Livable cities?
Subtitle: urban struggles for livelihood and sustainability
By: edited by Peter Evans
Contributors: Evans, Peter B., 1944-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Metropolitan areas -- Case studies; Urbanization -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: looking for agents of urban livability in a globalized political economy / Peter Evans; title: Urban poverty and the environment: social capital and state-community synergy in Seoul and Bangkok / Mike Douglass, Orathai Ard-am, and Ik Ki Kim; title: Collective action toward a sustainable city: citizens' movements and environmental politics in Taipei / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Hwa-Jen Liu; title: Community-driven regulation: toward an improved model of environmental regulation in Vietnam / Dara O'Rourke; title: Social and spatial inequalities in Hungarian environmental politics: a historical perspective / Zsuzsa Gille; title: "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink": land use and water policy in São Paulo, Brazil / Margaret E. Keck; title: Sustainability, livelihood, and community mobilization in the Ajusco "ecological reserve" / Keith Pezzoli; title: Political strategies for more livable cities: lessons from six cases of development and political transition / Peter Evans