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Global urban growth : a reference handbook / / Donald C. Williams
| Global urban growth : a reference handbook / / Donald C. Williams |
| Autore | Williams Donald C. <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : ABC-CLIO, , c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 307.7609172/4 |
| Collana | Contemporary world issues |
| Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns - Growth
Cities and towns - Developing countries Urbanization |
| ISBN |
979-84-00-65788-7
979-82-16-09068-7 1-280-49681-9 9786613592040 1-59884-442-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Global urban growth -- Urban growth pressures and sprawl in America -- Background to the current crisis : land resources and public policy in America historic evolution of urban land use in America -- The contemporary phenomenon of urban sprawl : costs and consequences -- Making better use of the land : the debate over controlling urban sprawl -- Containing sprawl through local zoning -- State-wide prescriptions for sprawl -- Preserving rural lands from urban sprawl -- Fighting sprawl by reclaiming central cities -- Improving life in the suburbs -- Recent trends in the debate over sprawl -- The smart growth movement -- The property rights challenge -- Federal smart growth initiatives -- New trends in urban growth -- References -- Urban growth around the world -- Urban growth in the developed world -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe and Russia -- Future directions for Europe and Russia -- Japan and East Asia -- Canada -- Urban growth in the developing world -- Urbanization in historical perspective -- Cities of the developing world today -- Life in the slums -- Growth and evolution of slums -- Latin America -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Middle East -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- China -- Future directions in the developing world -- What can be done about slums? -- Turning to the international community -- Private sector solutions to slums -- References -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789958003321 |
Williams Donald C. <1962->
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| Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : ABC-CLIO, , c2012 | ||
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Global urban growth : a reference handbook / / Donald C. Williams
| Global urban growth : a reference handbook / / Donald C. Williams |
| Autore | Williams Donald C. <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : ABC-CLIO, , c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 307.7609172/4 |
| Collana | Contemporary world issues |
| Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns - Growth
Cities and towns - Developing countries Urbanization |
| ISBN |
979-84-00-65788-7
979-82-16-09068-7 1-280-49681-9 9786613592040 1-59884-442-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Global urban growth -- Urban growth pressures and sprawl in America -- Background to the current crisis : land resources and public policy in America historic evolution of urban land use in America -- The contemporary phenomenon of urban sprawl : costs and consequences -- Making better use of the land : the debate over controlling urban sprawl -- Containing sprawl through local zoning -- State-wide prescriptions for sprawl -- Preserving rural lands from urban sprawl -- Fighting sprawl by reclaiming central cities -- Improving life in the suburbs -- Recent trends in the debate over sprawl -- The smart growth movement -- The property rights challenge -- Federal smart growth initiatives -- New trends in urban growth -- References -- Urban growth around the world -- Urban growth in the developed world -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe and Russia -- Future directions for Europe and Russia -- Japan and East Asia -- Canada -- Urban growth in the developing world -- Urbanization in historical perspective -- Cities of the developing world today -- Life in the slums -- Growth and evolution of slums -- Latin America -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Middle East -- South Asia -- Southeast Asia -- China -- Future directions in the developing world -- What can be done about slums? -- Turning to the international community -- Private sector solutions to slums -- References -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826321703321 |
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Williams Donald C. <1962->
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| Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : ABC-CLIO, , c2012 | ||
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Global urbanism : knowledge, power and the city / / edited by Michele Lancione and Colin McFarlane
| Global urbanism : knowledge, power and the city / / edited by Michele Lancione and Colin McFarlane |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 352 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns - Growth
Urbanization Sociology, Urban |
| ISBN |
0-429-53524-4
0-429-52177-4 0-429-25959-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Navigating the global-urban : Lancione and McFarlane -- Rethinking global urbanisms -- Thinking urban grammars : an interview with Ash Amin -- Decentering global urbanism : an interview with Ananya Roy -- Hinterlands of the Capitalocene / Neil Brenner and Nikos Katsikis -- Making space for queer desire in global urbanism / Gavin Brown and Dhiren Borisa -- Seeing like an Italian city : questioning global urbanism from an "in-between space" in Turin / Francesca Governa -- Theorising from where? reflections on de-centring global (Southern) Urbanism / Hyun Bang Shin -- Postsocialist cities : a comparative urbanism research agenda / Liviu Chelcea, Slavomíra Ferenčuhová and Gruia Bădescu -- Beyond the noosphere? Northern England's 'left behind' urbanism / John Flint and Ryan Powell -- Footnote urbanism : the missing East in (not so) global urbanism / Martin Müller -- Comparative urbanism and global urban studies : theorising the urban / Jennifer Robinson -- Everyday global urbanisms -- Global urbanism inside/out : thinking through Jakarta / Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard -- Tiwa's morning grace / Adeniyi-Ogunyankin and Linda Peake -- "Out there, over the hills, on the other side of the tracks": a horizon of the global urban / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Constructing the Southeast Asian ascent : global vertical urbanisms of brick and sand / William Jamieson, Katherine Brickell, Nithya Natarajan and Laurie Parsons -- Nairobi city, streets and stories : young lives stay in place while going global through digital stages / Tatiana Thieme -- Rethinking global urbanism from a 'fripe' marketplace in Tunis / Katharina Grüneisl -- Liminal spaces and resistance in Mexico City : towards an everyday global urbanism / Alicia Lindón -- Death and the city. Necrological notes from Kinshasa / Filip De Boeck -- Pathways toward a dialectical urbanism : thinking with the contingencies of crisis, care and capitalism / Suraya Scheba -- Global self-urbanism : self-organisation amidst the regulatory crisis and uneven urban citizenship / Francesco Chiodelli and Margherita Grazioli -- Governing global urbanisms -- Unlocking political potentialities / Edgar Pieterse -- Climate Changed Urbanism? / Harriet Bulkeley, Laura Tozer and Emma Lecavalier -- The global urban condition and politics of thermal metabolics : the chilling prospect of killer heat / Simon Marvin -- On the deployment of scientific knowledge for the new urbanism of the Anthropocene / Vanesa Castán Broto -- Global cities and bioeconomy of health innovation / Donald McNeill -- Hacking the urban code : notes on durational imagination in city-making / Swati Chattopadhyay -- Global Urbanism : urban governance innovation in/for a world of cities / Pauline McGuirk -- Corridor urbanism / Jonathan Silver -- Beyond-the-network urbanism : everyday infrastructures in states of Mutation / Yaffa Truelove -- Still construction and already ruin / Mariana Cavalcanti -- The migration of spaces : monumental urbanism beyond materiality / Morten Nielsen -- Land as situated spatio-histories : a dialogue with global urbanism / Wing Shing Tang and Solomon Benjamin -- Contesting global urbanism -- Women organising, advocacy and Indian cities in-between informal dwelling and informal economies : and interview with SEWA's Renana Jhabvala -- From a Neapolitan perspective, reaching out beyond prevailing cultural models : an interview with Emma Ferulano -- Urban struggles and theorising from Eastern European cities : a collective interview with Ana Vilenica, Ioana Florea, Veda Popocivi and Zsuzsi Pósfai -- Planning, community spaces and youth urban futures : from Accra, in conversation with Victoria Okoye and Yussif Larry Aminu -- A counter-dominant global urbanism? Experiments from Lebanon / Mona Harb -- Living in the city beyond housing : urbanism of the commons / Belen Desmaison. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910773604103321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2021 | ||
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Global urbanization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter
| Global urbanization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BirchEugenie Ladner
WachterSusan M |
| Collana | City in the twenty-first century |
| Soggetto topico |
Urbanization
Cities and towns - Growth Urban policy City planning |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-89693-1
0-8122-0447-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Twenty-first-century population prospect : emerging needs -- pt. 2. Urban spatial growth and development -- pt. 3. Urban governance and finance -- pt. 4. Cases in urban development. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463863203321 |
| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 | ||
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Global urbanization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter
| Global urbanization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BirchEugenie Ladner
WachterSusan M |
| Collana | City in the twenty-first century |
| Soggetto topico |
Urbanization
Cities and towns - Growth Urban policy City planning |
| Soggetto non controllato |
General
Social Science Urban Studies |
| ISBN |
1-283-89693-1
0-8122-0447-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Twenty-first-century population prospect : emerging needs -- pt. 2. Urban spatial growth and development -- pt. 3. Urban governance and finance -- pt. 4. Cases in urban development. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788580603321 |
| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Global urbanization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter
| Global urbanization [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BirchEugenie Ladner
WachterSusan M |
| Collana | City in the twenty-first century |
| Soggetto topico |
Urbanization
Cities and towns - Growth Urban policy City planning |
| Soggetto non controllato |
General
Social Science Urban Studies |
| ISBN |
1-283-89693-1
0-8122-0447-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Twenty-first-century population prospect : emerging needs -- pt. 2. Urban spatial growth and development -- pt. 3. Urban governance and finance -- pt. 4. Cases in urban development. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822369103321 |
| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 | ||
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Globalization and urbanization : the global urban ecosystem / / James H. Spencer
| Globalization and urbanization : the global urban ecosystem / / James H. Spencer |
| Autore | Spencer James H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Collana | Globalization |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization Urban policy Cities and towns Globalization |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-306-93960-7
1-4422-1476-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Photos; Introduction; Ch01. Urbanization and the Construction of the Global Urban Ecosystem; Ch02. Urban Histories: Arriving at the Global Urban Ecosystem; Ch03. Saigon's "Do-Your-Timers": Rural Transformation and the Urban Transition in Saigon; Ch04. "Do-Your-Timers" African Style: Addis Ababa, the Unlikely Capital of Africa; Ch05. The Indigenous City? Reconciling an Old-Timers' Honolulu with a Global Society; Ch06. "For-All-Timers": New York City's Empire State of Mind; Ch07. The Global Urban Ecosystem: A Globally Integrated Ecology of Everyday Life; Notes; Bibliography
indexAbout the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464537003321 |
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Spencer James H.
