The inclusive city
Subtitle: infrastructure and public services for the urban poor in Asia
By: edited by Aprodicio A. Laquian, Vinod Tewari, Lisa M. Hanley.
Contributors: Laquian, Aprodicio A.; Tewari, V. K.; Hanley, Lisa M.
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801886447
Subjects: Urban poor -- Services for -- Asia; Municipal services -- Asia; Basic needs -- Asia; Infrastructure (Economics) -- Asia; Community development, Urban -- Asia
Description: "Getting basic services - housing, transportation, trash disposal, water, and sanitation - poses almost unimaginable challenges to the urban poor of Asia. The Inclusive City provides case studies of how governmental programs attempt to meet these challenges by directly involving the poor themselves in improving their access to urban services through collaborative efforts."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Inclusion and exclusion in Asian cities; title: Who are the poor, and how are they served in Asian cities? / Aprodicio A. Laquian; title: Improving housing and basic services for the urban poor in India / Vinod Tewari, Usha Raghupathi, and Jamal Husain Ansari; title: Community upgrading and institutional capacity building for the urban poor in Asia / Basil van Horen; title: Access and mobility for the urban poor in India / Madhav G. Badami, Geetam Tiwari, and Dinesh Mohan; title: Balancing efficiency and equity in public transit in Pakistan / Murtaza Haider and Madhav G. Badami; title: Urban transport in Chinese cities : the impact on the urban poor / Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu; title: Public transit in Hong Kong : does it help the poor? / James Jixian Wang and Crystal Chan; title: Solid waste management in Asian cities : implications for the urban poor / Virginia W. Maclaren, Nazrul Islam, and Salma A. Shafi; title: The privatization of water services : effects on the urban poor in Jakarta and metro Manila / Teti Argo and Aprodicio A. Laquian; title: The coordination of infrastructure and public services for the urban poor in Asia / Ellen Brennan-Galvin; title: Municipal and metropolitan governance : are they relevant to the urban poor? / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan.