Donald C. Williams Ph.D.

Global Urban Growth

A Reference Handbook

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide, especially within the previous 50 years, identifying the factors that have contributed to this phenomenon and exploring its many consequences.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary World Issues
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781598844412
• ISBN-10: 1598844415
• Artikelnr.: 34106482

Autorenporträt

Donald T. Williams, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Toccoa Falls College. A border dweller, he stays permanently camped out on the borders between theology and literature, serious scholarship and pastoral ministry, Narnia and Middle Earth. An ordained minister in the Evangelical Free Church of America, he has spent several summers training local pastors in Uganda, Kenya, and India for Church Planting International. A past president of the International Society of Christian Apologetics known as an Inklings scholar and a Christian Apologist, he is the author of twelve other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Global Urban Growth
People and Urban Places
What Purposes Do Cities Serve?
Why Do People Prefer Cities?
Challenges of Urban Growth
References
2 Urban Growth Pressures and Sprawl in the United States
Background to the Current Crisis: Land Resources and Public Policy in the
United States
Historic Evolution of Urban Land Use in the United States
The Contemporary Phenomenon of Urban Sprawl: Costs and Consequences
Making Better Use of the Land: The Debate over Controlling Urban Sprawl
Containing Sprawl through Local Zoning
Statewide Prescriptions for Sprawl
Preserving Rural Lands from Urban Sprawl
Fighting Sprawl by Reclaiming Central Cities
Improving Life in the Suburbs
Recent Trends in the Debate over Sprawl
The Smart-Growth Movement
The Property Rights Challenge
Federal Smart-Growth Initiatives
New Trends in Urban Growth
References
3 Urban Growth around the World
Urban Growth in the Developed World
Western Europe
Eastern Europe and Russia
Future Directions for Europe and Russia
Japan and East Asia
Canada
Urban Growth in the Developing World
Urbanization in Historical Perspective
Cities of the Developing World Today
Life in the Slums
Growth and Evolution of Slums
Latin America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East
South Asia
Southeast Asia
China
Future Directions in the Developing World
What Can Be Done about Slums?
Turning to the International Community
Private Sector Solutions to Slums
References
4 Chronology
5 Biographical Sketches
Geoffrey Anderson
Jockin Arputham
Jonathan Barnett
Inga Björk-Klevby
Lawrence Bloom
Somsook Boonyabancha
Peter Calthorpe
Joan Clos
Wendell Cox
John M. DeGrove
Andres Duany
Alain Durand-Lasserve
Gordon Feller
Robert H. Freilich
Parris N. Glendening
Sir Peter Hall
William H. Hudnut
Bruce Katz
C.?S. Kiang
Miloon Kothari
Gerrit-Jan Knaap
Aprodocio A. Laquian
Jaime Lerner
Patricia McCarney
Rose Seisie Molokoane
Neal Peirce
Douglas R. Porter
Eduardo Rojas
Baoxing Qiu
Samuel Staley
Anna K. Tibaijuka
Marc A. Weiss
6 Data and Documents
Data
Number and Total Population of New Cities Established Since 1990 UN-HABITAT
Global Urban Observatory (2008)
Population of Slum Areas by Developing Region UN-HABITAT Global Urban
Observatory (2008)
Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums (2005)
United States Surface Area by Land Cover/Use (2007)
Developed Land, United States (1982-2007)
Change in Amount of Developed Non-federal Land in the United States, in
Thousands of Acres over 25 Years (1982-2007)
Documents
CityPlan: Directions for Vancouver (1995)
The Munich Perspective (1996)
Statewide Planning Program-State of Oregon (1973)
Charter of the Metropolitan Government of Portland, Oregon (1993)
Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Initiatives-State of Maryland
(1997)
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements (1996)
Curitiba Experience
7 Directory of Organizations
Global Urban Growth
U.S. National Advocacy Organizations
U.S. State and Regional Urban Growth Agencies and Advocacy Organizations
8 Resources
Print
General
United States and Canada
Developed World: North America, Europe, and Asia
Developing World: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
Nonprint
Websites
Glossary
Index
About the Author