Preparing for the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 094387579X ISBN 13 : 9780943875798

Editeur : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1996

Synopsis

More and more of the world's people live in urban areas, which share the same problems: unemployment, corroding infrastructure, deteriorating environment, a collapsing social compact, and weakening institutions. To ask why this is happening and what can be done, twenty-two leading social scientists and experienced public officials have pooled their experience and their research in preparation for the June 1996 United Nations conference on human settlement in Istanbul. Their collaborative effort is published in Preparing for the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces. The contributors find commonalities in the globalized economy in which all cities compete and in the mixes of squalor and splendor found in urban environments east and west, north and south. But common, too, in these accounts, are local, rather than national, solutions to urban challenges, which local community groups often view in purely local terms. Contributors are Nezar Al Sayyad, Ilona Blue, Jordi Borja,Robert Bruegmann, Galia Burgel, Guy Burgel, Michael A. Cohen, Maria Elena Ducci, Allison Garland, Mohamed Halfani, Trudy Harpham, Lisa Peattie, Julie Roqu, Blair A. Ruble, Hank Savitch, K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, Martha Schteingart, Richard Stren, Joseph S. Tulchin, Edmundo Werna, Michael White, and Weiping Wu.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Blair A. Ruble is director of the Kennan Institute and co-chair of the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author, most recently, of Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka.

Joseph S. Tulchin is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he directed the Latin American Program from 1989 to 2006.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 094387579X
• ISBN 13: 9780943875798
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Cohen Michael A., Ruble Blair A., Tulchin Joseph S.
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