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Development and Cities
Essays from Development and Practice
Series: Development in Practice Reader
Published: 2002
Pages: 380
eBook: 9780855986902
Paperback: 9780855984656
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.
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| bk-development-cities-010402-en.pdf | 1 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Contributors | 7 | ||
| Preface | 11 | ||
| Sustainable cities | 13 | ||
| Urban sustainability | 24 | ||
| Institutional innovations | 55 | ||
| Institutionalising the concept | 77 | ||
| Democracy and social | 101 | ||
| Sustainable development | 114 | ||
| Unsustainable development | 134 | ||
| Sustainable urban development | 148 | ||
| Urban crisis in India | 172 | ||
| International co-operation | 189 | ||
| Mainstreaming the urban poor | 216 | ||
| Learning from informal markets | 238 | ||
| Lowering the ladder | 260 | ||
| Cities for the urban poor | 275 | ||
| Innovations for sustainable | 294 | ||
| Private–public partnership | 299 | ||
| Residents associations | 309 | ||
| Monitoring megacities | 317 | ||
| Technical versus popular | 328 | ||
| Resources | 336 | ||
| Index | 357 |
Deborah Eade
Deborah Eade was Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice from 1991 to 2010, prior to which she worked for 10 years in Latin America. She is now an independent writer on development and humanitarian issues, based near Geneva.
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