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Zusatztext 'A small book for big problems'Built Environment, 2006' [A] pithy, attractively produced volume [that] has a lot to say about how to get urbanisation right.''The authors...have decades of experience in implementing international cooperation programmes in the urban sector, notable among them some highly innovative efforts to make cities safe and liveable for the urban poor.''The chief strength of the book is that it lays out in a straightforward way the evidence suggesting that in a world that is now more than half urban and likely to become increasingly so, poverty-alleviation efforts need to focus on urban settlements.''Thisintroduction to urban development and management will be an excellent addition to the reference collections of domestic and international development NGOs, as well as CSOs not generally involved in urban development.'(All above) Development in Practice, Volume 17, Number 3, June 2007'This is an excellent book, well-written and the authors have can see the big picture of human development. They offer much on planning and on governance.'Livestock Science Informationen zum Autor Goran Tanerfeldt, Architect SAR/MSA, is a senior advisor on urban development with more than forty years of international experience and has been the initiator and head of the Urban Division of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Per Ljung is Chairman and CEO of PM Global Infrastructure, a firm that specializes in infrastructure reform and financing, and he has been head of the World Bank's operational division dealing with urban development in North Africa and the Middle East as well as chief of its central unit for policy development and research in urban development. Klappentext The world is undergoing massive urbanization: now topping three billion of the world's six billion people and projected to increase to four billion city dwellers! mostly in the developing world! within twenty-five years. The impacts and development challenges posed by historic shift are of equal magnitude and include growing slums; lack of access to adequate water! sanitation and utilities; challenges to transport! employment! education; and dramatic effects on human well being and the environment. Zusammenfassung Examines how cities grow, their economic development, urban poverty, housing and environmental problems. This book also examines how to face these challenges through governance and management of urban growth, the finance and delivery of services, and finding a role for development cooperation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I, AN URBANIZING WORLD * Urban growth continues * Understanding urbanization * Urban-rural linkages * Part II, URBAN POVERTY * Nature of urban poverty * Who are the poor? * Earning a living * Part III, CITIES AND TOWNS FACING PROBLEMS * Slums, favelas, shantytowns * Environment and health * Development obstacles * Urban challenges in the transition countries * Part IV, MANAGING URBAN GROWTH * Critical issues * Governance * Urban management * Improving municipal finances * Enhancing service delivery * Creating functioning housing finance services * Enabling a livelihood * Key areas in pro-poor urban development * Part V, THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION * Rationale for support to urban development * Policy framework * Objective and approaches * Strategic focus * Funding needs * A final word *...
