Tomorrow's crises today : the humanitarian impact of urbanisation /

Explores the effect of living in today's cities has on the millions of people who already live in metropolises, and those who are daily being drawn into them from the countryside, by the millions. Using 10 cities from around the world as illustrations of different crises that face today's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Integrated Regional Information Networks, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Australian Agency for International Development
Otros Autores: Horwood, Chris, Phillips, Tom
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Nairobi, Kenya] : OCHA/IRIN : UN-HABITAT : AusAID, ©2007.
Temas:
Urbanization > Social aspects.
Slums > Developing countries.
Urban poor > Developing countries.
Urban policy > Developing countries.
Humanitarian assistance > Developing countries.
Humanitarian assistance.
Aide humanitaire.
Urbanisation > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Humanitarian assistance
Slums
Urban policy
Urban poor
Urbanization > Social aspects
Verstädterung
Urbanität
Developing countries
Afrika
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview : tomorrow's crises today
  • Delhi : drinking the city dry
  • Lagos : crisis of management
  • Dhaka : reaping the whirlwind
  • Addis : putting food on the table
  • Rio : fighting for the favelas
  • Jakarta : battling to breathe
  • Cairo : sheltering the urban poor
  • El Alto : labouring to survive
  • Luanda : living in the Hot Zone
  • Ulaanbaatar : painful transitions.

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