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HUMAN SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT:
THE CENTRAL ROLE OF CITIES IN
OUR ENVIRONMENT’S
FUTURE—CONSTRAINTS AND
POSSIBILITIES
Urbanists and Environmentalists
Cities and Damage
Cities as Solutions
The Power of Markets?
The Strategic Geography of
Global Economic Power:
Identifying Accountability and
Capacities for Change
Scaling
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND THE
REGIONAL CITY SYSTEM IN THE ASIA
PACIFIC
Connecting the Discourse on
Urban Sustainability to
Globalization
Urban Development in the Asia
Pacific Region
World
City Formation in the Asia
Pacific
Human Development in the
Asia Pacific
The Impacts of the Asian
Financial Crisis
Globalization and the Context
for Urban Sustainability in the
Asia Pacific
The Functional City System and
Urban Sustainability in the
Asia Pacific
The Capital Exporters:
Post-industrial Cities
The Centers of FDI inflows:
Industrial Cities
The Entrepts: Borderless Cities
The Amenity Cities
World City Formation and
Localization
Thoughts for the Way Forward
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY, BUILT
HERITAGE, AND GLOBALIZATION IN
THE CUBAN CAPITAL
Cuba in the New Millennium
Sustainable Development in
Havana
Urban Ecology
Food Production in Havana
Transportation
Sustainability and Community
Participation
Housing in the late 1990s
Community Participation
Built Heritage and Cultural
Tourism
Summary and Conclusion
A RURAL MIGRANT COMMUNITY IN
URBAN BEIJING
Background of the migrant
community and fieldwork
Fieldwork Setting: Yingfang
Demographic Characteristics of
Yingfang
Major findings from the migrant
community
Migrants Occupation Structure
Social Alienation: Limited
Interaction between Migrants and
Local Urban Residents
Interaction among Migrants:
Continuation of Migrants
Original Culture and Norms
Migrants Lack of Interests to
Accommodate to the Host Society
Access Denied: Education and
Employment
BANGKOK: ARE INDUSTRIES
GENERATING A SUSTAINABLE CITY?
Urbanization and Environmental
Degradation
Towards the Sustainable
Development of Bangkok?
Government Measures to
Incorporate the Environment into
Business Calculations
Industries' Initiatives for the
Environment
SETTLEMENTS AS
SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
STUDY OF SINGAPORE AS AN URBAN
ECO-SYSTEM
Case-Study of the Island and
City-State of Singapore
Institutionalisation of Urban
Planning and Environmental
Management
Economic Development in
Singapore
Singapores
Competitiveness
Impact of Changes in Global
Conditions
Managing Changes in the Physical
Environment of Singapore
Environmental Policy and
Environmental Management
Enforcement of Environmental
Rules and Regulations
Enforcement of Environmental
Rules and Regulations through
Enforcement Control
Rsum
SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN
A MEDIUM-SIZED CITY: THE EXAMPLE
OF FREIBURG, GERMANY
The local implementation of
sustainable human development
Urban development in Freiburg
Land use
Transport policy
Energy, water and waste
management
MEGALOPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT AND
THE TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL
JAPAN: SUSTAINABILITY
IMPLICATIONS OF EXTENDED
METROPOLITAN REGIONS IN ASIA
From Megalopolis to Extended
Metropolitan Regions
The concept of Megalopolis
Extended Metropolitan Regions
and Desakota
The Tokaido Megalopolis
The Melting of Rural and Urban
in the Tokaido Megalopolis
Fragmented Rural Land Ownership
The Political Economy of Urban
Fringe Land Development
The Spread of Haphazard,
Unserviced Sprawl
The Melting of Urban and Rural
Sustainability Issues of
Extended Metropolitan Regions
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Extended Metropolitan Region
Development
Impacts on Travel Patterns and
Modal
Split
Social and Fiscal Impacts
Lessons of the Japanese Extended
Metropolitan Regions Experience
Learning from
Japan
Policy Implications for
Sustainability in Asian EMRs
CITIES, COMPETITIVENESS AND
COHESION: EVIDENCE FROM CENTRAL
SCOTLAND
Measuring City Competitiveness
Output, productivity and
employment
Industrial specialization
New firm formation
Labour markets
Vacant and derelict land
Social cohesion
Social inequality
Housing and the residential
environment
Health
Territorial belonging and
identity
FREE TRADE AND CHANGING PATTERNS
OF CITYWARD MIGRATION: The Case
of Mexico
The great turn-around of the
1980s and 1990s
Integration, disintegration and
migration
New poles of immigration
The transformation of the
position of Mexico City in the
1980s
The 1990s: Will Mexico City
renew its position as an
immigration pole?
SUPPORTING URBAN SMALL-SCALE
MANUFACTURERS: THE CASE OF
EMERGING BLACK-OWNED ENTERPRISES
IN GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA
Gautengs Emerging Manufacturers:
A Profile
The Macro-Policy Environment
Provincial and Local
The Provincial Tier
The Local Tier
Weak Policy Frameworks
Support Needs
The Question of Markets
Concentrated Market Structures
Linkages and Inter-Enterprise
Cooperation
Linkages Between Large Firms and
the SMME Economy
Networks and Linkages Within the
SMME Economy
Government Tenders and
Procurement
THE CITY AS A SOCIOTECHNOLOGICAL
SITE: The Case of Exchanges in
Financial Centers
Technological sites as centers
of calculation
Centers of Calculation Create
Spatial Groupings for the
Management of Risk
The Case of Global Manufacturing
Corporations: mapping
homogeneous groups
The case of creating emerging
markets as homogeneous groupings
for the management of risk.
Translating uncertain societies
into managed risk.
The Case of Global Financial
Corporations and Futures
Exchanges.
Social connectivity as basic
imitative sociality: the pit
system
Tools for Controlling Time:
Future markets, future contracts
and temporal markets for the
neutralization of risk
Temporal markets and
sustainability
Markets as cultures, moral
communities, and places of
political action
Changes in technology and
knowledge and their impact on
space.
Markets created by Collective
action: the market as a public
good.
The tradition of open out-cry
trading is challenged by the
silence of e-trading and the
evolution of knowledge
Technological mediated trading:
trading by telephone and
electronics
Sociality and anonymous trading
The knowledge and technical
infrastructure for anonymous
markets.
The evolution of knowledge and
technology and their impact on
sociality and space
The market as techno-system
Performativity and knowledge:
market simplification and
desembedding
PERI-URBANIZATION: ZONES OF
RURAL-URBAN TRANSITION
Peri-Urbanization
Drivers
Global Variants
Whats at Stake?
Peri-Urbanization in East Asia:
Comparative Context
The Thai Model
The Philippine Model
Chinese Peri-Urbanization
Inter-Regional Variation
Dynamics of Chinese
Peri-Urbanization
The Case of the HangzhouNingbo
Corridor
Key Characteristics
Emerging Outcomes
Peri-Urban Governance
PLANNING THE SUSTAINABLE CITY: A
POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF URBAN
GROWTH IN ZANZIBAR
The Sustainable Cities Program
and Environmental Sustainability
Land Use and Environmental
Sustainability in Zanzibar City
Flexibility, Political Will, and
Cost-Effectiveness
POVERTY REDUCTION IN INDIA:
TOWARDS BUILDING SUCCESSFUL
SLUM-UPGRADING STRATEGIES
Poverty in India The Bigger
Picture
Definitions and Indicators of
Urban Poverty
Key Factors Affecting Urban
Poverty in India
Social Infrastructure
Vulnerability of the Urban Poor
Location of the urban poor
Poverty and basic urban services
The impact of migration on
Indias urban poverty
Rules of Anti-Poverty Program
Design in the Urban Context
Slum Improvement Programs in
India
Outcome of Slum Improvement
Programs in India
Understanding Poor Peoples
Perceptions of Poverty
Institutional Capacity and
Sustainability
Constraints in Community
Organization and Promoting
Participation
Institutional Constraints
Political Constraints
Community Constraints
Impact of Infrastructure
Lack of Impact of Community
Development Initiatives
Reflections on the Rules for
Anti-Poverty Program Design
New Approach to Urban
Anti-Poverty Program Design
URBANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL
DEGRADATION IN JORDAN
Interaction between Urbanization
and Agriculture in Drylands
Urban-Rural dynamics in Jordan:
Historical Context
Environmental Management:
Consumption and degradation at
the desert margin
Environmental Awareness and
Policy
Water Resources and Demand
Degradation, pollution and
consumption
LIVELIHOODS, URBANIZATION AND
THE RURAL-URBAN INTERFACE IN
AFRICAN GROWTH-BASED
ECONOMIES:THE CASE OF BOTSWANA
Urbanization and the rural-urban
interface in Botswana
A short note on urban policies
and economic and social
developments in Botswana
Instrumentalizing urban-rural
linkages
New patterns of social
vulnerability in the wake of
urbanization
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF KIOSKS
IN MOSHI, TANZANIA
Moshi Municipality
The Pre 1980s Kiosk Owners
Contemporary Kiosk Owners: From
Survival strategy to development
strategy
Growth of Kiosks: Some
Contributing Factors
The need for revenue by the
municipal council
Land acquisition process for
kiosk business.
Stagnated industrial growth.
A change in stock items
Advantage of Kiosk Business
Risks and problems associated
with Kiosk Business
Risk of fire
Pedestrian safety.
Crime promotion:
Unhealthy city.
Poor business Environment:
Distorted municipal beauty and
investment potentials
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY:
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON
INTEGRATING ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Sustainable development
Ecological modernization
Urban regime theory
Regulation theory
WATER AND SUSTAINABILITY IN
ASIAN MEGALOPOLISES: THE CASE OF
BEIJING
A Conceptual Framework
The Maturing Water Economy
Project Culture
The Case of Beijing: The Early
Years
The Expansion Phase (1950s and
1960s)
The End of Expansion: Signs of
Stress
The Case of Beijing: Beyond
Expansion
The Transition to a Maturing
Water Economy
Rapid Economic Growth in a
Mature Water Economy
Implications of Beijings
Experience
A CASE STUDY OF MITIGATING AIR
POLLUTION EMISSIONS AT TRAFFIC
LIGHT JUNCTIONS
Factors Contributing to Traffic
Congestion
Effects of Air Pollution
Carbon Monoxide
Oxides of Nitrogen and
Hydrocarbon
Lead Compounds
Smoke
Pollutant Emissions at Traffic
Light Junction
Study Approach
Data Collection
Proposed Improvements
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Estimation Results
Average Stopped Delay
Average Fuel Consumption and
Average Pollutant Emissions.
URBANIZATION AND DESERTIFICATION
IN EUROPEAN MEDITERRANEAN
COASTAL AREAS: A CASE STUDY IN
NORTH-WESTERN SARDINIA (ALGHERO,
ITALY)
Urbanization and land
degradation in Sardinia: a case
study of soil consumption in the
Alghero municipality
Brief description of the study
area
The methodological approach for
the assessment of soil
consumption
Changes due to urbanization in
the Alghero municipality
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF
BOMBING ON INDUSTRIAL SITES
THROUGHOUT YUGOSLAVIA DURING THE
1999 CONFLICT
Literature Review
Main Chemical Substances Emitted
as a Result of NATO Air Campaign
Depleted Uranium
Ethylene dichloride (EDC)
Petroleum hydrocarbons
Polynuclear aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAH)
Phosgene
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)
Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM)
The Pollution Recorded at
Several Industrial Hot-spots
The Use of Depleted Uranium- A
Risk for Human Health and the
Environment
URBAN SOCIAL VULNERABILITY TO
DISASTER IN GREATER LOS ANGELES
Greater Los Angeles: Background
Geographic and Economic
Background
Political and Administrative
Background
Hazard Background
Risk, Hazard, and Vulnerability:
Place, Perception, and Politics
Survey Methods
Survey Results
Municipal Perception of
Vulnerability
Municipal Sources of Information
on Vulnerable Groups
Relations to Neighborhood Groups
and NGOs
