Livable Cities?
Subtitle: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780520230255
Subjects: Development studies; Human ecology; Management of land & natural resources; Urban communities; Sociology; Earth Sciences - Geology; Social Science; Sociology - Urban; Americas (North Central South West Indies); History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Case studies; Anthropology - General; Metropolitan areas; Urbanization
First sentence: The poor cities of the developing world are often vibrant hubs of global economic and cultural activity, but they are also ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable.