Urbanization In A Global Context

Author : Alison L. Bain,Linda Peake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Urbanization
ISBN : 0190165758

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Urbanization in a Global Context by Alison L. Bain,Linda Peake Pdf

"Urbanization in a Global Context is a contributed text that helps Canadian students understand the process of urbanization by examining cities outside Canada across the Global North and South. Truly international in its approach, it emphasizes the interconnectedness of urban places and fosters analysis that identifies the similarities and differences between cities in different world regions. Each chapter focuses on different contemporary urban issues--ranging from urban policy, climate change, and gender to transportation and water governance--and introduces current urban scholarly debates, grounding them in international case studies. How these issues resonate with the Canadian urban context is discussed in text boxes, which employ descriptive accounts, drawing on examples from a selection of small-, mid-, and large-sized Canadian cities. Activities and questions at the end of each chapter prompt students to collaborate with peers to further critically reflect upon how these urban issues could relate to their lived experience in Canadian cities."--

Author : George M. Pomeroy,Gerald Webster
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761839097

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Global Perspectives on Urbanization by George M. Pomeroy,Gerald Webster Pdf

The emerging and continuing challenge of cities and urbanization has become a forefront in current global concerns. Professors George Pomeroy and Gerald Webster's book, Global Perspectives on Urbanization, addresses an expanse of challenges related to poverty and the environment. From Mexico City to Eastern Europe and from the slum dwellers to gentrification, this book offers a global perspective. Drawing from research in both developed and developing world contexts, each chapter provides the reader with viewpoints from recognized global leaders in the field. Empirically well-founded, this study appeals to urbanists and planners, geographers and sociologists, as well as those generally interested in urban studies. Analyzing historical perspectives, the roles of universities and research, globalization, and poverty (among many others), this comprehensive book provides a thoroughly researched wealth of information. Book jacket.

Author : Michael J. Bannon,Larry S. Bourne,Robert Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 187008943X

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Urbanization and Urban Development by Michael J. Bannon,Larry S. Bourne,Robert Sinclair Pdf

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0415252717

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The City: Land use, structure, and change in the Western city by Michael Pacione Pdf

Author : Edward Glaeser,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429892363

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Urban Empires by Edward Glaeser,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world – in both developing and developed countries – display complex evolutionary patterns. Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of these radical changes in our contemporary systems from a global perspective and analyses the dominant position of modern cities in the ‘New Urban World’. This volume views the drastic change cities have undergone internationally through a broad perspective and considers their emerging roles in our global network society. Chapters from renowned scholars provide advanced analytical contributions, scaling applied and theoretical perspectives on the competitive profile of urban agglomerations in a globalizing world. Together, the volume traces and investigates the economic and political drivers of network cities in a global context and explores the challenges over governance that are presented by mega-cities. It also identifies and maps out the new geography of the emergent ‘urban century’. With contributions from well-known and influential scholars from around the world, Urban Empires serves as a touchstone for students and researchers keen to explore the scientific and policy needs of cities as they become our age’s global power centers.

Author : Carol Camp Yeakey,Vetta L. Sanders Thompson,Anjanette Wells
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739177013

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Urban Ills by Carol Camp Yeakey,Vetta L. Sanders Thompson,Anjanette Wells Pdf

Urban Ills: Confronting Twenty First Century Dilemmas of Urban Living in GlobalContexts brings together original research by a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars to examine contemporary dilemmas impacting urban life in global contexts, following the latest global economic downturn. Focusing extensively on vulnerable populations, economic, social, health and community dynamics are explored as they relate to human adaptation to complex environments.

Author : Robert B. Potter,Sally Lloyd-Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317879671

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The City in the Developing World by Robert B. Potter,Sally Lloyd-Evans Pdf

The City in the Developing World is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to urbanisation in developing countries. The goal of this text is to place an understanding of the developing world city in its wider global context. First, this is done by developing the concept of social surplus product as a key to understanding the character of the contemporary Third World city. Second, throughout this text, the city in developing areas is centrally placed in the context of global, social, economic, political and cultural change. Thus, the important themes of globalisation, modernity and postmodernity are examined both in relation to the structure of sets of towns and cities which make up the national or regional urban system, and in respect of ideas and concepts dealing with the morphology, structure and social patterning of individual urban areas. The City in the Developing World is a core text for second and third year undergraduates in the fields of geography, development studies, planning, economics and the social sciences, taking options which deal with development issues, development theory, gender and development and Third World development.

Author : Anthony D King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317504160

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Global Cities by Anthony D King Pdf

Since the late 1970s the role of key world cities such as Los Angeles, New York and London as centres of global control and co-ordination has come under increasing scrutiny. This book provides an overview and critique of work on the global context of metropolitan growth, world city formation and the theory it has generated. Suggesting ‘post-imperialism’ as the most appropriate framework for analysis, the author demonstrates the extent to which urban and regional development, both in Britain and elsewhere, were linked to a colonial mode of production, and highlights the effects of its disappearance. Against this background, the author charts the transformation of London from imperial capital in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to world city in the capitalist world economy of today.

