Record Nr.

UNINA9910450426203321

Titolo

Cities in a globalizing world : global report on human settlements 2001 / / United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat)

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2001

ISBN

1-84977-072-7

1-280-47558-7

9786610475582

1-136-57002-0

600-00-0235-1

1-4175-8299-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Human settlements

Urbanization

Urban policy

Municipal services

Urban poor

Globalization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Cities in a Globalzing World; Copyright Page; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Boxes; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Key Issues and Messages; Prologue: Human Settlements in a Globalizing World; Part I: The Development Context: Changes and Challenges; 1. Development Contrasts in Human Settlements; Highlights; Contrasts in urbanization patterns; Contrasts in the wealth of cities; Contrasts in competitiveness; Contrasts in opportunities; Contrasts in local and global priorities

Contrasts within countries and regions Contrasts within urban areas; Uneven Development: Impacts of Information and Communication

Technologies on Human Settlements; ICTs and contemporary urbanization: a critical nexus; Challenges for urban analysis; Not the 'death of distance': why the dominant logic of ICT-based development supports urban polarization; New technologies tend to extend the reach of the economically and culturally powerful; Urban polarization and the internet; The internet and the restructuring of US cities

ICTs as supports to the restructuring of human settlements: integrating international divisions of labour ICTs, urban polarization and restructuring in developing cities; Cultural and economic biases of the international information marketplace; Bridging the urban digital divide; Human Settlements in a Polarizing World: Poverty and Inequity; Decreases in income and increases in cost of living; The urbanization of poverty; Inequality and polarization; The developing countries; The countries with economies in transition; The industrialized countries; Assessment of trends

2. Urban Impacts of Globalization Globalization, Urban Planning and Democracy; Physical Reflections of Globalization; Inequality and the quartering of urban space; Mobile citadels of wealth and business; The quarter of gentrification; Suburbanization inside and outside the city; The old working class quarter and the immigrant enclave; Abandonment and the new ghetto of exclusion; Walls between the quarters; The debasing of the urban cultural environment; The declining public orientation of the state and the distortions of land use by the market; The residualization of social housing

Countervailing Favourable Trends The democratization of decision-making; The advance of knowledge; 3. Framing Normative Policy Platforms; Antecedents and Context; Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000; Human Settlements Policy Issues in United Nations Development Agendas in the 1990's; The focus on poverty and human rights; The emphasis on empowerment and gender equality; United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) (Istanbul, 1996); Innovations; The Istanbul Declaration and Habitat Agenda; Goals and principles; Commitments; Strategies; Evaluation

The Habitat Agenda in broader context

Sommario/riassunto

'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization work for all people, instead of leaving billions behind or on the margins. Cities in a Globalizing World: Global Report on Human Settlements is a comprehensive review of conditions

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817127903321

Autore

Stiller Peter <1951->

Titolo

Special values of Dirichlet series, monodromy, and the periods of automorphic forms / / Peter Stiller

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Providence, R.I., USA : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1984]
©1984

ISBN

1-4704-0709-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 299

Disciplina

510 s

512/.7

Soggetti

Dirichlet series

Automorphic forms

Differential equations, Linear