Development and Cities
Essays from Development and Practice
Published on 15. December 2002
380 pages
978-0-85598-690-2 (ISBN)
Description
Approaches to sustainable development in cities of the South have focused too exclusively on narrow technical aspects of environmental protection, with no benefit to most residents in cities and peri-urban areas. However, in many countries of the South the disengagement of government along with budgetary constraints, a reliance on cost-recovery mechanisms within structural adjustment packages and increasing disparity between poor and rich, further reduces access by the poor to even the most rudimentary services. Development and Cities focuses on the political, social and economic viability of new or alternative approaches to urban management in the South that aim to increase access to adequate levels of basic services and healthy living and working conditions for all. Case-studies include cities in Argentina, Cuba, India, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Warwickshire
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxfam Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
File size
1,27 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85598-690-2 (9780855986902)
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Content
- bk-development-cities-010402-en.pdf
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Sustainable cities
- Urban sustainability
- Institutional innovations
- Institutionalising the concept
- Democracy and social
- Sustainable development
- Unsustainable development
- Sustainable urban development
- Urban crisis in India
- International co-operation
- Mainstreaming the urban poor
- Learning from informal markets
- Lowering the ladder
- Cities for the urban poor
- Innovations for sustainable
- Private-public partnership
- Residents associations
- Monitoring megacities
- Technical versus popular
- Resources
- Index
