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Rethinking Urban Sprawl
Author | : OECD,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
Publsiher | : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9264189823 |
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- Foreword - Executive summary - The policy challenge of urban sprawl - Urban sprawl as a multidimensional phenomenon - Sprawl in OECD urban areas - Causes and consequences of urban sprawl - Steering urban development to more sustainable pathways
Rethinking Urban Sprawl Moving Towards Sustainable Cities
Author | : OECD |
Publsiher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2018-06-14 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789264189881 |
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This report provides a new perspective to the nature of urban sprawl and its causes and environmental, social and economic consequences.
Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South
Author | : Garima Jain,Cassidy Johnson,Allan Lavell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : 1787358291 |
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A study on urban risk and resettlement programs in the Global South in the era of climate change. Environmental changes impact everyone, but the burden is especially heavy upon the lives and livelihoods of the urban poor and those living in informal settlements. In an effort to reduce urban residents' exposure to climate change and natural disasters, resettlement programs are becoming widespread across the Global South. Yet, while resettlement may reduce a region's future climate-related disaster risk, it can also often increase poverty and vulnerability. This volume collates the findings from a research project that examined urban areas across the globe, including case studies from India, Uganda, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Cambodia, and the Philippines. The book offers a unique approach to resettlement, providing an opportunity for urban planners to re-think how disaster risk management can better address the accumulation of urban risks in the era of climate change.
Rethinking Sustainable Development
Author | : Tan Yigitcanlar |
Publsiher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781616920227 |
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"This book investigates the role of urban, regional and infrastructure planning in achieving sustainable urban and infrastructure development, providing insights into overcoming the consequences of unsustainable development"--Provided by publisher.
Rethinking Sustainable Cities
Author | : David Simon |
Publsiher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-08-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781447332848 |
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Sustainable urbanization has moved to the forefront of political debate and policy agendas for numerous reasons. Among the most important are a growing appreciation both of the implications of rapid urbanization now occurring in China, India, and many other low and middle income countries with historically low urbanization levels and of the related challenges posed to urban areas worldwide by climate and environmental change. Conceptualizing urban sustainability for this new era, this compact book makes a clear contribution to the sustainable urbanization agenda through authoritative interventions that contextualize, assess, and explain the importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere: that they should be fair, green, and accessible.
The Urban Climate Challenge
Author | : Craig Johnson,Noah Toly,Heike Schroeder |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-02-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781317680062 |
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Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields of global environmental governance, urban sustainability and climate change, this volume explores the ways in which cities, transnational urban networks and global policy institutions are repositioning themselves in relation to this changing global policy environment. Focusing on both Northern and Southern experience across the globe, three questions that have strong bearing on the ways in which we understand and assess the changing relationship between cities and global climate system are examined. How are cities repositioning themselves in relation to the global climate regime? How are cities being repositioned – conceptually and epistemologically? What are the prospects for crafting policies that can reduce the urban carbon footprint while at the same time building resilience to future climate change? The Urban Climate Challenge will be of interest to scholars of urban climate policy, global environmental governance and climate change. It will be of interest to readers more generally interested in the ways in which cities are now addressing the inter-related challenges of sustainable urban growth and global climate change. Chapter 9 and Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond
Author | : Tigran Haas |
Publsiher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780847838363 |
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The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, transportation congestion, and environmental degradation. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities and major metropolitan areas, and in the next two decades the number of city dwellers is estimated to reach five billion. This puts enormous pressures on transportation systems, housing stock, and infrastructure such as energy, waste, and water, which directly influences the emissions of greenhouse gases. As the long emergency awaits us, urgent questions remain: How will our cities survive? How can we combat and reconcile urban growth with sustainable use of resources for future generations to thrive? Where and how urbanism comes into the picture and what “sustainable” urban forms can do in light of these events are some of the issues Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond explores. With more than sixty essays, including contributions by Andrés Duany, Saskia Sassen, Peter Newman, Douglas Farr, Henry Cisneros, Peter Hall, Sharon Zukin, Peter Eisenman, and others, this book is a unique perspective on architecture, urban planning, environmental and urban design, exploring ways for raising quality of life and the standard of living in a new modern era by creating better and more viable places to live.
Urban Sprawl
Author | : Gregory D. Squires |
Publsiher | : The Urban Insitute |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0877667098 |
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Urban Sprawl is not simply a development that undercuts the quality of life for suburbanites. It has raised alarms across the nation, as fair housing advocates, environmentalists, land use planners, and even many suburban employers who cannot find the workers they need, have recognized that the costs go far beyond aesthetics. Despite the agreement that something needs to be done, there is no consensus on what works. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses assembles leading scholars who analyze the major causes and consequences of urban sprawl and the policy initiatives that are being explored in response to these developments.