Cities in the 1990s : the challenge for developing countries : highlights from a workshop of representatives of international aid agencies and governments in developing countries to consider the new urban policy statements of the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, November 1991

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Cities in the 1990s : the challenge for developing countries : highlights from a workshop of representatives of international aid agencies and governments in developing countries to consider the new urban policy statements of the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, November 1991

edited by Nigel Harris

UCL Press, 1992

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  • : PB
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"First published by UCL Press. This edition published in India in 1993 by Research Press"

Includes index

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As a priviliged insight into operational thinking within governments and aid agencies, "Cities in the 1990s" addresses the key issues facing urban areas in developing countries. Based on an important workshop involving representatives and senior officers from a host of aid agencies and governments, it exposes to public scrutiny the approaches emerging in the wake of a sea-change in international aid policy away from rural development and towards urban areas. In 1991, the World Bank and the United Nations separately published new policy agendas on urbanization in the 1990s. These argued a new case in the face of burgeoning urban growth in developing countries, where the cities and mega-cities accommodate not simply the majority of the population but also most of the poor. This predominance of the urban domain is acknowledged and reflected in the main thrust of the new agendas: that the cities are the main means of transforming society as a whole in economic terms and of alleviating and overcoming poverty in developing countries. Published in association with the Overseas Development Agency, the book includes summaries of these policy documents, two major papers by Kenneth Watts and Nigel Harris, and the main speeches, discussions and summaries at the workshop, which was convened by the Development Planning Unit at University College London. The editor's introduction lays out the context of thought, policy and action within which the new agendas can be located. The book is far from being a work of "ivory-tower" scholarship: the discussions are about how governments should act, and how realistic and relevant the new policy directions are in operational terms. "Cities in the 1990s" is sure to be regarded as essential reading for anyone concerned with the staggering problems and challenges facing the developing countries today. It provides authoritative discussion and analysis at the highest level. Its relevance to the professional interests of those working directly on development issues will quickly be recognized. It offers a rare view, from the perspective of a powerful and influential group of contributors, of what is perhaps "the" major development issue of the 1990s. As such, it will also be widely read in the academic community by all concerned with the developing world -- economists, planners, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists -- whether they be students or researchers. "Nigel Harris has been working, writing, teaching and researching in the fieldof the economics of large cities in developing countries for some 25 years. With experience in India, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere, he has worked for both the World Bank and the United Nations. He is the well known author of many articles and books.".

目次

  • Opening address, Tim Lankester. Part 1 The new agendas: urban policy and economic development - the agenda, Michael Cohen
  • the challenge of urbanization, Shabbir Cheema
  • the discussion
  • summing up. Part 2 Country experience: discussion
  • response, Michael Cohen
  • discussion resumed
  • comment
  • summing up, Shabbir Cheema and Mark Hildebrand. Part 3 Urban development strategies - experience from the past: opening, Kenneth Watts
  • problems and issues of implementation, Nigel Harris
  • discussion
  • comment, Michael Cohen
  • summing up, Nigel Harris. Part 4 Issues of urban management: opening, Mark Hildebrand and Patrick McAuslan
  • discussion
  • summing up, Mark Hildebrand and Patrick McAuslan
  • final statement, Michael Cohen and Shabbir Cheema
  • final address, Al Van Huyck. Part 5 National urban development policies and strategies - a review of country experience, Kenneth Watts
  • productivity and poverty in the cities of the developing countries, Nigel Harris. Part 6 Summaries: urban policy and economic development - an agenda for the 1990s
  • world bank policy paper
  • cities, people and poverty - urban development co-operation for the 1990s, UNDP strategy paper.

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