toward efficient, inclusive, and sustainable urbanization
In the last 30 years, China's record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labour, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanisation, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, ......
The unprecedented progress of East Asia Pacific is a triumph of working people. Countries that were low-income a generation ago successfully integrated into the global value chain, exploiting their labour-cost advantage. In 1990, the region held about one-third of the world's labour force. Leveraging this comparative advantage, the share of global ......
Urbanisation occurs in tandem with development. Countries in Southeast Asia need to build - individually and collectively - the capacity of their cities and towns to promote economic growth and development, to make urban development more sustainable, to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to ensure that all groups in society share in the ......
This Major Work in Urban Studies focuses on the urban and the social. In four volumes it examines: i) the social meaning of cities and how they are imagined; ii) social stratification and inequalities; iii) life and culture of cities; and iv) social engineering and the idea of the good city
The city is the principal site through which globalisation occurs. This is reflected in the various social, economic, and political changes that have not only added emphasis to dynamics of cities, but have also multiplied the contradictions and tensions underlying urban development. These eight volumes - available as one set or as two four volume sets (Set One -- Urban Studies -- Economy / Set Two Urban Studies Society) -- are edited by Ronan Paddison, Editor of Urban Studies, the key journal in the discipline. Each volume is in turn edited by an acknowledged specialist. Together the eight volumes will provide researchers with answers to the following questions: " How do we theorize the city " Why do cities exist? " How do we begin to understand the processes underlying the structure and dynamism of cities? " How can state intervention influence such processes positively? " How are cities governed? " How should we cope intellectually with the uniqueness and variability of cities?
Jamaica, the Caribbean and the World Sugar Industry
What is life like on a sugar plantation at the end of the twentieth century? What will happen if the sugar industry collapses? How do the poverty-stricken cane cutters of rural Jamaica fit into the global economy? And how does sugar make its way from the canefield to our kitchens? The Carribean's history is inseparable from sugar. In Jamaica ......
