Strategies for Urban Development in Leipzig, Germany Harmonizing Planning and Equity /

• Main Author: Garcia-Zamor, Jean-Claude (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Public Administration, Governance and Globalization ; 7
• Subjects: Political science.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

The demographic pressure caused by migration offers a considerable challenge for urban centers today. It results in an uneven development of the community and focus of urban planners becomes how to provide decent, low-cost housing and transportation in order to facilitate the integration of poorer r...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Urban development in Leipzig after the reunification
• The Role of cultural promotion as an integral component of urban Development
• The globalization aspect of urban development
• Research in social equity in urban development in Europe and the United States
• Planning for a sustainable urban renaissance
• Extending the meaning of social equity in Leipzig
• Gentrification in Leipzig
• Reconciling Gentrification with Social Equity
• Summing up
• References
• About the author.