Metropolis Region Transition
Author | : Beverly Duncan |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1970-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Beverly Duncan |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1970-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Beverly Duncan |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1970-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nirmala Rao |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2008-01-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134332610 |
This is an up-to-date and topical treatment of how six major cities in Europe, North America and Asia are coping with the new demands on urban government. Population expansion, the migration of new peoples and disparities between cities and suburbs are longstanding features of the urban crisis. Today, city governments also face demands for popular participation and better public services while they struggle to position themselves in the new world economy. While each of the cities is located in its unique historical setting, the emphasis of the book is upon the common dilemmas raised by major planning problems and the search for more suitable approaches to governance and citizen involvement. A principal theme is the re-engineering of institutional structures designed to foster local responsiveness and popular participation. The discussion is set in the context of the globalizing forces that have impacted to different degrees, at different times, upon London, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, Hyderabad and Atlanta. Cities in Transition is a major and original addition to the comparative literature on urban governance.
Author | : Norton Sydney Ginsburg |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824812973 |
Asian urbanization is entering a new phase that differs significantly from the patterns of city growth experienced in other developing countries and in the developed world. According to a recent hypothesis, zones of intensive economic interaction between rural and urban activities are emerging. The zones appear to be a new form of socioeconomic organization that is neither rural nor urban, but preserves essential ingredients of each.
Author | : Chiara Cavalieri |
Publisher | : Park Publishing (WI) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9783038600626 |
Two contrasting terms are joined to conjugate the traditional idea of metropolis with horizontality; to combine the center of a vast territory--hierarchically organized, dense, vertical, and produced by polarization--with the idea of a more diffuse, isotropic urban condition, where center and periphery blur. Beyond a simplistic center versus periphery opposition, the concept of a horizontal metropolis reveals the dispersed condition as a potential asset, rather than a limit, to the construction of a sustainable and innovative urban dimension. Around 1990, Terry McGee, an urban researcher at University of British Columbia, coined the term desakota, deriving from Indonesian “desa” (village) and “kota” (city). Desakota areas typically occur in Asia, especially South East Asia. The term describes an area situated outside the periurban zone, often sprawling alongside arterial and communication roads, sometimes from one agglomeration to the next. They are characterized by high population density and intensive agricultural use, but differ from densely populated rural areas by more urban-like characteristics. The new book The Horizontal Metropolis investigates such areas alongside examples in the US, Italy, and Switzerland. The study highlights the advantages of the concept and its relevance under economical, ecological, and social aspects. The concept reflects a vision of global urbanization that does no longer allow for “outside” areas and that will test the urban ecosystem to its limits.
Author | : Peter W Newton |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2008-06-27 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0643099735 |
Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified and principal among them are resource-constraints, such as oil, water, food, skilled labour and materials, and carbon-constraints, linked to climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy, both of which will strongly shape urban development this century. Transitions identifies 21st century challenges to the resilience of Australia’s cities and regions that flow from a range of global and local influences, and offers a portfolio of solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban infrastructures, to our institutions and how they plan for the future, and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our lifestyles and consumption patterns. With contributions from 92 researchers - all leaders in their respective fields - this book offers the expertise to chart pathways for a sustainability transition.
Author | : Inter American Development Bank |
Publisher | : Inter-American Development Bank |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1597823112 |
A distinctive feature of urbanization in the last 50 years is the expansion of urban populations and built development well beyond what was earlier conceived as the city limit, resulting in metropolitan areas. This is challenging the relevance of traditional municipal boundaries, and by extension, traditional governing structures and institutions. "Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development,” encompasses the reflections of thought and practice leaders on the underlying premises for governing metropolitan space, sectoral adaptations of those premises, and dynamic applications in a wide variety of contexts. Those reflections are structured into three sections. Section 1 discusses the conceptual underpinnings of metropolitan governance, analyzing why political, technical, and administrative arrangements at this level of government are needed. Section 2 deepens the discussion by addressing specific sectoral themes of mobility, land use planning, environmental management, and economic production, as well as crosscutting topics of metropolitan governance finance, and monitoring and evaluation. Section 3 tests the concepts and their sectoral adaptations against the practice, with cases from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.
Author | : Basil Van Horen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
The papers in this volume of proceedings represent contributions to the first of three components of research conducted by the Asian Urban Research Network: the study of overall change in metropolitan regions. The papers focus on a number of extended metropolitan regions in Asia, and on how to plan, manage, and govern their growth. Themes of inquiry covered by the papers include integration into international markets and economic systems, social differentiation, resource availability, planning, transportation, urban geographic information systems, housing development, industrial development, and infrastructure requirements. Part one of the volume consists of eight papers which focus on Chinese metropolitan regions, five of which are about Shanghai. Part two consists of three papers on cities in Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Author | : Louis Boisgibault |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-02-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1786304996 |
Energy Transition in Metropolises, Rural Areas and Deserts presents detailed field studies of energy transition in Lille, Riyadh, Fayence, Bokhol, Ouarzazate and the Arabian Desert. It analyzes local actions and good practices – according to the resources and constraints involved – in the process of removing the obstacles to the transition. Solutions are sought for the right type of space for buildings, transport, industry and services, and targets are set for Europe, the Middle East and Africa as part of the Paris Climate Agreement. As a pedagogical tool, this book is aimed at not only politicians and professionals, but also any members of the public who wish to learn about changes in production and energy consumption.
Author | : Gebhard Wulfhorst |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3658144289 |
This book is focussing on the results of the mobil.LAB Doctoral Research Group “Sustainable mobility in the metropolitan region of Munich” for its first phase. It highlights the key findings of young scientists from diverse disciplines on selected issues of sustainable mobility, such as neighbourhood mobility, sustainable modes, regional governance and spatial aspects. This includes insights of methods used to assess sustainable mobility, the way how to study and how to conceptualize sustainable development in each of the contributions. Each chapter is built on case studies in cooperation with practice partners and based on empirical data in the metropolitan region of Munich. Moreover, a common understanding of sustainable mobility in metropolitan regions and future research perspectives on mobility cultures are developed. In consequence, the knowledge and experiences are shared in order to generate strategies and actions to address, promote and support sustainable mobility in metropolitan regions.