Vulnerable Cities: Realities, Innovations and Strategies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kidokoro, Tetsuo (Editor), Okata, Junichiro (Editor), Matsumura, Shuichi (Editor), Shima, Norihisa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2008.
• Series: cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration, 8
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

All cities are vulnerable. They have economically, socially, institutionally vulnerable urban space. In developing countries, vulnerable urban space can be observed typically as substandard informal settlements such as slums or areas occupied by squatters. At present, slum dwellers comprise one-thir...