Urban Future 21: A Global Agenda for Twenty-first Century Cities
ISBN: 0415240751
ISBN13: 9780415240758
Urban Future 21: A Global Agenda for Twenty-first Century Cities
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Urban Future 21 is the key book on global urban development at the start of the twenty-first century. The distilled result of several years' work by urban professionals, it has been specially written for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanism, whose report was the subject of a major conference in Berlin in summer 2000. It systematically
reviews the main focus guiding urban development, develops two alternative scenarios for the first 25 years of the twenty-first century and outlines an action plan to meet the likely problems.
Contents:
Chapter I - The Millennial Change
The First Urban Century
A Networked Urban World
The Urban Challenge
Forecasts of Urban Lives:1900, 2000, 2025.
The World of the Urban Poor
Urban Needs and Urban Expectations
Urban Essentials:Dimensions of the Sustainable City
Summing Up: Key Dilemmas and Opportunities
The Central Problem:Balance and Trade-off
The Rest of this Book:A Quick Guide
Chapter II - Trends and Outcomes:The Urban World of 2025
Introduction:The Basic Driving Forces
Demographic Change
The Urban Economic Base
Social Change and Urban Development
Environment
Urban Growth and Change
Conclusion:Markets and Planning
Common Problems:Different Strategies
Chapter III - Two Scenarios:The Urban World of 2025 The City Coping with Informal Hypergrowth
The City Coping with Dynamism
The Weakening Mature City, Coping with Ageing
Chapter IV - Rising to the Urban Challenge:Governance and Policy
Guiding Principles for Urban Governance
Good Governance in Practice
The Environment
Economic Policy
Managing Social Change
Housing Policy
Infrastructure
Transportation
Shaping Urban Space
Chapter V - Good Governance in Practice:An Action Plan
The Basic Principles:Strong Urban Government for Sustainable Urban Development
The Environment
The Competitive City:Promoting a Healthy Local Economy
Managing Social Change:The Problem of the Deprived Minorities
The Liveable City
Infrastructure and Housing
Promoting Sustainable Transport
The Vibrant and Attractive City
Guiding Urban Development.
Brief Description:
This is the key book on global urban development at the start of the twenty-first century. It systematically reviews the main scenarios for the first 25 years of the twenty-first century and outlines an action plan to meet likely problems.
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