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Urban future 21 : a global agenda for twenty-first century cities / Peter Hall and Ulrich Pfeiffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Peter, 1932-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Forecasting.
- Cities and towns.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Urban future twenty-one
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 2000.
- Contents:
- Chapter I. The Millennial Change 1
- The First Urban Century 3
- A Networked Urban World 5
- The Urban Challenge 8
- Forecasts of Urban Lives: 1900, 2000, 2025... 9
- The World of the Urban Poor 13
- Urban Needs and Urban Expectations 16
- Urban Essentials: Dimensions of the Sustainable City 16
- A sustainable urban economy: work and wealth 18
- A sustainable urban society: social coherence and social solidarity 23
- Sustainable urban shelter: decent affordable housing for all 25
- A sustainable urban environment: stable ecosystems 26
- Sustainable urban access: resource-conserving mobility 28
- Sustainable urban life: building the liveable city 31
- Sustainable urban democracy: empowering the citizenry 33
- Summing Up: Key Dilemmas and Opportunities 35
- The Central Problem: Balance and Trade-off 37
- The Rest of this Book: A Quick Guide 39
- Chapter II. Trends and Outcomes: The Urban World of 2025 41
- Introduction: The Basic Driving Forces 43
- Demographic Change 45
- Demography and the urban explosion 45
- The city of hypergrowth 47
- Cities in demographic transition 48
- Mature developed cities
- ageing and implosion 49
- The Urban Economic Base 51
- Cities: engines of economic growth 51
- Markets and the process of accumulation 52
- The long march through the sectors: growth and structural change 55
- Information, services and cities 60
- Competition and non-competition among cities 62
- Urban business cycles: boom and bust 62
- Urban contrasts: winners and losers 63
- Twin problems of a restructuring world: 'underuse' of people, 'overuse' of resources 65
- The informal sector 68
- Economic chances
- economic risks 80
- Social Change and Urban Development 80
- The engines of social change 80
- Economic change and social evolution 82
- Environment 103
- Nature as resource, space and environment 103
- Challenges to the urban environment 106
- An unsustainable present 110
- Environment and urban development 111
- Urban Growth and Change 113
- Cities in competition 113
- Global winners and losers 116
- Lessons from the developed world: urbanization, deurbanization and reurbanization 116
- Contrasted outcomes in the developing world: mega-cities and informalized urbanization 124
- The smaller cities: a neglected problem 130
- Urban form and urban transport 130
- Micro-patterns of urban growth: the problem of mega-scale development 132
- Conclusion: Markets and Planning 133
- Common Problems: Different Strategies 135
- Chapter III. Two Scenarios: The Urban World of 2025 141
- The City Coping with Informal Hypergrowth 143
- The City Coping with Dynamism 148
- The Weakening Mature City, Coping with Ageing 153
- Chapter IV. Rising to the Urban Challenge: Governance and Policy 161
- Guiding Principles for Urban Governance 163
- Fundamental goals and requirements 163
- Sustainability: from concept to implementation 163
- Rules for good governance 165
- Good Governance in Practice 170
- The central concept: governance equals cooperation 170
- Governance in search of better results 171
- The Environment 201
- Meeting basic needs in the ecopolis 201
- Environmental efficiency 203
- Overcoming difficulties on the path to ecological efficiency 206
- Ecological incentive systems 208
- Environmental education and soft regulation 209
- Ecological urban management 211
- Economic Policy 213
- The relevance of local economic policy 213
- Urban economic policy for greater employment and equality 215
- Managing Social Change 227
- Fundamental social changes and types of city 227
- Managing the reduction of poverty 230
- Housing Policy 238
- Providing decent housing: an enabling strategy 238
- Types of intervention 239
- Housing finance 243
- Private rental housing
- key sector of global urban housing markets 245
- Specific tasks for hypergrowth cities 246
- Finance: enabling the transition from informality to formality 250
- Infrastructure 252
- The importance of physical infrastructure 252
- Financing infrastructure: general principles 255
- Private provision 255
- Informal provision of infrastructure and self-help solutions 258
- Transportation 261
- Main policy solutions 263
- Bundling the solutions 274
- Alternative strategies: 'radical' and 'pragmatic' 279
- The social implications of policies 284
- The benefits of change 285
- Complementary paths 286
- Shaping Urban Space 287
- Managing urban space: the ultimate scarce resource 287
- Guiding physical development 288
- Universal principles, local variants 303
- Chapter V. Good Governance in Practice: An Action Plan 311
- The Basic Principles: Strong Urban Government for Sustainable Urban Development 313
- Local government matters: local tasks, local management 313
- Adequate distribution of responsibilities, adequate and fair distribution of revenues 314
- The Environment 316
- The city of hypergrowth: health and lower pollution 318
- The city of dynamism: higher standards 319
- The mature city: recycling and renewable energies 319
- The Competitive City: Promoting a Healthy Local Economy 319
- The city of hypergrowth: outreach and efficiency 321
- The city of dynamism: balance and stability 322
- The mature city: flexibility and jobs 322
- Managing Social Change: The Problem of the Deprived Minorities 323
- The city of hypergrowth: enabling and empowerment 323
- The city of dymanism: education and overcoming informality 324
- The mature city: re-enfranchizing minorities, welcoming back the family 325
- The Liveable City 325
- Infrastructure and Housing 325
- The city of hypergrowth: using people's resources 325
- The city of dynamism: more professional investment, reducing informal linkages 326
- The mature city: ensuring efficiency and flexibility 327
- Promoting Sustainable Transport 327
- The city of hypergrowth: the superbike? 328
- The city of dynamism: busways and para-transit 329
- The mature city: preparing for the ecocar 329
- The Vibrant and Attractive City 331
- Guiding Urban Development 333
- The city of hypergrowth: what king of planning can poor cities afford? 336
- The city of dynamism: learning from the best 337
- The mature city: coping with affluence 338.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-354) and index.
- "Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing."
- ISBN:
- 0415240751
- OCLC:
- 43951933
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