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Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa.

This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the chan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abbott, John, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are made. With a focus on Africa's fast-growing secondary towns, where 70 per cent of the urban population live, the book explains how urban infrastructure provides the key to the relationship between economic deve.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (513 pages)
ISBN:9780203138229
0203138228