Author: Claudia Hoshino
Publisher:
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Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 946

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An international journal focusing on third world development problems.

Author: Josefa S. Edralin
Publisher:
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Category : Decentralization in government
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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"With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region on the planet. Located here are some of the largest and bes-known cities, like Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Lima and Santiago. The region also boasts hundreds of smaller cities that stand out because of their dynamism and creativity. This edition of State of Latin American and Caribbean cities presents teh current situation of the region's urban world, including the demographic, economic, social, environmental, urban and institutional conditions in which cities are developing." -- p.4 of cover.

Author: José Miguel Fernández Güell
Publisher: Reverte
ISBN: 8429192271
Category : Architecture
Languages : es
Pages : 312

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Este libro persigue dos fines principales; por un lado, actualizar y ampliar un campo de conocimiento, el de la planificación estratégica, que crece paulatinamente y que atrae la atención de las nuevas generaciones de urbanistas; por otro lado, mantener vivo el debate sobre la crisis y validez de la planificación urbana contemporánea, para lo que se utiliza siempre un tono optimista sobre las posibilidades de la buena gobernabilidad para superar los desafíos del futuro. Esta nueva edición constituye una revisión profunda de la primera edición de este libro (1997). El resultado ha sido una transformación rigurosa y crítica de la estructura y los contenidos iniciales.

Author: Jonathan D. Rosen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498593011
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.

Author: Nora Clichevsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558441491
Category : Land use, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Vacant urban land--the product of land market activity, the actions of private agents, and the policies of public agents--is an important challenge for policy makers. Vacant lots on the urban fringe and in central and interstitial areas have affected growth patterns in Latin America. Contributors to this book analyze the problems and opportunities related to vacant urban land in five cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Perú; and San Salvador, El Salvador.

Author: Richard Rogers
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0786722908
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Nothing else damages the earth's environment more than our cities. As the world's population has grown, our cities have burgeoned, and their impact on the environment worsened. Meanwhile, from the isolated, gated communities within Houston and Los Angeles, to the millions of residents of Bombay living in squalor, the city has failed to serve its ideal functions as the cradle of civilization, the engine of culture, and the inspiration for community and citizenship. In Cities for a Small Planet, Sir Richard Rogers, one of the world's leading architects and the designer of the Pompidou Center in Paris, demonstrates how future cities could provide the springboard for restoring humanity's harmony with its environment. Rogers outlines the disastrous impact cities have had and will continue to have on our world, from waste-saturated Tokyo Bay, to the massive plumes of pollution caused by London's traffic, to the depleted water resources of Mexico City. He traces these problems to the underlying social and cultural values that create them -- unchecked commercial zeal, selfish individualism, and a lack of community. Bringing to bear concepts such as that of "open-minded" space -- places within cities that serve multiple functions such as markets, parks, and sidewalk cafes -- he explains how urban design can be used to give citizens a sense of shared experience. The city built with comfortable and safe public space can bring diverse groups together and breed a sense of tolerance, awareness, identity, and mutual respect. He calls for a new theoretical shift in the way cities do business and interact with the environment, arguing that many products come to market and are sold without figuring their social or environmental cost. Rogers goes on to describe the city of the future: one that is sustainable within its own environment; that can make a positive impact on its surroundings; that encourages communication among its citizens; that is compact and focused around neighborhoods; and that is beautiful, a city whose buildings and spaces spark the creative potential of its inhabitants. As our population grows larger, our planet grows smaller. Cities for a Small Planet is a passionate and eloquent blueprint for the cities we must create in response, cities that provide for the needs of both their residents and the earth on which they live.

Author: Marisa Carmona
Publisher: IOS Press
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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The opening of the economy to external markets has brought about the re assessment of the significance of large spatial agglo­merations and the accentuation of polarization at national scale. The dual movement of centralization and de-concentration proces­ses, inwards and outwards, contributes to urban sprawl beyond the limits of metropolitan areas, as has been demonstrated in Shang­hai, Jakarta, Delta Metropolis, Mexico City, Sao Paolo and Santia­go. lts consequences for urban structure and urban morphology are immense and complex, and it has fostered social fragmentati­on of space, changing location opportunities, land uses and centra­lities. The importance of transport and communication is accentua­ted, large intra and inter urban connectivity are generated together with the generation of articulated networks, corridors, nodes with impact in land values. New lifestyles, new urban environments and new form of governance emerge and need to be theoretically and empirically underpinned.

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Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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"This case study synthesis is a product of a larger collaborative undertaking of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and was contracted and funded by PHAC"--Page i.