Alternative Urban Futures : Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World 9780742569812, 9780742523661

Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes,

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Alternative Urban Futures : Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World
9780742569812, 9780742523661

The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the develo

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Strategies for the city of tomorrow Life in the city is popular and creating liveable urban space is undoubtedly a pri

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Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expect

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Based on in-depth fieldwork in three cities, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Lusaka, this book provides a critical analysis

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Life in the city is popular and creating liveable urban space is undoubtedly a priority for planners. Yet what makes a c

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Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The

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Cities currently account for about two-thirds of the worlds annual energy consumption and about 70 percent of greenhous

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Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growi

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The UK population will reach 70 million by 2027. How will all these people get around? Is building more, wider roads rea

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Policy, Planning, and People presents original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban policy and planning.

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