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Cities and crisis /
"Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experienc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Cities and crisis; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: the difference a crisis makes; PART I: If cities are like dynamos, why is the economy sputtering?; 1 We are where we are, but how did we get here?; 2 Housing and cities: toward what future?; 3 Infrastructure and innovation: new limits to growth; 4 Managing space better: the problem of shrinking cities and economies; 5 Jobs to people: livability, governance, and strategic planning; PART II: Making cities safer; 6 The vulnerability and resilience of cities
- 7 Regulatory governance, risk, and the new security economiesPART III: Cities and paradigms for economic governance; 8 How the West overcomes crises, reduces risks, and copes with uncertainty; 9 Paradigms for economic governance: how cities grew bigger and better; 10 Cities and nation-states in the urban age: will inter-dependence reshape rules for the twenty-first century?; Index