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Managing urban futures sustainability and urban growth in developing countries

Contributor(s): Publication details: Aldershot Ashgate 2005Description: xv, 277p 24cmISBN:
  • 0754644170
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 711.2 $2 18
Partial contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book London Books 711.2 KEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30073587

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.