Orangi Pilot Project

Orangi Pilot Project
Author: Akhter Hameed Khan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This paperback edition of Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan's reflections on the Orangi Pilot Project contains three new chapters that study the phenomenon of replication of the Orangi experiment in other squatter settlements of Karachi.

Activist Planning Case Studies 1990-2020

Activist Planning Case Studies 1990-2020
Author: Tore Sager
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2023-05-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527509923

Activist planning shows how communities, neighbourhoods and social movements use their own alternative spatial planning to oppose interventions from the government. This book is a systematic overview of scholarly reported activist planning cases. It includes descriptions of the various kinds of activist planning and contains a comprehensive bibliography of academic publications related to the 164 cases. The book informs the planning community what activist planning is in practice, and offers a classification scheme where all reported cases fit in. This text is needed because no comprehensive collection of activist planning cases exists, nor does a classification comprising all types of activist planning. There is, to date, no database of cases and associated literature providing researchers and students with an authoritative source. The search for cases in the English language has been global, and the cases and 122 supplementary examples are sorted by country and world region ‒ Australasia, Europe, the Global South and North America.

Development Studies

Development Studies
Author: Robin N. Ghosh
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Community development
ISBN: 9788126910076

With reference to India.

Sustainability the Environment and Urbanisation

Sustainability the Environment and Urbanisation
Author: Cedric Pugh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134174462

The 1992 Rio Summit and subsequent literature and debate has focused on 'green' issues such as biodiversity, climate change and marine pollution. Much less has been written concerning the 'brown' agenda: factors such as poor sanitation and water quality, air pollution and housing problems which are particularly prevalent in Third World cities. Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanisation provides a comprehensive overview of the brown agenda, with case studies and examples from a number of Southern countries. It looks at the broad economic context behind the problems and covers the conceptual issues of sustainability, infrastructure and health programmes, as well as assessing environmental appraisal methods. Clearly written, with contributions from some of the leading experts in the field, the book will appeal to students on environmental and developmental courses, researchers, and all those concerned with the 'healthy cities' movement.

Evidence for Hope

Evidence for Hope
Author: Nigel Cross
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136566171

Since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and the Rio Summit in 1992, there has been unprecedented public concern for the future of the planet and a growing awareness that development needs to be sustainable. This text charts the growth of these ideas by beginning with a visionary piece written by Barbara Ward in the 1970s, and ends with a chapter looking ahead another 30 years into the future. Two generations of thinkers and activists have helped to shape environment and development policy and increase local level power in environmental management. In celebration of their 30th anniversary, the IIED's most influential writers provide in this volume a perspective on three decades of development and green debates.