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  title info:
    title: Making Cities Resilient
  name:
    name part: Sharma, Vishwa Raj.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Chandrakanta.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 345 p. 103 illus., 72 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: As the world has transformed, so have cities. Today, cities are home to 54 percent of the world's population, and by the middle of this century that figure will likely rise to 66 percent. According to the United Nations (UN) Habitat I (1972), Habitat II (1996) and Habitat III (2016) summits, cities are facing many serious challenges, including growing inequality, security concerns and the worsening impacts of climate change. Uncontrolled urbanization has led to many problems (haphazard growth of areas, emergence of slums, inadequate water and power supply, poor sanitation, shortage of transport and other civic amenities, shrinking green spaces, pollution, crime, and urban disaster risks such as fire, flood, road and industrial accidents, etc.). Worldwide, communities at the international, national and local level are continuously working to improve human habitats. In order to make our planet more sustainable, the UN has moved from the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Among the latter, the aim of SDG 11 is to "...make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable." In light of these challenges, various terms have emerged to help understand urban issues. Visualizing the problem, the United Nations program "Making Cities Resilient" is focused on mitigating the disaster risk in urban areas. This book analyzes terms such as: sustainable, resilient, livable, inclusive, smart and world class city, which have emerged in the process of combating urban challenges in today's world. The book addresses emerging concepts for cities, challenges and potentials, urban environments, health and planning/policies. Covering 14 large cities in India, as well as case studies from Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Poland and Sweden, it provides a regional dimension to and micro-level perspective on urban issues. .
  table of contents: Perspective of Resilient Cities: Introduction and Overview -- Smart Cities: Milestone of New Era -- The Status of Research on Smart Cities: A Review -- Prospect of Faridabad as a Smart City: A Review -- Planning for Healthy and Sustainable Urbanization: A Case Study of NCT, Delhi -- City Size and its Growth Rate: A Case Study of Kerala, India -- Level of Basic Infrastructure in the Slums: A case study of West Bengal from General to Specific -- Slum Resettlement to the Margins: Increasing Deprivation of the Poor and an Impediment to Resilience of the City.
  note: edited by Vishwa Raj Sharma, Chandrakanta.
  subject:
    topic: Urban geography
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Urban economics
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  subject:
    topic: Migration
  subject:
    topic: Urban Economics
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  classification: GF125
  classification: 307.76
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Urban Book Series
  identifier: 9783319949321
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94932-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 190208
    record change date: 20191022022951.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-94932-1