Managing urban futures sustainability and urban growth in developing countries
Managing urban futures sustainability and urban growth in developing countries
- Aldershot Ashgate 2005
- xv, 277p 24cm.
The challenges of urban development processes -- New scales in space and time -- Transforming state, space and society: political reform, promoting citizens rights and poverty alleviation -- Coming together.
Explores the conflicting challenges of rapid urbanization in developing countries. Compares the challenges in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific and puts forward a new way of thinking about medga and million-cities in developing countries. Promotes their viral 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.
0754644170
International
711.2 $2 18
The challenges of urban development processes -- New scales in space and time -- Transforming state, space and society: political reform, promoting citizens rights and poverty alleviation -- Coming together.
Explores the conflicting challenges of rapid urbanization in developing countries. Compares the challenges in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific and puts forward a new way of thinking about medga and million-cities in developing countries. Promotes their viral 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.
0754644170
International
711.2 $2 18