Author: Anthony Downs (sociologue))Publisher:
ISBN: 9780528670275
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Urban Problems and Prospects
Author: Anthony Downs (sociologue))Publisher:
ISBN: 9780528670275
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Urban Problems and Prospects
Author: Anthony DownsPublisher: Chicago : Rand McNally College Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780528670398
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Urban Policy Reconsidered
Author: Charles C. EuchnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136744525
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Boston are no longer seen as ungovernable and doomed to crime and blight. However, they still face formidable problems. Urban Policy Reconsidered is a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing our cities today and cover every important issue in urban affairs. What is poverty? What is economic development? What is education? What is crime? As well as covering all of these fundamental topics in-depth, the author propose a communitarian approach to addressing the many problems of our cities. This book will be the manual for anyone interested in understanding urban policy.
World Urbanization Prospects 2014: Highlights
Author: United Nations PublicationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789211515176
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This report presents the highlights of the 2014 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rural populations of 233 countries or areas from 1950 to 2014 and projections to 2050, as well as estimates of population size from 1950 to 2014 and projections to 2030 for all urban agglomerations with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2014. The world urban population is at an all-time high, and the share of urban dwellers, currently at 54 per cent, is projected to represent two thirds of the global population in 2050. Continued urbanization will bring new opportunities and challenges for sustainable development.
World Urbanization Prospects
Author: United Nations PublicationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789211483192
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The report presents findings from the 2018 revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rural populations or areas from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2050, as well as estimates of population size from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2030 for all urban agglomerations with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018. The world urban population is at an all-time high, and the share of urban dwellers, is projected to represent two thirds of the global population in 2050. Continued urbanization will bring new opportunities and challenges for sustainable development.
City Planning : Problems And Prospects (pug-14)
Author: C.S. Yadav (ed.)Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170220039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF SLUMS IN SOLAPUR CITY
Author: Dr. Raut Bapu BhimaPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 138748365X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Urban Policy Reconsidered
Author: Charles C. EuchnerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415944708
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Urban Crisis
Author: Edgar W. ButlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Problems and Prospects of Urban and Regional Planning in Nigeria
Author: PhD Chukudi V. IzeoguPublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642146730
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book focuses on urban development and planning in Nigeria by analyzing the nature and determinants of urban and regional planning strategies and outcomes in Rivers State, Nigeria. The book is organized into fourteen chapters. The first chapter focuses on population growth and the development of the Nigerian urban system. The second chapter traces the roots of Nigerian urban and regional planning system. The third chapter discusses the institutional framework for planning the evolving planning institutions and the emergence of the planning profession in the country and Rivers State. Chapter four examines political and economic forces and the substantive urban planning issues and problems faced by planners in the PH metropolis. Chapter five focuses on PH urban politics, planning administration and institutions. Chapters six and seven focus on the responses of planning to environmental, housing problems, transportation, land use, local economic development, and urban services issues. It documents how urban development and planning policies pertaining to these issues affect urban population groups and how the populations have responded to the outcomes of conventional planning intervention and offers alternative policies. In chapter eight, the problems of plan implementation is examined focusing on the implementation of the Diobu Master Plan, while chapters nine, ten, and eleven present physical planning and development control within the context of local government system in Rivers State. In chapter twelve, the book presents planning for a new town, New Finima, in Rivers State, designed to resettle the Finima. Chapters thirteen and fourteen dwell on the problem of rural urban balance and regional planning in Rivers State and Nigeria in general. It focuses special attention on the problem of urban and rural disparities as the key issue facing regional planning and suggests measures for ensuring that urban planning promotes the welfare of all and enhances the opportunities for the procurement of benefits of development programs by all socioeconomic groups. The book concludes with chapter fifteen on planning imperatives to make the Port Harcourt metropolis livable.