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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The failure of western intervention in Africa; Chapter 2 The evolution of urban development; Chapter 3 How modern urban infrastructure evolved; Chapter 4 Transferring the British infrastructure model to Africa; Chapter 5 Decentralisation and urban infrastructure; Chapter 6 Urbanisation in Ethiopia; Chapter 7 From engineering to infrastructure: changing the urban paradigm; Chapter 8 Rethinking urban development in Africa.
- Chapter 9 A model for green infrastructureChapter 10 Green urban infrastructure in practice: mediating urban resource flows; Chapter 11 Green infrastructure and urban governance; Chapter 12 Building African cities for a sustainable future; Notes; References; Index.