Book Description
Containing a wealth of student-friendly features this text provides an invaluable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World.
Author : the late David W. Drakakis-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134639074
Containing a wealth of student-friendly features this text provides an invaluable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World.
Author : the late David W. Drakakis-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134639066
This imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to urbanization in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn from around the world, including Bangkok, Delhi, Manila, Mexico City, Singapore and cities in Zimbabwe, this key text confronts three main questions: Is there still a Third World, does it have a common urban form, and what is the relationship between urbanization and sustainability? The text analyzes: the dimension of urban growth in the third world historical perspectives on urban growth urban population growth employment and incomes in the city basic needs and human rights environmental problems in third world cities planning and management of cities. Containing a wealth of student-friendly features including boxed case-studies, discussion questions and guides for further reading, this text provides an invaluable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World. Containing a greater depth of content and referencing, and with new chapters and subjects covered, this new second edition utilizes its larger format to make extensive use of illustrations, diagrams, global case studies, and further reading. Overall, these changes have contributed to this book's continuance as an extremely accessible student text.
Author : J. Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135686408
First published in 2006. Despite the growing significance of the Third World and the critical nature of its urbanization, there are few synthetic books covering more than one region of the Third World which can be used either by scholars seeking an overview of the process of world urbanization or by students in the growing number of courses now being offered in the field of comparative urbanism. The most distressing problem was that the field of urbanization, particularly with reference to developing countries, seemed to us to have stagnated at theoretically-sterile conceptualizations or, even worse, had deteriorated into fragmented empirical-descriptive reports, whether observing with sympathy or noting with alarm the rapidly declining condition of individual cities. This book attempts to rectify this deficiency.
Author : Robert Potter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136862048
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 : Robert Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113686203X
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 : Robert Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415596726
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 : Robert B. Potter
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780312834975
Author : David Drakakis-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415594979
First published in 1986, this reissue is concerned with the increased social problems, regional imbalances, and economic dislocation resulting from the alarming growth rate of cities in the developing world. It considers theoretical questions and contains wide-ranging case studies to support the arguments made. It relates urbanisation in the developing world to changes in the broader global economic system, as well as looking at the urbanisation process over time.
Author : Stella Lowder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9780367774080
When the book was first published in 1986 it was one of only a few to offer systematic comparative analyses of developing world cities, and those stemming from different regions, with examples from different continents in each chapter.
Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134519982
When this title was first published in 1981, growing concern for the future of cities and those who inhabited them, stimulated by trends in global urbanisation, had resulted in much emphasis being placed on a problem-solving approach to the study of the city. The chapters in this edited collection, a companion to Urban Problems and Planning in the Developed World (Routledge Revivals, 2013), consider the problems and planning activities in a number of cities across the world. Varied case-studies, including Mexico City, Bogota and Shanghai, reflect the differing economic, cultural and political regimes of the modern world and ensure the continued value of this comprehensive work.