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Author : Robert B. Potter
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173026811091
Author : Janet Momsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351939584
Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations - such as Carriacou, Barbados and St Lucia - and larger countries - including Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica - this volume brings together leading writers on environmental planning in the Caribbean to provide an interdisciplinary contemporary critical overview. They argue that context is central to the practice of environmental planning in this region. Rather than focusing on a deterministic colonial geography and history, the contributors propose that, whilst a wide range of foreign planning influences can be felt in different contexts, environmental planning emerges in specific settings, through the fluid interaction between local and global relations of power. A number of chapters explore the effects of external discourses upon the region, while others examine discourses on Western-style democracy and tourism. Other important themes covered include participatory planning, urban planning, physical development planning, pest management, sustainable development, water pollution, conservation and ecotourism.
Author : G. Thomas Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Economic development
ISBN : WISC:89037186988
Author : Robert B. Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351880695
Based on the author’s first hand field research, this book addresses the twin processes of urbanization and globalization as they affect the contemporary Caribbean region. One of the key aims of the book is to focus attention on the fact that contrary to popular perceptions, the Caribbean is highly urbanized. Indeed statistics show that the region is more highly urbanized than the world taken as a whole. In addition, the fact that the Caribbean region has always been affected by processes of globalization, in respect of its economy, polity and society, is central to the text. The chapters cover pressing topics such as urban change and the evolution of mini-metropolitan regions, the importance of the mercantile and plantopolis frameworks, tourism, post modernity and the urban nexus, economic change and the dual processes of global convergence and divergence, and the nature of the relationships existing between the state, the informal sector, housing and environmental conditions. In reality, it is shown that the development of tourism and enclave manufacturing is leading to new forms of urban concentration, and not spatial dispersal.
Author : Jesús M. González-Pérez,Clara Irazábal,Rubén C. Lois-González
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000605907
This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of urban populations, contemporary debates on urban policies, and the future of the city in this region. Scholars of diverse origins and specializations analyze Latin American and Caribbean cities showing that, despite their diversity, they share many characteristics and challenges and that there is value in systematizing this knowledge to both understand and explain them better and to promote increasing equity and sustainability. The contributions in this handbook enhance the theoretical, empirical and methodological study of urbanization processes and urban policies of Latin America and the Caribbean in a global context, making it an important reference for scholars across the world. The book is designed to meet the interdisciplinary study and consultation needs of undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, urban design, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, political science, public administration, and more.
Author : Robert Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136862038
First published in 1985, this book reconsiders the whole question of urbanisation and planning in the Third World. It argues that public involvement, which is now an accepted part of Western planning, should be used more in Third World cities. It shows that many inhabitants of Third World cities are migrants from rural areas and have very definite ideas about what the function of the city should be and what it ought to offer; and it goes on to argue that therefore a planning process which involves more public participation would better serve local needs and would do much more to solve problems than the contemporary approach.
Author : R. May Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475716160
Illustrates some of the new approaches that will form the basis for planning and development assistance during the 1990s. Articles are grouped under the following categories: new commitments to shelter and national development policies; mobilizing resources for housing, infrastructure, and finance;
Author : Duncan F. M. McGregor,David Barker,Sally Lloyd-Evans
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9766400679
This is a study of resource sustainability and Caribbean development.
Author : Eris D Schoburgh,Tracy A McFarlane,Stephanie McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1032586850
Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean critically examines the socio-geographic context of island states, prioritising the nuanced experiences of Caribbean island states and territories that are largely considered small island developing states (SIDS), against the backdrop of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Increases in urban density place enormous pressure on existing infrastructures and natural resources, exacerbating social inequalities and environmental risks. While the UN SDGs aim to mitigate these risks, the reality of implementing these goals in the context of SIDS is complex. Whereas Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean does not claim to be a comprehensive assessment of policy responses to the SDGs, this edited volume seeks to generate problem-focussed, policy-relevant, demand-driven research, thereby permitting the geographical contexts of island states to contribute to the development of proper causal theory about sustainable urbanisation. This book will be of interest to students of public policy, urban sustainability, and climate change, as well as government policy analysts, development practitioners, urban planners, and UN agencies working in SIDS.
