Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Age Of Cities And Organizations Of The Urban Poor full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Age Of Cities And Organizations Of The Urban Poor ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Ted Baumann
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843690187
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Age of Cities and Organizations of the Urban Poor written by Ted Baumann and published by IIED. This book was released on 2002 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Beauregard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653538X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Cities in the Urban Age written by Robert A. Beauregard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic—it is too celebratory by half. For Beauregard, the city is a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions; indeed, he doesn’t necessarily hold that they need to be resolved, since they are generative of city life. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Age of Cities and Organizations of the Urban Poor: the Work of the South African Homeless People's Federation and the People's Dialogue on Land and Shelter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Lemanski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137367431
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The City in Urban Poverty written by C. Lemanski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty.
Author : Bernard H. Ross
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765627752
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Urban Politics written by Bernard H. Ross and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular text mixes the best classic theory and research on urban politics with the most recent developments in urban and metropolitan affairs. Its very balanced and realistic approach helps students to understand the nature of urban politics and the difficulty of finding effective solutions in a suburban and global age. The eighth edition provides a comprehensive review and analysis of urban policy under the Obama administration and brand new coverage of sustainable urban development. A new chapter on globalization and its impact on cities brings the history of urban development up to date, and a focus on the politics of local economic development underscores how questions of economic development have come to dominate the local arena. The book traces the changing style of community participation, including the emergence of CDCs, BIDs, and other new-style service organizations. It analyzes the impacts of the New Regionalism, the New Urbanism, and much more at an approachable level. The eighth edition is significantly shorter and more affordable than previous editions, and the entire text has been thoroughly rewritten to engage students. Boxed case studies of prominent recent and current urban development efforts provide material for class discussion, and concluding material demonstrates the tradeoff between more ideal and more pragmatic urban politics. Source material provides Internet addresses for further research.
Author : UN Millennium Project
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1844072304
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book A Home in the City written by UN Millennium Project and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Carole Rakodi
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849773807
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Urban Livelihoods written by Carole Rakodi and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most promising approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for the poor. This takes account of their opportunities and assets and the sources of their vulnerability. Based on recent and extensive research, this volume thoroughly assesses the value of the livelihoods approach to urban poverty. The book reviews the situation and strategies of the urban poor and identifies the policies and practical programmes that work best. Lasting improvements depend not just on economic development, but on political commitment and structures that are responsive to the claims and needs of different groups of poor people.
Author : William Julius Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307794695
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book When Work Disappears written by William Julius Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work. "Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems...[This book is] more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before." --The New Yorker
Author : David Satterthwaite
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843696703
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Transition to a Predominantly Urban World and its Underpinnings written by David Satterthwaite and published by IIED. This book was released on 2007 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brodwyn Fischer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822377497
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Cities From Scratch written by Brodwyn Fischer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drug and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposés, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity. Contributors. Javier Auyero, Mariana Cavalcanti, Ratão Diniz, Emilio Duhau, Sujatha Fernandes, Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Edward Murphy, Dennis Rodgers
Author : United Nations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789211328721
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (287 download)
Download or read book World Cities Report 2020 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rapidly urbanizing and globalized world, cities have been the epicentres of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The virus has spread to virtually all parts of the world; first, among globally connected cities, then through community transmission and from the city to the countryside. This report shows that the intrinsic value of sustainable urbanization can and should be harnessed for the wellbeing of all. It provides evidence and policy analysis of the value of urbanization from an economic, social and environmental perspective. It also explores the role of innovation and technology, local governments, targeted investments and the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda in fostering the value of sustainable urbanization.
Author : David W. Tees
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9211311713
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Manual for Collaborative Organizational Assessment in Human Settlements Organizations written by David W. Tees and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 1844072118
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Financing Urban Shelter written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies and the Millennium Development Goals target on slums - "a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020". The report describes and analyses housing finance conditions and trends in all regions of the world, including formal housing finance mechanisms, microfinance and community funding, highlighting their relevance to the upgrading of slums. Recent shelter finance policy development is discussed at the international and national levels, and directions that could be taken to strengthen shelter finance systems ere examined.
Author : Asian Coalition for Housing Rights
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697157
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Community finance: the news from Africa and Asia written by Asian Coalition for Housing Rights and published by IIED. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rémi Genevey
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
ISBN 13 : 8179935302
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Reducing Inequalities written by Rémi Genevey and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reduction of inequalities within and between countries stands as a policy goal, and deserves to take centre stage in the design of the Sustainable Development Goals agreed during the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.The 2013 edition of A Planet for Life represents a unique international initiative grounded on conceptual and strategic thinking, and – most importantly – empirical experiments, conducted on five continents and touching on multiple realities. This unprecedented collection of works proposes a solid empirical approach, rather than an ideological one, to inform future debate.The case studies collected in this volume demonstrate the complexity of the new systems required to accommodate each country's specific economic, political and cultural realities. These systems combine technical, financial, legal, fiscal and organizational elements with a great deal of applied expertise, and are articulated within a clear, well-understood, growth- and job-generating development strategy.Inequality reduction does not occur by decree; neither does it automatically arise through economic growth, nor through policies that equalize incomes downward via ill conceived fiscal policies. Inequality reduction involves a collaborative effort that must motivate all concerned parties, one that constitutes a genuine political and social innovation, and one that often runs counter to prevailing political and economic forces.
Author : Pietro Garau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1844072304
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book A Home in the City written by Pietro Garau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : UN Millennium Project
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136550763
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book UN Millennium Development Library: A Home in The City written by UN Millennium Project and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 900 million people currently live in urban slums and the number is growing as rapid urbanization continues in the developing world. A Home in the City urges countries to strengthen their focus on the growing urban crisis and improving the lives of slum dwellers. Proposed are specific investments and policy changes required at local and national levels to create a vibrant, equitable and productive urban environment. It underscores the need for close strategic partnerships between local authorities and organizations of the urban poor for slum upgrading and improved urban management. From adopting citywide strategies and establishing adequate and affordable infrastructure and services, to building effective public transport and constructing low-income housing, it offers valuable methods to prevent future slum formation and to improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.
