Future Cities: Dynamics and SustainabilityFred Moavenzadeh, Keisuke Hanaki, Peter Baccini, P. Baccini Springer Science & Business Media, 30. apr. 2002 - 240 sider CITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY BRANTLEY LIDDLE AND FRED MOAVENZADEH OR at least 4000 years, cities have been centers of cultural, social, technological Fand economic innovation, inventions and their application, and political power. Only in the last 200 years, the industrial era, have urban areas grown so rapidly, and their populations increased so dramatically that their impacts on the natural environ- ment are being felt beyond their immediate geographic surroundings. As the 21" cen- tury dawns, megacities-great and far-reaching concentrations of power and influ- ence-have become centers of the phenomena of globalization and information ex- change. These concentrations of people and activity are placing stress on the natural environment so great that it is beginning to have extensive regional, and even global impacts. However, asconcentrations ofpower-political, economic, andintellectual- these great urban centers share with the ancestral cities of past millennia the resources to consciously shape the future. The management of these megacities (those having populations of over eight million) in their current formative stages so taxing to natural systems, paradoxicallypresents theopportunity torestoresustainableregional and global environments. Environmental problems consequent to urban growth have two sources: pov- erty and affluence. These two conditions often coexist in dramatic contrast within the same city, particularly in developing countries. In terms of environmental impact, poverty-based problems tend to have local effects, while affluence-based problems usually have transboundary and/or global effects. |
Innhold
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
I Resource Management on a Regional Scale | 17 |
CHAPTER 2 | 45 |
0 | 60 |
CHAPTER 3 | 65 |
Case A | 84 |
Case B | 85 |
Local and Global Impacts | 87 |
CHAPTER 5 | 105 |
CHAPTER 6 | 131 |
CHAPTER 7 | 149 |
CHAPTER 8 | 173 |
CHAPTER 10 | 215 |
CHAPTER 11 | 227 |
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