Urban Future 21: A Global Agenda for Twenty-First Century Cities

ISBN-13: 9780415240758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 384 str.

Peter Geoffrey Hall; Ulrich Pfeiffer; Peter Hall

Opis

This text concerns global urban development at the start of the 21st century. The distilled result of several years' work by urban professionals, it has been specially written for the World Commission on 21st-Century Urbanism, whose report is the subject of a major conference in Berlin in summer 2000. It systematically reviews the main focus guiding urban development, develops two alternative scenarios for the first 25 years of the 21st century and outlines an action plan to meet the likely problems.

Recenzje

'The book is very informative and can inspire traditional as well as barefoot urban policy makers.' Urban Design Quarterly

'A major contribution to the literature of urban planning, bringing together as it does the challenges posed by cities across the world, rather than just one part of it. In doing so it will extend the understanding of many involved in urban development in the developed world and challenge them to see their concerns in the light of the much greater urban problems elsewhere.' - Foresight

'Brings together a number of interesting planning ideas and can serve as a stimulating vehicle for discussion among practitioners... Recommended for planning and social science collections, especially those focused on futuristics.' - Choice

'Anybody interested in the world and how it may develop will find this a fascinating read.' - Scottish Planning and Environmental Law

Spis treści

I - The Millennial Change. II - Trends and Outcomes: The Urban World of 2025. III - Two Scenarios: The Urban World of 2025. IV - Rising to the Urban Challenge: Governance and Policy. V: Good Governance in Practice: An Action Plan.

O autorze

Peter Hall is Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Ulrich Pfeiffer is an economic adviser to the German government in Bonn.