The Routledge handbook of planning megacities in the Global South / edited by Deden Rukmana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rukmana, Deden, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Developing countries.

City planning.

Megacities--Developing countries.

Megacities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 422 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Cities are now home to 55 percent of the world's population, and that number is rising. Urban populations across the world will continue to grow, including in megacities with populations over ten million. In 2016 there were 31 megacities globally, according to the United Nations' World Cities Report, with 24 of those cities located in the Global South. That number is expected to rise to 41 by 2030, with all ten new megacities in the Global South where the processes of urbanization are intrinsically distinct from those in the Global North. The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides rigorous comparative analyses, discussing the challenges, processes, best practices, and initiatives of urbanization in Middle America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. This book is indispensable reading for students and scholars of urban planning, and its significance as a resource will only continue to grow as urbanization reshapes the global population"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The third wave of sprawl : the dynamics of peripheral growth in Buenos Aires / Nora Libertun de Duren

Dynamics of commuting patterns during the period of rapid social transition in Beijing / Yunlei Qi and Tieshan Sun

Two decades of planning for earthquake resilience in Istanbul / Ayşın Dedekorkut-Howes, Deniz Ay, Başak Demireş-Özkul

Urban planning practices in Lagos / Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Taibat O. Lawanson and Abubakar S. Usman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-303816-6

1-000-06205-8

1-000-06203-1

1-003-03816-6

9781003038160

OCLC:

1134459462