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Transforming distressed global communities : making inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities / edited by Fritz Wagner, Riad Mahayni and Andreas G Piller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Urban planning and environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Social aspects--Case studies.
- City planning.
- City planning--Environmental aspects--Case studies.
- Sustainable urban development--Case studies.
- Sustainable urban development.
- Urban renewal--Case studies.
- Urban renewal.
- Quality of life--Case studies.
- Quality of life.
- Sustainable living--Case studies.
- Sustainable living.
- Community life--Case studies.
- Community life.
- City planning--Environmental aspects.
- City planning--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Robert Whelan
- Berlin : Resilience and Transformation / Robert Mugerauer
- Marseille : France's Great Port City Comes Back from the Brink / H.V. Savitch, Doddy Iskandar, and Charles Kaye-Essien
- Liverpool Story : Growth, Distress, Reinvention, and Place-Based Strategy in a Northern City / David Shaw and Olivier Sykes
- Evolution of City-Wide Master Plans in the Context of Urban Shrinkage / Robin Boyle and Robert Mehregan
- Houston : A Livable City Without Zoning? / Zhu Qian and Elise M. Bright
- The Transformation of a Mid-Sized Metropolitan Area in Canada : The Case of the Québec City Region / Mario Carrier and Marius Thériault
- Rio de Janeiro : Urbanistic Challenges/Experiments for a City at a Crossroads / Pedro Novais
- In The Wake of Katrina : Case Studies in Planning for a Healthier and More Sustainable New Orleans / Robert W. Becker and Jane S. Brooks
- Distressed City : The Challenges of Planning and Managing Megacity Jakarta / Christopher Silver
- Green, Global, and Connected : Can Sydney Solve its Metropolitan Governance Problems? / Heather MacDonald
- A Transformational Path For Cape Town, South Africa / David Dewar
- Twilight In Delhi : The Failure of Slum Rehabilitation Programs in Creating a Healthier City / Manish Chalana and Susmita Rishi
- Planning the Recovery : Dubai's Search for a New Model / Adnan Husnéin and Surajit Chakravarty
- Rapid Urbanization and Healthy Cities and Healthy Villages Programs in the Eastern Mediterranean / Kaiumars Khoshchashm
- Integrated Urban-Rural Planning in China : The Case of Zhenjiang / Weiping Wu, Min Zhang, Jianjie Shi, and Jingyu Tu
- Visions of New Urban-Rural Relations and Alternative Definitions of Well-Being in Rapidly Urbanizing China : The Case of Chengdu, Sichuan / Jiawen Hu and Daniel Benjamin Abramson
- City Life in Modernizing Societies / Daniel Monti
- Best Practice Methods for Cities : State of the Art / Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, and Alexander Keating
- Conclusions and Lessons Learned / Fritz W. Wagner, Riad G. Mahayni, and Andreas G. Piller.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472410641
- 1472410645
- 9781472410658
- 1472410653
- OCLC:
- 911180086
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