Preparing for the urban future : global pressures and local forces
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Preparing for the urban future : global pressures and local forces
(Woodrow Wilson Center special studies)
Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Distributesd by Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996
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"Published in cooperation with the United Nations Centre on Human Settlements (Habitat II)"--P. preceding t.p
Rev. papers presented at the June 1996 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780943875781
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This collection of essays looks at the phenomenon of increasing global urbanization, and its attendent problems: unemployment, corroding infrastructure, deteriorating environment, a collapse of social cohesion, and weakening institutions. It asks why this is happening, and what can be done.
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: pbk ISBN 9780943875798
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More and more of the world's people live in urban areas, which share the same problems: unemployment, corroding infrastructure, deteriorating environment, a collapsing social compact, and weakening institutions. To ask why this is happening and what can be done, twenty-two leading social scientists and experienced public officials have pooled their experience and their research in preparation for the June 1996 United Nations conference on human settlement in Istanbul. Their collaborative effort is published in Preparing for the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces. The contributors find commonalities in the globalized economy in which all cities compete and in the mixes of squalor and splendor found in urban environments east and west, north and south. But common, too, in these accounts, are local, rather than national, solutions to urban challenges, which local community groups often view in purely local terms. Contributors are Nezar Al Sayyad, Ilona Blue, Jordi Borja,Robert Bruegmann, Galia Burgel, Guy Burgel, Michael A. Cohen, Maria Elena Ducci, Allison Garland, Mohamed Halfani, Trudy Harpham, Lisa Peattie, Julie Roqu, Blair A. Ruble, Hank Savitch, K. C.
Sivaramakrishnan, Martha Schteingart, Richard Stren, Joseph S. Tulchin, Edmundo Werna, Michael White, and Weiping Wu.
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