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| Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Globalization and urbanization : the global urban ecosystem / / James H. Spencer
| Globalization and urbanization : the global urban ecosystem / / James H. Spencer |
| Autore | Spencer James H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Collana | Globalization |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization Urban policy Cities and towns Globalization |
| ISBN |
1-306-93960-7
1-4422-1476-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Photos; Introduction; Ch01. Urbanization and the Construction of the Global Urban Ecosystem; Ch02. Urban Histories: Arriving at the Global Urban Ecosystem; Ch03. Saigon's "Do-Your-Timers": Rural Transformation and the Urban Transition in Saigon; Ch04. "Do-Your-Timers" African Style: Addis Ababa, the Unlikely Capital of Africa; Ch05. The Indigenous City? Reconciling an Old-Timers' Honolulu with a Global Society; Ch06. "For-All-Timers": New York City's Empire State of Mind; Ch07. The Global Urban Ecosystem: A Globally Integrated Ecology of Everyday Life; Notes; Bibliography
indexAbout the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786653103321 |
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Spencer James H.
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| Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Globalization and urbanization : the global urban ecosystem / / James H. Spencer
| Globalization and urbanization : the global urban ecosystem / / James H. Spencer |
| Autore | Spencer James H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Collana | Globalization |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization Urban policy Cities and towns Globalization |
| ISBN |
1-306-93960-7
1-4422-1476-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Photos; Introduction; Ch01. Urbanization and the Construction of the Global Urban Ecosystem; Ch02. Urban Histories: Arriving at the Global Urban Ecosystem; Ch03. Saigon's "Do-Your-Timers": Rural Transformation and the Urban Transition in Saigon; Ch04. "Do-Your-Timers" African Style: Addis Ababa, the Unlikely Capital of Africa; Ch05. The Indigenous City? Reconciling an Old-Timers' Honolulu with a Global Society; Ch06. "For-All-Timers": New York City's Empire State of Mind; Ch07. The Global Urban Ecosystem: A Globally Integrated Ecology of Everyday Life; Notes; Bibliography
indexAbout the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827859503321 |
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Spencer James H.
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| Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Globalization, modernity, and the city / / John Rennie Short
| Globalization, modernity, and the city / / John Rennie Short |
| Autore | Short John R. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/2091732 |
| Collana | Routledge studies in human geography |
| Soggetto topico |
Urbanization
Globalization |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-46048-3
9786613460486 1-136-67151-X 0-203-80886-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Globalization, Modernity, and the City; Copyright; Contents; List of case studies; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; PART 1 Global generalities; 1 The Third Urban Revolution; 2 The Late Modern Wave of Globalization; 3 Metropolitan modernities; PART 2 Thematic specificities; 4 Urban spectaculars: World's Fairs and Summer Olympics; 5 Flânerie and the globalizing city; 6 Traffic, accidents and the modern city; 7 Modernity and urban utopias: the early Bauhaus; 8 Big city; PART 3 City particularities; 9 Alice Springs/Mparntwe: the postcolonial creative city
10 Shanghai: the reglobalizing city11 Megalopolis: the liquid city; PART 4 Urban utopias; 12 Postscript; Bibliography; Index |
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Short John R.
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| Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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