Methodology -- 1.7 Data Presentation and Findings -- 1.7.1 Socio-Economic Characteristics -- 1.7.2 Flooding Occurrences, Causes, Impacts, Coping Mechanism and Effectiveness of Flood Risk Management |
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1.7.3 COVID-19 Disaster Impact Assessment and Effectiveness of Management Measures -- 1.8 Conclusions -- 1.9 Recommendations -- References -- 2 Beyond COVID-19: Planning the Mobility and Cities Following "15-Minute City" Paradigm -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 "15-Minute City" and City of Proximity Definition -- 2.3 The Impact of City Space on Well-Being: Importance of Proximity, Harmony and Accessibility -- 2.4 Proximity Cities Around the World and Takeaways -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Youth-Led Response to COVID-19 in Informal Settlements: Case Study of Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya |
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3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Community-Led Response to COVID-19 Crisis: Why Youth Matter -- 3.3 Case Description: Youth in Mathare Responding to COVID-19 Crisis -- 3.4 Case Analysis -- 3.5 Conclusions and Lessons Learned -- References -- 4 COVID-19 in Angola's Slums: Providing Evidence and a Roadmap for Participatory Slum Upgrading in Pandemic Times -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 The Pandemic and the Vulnerability of Slums in the South -- 4.1.2 Participatory Slum Upgrading as a Mitigation Strategy -- 4.1.3 The Angolan Musseques in Times of COVID-19 |
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4.2 The Socio-economic Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on Slum Communities in Angola -- 4.2.1 Methodology -- 4.2.2 Key Findings -- 4.3 Pandemic Mitigation Strategies Through Participatory Slum Upgrading -- 4.3.1 The Potential of PSUP -- 4.3.2 Participatory Slum Upgrading in Angola's Musseques in Pandemic Times -- 4.4 Conclusions -- References -- 5 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Response to COVID-19 in Africa: Towards Healthy Cities -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Background -- 5.1.2 Urban CSR -- 5.1.3 Statement of Problem -- 5.1.4 Research Aim and Objectives -- 5.1.5 Research Questions |
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5.1.6 Significance of the Study -- 5.2 Literature Review -- 5.2.1 The Concept of CSR and Healthy Cities -- 5.2.2 Attributes of a Healthy City -- 5.2.3 Conceptual Framework of the Role of CSR in the Formation of Healthy-Resilient Cities -- 5.2.4 The Case of Huawei -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.4 Discussions -- 5.4.1 Overview -- 5.4.2 West Africa-Nigeria -- 5.4.3 East Africa-Kenya -- 5.4.4 Northern Africa-Algeria -- 5.4.5 South Africa -- 5.5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- 5.6 Future Works -- References -- Part II Resilience and Risk in Contemporary Cities |
| Summary |
This book provides unique perspectives into newly changed political and socioeconomic urban landscapes due to COVID-19 in diverse cities and aims to provide ways to improve the resilience of cities using a global perspective, especially in a post-pandemic era. This book is divided into three sections with seventeen chapters overall. It explores the impacts of the COVID-19 on city planning, building, and maintenance; it considers city resilience and what urban risks cities are facing; and it examines urban development from diverse socioeconomic and political perspectives. The book contains multidisciplinary work by authors from China, African nations (Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria), Canada, Italy, Poland, and France. This manuscript provides a global perspective as cities from Africa, China, as well as some developed countries, such as France and South Korea, were used to collect data and information concerning urban development and risks, past, present, and future responses to COVID-19 as well as any other pandemics and cities' resilience. This book is a valuable asset to urban researchers, urban city planners, urban policymakers, public officials, undergraduates, and postgraduates interested in a comprehensive comparison between diverse socioeconomic and political cities with a unique global and post-pandemic perspective in order to improve urban city resilience |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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6 Southern Cities Between Rapid Urbanization and Increasing Need for Flood Mitigation Measures, The Case of Bujumbura, Burundi |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Health aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Cities and towns -- Cross-cultural studies
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Sociology, Urban -- Cross-cultural studies
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Influence -- Cross-cultural studies
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Cities and towns.
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Cities and towns -- Health aspects.
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Sociology, Urban.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zhang, Liqin, editor
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Kanini Wamuchiru, Elizabeth, editor
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Meutchehe Ngomsi, Claude A., editor
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| ISBN |
9789819920501 |
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9819920507 |
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