More than half the world's population will live in urban centers by the turn of the millennium and most will be exposed to degraded urban environments.
More than half the world's population will
live in urban centers by the turn of the millennium and most will
be exposed to degraded urban environments.
Local Places looks at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggests that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution. It is difficult to imagine urban centers where socioeconomic interests and the local bioregion weigh equally in the balance of political decision making, but this volume brings together clear and critical analyses and practical proposals that bring us closer to that reality.
Contributors include: Jane Jenson, Gardner Church, Franz Hartmann, Prabha Khosla, Engin F. Isin, Susan Ruddick, Edmond P. Fowler and Michael Hough.
Table of Contents:
Post-Fordist Citizenship;
An Eco-Politics for Urban Sustainability;
Sustainability in the Third World Cities;
Globalization and Urban Restructuring;
Reframing Urban Sustainability: Women's Movement Organizing and
Local State;
The Poverty Agenda;
Issues of Social Equity and Access;
The Case of Services for Abused Women;
Alternative Food Regimes for the Future;
The Politics and Ecology of a Healthy City
Roger Keil is an assistant professor of environmental studies at York University. Gerda R. Wekerle is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. She has recently co-authored, Safe Cities: Guidelines for Planning, Design & Management (1995). David V.J. Bell is Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University and a member of the Ontario Round Table on Environment and Economy.
272 pages, index
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