Urbanization and development: multidisciplinary perspectives

This volume presents a significant new collection that focuses on urbanization and its implications for economic development. Written for an advanced audience with an interest in urban economics and cities, the book contains case studies from India, Brazil, Tanzania, Lebanon, and South Africa. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur: Beyond the Tipping Point: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Urbanizationand Development; Data and Definitions; 2: David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Tarun Khanna, and Patrick Salyer: Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends; 3: Hirotsugu Uchida and Andrew Nelson: Agglomeration Index: Towards A New Measure of Urban Concentration; 4: Janice E. Perlman: Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1968-2008; 5: David Satterthwaite: Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that Underpin Them; Economic Benefits of Urbanization; 6: Henry G. Overman and Anthony J. Venables: Evolving City Systems; 7: Wim Naudé: Suburbanization and Residential Desegregation in South Africa's Cities; Urbanization: Social Consequences; 8: Ben C. Arimah: The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the Prevalence ofSlums in Developing Countries; 9: Ignacio A. Navarro and Geoffrey K. Turnbull: The Legacy Effect of Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment; 10: Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton: The Gendered Nature of Asset Accumulation in UrbanContexts: Longitudinal Results from Guayaquil, Ecuador; Urban Violence; 11: Nasser Yassin: Violent Urbanization and Homogenization of Space and Place: Reconstructing the Story of Sectarian Violence in Beirut; 12: Deborah Fahy Bryceson: Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in Nation-State Formation; 13: Dennis Rodgers: Urban Violence Is (not) Necessarily a Way Of life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities; Urban Planning and Governance; 14: Somik V. Lall, Hyoung GunWang, and Uwe Deichmann: Infrastructure and City Competitiveness in India; 15: Martin Medina: Solid Wastes, Poverty and the Environment in Developing Country Cities: Challenges and Opportunities; 16: Adriana Rabinovich and Andrea Catenazzi: Building Sustainable Historic Centres: A Comparative Approach for Innovative Urban Projects; Epilogue; Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Ravi Kanbur: Themes Emerging, Questions Outstanding, and the Value of a Multidisciplinary Approach

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959014-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés