Planning in Cities: Sustainability and Growth in the Developing World

by Roger Zetter (Editor), Rodney White (Editor)

Overview

Planning in Cities is an innovative collection which bridges theory and practice to explore the conflicting challenges of the increasingly rapid scale and speed of city growth with providing effective urban planning policies and management strategies. Part One explores the changing paradigms of development and environmentalism and how these have impacted on the process of urbanization and the emerging debates on the sustainability of cities. These chapters review and elaborate the discourse on sustainability, setting it firmly within the context of urbanization and development. The increasing disjuncture between these concepts and the challenge this presents to the planning of cities in the developing world is highlighted. Part Two shifts from discourse to practice. Case studies drawn from different countries and different urban policy sectors investigate the design and implementation of planning policies and ways of improving urban governance to support sustainable urban growth. They assess the challenges and limitations to capacity-building in the urban sector. Lessons learned from different practical approaches are demonstrated and critiqued. Published in the Urban Management Series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853395437
Publisher:	Practical Action Publishing
Publication date:	03/28/2003
Series:	Urban Management Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Roger Zetter is Deputy Head, Department of Planning, School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University.

Rodney White is Professor of Geography and Director of Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. He has extensive consultancy and research experience in urban sector development, increasingly focused on environmental policy priorities.

Table of Contents

Preface — Michael Mutter, Senior Urban Planner DfID; Editorial Introduction — Roger Zetter and Rodney White; Part 1 Issues and Discourses: Development, Urbanisation and Sustainability: Sustainable Development: Between Environment and Development Agendas — Al-Moataz Hassan and Roger Zetter; Market Enablement or Sustainable Development? The Conflicting Paradigms of Urbanisation — Roger Zetter; Environmental Health or Ecological Sustainability? Reconciling the Brown and Green Agendas in Urban Development — Gordon McGranahan and David Satterthwaite; African Cities & Climate Change: The Global Context for Sustainable Development — Rodney White

Part 2 Planning for Sustainability Growth: Urban Planning and the Rationale of the Market. The Elimination of the Intermediate Urban Level in Bogotá — Andres Ortiz-Gomez; Public Sector Capacity Building and Urban Policy Changes in the Kingdom of Lesotho: Implications for International Development Assistance — Cormac Davey; Property Taxation, Public Finance and Sustainable Development: The Case of Belém, Brazil — José Júlio Lima; Urban Livelihoods, Shocks and Stresses — David Sanderson; International Agency Shelter Policy of the 1990s: Experiences from Mozambique and Costa Rica — Harry Smith and Paul Jenkins; Authoritarianism and Sustainability in Cairo: What Failed Urban Development Projects Tell Us About Egyptian Politics — Bill Dorman; The Sustainability of Community Development in El Mezquital, Guatemala City — Emma Grant; From Apartheid City to Sustainable City: Compact City Approach as a Regulative Ideal — Koyi Mchunu; Structural Adjustment and Water Supply in Bolivia: Managing Diversity, Reproducing Inequality — Carlos Crespo-Flores; Linking — Kevin Tayler