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Global cities : urban environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China / Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gottlieb, Robert, 1944- author.
- Ng, Simon Ka-Wing, author.
- Series:
- Urban and industrial environments.
- Urban and industrial environments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Environmental aspects--California--Los Angeles.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects--China--Hong Kong.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects--China.
- Sustainable urban development--California--Los Angeles.
- Sustainable urban development.
- Sustainable urban development--China--Hong Kong.
- Sustainable urban development--China.
- Environmental policy--California--Los Angeles.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental policy--China--Hong Kong.
- Environmental policy--China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (471 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachussetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities - in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 1 Moving Forward Together: An Introduction
- Global City Connections
- World Cities/Global Regions
- Development and Change: Los Angeles
- Development and Change: Hong Kong
- The Connection to China
- Comparisons and Contrasts
- Regional Geographies
- The Structure of the Book
- 2 The Global Goods Movement System
- A Doll's Journey
- The Goods Movement System
- Impacts
- Strategies for Change
- 3 Breathing Air
- Selling Air
- Discovering Air Pollution
- Sources and Impacts
- 4 Water for the City
- Along the River
- Water Supply
- Water Quality
- 5 The Food Environment
- Tyson, Chicken Paws, and School Food
- Growing Food
- Food Retail
- Eating Food
- 6 Transportation in the City
- Crossing Streets
- Evolving Systems
- 7 Spaces of the City
- Occupying Spaces
- Evolving Spaces
- Privatizing Spaces
- Streets and Sidewalk Spaces
- Water Spaces
- 8 Social Movements and Policy Change
- Making Change Happen
- Change from Below
- A "Right to the City": A Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Bibliography
- Index
- Urban and Industrial Environments.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-33887-4
- 0-262-33886-6
- OCLC:
- 988028966
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