The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking. Since three-quarters of those joining the world’s population during the next century will live in Third World cities, making these urban areas more livable is one of the key challenges of the twenty-first cen...
Daftar Isi
List of Tables and Illustrations
Preface
Manuel Castells
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Looking for Agents of Urban Livability in a Globalized Political Economy
Peter E...
Tentang Penulis
Peter Evans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (1995), and ...