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Book Megacity Management in the Asian and Pacific Region

Download or read book Megacity Management in the Asian and Pacific Region written by Jeffry Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Megacity Management in the Asian and Pacific Region  Summary

Download or read book Megacity Management in the Asian and Pacific Region Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Megacity Management in the Asian and Pacific Region  Recommendations of the working groups  theme papers  and case studies

Download or read book Megacity Management in the Asian and Pacific Region Recommendations of the working groups theme papers and case studies written by Jeffry Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Struggle for Shelter  the   7043iied

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
  • Publisher : IIED
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781843690887
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Struggle for Shelter the 7043iied written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1997 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Critical Reflections on Cities in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Critical Reflections on Cities in Southeast Asia written by Tim Bunnell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Reflections draws together the multi-disciplinary research of scholars working in/on cities across Southeast Asia. The fourteen essays collected in the volume are organised into three thematic sections: (re)conceptualisation, competition and intervention. Collectively, these reflections contribute to and interrogate the expanding urban and regional studies literature. The volume constitutes a critical corrective to the existing literature which all-too-often seeks to diagnose contemporary urban trends everywhere from a small number of, mostly Western, "paradigmatic cases." Yet, while acknowledging the increasing interconnectedness and shared global orientation of most cities in Southeast Asia, the volume is wary of positing an equally generalising regional model. Individually, these essays attend to the diversity of contemporary urban experiences in Southeast Asia.

Book Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries

Download or read book Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries written by Cedric Pugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most underdeveloped areas. Various perspectives are brought to bear on issues from economics and theories of health through to the foundations of sustainability. All the key contemporary developments are dealt with; the growth in international law and agreements on controlling greenhouse gases; the effect of reforms in finance, governance and methods of appraisal on the areas of waste management; and the theoretical advances in the community development aspects of health and the neighbourhood environment guided by the experiences of the World Bank, WHO and UNEP. The text is intended as a guidebook for those responsible for re-shaping cities in the 21st century.

Book Cities  Transport and Communications

Download or read book Cities Transport and Communications written by H. Dick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the impact of globalization on Southeast Asia, which over a few decades has evolved from a loose set of war-torn ex-colonies to being a centre of global manufacturing. Focusing on cities, the authors explain the emergence of modern Southeast Asia and its increasing integration into the world economy by showing how technological change, economic development and politics have transformed the flows of goods, people and information.

Book Fantasy Islands

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julie Sze
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015-01-05
  • ISBN : 0520262484
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Fantasy Islands written by Julie Sze and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory--combined with an increasing worldwide desire for inexpensive toys, clothes, and food--are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs of this desire: toys drenched in lead paint, dangerous medicines, and tainted pet food. Examining sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, suburbanization projects, and the Shanghai World Expo, JulieSze interrogates Chinese, European, and American 'eco-desire' and the eco-technological fantasies that underlie contemporary development of global cities and mega-suburbs. In doing so, she challenges readers to rethink how cities must undergo alterationsto become true 'eco-cities.' Sze frames her analysis of these case studies in the context of the problems of global economic change and climate crisis, and she explores the flows, fears, and fantasies of Pacific Rim politics that shaped plans for Dongtan. She looks at the flow of pollution from Asia to the United States (ten billion pounds of airborne pollutants annually). Simultaneously, she considers the flow of financial and political capital for eco-city and ecological development between elite powerstructures in the UK and China, and charts how climate change discussions align with US fears of China's ascendancy and the related demise of the American Century. Ultimately, Fantasy Islands examines how fears and fantasies about China and historical and political power change the American imagination."--Provided by publisher.

Book Asian Journal of Social Science

Download or read book Asian Journal of Social Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southeast Asian Urban Environments

Download or read book Southeast Asian Urban Environments written by Carla Chifos and published by Arizona State University P Monograph Series Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building Sustainable Urban Settlements

Download or read book Building Sustainable Urban Settlements written by Sam Romaya and published by Urban Management. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of studies, the environmental, institutional, social and cultural aspects of sustainability are considered in a variety of towns and cities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Central and South America.

Book Journal of Asian Business

Download or read book Journal of Asian Business written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philippine Studies

Download or read book Philippine Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science

Download or read book Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smart Cities and the Poor

Download or read book Smart Cities and the Poor written by Alok Kumar Mishra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing countries worldwide have been embarking on ‘smart cities’ programmes using new technology solutions to improve public services. Faced with severe problems of digital divide, poverty, unemployment, inequality, and financial and social exclusion, these cities have to negotiate hard in order to reach their goals. This book examines urban governance, digital divide, poverty, unemployment, and financial and social exclusion and presents a theoretical perspective on inclusive cities, urbanization, migration, slums,and affordable housing. The book aims at formulating and implementing an agenda for inclusive, equitable, and sustainable urban development in tune with the UN-SDGs, the New Urban Agenda of Habitat III, and India’s new national urban missions. It probes into the scope of adopting inclusionary urban planning, zoning, and housing, financing inclusive city development, and poverty alleviation through municipal finance reforms using findings and lessons from detailed field studies of Indian cities. It also suggests an agenda for slum-free and poverty-free cities in an attempt to make these cities more people-focused, humane, and inclusionary. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political science, policy studies, public administration, urban studies, urban planning and management, urban sociology, and geography, besides being of interest to policy researchers, community workers, grass roots researchers, policymakers, and sociologists.

Book Branding Chinese Mega Cities

Download or read book Branding Chinese Mega Cities written by Per Olof Berg and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book details the economic, cultural and social background of the development of Chinese mega-cities, as well as presenting the mechanisms of governance and urban growth strategies. Therein, the main discussion centres on the cont