Author : Faranak Miraftab,Neema Kudva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317636793

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Cities of the Global South Reader by Faranak Miraftab,Neema Kudva Pdf

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. By asking: “whose city? whose development?” the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially and spatially constructed hierarchies in global South cities. The Reader’s thematic structure, where editorial introductions accompany selected texts, examines the issues and concerns that urban dwellers, planners, and policy makers face in the contemporary world. These include the urban economy, housing, basic services, infrastructure, the role of non-state civil society-based actors, planned interventions and contestations, the role of diaspora capital, the looming problem of adapting to climate change, and the increasing spectre of violence in a post 9/11 transnational world. The Cities of the Global South Reader pulls together a diverse set of readings from scholars across the world, some of which have been written specially for the volume, to provide an essential resource for a broad interdisciplinary readership at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in urban geography, urban sociology, and urban planning as well as disciplines related to international and development studies. Editorial commentaries that introduce the central issues for each theme summarize the state of the field and outline an associated bibliography. They will be of particular value for lecturers, students, and researchers, making the Cities of the Global South Reader a key text for those interested in understanding contemporary urbanization processes.

Author : Paul L. Knox,Linda Mary McCarthy
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Géographie urbaine
ISBN : 0131424505

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Urbanization by Paul L. Knox,Linda Mary McCarthy Pdf

This book provides a coherent, comprehensive introduction to urban geography. It offers a historical and process-oriented approach with a North American focus that also provides a global context and comparative international perspective. From a global perspective, the authors examine urban trends and their outcomes in both the developed and the less developed countries in order to understand, analyze, and interpret the landscapes, economies, and communities of towns and cities around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138885363

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Global Cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1843692236

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Environment and Urbanization by International Institute for Environment & Development Pdf

Author : Catherine Lejeune,Delphine Pagès-El Karoui,Camille Schmoll,Hélène Thiollet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030673659

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Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World by Catherine Lejeune,Delphine Pagès-El Karoui,Camille Schmoll,Hélène Thiollet Pdf

This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world. Drawing on a variety of cities in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, it overcomes the Eurocentric bias that has marked debate on cosmopolitanism from its inception. The contributions highlight the crucial role of migrants as actors of urban change and targets of urban policies, thus reconciling empirical and normative approaches to cosmopolitanism. By addressing issues such as cosmopolitanism and urban geographies of power, locations and temporalities of subaltern cosmopolites, political meanings and effects of cosmopolitan practices and discourses in urban contexts, it revisits contemporary debates on superdiversity, urban stratification and local incorporation, and assess the role of migration and mobility in globalization and social change.

Author : Sean Fox,Tom Goodfellow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317807827

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Cities and Development by Sean Fox,Tom Goodfellow Pdf

For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban habitation is more or less complete. But in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, urban populations are expanding rapidly. Current UN projections indicate that virtually all population growth in the world over the next 30 years will be absorbed by towns and cities in developing countries. These simple demographic facts have profound implications for those concerned with understanding and addressing the pressing global development challenges of reducing poverty, promoting economic growth, improving human security and confronting environmental change. This revised and expanded second edition of Cities and Development explores the dynamic relationship between urbanism and development from a global perspective. The book surveys a wide range of topics, including: the historical origins of world urbanization; the role cities play in the process of economic development; the nature of urban poverty and the challenge of promoting sustainable livelihoods; the complexities of managing urban land, housing, infrastructure and urban services; and the spectres of endemic crime, conflict and violence in urban areas. This updated volume also contains two entirely new chapters: one that examines the links between urbanisation and environmental change, and a second that focuses on urban governance and politics. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, the book critically engages with debates in urban studies, geography and international development studies. Each chapter includes supplements in the form of case studies, chapter summaries, questions for discussion and suggested further readings. The book is targeted at upper-level undergraduate and graduate students interested in geography, urban studies and international development studies, as well as policy makers, urban planners and development practitioners.

Author : Agostino Petrillo,Paola Bellaviti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319619880

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Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization by Agostino Petrillo,Paola Bellaviti Pdf

This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countries of the Global South, which are giving rise to dramatic new problems of spatial and social inequality and difficult environmental challenges in relation to climate change. Readers will gain skills and knowledge that will help them to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to planning, design, and management of urban settlements and territories in contexts with a high level of social, economic, territorial, and landscape vulnerability. The coverage includes, for example, strategies to promote social inclusion, improve housing quality, ensure adequate education, protect cultural heritage, enhance risk management, and address issues in the food-energy-water nexus. Among the authors are leading experts from the Polytechnic University of Milan, where a multidisciplinary set of studies and research projects in the field have been undertaken in recent years.