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Development and Cities
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2002-04-01
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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.
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Contributors; Sponsoring organisations; Preface; Sustainable cities of the South: an introduction; Urban sustainability under threat: the restructuring of the fishing industry in Mar del Plata, Argentina; Institutional innovations for urban infrastructural development: the Indian scenario; Institutionalising the concept of environmental planning and management: successes and challenges in Dar es Salaam; Democracy and social participation in Latin American cities; Sustainable development and democracy in the megacities; Unsustainable development: the Philippine experience; Sustainable urban development in India: an inclusive perspective; Urban crisis in India: new initiatives for sustainable cities; International co-operation in pursuit of sustainable cities; Mainstreaming the urban poor in Andhra Pradesh; Learning from informal markets: innovative approaches to land and housing provision; Lowering the ladder: regulatory frameworks for sustainable development; Cities for the urban poor in Zimbabwe: urban space as a resource for sustainable development; Innovations for sustainable development in cities of the South: the Habitat-Cuba approach; Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?; Residents' associations and information communication technologies: a suggested approach to international action-research; Monitoring megacities: the MURBANDY/MOLAND approach; Technical versus popular language: some reflections on the vocabulary of urban management in Mexico and Brazil; Resources; Index
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Development in Practice Readers
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978-0-85598-465-6