Megacities : our global urban future / Frauke Kraas, Surinder Aggarwal, Martin Coy, Günter Mertins, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kraas, Frauke.

Series:

International year of planet Earth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Urbanization--Environmental aspects.

Urbanization.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Globalization--Environmental aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 225 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York ; London : Springer, [2013]

Contents:

Megacities and global change / Frauke Kraas and Günter Mertins

Megacities and climate change : early adapters, mainstream adapters, and capacities / Bernd Hansjürgens and Dirk Heinrichs

Underground cities / Eduardo F.J. de Mulder, Jacques Besner, and Brian Marker

Water quality and socio-ecological vulnerability regarding urban development in selected case studies of megacity Guangzhou, China / Rafig Azzam [and six others]

Food security in Dhaka : between global risks and local vulnerabilities / Markus Keck [and three others]

Land development strategies in megacities : guiding land use and land rights in the context of urban sprawl and informality / Babette Wehrmann

The influence of foreign direct investment on land use changes and regional planning in developing-world megacities : a Bangalore case study / Margaret Pugh O'mara and Karen C. Seto

Inner-city development in megacities between degradation and renewal : the case of São Paulo / Martin Coy and Tobias Töpfer

Agile firm organisation and upgrading in the greater Pearl River Delta / W.-H. Liu [and eleven others]

Global change, national development goals, urbanization and international migration in China : African migrants in Guangzhou and Foshan / Tabea Bork-Hüffer [and three others]

Phobopolis : violence, fear and sociopolitical fragmentation of the space in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Marcelo Lopes de Sousa

Dar es Salaam, megacity of tomorrow : informal urban expansion and the provision of technical infrastructure / Alexandra Hill [and three others]

Bus rapid transit : the answer to transport problems in megacities? : the example of TransMilenio (Bogotá, Colombia) / Jan Marco Müller

Governance in megacities : experiences, challenges and implications for international cooperation / Shipra Narang Suri and Günther Taube

Managing the metropolis : planning in New York City / Werner Gamerith

E-governance initiatives in India : case studies from Hyderabad and Bangalore / Christoph Dittrich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789048134168

9048134161

OCLC:

436030798

Publisher Number:

12641116