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Waterfront Regeneration
Experiences in City-building
Waterfront regeneration and development represents a unique opportunity to spatially and visually alter cities worldwide. However, its multi-faceted nature entails city-building with all its complexity including the full range of organizations involved and how they interact. This book examines how...
Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World
Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series
Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘...
Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge
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Urban Development and Civil Society
The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities
The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the state, increasingly the emphasis has shifted to...
Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge