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601. Environmental Problems in Third World Cities

     By Jorge E. Hardoy, Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite

     Describes and analyses the environmental problems of Third World cities, showing how they affect human health and the local ecology. The authors show how readily available practical solutions are, if the political means can be found....

     Published September 14th 1993 by Routledge
602. Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

     Edited by Robert Gooding-Williams

     Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing, complicated significance of...

     Published April 18th 1993 by Routledge
603. Planning for a Sustainable Environment

     Edited by Andrew Blowers

     This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment. The book focuses on urban development, as population and resources and often the most severe environmental problems are concentrated in cities. It looks at the nature of...

     Published November 30th 1992 by Routledge
604. Place, Policy and Politics

     Do Localities Matter?

     Edited by Michael Harloe, C.G. Pickvance, John Urry

     The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies. The key aspects of these...

     Published April 11th 1990 by Routledge
605. Squatter Citizen

     Life in the Urban Third World

     By Jorge E. Hardoy, David Satterthwaite

     'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating...

     Published June 30th 1989 by Routledge
606. Popular Culture

     The Metropolitan Experience

     By Iain Chambers

     Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

     Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space....

     Published September 3rd 1986 by Routledge
607. Learning from Other Countries: The Cross-National Dimension in Urban Policy Making

     Edited by I. Masser, Mrs Bernadette Williams, R. Williams

     Looking at the lessons we can learn from international research in urban and regional planning, this book explores the challenges in using cross-country studies. The contributors address how to approach researching planning in other countries, and how to then diffuse the planning...

     Published June 29th 1986 by Routledge