
Planning in Cities
Sustainability and growth in the developing world
Series: Urban Management Series
Published: 2002
Pages: 264
eBook: 9781780441283
Paperback: 9781853395437
1. Introduction
Roger Zetter, Rodney White
Part I - ISSUES AND DISCOURSES: DEVELOPMENT, URBANIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
2. Sustainable development: between environment and development agendas
Al-Moataz Hassan, Roger Zetter
3. Market enablement or sustainable development? The conflicting paradigms of urbanization
Roger Zetter
4. Environmental health or ecological sustainability? Reconciling the brown and green agendas in urban development
Gordon McGranahan, David Satterthwaite
5. African cities and climate change: the global context for sustainable development
Rodney White
Part II - PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY GROWTH
6. Urban planning and the rationale of the market: the elimination of the intermediate urban level in Bogotá
Andres Ortiz-Gomez
7. Public sector capacity-building and urban policy changes in the Kingdom of Lesotho: implications for international development assistance
Cormac Davey
8. Property taxation, public finance and sustainable development: the case of Belém, Brazil
José Júlio Lima
9. Urban livelihoods, shocks and stresses
David Sanderson
10. International agency shelter policy of the 1990s: experiences from Mozambique and Costa Rica
Harry Smith, Paul Jenkins
11. Authoritarianism and sustainability in Cairo: what failed urban development projects tell us about Egyptian politics
Bill Dorman
12. The sustainability of community development in El Mezquital, Guatemala City
Emma Grant
13. From apartheid city to sustainable city: the compact city approach as a regulative ideal
Koyi Mchunu
14. Structural adjustment and water supply in Bolivia: managing diversity, reproducing inequality
Carlos Crespo-Flores
15. Linking theory and practice in development processes – the case of urban sanitation
Kevin Tayler
Back Matter (List of contributors, Notes, References, Index)
Roger Zetter Roger Zetter is Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Planning at Oxford Brookes University in the UK.|Rodney White is Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.