In-depth Case Studies: Two
Coastal Communities
Hazards
Vulnerability
Mitigation
Discussion
Policy Implications for Greater
Los Angeles
Los Angeles in the Global
Context
SHANGHAI: POPULATION PLANNING
AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
Population Growth and
Urbanization in Shanghai
Urbanization and Rising
Consumption
Urbanization, Resource Depletion
and Environmental Pollution
Arable Land Loss
Environmental Pollution
Move towards Urban
Sustainability in Shanghai
Indicators to Measure Shanghais
Sustainability: A Case Study
Goals and Indicators of
Sustainable Development
Proposed Urban Sustainability
Indicators for Shanghai
Identifying Priorities of
Sustainability Indicators in
Shanghai
Results and Discussion
URBAN SUSTAINABLE INDICATORSA
CASE STUDY FROM HONG KONG
Sustainable framework for
policy-makers
Social-economic baseline
Environmental Baseline
Sustainable indicators and a
decision support tool
Guiding Principles
Selection Criteria
A computer aided sustainability
evaluation tool (CASET)
Paving the way forward
Some Other Approaches: United
Nations Indicators of
Sustainable Development
Methodology
National Testing
Analysis
Selection Criteria
Final Framework
Some Other Approaches: European
Common Indicators of Sustainable
Development
Selection Criteria
Proposals and Final Profile
RURAL SUSTAINABILITY
Rural Sustainability
Rural Milieus and their
Populations in Metropolitan and
Urban Regions
Symbiotic Relationships between
Urban and Rural Milieus in
Metropolitan and Urban Regions:
An Historical Perspective
The Multi-functionality of Rural
Milieus in Metropolitan and
Urban Regions: The Crux of
Achieving Rural Sustainability
and Contributing to Urban
Sustainability
Integrating Rural and Urban
Sustainability: Local Action and
Planning within an Enabling
Macro-Environment
TRADITIONAL LAND USE FOR
SUSTAINABLE LAND USE: THE CASE
OF YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
General Situation of Yunnan
Province
Analysis over Several
Traditional Land Use (TLU) Modes
at County and Village Level (or
the Scale of Landscape)
Slash-and-burn Cultivation and
Development of Intensive and
Meticulous Farming and Mixed
Farming of the Natives Living in
the Mountains of Xishuangbanna
Slash-and-burn Cultivation
Paddy Agriculture
Development of Diversified Land
Use and Mixed Farming
Terraced Field and
Rice-cultivation Culture of Hani
People in Ailao Mountain in
South Yunnan
The Lagging Land Use Mode and
the "Change-the-World" Land Use
Mode The Xichou Spirit in the
Karst Mountainous Areas
The Changes in Land Use Patterns
in the Agricultural Region in
the High Mountains and Valley of
Nujiang River and the
Corresponding Ecological and
Economic Effect
Analysis of the TLU Modes at the
Household Level
Intensive and Meticulous
Cultivation and Diversified Land
Use Mode at Farmer Household
Level
Features of Land Use and
Operation
Household Income
Summary of Features on land use
of the household
Summary of Features and
Ecological, Economic, and Social
Effect of TLU
Building on TLU for Sustainable
Land Use and Agriculture
Value of TLU in Sustainable
Development
Basic Principles and Goals of
the Future Land Use Mode
Sustainable Land Use (SLU)
Is TLU a Sustainable Land Use
Mode?
Existing Land Use Problems
Deforestation for Expanding
Farmland and the Rapid
Conversion of Fertile Farmland
into Building Areas
Increasing Consumption of
Resources and Resource Crisis
Increasingly Severe Ecological
Degeneration of Land
Worsening Environmental
Pollution
Current Land Use Pressures
Pressure for Food Production
Pressure for Poverty Alleviation
Pressure for Resources and
Environmental Protection
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