Managing Urban Futures: Sustainability and Urban Growth in Developing Countries

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Contents: Foreword: Managing the future city, Gordon McGranahan Acknowledgements Introduction, Marco Keiner, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr and Willy A. Schmid. Part I The Challenges Of Urban Development Processes: Asian urbanization and local and global environmental challenges, Hans J.A. van Ginkel and Peter J. Marcotullio Sustaining urban development in Latin America in an unpredictable world, Alan Gilbert The urban challenge in Africa, Carole Rakodi. Part II New Scales In Space And Time: The global city: strategic site, new frontier, Saskia Sassen A question of boundaries: planning and Asian urban transitions, Michael Leaf Shifting drivers of change, time-space telescoping and urban environmental transitions in Asia-Pacific region, Peter J. Marcotullio. Part III Transforming State, Space And Society: Political Reform, Promoting Citizens' Rights and Poverty Alleviation: Civil society revisited: travels in Latin America and China, John Friedmann State and urban space in Brazil: from modernist planning to democratic interventions, Teresa Caldeira and James Holston The chronic poor in Rio de Janeiro: what has changed in 30 years?, Janice E. Perlman Unsustainable trends in spatial development in China: situation analysis and exploration of alternative development paths demonstrated by case studies of Kunming (urban) and Shaxi Valley (rural), Jacques P. Feiner and Diego SalmerA^3n. Part IV Coming Together: Sustaining cosmopolis: managing multicultural cities, Leonie Sandercock. Towards gigapolis? from urban growth to evolutionable medium-sized cities, Marco Keiner Urban planning in the North: blueprint for the South?, Klaus R. Kunzmann References Index.

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