Cities in globalizing world

Informationen zum Autor Cities in a Globalizing World was prepared under the general guidance of Daniel Biau, Director of the Global Division of UNCHS (Habitat), and the supervision of Nefise Bazoglu and Jochen Eigen, Urban Secretariat Chiefs. Klappentext * The most authoritative and up to date assessment of the development of the world's cities and other human settlements Zusammenfassung Presents a review of the world's cities and analyses the positive and negative impacts on human settlements of the global trends towards social and economic integration and changes in information and communication technologies. This title focuses on trends in human settlements and their implications for poverty, inequity and social polarization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Key Issues and Messages * Prologue: Human Settlements in a Globalizing World * Part I: Development Context: Changes and Challenges * Development Contrasts in Human Settlements * Urban Impacts of Globalization * Framing Normative Policy Platforms * Part II: Emerging Approaches to Urban Governance and Politics * The Changing Context and Directions of Urban Governance * Politics of the Global City: Claiming rights to urban spaces * Part III: Changes in Housing Finance and Shelter Delivery Systems * The Developing Countries * The Countries with Economies in Transition * The Industrialized Countries * Part IV: Developments in the Urban Environment and Infrastructure * Urban Health in the Developing Countries * Assessments of the Urban Environment: Water Supply and Sanitation Services * Impacts of Recent Trends on Urban Transport * Energy Demands and Consumption * Decentralization and Urban Infrastructure Management Capacity * Part V: Ensuring Development Prospects * Building Capacity * Strengthening Post-disaster Reconstruction of Human Settlements * Part VI: Building a Common Future * Adequate Shelter for All * Sustaining Human Settlement Development * Epilogue: Liveability of Cities in a Globalizing World * Part VII: Statistical Annex * Country Level data * City Level Data * Index...

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• Authors: United Nations Human Settl (Un-Habitat), Unhabitat, Un-Habitat, Un-Habitat, United Nations Centre for Human Settleme
• Assisted by: Habitat (Editor), Willem Van Vliet (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2001
• EAN: 9781853838064
• ISBN: 978-1-85383-806-4
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 298 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Reference works, Regional & area planning, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Regional and area planning