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Title:

Livable cities? : urban struggles for livelihood and sustainability / edited by Peter Evans.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xiii, 277 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Metropolitan Areas--Case studies.
Urbanization--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Evans, Peter B., 1944-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: looking for agents of urban livability in a globalized political economy / Peter Evans -- Urban poverty and the environment: social capital and state-community synergy in Seoul and Bangkok / Mike Douglass, Orathai Ard-am, and Ik Ki Kim -- Collective action toward a sustainable city: citizens' movements and environmental politics in Taipei / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Hwa-Jen Liu -- Community-driven regulation: toward an improved model of environmental regulation in Vietnam / Dara O'Rourke -- Social and spatial inequalities in Hungarian environmental politics: a historical perspective / Zsuzsa Gille -- "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink": land use and water policy in São Paulo, Brazil / Margaret E. Keck -- Sustainability, livelihood, and community mobilization in the Ajusco "ecological reserve" / Keith Pezzoli -- Political strategies for more livable cities: lessons from six cases of development and political transition / Peter Evans.

ISBN:

9780520230248 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520230248 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520230255 (pbk.)
0520230256 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45951703

LCCN:

2001027245

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)