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Planning in Cities is an innovative collection which bridges theory and practice to explore the conflicting challenges of the increasingly rapid scale and speed of city growth with providing effective urban planning policies and management strategies.
List of contents
Michael Mutter Senior Urban Planner DfID - Preface Roger Zetter and Rodney White - Editorial Introduction Part 1 Issues and Discourses: Development, Urbanisation and Sustainability Al-Moataz Hassan and Roger Zetter Sustainable Development: Between Environment and Development Agendas Roger Zetter Market Enablement or Sustainable Development? The Conflicting Paradigms of Urbanisation Gordon McGranahan and David Satterthwaite Environmental Health or Ecological Sustainability? Reconciling the Brown and Green Agendas in Urban Development Rodney White African Cities & Climate Change: The Global Context for Sustainable Development. Part 2 Planning for Sustainability Growth Andres Ortiz-Gomez Urban Planning and the Rationale of the Market. The Elimination of the Intermediate Urban Level in Bogota Cormac Davey Public Sector Capacity Building and Urban Policy Changes in the Kingdom of Lesotho: Implications for International Development Assistance Jose Julio Lima Property Taxation, Public Finance and Sustainable Development: The Case of Belem, Brazil David Sanderson Urban Livelihoods, Shocks and Stresses Harry Smith and Paul Jenkins International Agency Shelter Policy of the 1990s: Experiences from Mozambique and Costa Rica Bill Dorman Authoritarianism and Sustainability in Cairo: What Failed Urban Development Projects Tell Us About Egyptian Politics. Emma Grant The Sustainability of Community Development in El Mezquital, Guatemala City Koyi Mchunu From Apartheid City to Sustainable City: Compact City Approach as a Regulative Ideal Carlos Crespo-Flores Structural Adjustment and Water Supply in Bolivia: Managing Diversity, Reproducing Inequality. Kevin Tayler Linking Theory and Practice in Development Processes - the Case of Urban Sanitation.
About the author
Professor Roger Zetter is Deputy Head of the School of Planning at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has written extensively on urban sector aid policies, land markets and shelter provision in the developing world, especially in the context of Africa. Professor Rodney White is Professor of Geography and Director of Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. He has extensive consultancy and research experience in urban sector development, increasingly focused on environmental policy priorities.
