Urban Development
In: Sustainable Development Policy Directory, S. 482-516
In: Sustainable Development Policy Directory, S. 482-516
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.
In: Economics and public policy collection
The year 2120 may appear a long way into the future but will come quickly. The global population reached one billion in 1804, four billion in 1974, six billion in 1999, seven billion in 2012, and nine billion predicted for 2020. Given the speed of current development under the threat of changing climate, this book attempts to project ahead but with a particular focus. Housing and feeding so many people is about saving the planet while laying the foundations for a quality of life that is within what people in 2120 will want in their living conditions. One factor has not been considered, namely, how each new generation comes in at a different reference point. Previously, the ideal home might have had a house, a garden, perhaps a swimming pool or tennis court. Teenagers today don't care about these amenities as long as they have access to their electronic devices.
In: FEUNL Working Paper Series No. 559
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In: George Mason Law Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring 2012, pp. 629-635 (Introduction to the George Mason Law Review "Rethinking Urban Development" Symposium)
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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
In: Water Science and Technology Library v.72
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.
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This book provides a fascinating insight into the development of the nineteenth century Atlantic economy and the nature of contemporary migration. In particular the author argues that the assumption that the United States economy was the unmoved mover in the fluctuations of the international economy between 1860 and 1913 is incorrect. He presents evidence on regional housebuilding cycles in nineteenth-century Britain and shows that the British cycle was inverse to the American, and that both were primarily determined by demographic factors. From the mid-nineteenth century, Professor Thomas con
In: Routledge Research in Gender and History
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of working women. Town rules and customs, as well as police and guilds' regulations, affected women's participation in the urban economy: most of the time, the formally recognized and legally accepted power of women - which is an essential component of female agency - was very.
In: The Space-Economic Transformation of the City, S. 75-107
In: Indian journal of public administration, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 758-763
ISSN: 2457-0222
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 72, Heft 287, S. 202-203
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: Indian journal of public administration, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 682-690
ISSN: 2457-0222
In: The Handbook of Social Policy, S. 524-540