The Urban Imperative
Towards Competitive Cities
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9780199457779
Publication date:
12/01/2015
Hardback
512 pages
218x147mm
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ISBN:
9780199457779
Publication date:
12/01/2015
Hardback
512 pages
Edward Glaeser, Abha Joshi Ghani
The volume emphasizes the need to rethink cities and to imagine a better urban future by providing the reader with diverse perspectives on urbanization such as the changing economic landscape, city competitiveness, entrepreneurship, inclusion, informality, sustainability, and provision of essential services.
Rights: World Rights
Edward Glaeser, Abha Joshi Ghani
Description
For most of human history, people lived on the edge of survival. In the past two centuries, we have miraculously moved towards far greater prosperity through transformations, above all, in cities. Urbanization holds the potential of transforming the developing world. While the transition from farm to city is filled with economic, social, and political promises, urbanization also poses enormous challenges—the breakdown of public services, congestion, pollution, and crime. With the right policies cities can lead transformative change—providing jobs, creating prosperity, and lifting millions out of poverty. What policies can help harness this unprecedented urbanization and address the vast inequalities of access and opportunity that cities present today? What makes cities more competitive? This book answers these and other important questions. The volume emphasizes the need to rethink cities and to imagine a better urban future by providing the reader with diverse perspectives on urbanization such as the changing economic landscape, city competitiveness, entrepreneurship, inclusion, informality, sustainability, and provision of essential services. The book would help chart a path towards competitive and people-centered cities.
Edward Glaeser, Abha Joshi Ghani
Table of contents
About the Editors and Contributors
Edward Glaeser, Abha Joshi Ghani
Description
For most of human history, people lived on the edge of survival. In the past two centuries, we have miraculously moved towards far greater prosperity through transformations, above all, in cities. Urbanization holds the potential of transforming the developing world. While the transition from farm to city is filled with economic, social, and political promises, urbanization also poses enormous challenges—the breakdown of public services, congestion, pollution, and crime. With the right policies cities can lead transformative change—providing jobs, creating prosperity, and lifting millions out of poverty. What policies can help harness this unprecedented urbanization and address the vast inequalities of access and opportunity that cities present today? What makes cities more competitive? This book answers these and other important questions. The volume emphasizes the need to rethink cities and to imagine a better urban future by providing the reader with diverse perspectives on urbanization such as the changing economic landscape, city competitiveness, entrepreneurship, inclusion, informality, sustainability, and provision of essential services. The book would help chart a path towards competitive and people-centered cities.
Table of contents
About the Editors and Contributors
Understanding India’s New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development
Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Shishir Mathur, Sandeep Agrawal
Annapurna Shaw
Handbook of Urban inequalities
Darshini Mahadevia, Sandip Sarkar
Samuel Paul, Kala Seetharam Sridhar, A. Venugopala Reddy, Pavan Srinath
State of Urban Services in India’s Cities
Kala Seetharam Sridhar, A. Venugopala Reddy
K.C. Sivaramakrishnan
Kaveri Gill