Author : Robert Potter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136862045
First published in 1985, this book reconsiders the whole question of urbanisation and planning in the Third World. It argues that public involvement, which is now an accepted part of Western planning, should be used more in Third World cities. It shows that many inhabitants of Third World cities are migrants from rural areas and have very definite ideas about what the function of the city should be and what it ought to offer; and it goes on to argue that therefore a planning process which involves more public participation would better serve local needs and would do much more to solve problems than the contemporary approach.
Author : Pauline McHardy
Publisher : Upfront Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112861955
Pauline McHardy takes a methodical approach to her subject explaining Jamaican geography and urban development as well as the political and social factors that have influenced, and will influence, the country's planning regulations. She outlines the major acts that have shaped the evoltuion of the planning system in Jamaica since its independence from Britain, and considers their impact on both major urban and rural regions of the island. She draws on her educational background in geography and community and regional planning, as well as eighteen years experience of working with the Jamaican government in this area, to produce a book which meticulously defines the the developing role of town and regional planning in Jamaica.
Author : Robert Potter,Jonathan Pugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351774796
This title was first published in 2003. Until recently, planning and development in the Caribbean have been "top-down", "centre-out" and "expert-led". For a few years now, though, the region has bowed to the global trend and has experimented with participatory planning methods. Participatory planning is heralded by much of the development community as the most appropriate alternative strategy to the traditional approaches. In this volume, a range of experts drawn from the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States review the current achievements and future prospects for genuinely participative planning in the Caribbean region at the beginning of the 21st Century. Bringing together a wide range of case studies from both the insular Caribbean as well as mainland Central and South America, the book examines issues such as protected area planning, sustainable development councils, gender and development, inner-city redevelopment and community empowerment.
Author : Norris Mitchell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479766062
At the time of writing what is known to have been written about St. Georges, the capital of Grenada, treats mainly of its origin as a French outpost in the Caribbean about 1650, then came the wars of succession between France, England and Spain in the 17 th and 18th centuries, and much later in 1985 when Wilfred Redhead publishedA CITY ON A HILL, then George Brizans Grenada: Fortitude and Human Condition, Beverley Steeles Grenada: A HISTORY OF ITS People and Raymond Devas The History of the Island of Grenada, not forgetting the Grenada Handbook. It was also mentioned by the Georgian Society of England in the 1930s and again in the 1950s as a charming Georgian town in the Caribbean; and more recently in 2004, St. Georges-the prettiest little town in the Caribbean by George Brizan, which was a limited publication for Zublins promotional thrust for his proposed St. Georges Renaissance Project, which appears to be out of circulation. All of the above dealt mainly with its historical, political, social and cultural evolution,but in 1988, at the celebration of the 500th year of the coming of Columbus to the New World, CARIMOSthe cultural arm of the Organisation of American States (OAS), sponsored a technical report by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florida to mark the occasion, when St. Georges was described as a Monument of the wider Caribbean. A few years later in 1991 the Physical Planning Unit prepared the St. Georges Development Plan under the direction of the then Planning OfficerMr. Carlton Frederick, assisted by a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Consultant. The Dynamics of Urban St. George seeks therefore to complement the technical deficitby further looking, examining and analysing the town mainly from a Architectural and Urban Planning perspective, and is therefore a document biased towards technology, which it is hoped will complement the previous publications on its historical and cultural assets, if that is at all subjectively possible while contemplating the synthesis of holistic communities. There is some confusion, misunderstanding or just mere semantics in the argument as to whether St. Georges is a town or a city; for the purpose of this discourse however, the designation is neither here nor there, what is germaine at this juncture is, that it is a relatively small urban centre with a population of about four thousand, which is rapidly declining, but with unique physical characteristics which influence the dynamics of a small Caribbean Society, within the confines of a limited land space with outstanding and dramatic natural features.
Author : James W. Trowbridge,Ford Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015028081449
Working paper on the processes of urbanization in Jamaica - examines the geographic distribution of the population, rural migration, employment problems, living conditions in the urban area of kingston, urban planning and urban development, housing and residential construction, pollution control, problems of plan implementation, urbanresearch needs, etc. Map and references.
Author : Caribbean Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : City planning
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023703252
