Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change

Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change
Author: Astrid Ley
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839449421

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The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal »enabling« ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualise the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book. With forewords by Raquel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Sioufi (UN-Habitat).

The Science of Human Settlements in China

The Science of Human Settlements in China
Author: Liangyong Wu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9781622460205

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In his professional career of more than 60 years, Wu Liangyong has made significant contributions to the development of architecture and urban planning in China. This book explores the relationship between humans and environments, also with a view of the way out for human settlements in China after great changes have taken place in the past two decades. In fact, the construction of livable environment is a collective creation of all the citizens. We should trust the public and believe in their creativity. Even though cities and towns are a complicated system and the growing whole of self-organization and new matters keep emerging with time, we should believe that the public contains the great potential of creation to deal with all the new problems. Wu Liangyong is a Chinese urban planner and a former professor in urban planning, architecture and design. Together with Professor Liang Sicheng he founded the Faculty of Architecture of Tsinghua University in 1946, where he focused on urban planning, architecture and design. He taught fifty years at Tsinghua University. Wu received a number of awards. He was the first to win the Award for Scientific and Technological Progress by the State Education Commission. In 1993 he won a World Habitat Award of the United Nations for his contribution to the house-building project of Ju'er Hutong in Beijing. In 1995 he won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize and in 1996 the UIA Architectural Education Prize of the International Union of Architects. Wu was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands in 2002. He is considered the most influential architect and urban planner in China.

Annual Report on the Development of China’s Special Economic Zones (2019)

Annual Report on the Development of China’s Special Economic Zones (2019)
Author: Yitao Tao
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2022-08-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811922071

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This book provides with its readers an objective overview of the latest development of China’s special economic zones in 2019. It aims to inform researchers what achievements have been attained in one year and tells stories to general readers about how to address economic concerns through public policies. Its case studies illustrate economic achievements attained in public health, social security, and cultural industries. Its in-depth analyses of green, environmental-friendly, and resource-efficient policies can satisfy the curiosity about strategies applied by China meeting its economic challenges.

The Challenge of Slums

The Challenge of Slums
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136554750

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The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums, the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities, governments, civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.

Habitat

Habitat
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release:
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Global Report on Human Settlements

Global Report on Human Settlements
Author: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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Prepared under the UN General Assembly's mandate to analyze worldwide and regional developments, trends, and prospects in the field of human settlements, this comprehensive volume explores key policy issues in national development, financing, land, infrastructure, construction technology, and other areas.