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oapen-20.500.12657-240622024-03-22T19:23:14Z Untamed Urbanisms Allen, Adriana Lampis, Andrea Swilling, Mark RSA Urban Development Cities in Developing Countries South African Cities Indian Cities Sustainability Sustainable Development Regional Development Regional Science Regional Studies Sally Hardy Spatial Economics The City Urban Studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJM Management and management techniques::KJMV Management of specific areas::KJMV6 Research and development management An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change. For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-oriented innovations that address equity and ecological challenges. This book is rooted in the latter category, but recognises that if cities continue to evolve along current trajectories they will be where the large bulk of the most unsustainable and inequitable human activities are concentrated. By drawing on a range of case studies from both the global South and global North, this book is unique in its aim to develop an integrated social-ecological perspective on the challenge of sustainable urban development. Through the interdisciplinary and original research of a new generation of urban researchers across the global South and North, this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development. . 2019-11-21 16:18:44 2020-04-01T09:39:30Z 2020-04-01T09:39:30Z 2016 book 1006070 OCN: 1135845003 9781138815421;9781317599104;9781317599098;9781317599081 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24062 eng Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1006070.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781135992347 Taylor & Francis 10.4324/9781315746692 10.4324/9781315746692 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781138815421;9781317599104;9781317599098;9781317599081 open access
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An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change. For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-oriented innovations that address equity and ecological challenges. This book is rooted in the latter category, but recognises that if cities continue to evolve along current trajectories they will be where the large bulk of the most unsustainable and inequitable human activities are concentrated. By drawing on a range of case studies from both the global South and global North, this book is unique in its aim to develop an integrated social-ecological perspective on the challenge of sustainable urban development. Through the interdisciplinary and original research of a new generation of urban researchers across the global South and North, this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development. .
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