global urbanization - 0 views
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Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of this growth and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half century. Drawing from many disciplines, the contributors tackle issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships in urban governance. Several essays address the role that cutting-edge technologies such as GIS software, remote sensing, and predictive growth models can play in tracking and forecasting urban growth. Reflecting the central importance of the Global South to twenty-first-century urbanism, the volume includes case studies and examples from China, India, Uganda, Kenya, and Brazil. While the challenges posed by large-scale urbanization are immense, the future of human development requires that we find ways to promote socially inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and resilient infrastructure. The timely and relevant scholarship assembled in Global Urbanization will be of great interest to scholars and policymakers in demography, geography, urban studies, and international development.
Surbana Corporation Pte Ltd :: Leader in Township Development & Building Consultancy - 0 views
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the Singapore Housing agency. Over the last 50 years, Surbana has sculpted the unique skyline of Singapore, creating a million homes for over 85% of the population in an integrated living environment. With the support of our majority shareholder Temasek Holdings, as well as our new shareholder CapitaLand, we have grown to be a premium international building consultant and township developer with offices in 16 cities across Asia and the Middle East. Our value proposition lies in our expertise across the whole real estate value chain, encompassing development, fund management, architecture, engineering, project and construction management, urban planning, coastal engineering, infrastructure, sustainable design technologies and city management.
United Cities and Local Governments - Official Website - 0 views
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CGLU, seat in barcelona. Llop invovlved.
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Another city network dedicated to the dissemination of strategic planning is UCLG, with more than a thousand member cities. In a recently published guidebook, UCLG (2010) offers detailed recommendations for the implementation of strategic plans, and it seeks to influence institutions such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, several UN organizations, as well as the Commission of the European Union, requesting them to "encourage strategic planning processes providing human, financial and technical resources primarily to small and medium sized cities" (p. 21).
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HABNET : Electronic Journals - 0 views
LSE Cities - 0 views
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LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, education and outreach activities in London and abroad. Its mission is to study how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focussing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment. Through research, conferences, teaching and projects, the centre aims to shape new thinking and practice on how to make cities fairer and more sustainable for the next generation of urban dwellers, who will make up some 70 per cent of the global population by 2050.
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