The Social Sustainability of Cities : : Diversity and the Management of Change /

The Social Sustainability of Cities : : Diversity and the Management of Change / / ed. by Mario Polese, Richard Stren.

Cities are a locus of human diversity, where people with varying degrees of wealth and status share an association within a particular urban boundary. Despite the common geography, sharp social divisions characterize many cities. High levels of urban violence bear witness to the difficult challenge...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Abbott, John,
Bailly, Antoine S.,
Bourne, L.S.,
Dieleman, Frans M.,
Frisken, Frances,
Gad, Gunter,
Germain, Annick,
Kloosterman, Robert C.,
Lamba, Davinder,
Lee-Smith, Diana,
Levine, Marc V.,
Lungo, Mario,
Murdie, Robert A.,
Polèse, Mario,
Silva, Ana Amélia da,
Simon, Jonathan,
Stren, Richard,
Séguin, Anne-Marie,
HerausgeberIn:
Polese, Mario,
Stren, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2000
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Understanding the New Sociocultural Dynamics of Cities: Comparative Urban Policy in a Global Context
  • 2 The Social Sustainability of Montreal: A Local or a State Matter?
  • 3 Governance and Social Sustainability: The Toronto Experience
  • 4 Miami: Governing the City through Crime
  • 5 'A Third-World City in the First World': Social Exclusion, Racial Inequality, and Sustainable Development in Baltimore
  • 6 Geneva: Does Wealth Ensure Social Sustainability?
  • 7 Room to Manoeuvre: Governance, the Post-industrial Economy, and Housing Provision in Rotterdam
  • 8 São Paulo and the Challenges for Social Sustainability: The Case of an Urban Housing Policy
  • 9 Downtown San Salvador: Housing, Public Spaces, and Economic Transformation
  • 10 Social Transformation in a Postcolonial City: The Case of Nairobi
  • 11 Cape Town: Seeking Social Sustainability in a Fast-Growing City
  • 12 Learning from Each Other: Policy Choices and the Social Sustainability of Cities

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