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Cover -- Urban Development 2120 -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Predicting the Future -- Chapter 2: Greening and Global Warming Response -- Chapter 3: Population Expansion -- Chapter 4: Urban Planning -- Chapter 5: Move to Urban Environments -- Chapter 6: Government Planning Response -- Chapter 7: Biological Risk Assessment -- Chapter 8: Disaster Response Mechanisms -- Chapter 9: Legal Framework -- Chapter 10: Road Maps -- Chapter 11: Designer Cities -- Chapter 12: Financing -- Chapter 13: Enforcement -- Chapter 14: Political Ramifications -- Chapter 15: Planet Earth -- About the Author -- Index -- Ad Page -- Back Cover.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Global Integration, Regional Development, and the Dynamics of Urbanization: An Introduction -- Part I Global Systems and the New Dynamics -- Finance, Financial Regulation, and Economic Development: An International Perspective -- Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment, and Urbanization in Developing Countries -- Global Environmental Imperatives and Institutions to Ensure Sustainability -- Part II East Asia and Globalization -- The Greater China Growth Triangle in the Asian Financial Crisis -- Regional Development Policies in Brazil, China, and Indonesia -- The Impact of Globalization on China's Economy -- Globalization and Urbanization in the Republic of Korea -- Cities and Governments -- Urban Governance and Politics in a Global Context: The Growing Importance of Localities -- Crime As a Social Cost of Poverty and Inequality: A Review Focusing on Developing Countries -- Urban Poverty: Some Thoughts About its Scale and Nature and About Responses to It -- Urban Poverty Alleviation in the Age of Globalization in Pacific Asia -- Financing of Subnational Public Investment in India -- Analysis of Spatial Organization and Transportation Demand in an Expanding Urban Area: Sendai, Japan, 1972Ò 92.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editors Biography -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Balanced Urban Development: Is It a Myth or Reality? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What Makes a City Liveable? -- 1.3 Urbanisation is Inevitable -- 1.4 The Role of Water in Peri-Urban Landscapes -- 1.5 Key Challenges of Sustaining Future Urban Areas -- 1.5.1 Knowledge and Capacity Building Actions for Future Cities -- 1.6 The Process of Balanced Urban Development -- 1.7 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part II: Peri-Urbansation -- Chapter 2: Re-Ruralising the Urban Edge: Lessons from Europe, USA & -- the Global South -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Four Ways to Revive Sydney's Peri-Urban Agriculture -- 2.3 Lessons from the Global South -- 2.4 Lessons from the Shrinking Cities -- 2.5 The Value of Temporary Uses -- 2.5.1 Temporary Use as a Strategy for Urban-Rural Reimagining -- 2.5.1.1 Cultural Sensitivity and Shared Vision -- 2.5.1.2 Identifying Shared Values and Needs -- 2.5.1.3 Identifying Enabling Infrastructure -- 2.5.2 Temporary Urbanism in the Peri-urban Riverlands of Western Sydney -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Nimbyism and Nature: Whose Backyard Is It Anyway? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Benefits of Bushland -- 3.3 The Disbenefit of Bushland -- 3.4 The Flying Fox -- 3.5 Ku-Ring-Gai Flying Fox Management -- 3.6 Learning from the Experience of Other Land Managers -- 3.7 Viable Management Options for the Ku-Ring-Gai Flying Fox Reserve -- 3.7.1 Council Management Actions -- 3.7.2 Encouraging the Community to Adapt -- 3.8 Discussion -- 3.9 Lessons Learnt -- References -- Chapter 4: Connecting Urban and Rural Futures Through Rural Design -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Rural Design -- 4.3 Rural Design for Urban Agriculture -- 4.4 Case Studies of Rural Design -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks -- References.

Urbanization as a process is rife with inequality, in Southeast Asia as anywhere else, but resistance and contestation persist on the ground. In this element, the author sets out to achieve three goals: 1) to examine the political nature of urban development; 2) to scrutinize the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions; and 3) to highlight topical and methodological contributions to urban studies from Southeast Asia. The key to a robust understanding is groundedness: knowledge about the everyday realities of urban life that are hard to see on the surface but dominate how the city functions, with particular attention to human agency and the political life of marginalized groups. Ignoring politics in research on urbanization essentially perpetuates the power inequities in urban development; this element thus focuses not just on Southeast Asian cities and urbanization per se, but also on critical perspectives on patterns and processes in their development.

American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods. Thousands of residents move every year within and among neighborhoods; their flows across a city can radically and quickly alter the character of its neighborhoods. What is behind all this ferment--the decline of one area, the revitalization of another? Can the process be made more rational? Can city neighborhoods be stabilized--and older cities thus preserved? This book argues that such flows of residents are not random. Rather, they are closely linked to overall migration into or out of each metropolitan area and to the way U.S. cities develop. Downs contends that both urban development and the social problems it spawns are built upon social arrangements designed to benefit the middle-class majority. Racial segregation divides housing in each metropolitan area into two or more markets. Socioeconomic segregation subdivides neighborhoods within each market into a class hierarchy. The poor live mainly in the oldest neighborhoods, close to the urban center. The affluent live in the newest neighborhoods, mostly at the urban periphery. This separation stems not from pure market forces but from exclusionary laws that make the construction of low-cost housing illegal in most neighborhoods. The resulting pattern determines where housing is built and what housing is left to decay. Downs uses data from U.S. cities to illustrate neighborhood change and to reach conclusions about ways to cope with it. he explores the causes and nature of racial segregation and integration, and he evaluates neighborhood revitalization programs, which in reviving part of a city often displace many poor residents. He presents a timely analysis of the effect of higher energy costs upon urban sprawl, argues the wisdom of reviving older cities rather than helping their residents move elsewhere, and discusses the

This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives. Papers go beyond explanations of methods, technique and traditional applications to explore new intersections in the dynamic relationship between the utilization and management of resources, and urban development. International authors explore numerous experiences, characteristics of development and decision-making influences from across Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as recounting examples from America and Africa. Papers propound techniques and methods used in geographical research such as support vector machines, socio-economic correlates and travel behaviour analysis. In this volume the contributors examine cutting-edge theories explaining diversity and dynamics in urban development. Topics covered include human vulnerability to hazards, space and urban problematic, assessment and evaluation of regional urban systems and structures and urban transformations as a result of structural change, economic development and underdevelopment. The significance of these topics lie in the pace and volume of change as is happening in geography reflecting continued development within established fields of inquiry and the introduction of significantly new approaches during the last decade. Readers are invited to consider the dynamics of spatial expansion of urban areas and economic development, and to explore conceptual d iscussion of the innovations in and challenges on urbanization processes, urban spaces themselves and both resource management and environmental management. Together, the two volumes contribute to the interdisciplinary literature on regional resources and urban development by collating recent research with geography at its core. Scholars of urban geography, human geography, urbanism and sustainable development will be particularly interested in this book