| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 363 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Millennial Change -- The First Urban Century -- A Networked Urban World -- The Urban Challenge -- Forecasts of Urban Lives: 1900, 2000, 2025 ... -- The World of the Urban Poor -- Urban Needs and Urban Expectations -- Urban Essentials: Dimensions of the Sustainable City -- A sustainable urban economy: work and wealth -- A sustainable urban society: social coherence and social solidarity -- Sustainable urban shelter: decent affordable housing for all -- A sustainable urban environment: stable ecosystems -- Sustainable urban access: resource-conserving mobility -- Sustainable urban life: building the liveable city -- Sustainable urban democracy: empowering the citizenry -- Summing Up: Key Dilemmas and Opportunities -- The Central Problem: Balance and Trade-off -- The Rest of this Book: A Quick Guide -- Trends and Outcomes: The Urban World of 2025 -- Introduction: The Basic Driving Forces -- Demographic Change -- Demography and the urban explosion -- The city of hypergrowth -- Cities in demographic transition -- Mature developed cities--ageing and implosion -- The Urban Economic Base -- Cities: engines of economic growth -- Markets and the process of accumulation -- The long march through the sectors: growth and structural change -- Information, services and cities -- Competition and non-competition among cities -- Urban business cycles: boom and bust -- Urban contrasts: winners and losers -- Twin problems of a restructuring world: 'underuse' of people, 'overuse' of resources -- The informal sector -- Economic chances--economic risks |
| Summary |
"Urban Future 21 addresses the challenges of this urban explosion in the century to come. Produced for the World Commission on 21st-Century Urbanization as basic input to their report, presented at the Conference URBAN 21 held in Berlin in July 2000, it demonstrates graphically where present trends will lead the world's cities - and presents a realistic blueprint for meeting the problems that will result."--Jacket |
| Notes |
"Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-354) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Forecasting
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Sustainable development.
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sustainable development.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Cities and towns -- Forecasting
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Sustainable development
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Prognose
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Stadtentwicklung
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Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
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Duurzame ontwikkeling.
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Megapolis.
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Villes -- Prévision.
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Développement durable.
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Développement durable.
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Développement urbain.
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Prévision.
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Urbanisme.
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Ville.
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21e siècle.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pfeiffer, Ulrich, 1939- author.
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Germany. Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau- und Wohnungswesen.
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| LC no. |
00032191 |
| ISBN |
9781136369292 |
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1136369295 |
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1299866174 |
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9781299866171 |
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9781315011523 |
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1315011522 |
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