Screen LibrarySustainable urban development and globalization : new strategies for new challenges - with a focus on the global South /
This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomics, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countrie...
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Springer International Publishing AG,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Research for development,
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| Summary: |
This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomics, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countries of the global South, which are giving rise to dramatic new problems of spatial and social inequality and difficult environmental challenges in relation to climate change. Readers will gain skills and knowledge that will help them to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to planning, design, and management of urban settlements and territories in contexts with a high level of social, economic, territorial, and landscape vulnerability. The coverage includes, for example, strategies to promote social inclusion, improve housing quality, ensure adequate education, protect cultural heritage, enhance risk management, and address issues in the food-energy-water nexus. Among the authors are leading experts from the Polytechnic University of Milan, where a multidisciplinary set of studies and research projects in the field have been undertaken in recent years. |
| Item Description: | Compilation of 34 contributions. |
| Carrier Form: | xxx, 484 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9783319619873 331961987X |
| Index Number: | HC79 |
| CLC: | F291.1 |
| Call Number: | F291.1/S964 |
| Contents: | Part I. Urban growth and rising socio-spatial inequality: research pathways and approaches to urban planning and governance -- Part II. Design strategies and building techniques for development in marginal and rural areas -- Part III. Protection and enhancement of cultural heritage amid conservation and development -- Part IV. Integrated strategies to reduce the territorial risks -- Part V. Managing the agro-urban system and the food-energy-water nexus -- Part VI. International workshop "Transforming Johannesburg: " A multi-disciplinary action research on collaborative approaches to socio-ecological urban development in informal areas. |