Contents: Cities at the Forefront, Towards Healthy Cities, Cities Residents to the Rescue, Sustainable Cities, Population Growth and Urbanisation, Urbanisation and Globalisation, In Defence of the City Urban Development a Key for Survival, ...
An original and unprecedented analysis of urbanization and state formation in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era.
This book decenters the perspective on the urban, foregrounds urban struggle, and transcends rural-urban and north-south divides.
This book explores the diversity of the urban experience in the ten independent island states, focusing on strategies to secure long term sustainable development.
Selected papers presented at an international seminar organized by the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India in co-operation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
Their childhood is seized, they are abused and their labour is greatly exploited for the benefit of others. In this book an attempt has been made to present a holistic profile of the street children of a growing urban city of Eastern India.
Various land uses compete with each other, reducing forests and farmlands. This book addresses urbanisation and peri-urban land markets, with a special focus on Bangalore, one of the fastest growing cities in South Asia.
This report presents an overview of trends in urban policies in OECD countries with the objective to identify successes and failure that could inform national Chinese policy-makers in their preparation of an Urbanisation Strategy.
Explores changes in city density by comparing Melbourne, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Auckland and other new frontier cities.