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'The planned city sweeps the poor away ... ' § : Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation
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In this paper, the authors explore the idea that urban planning has served to exclude the poor, but that it might be possible to develop new planning approaches and systems which address urban growth and the major environment and resource issues, and which are propoor.About:
This article is published in Progress in Planning.The article was published on 2009-10-01. It has received 515 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban planning & Urban density.read more
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Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (review)
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Africa's urbanisation: Implications for sustainable development
TL;DR: In this article, the implications of rapid urbanisation on sustainable development of Africa are discussed and discussed in the context of Africa's urban environment, and the potential impact of urbanization on the functionality of the urban environment is discussed.
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Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
TL;DR: Cumming as mentioned in this paper provides a comprehensive synthesis covering the core concepts and applications of spatial resilience to the study of social-ecological systems, and follows a trajectory from concepts through models, methods, and case study analysis before revisiting the central problems in the further conceptual development of the field.
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From Garden City to Eco-urbanism: The quest for sustainable neighborhood development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the evolution of various planning movements to see how their underlying principles have changed and how successful they have been in addressing the requirements of sustainable development Literature on five selected movements is reviewed These are, namely, Garden City, Neighborhood Unit, Modernism, Neo-traditionalism and Eco-urbanism
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Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies
TL;DR: In this article, an institutional approach to Spatial Change and Environmental Planning is presented, with a focus on the development of an infrastructure for collaborative planning systems and practices in URBAN regions.
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Planet of slums
TL;DR: The megaurban condition today encompasses many realities, from the glittering generic city-state of Singapore to the slums climbing up the hillsides around Mexico City or Sao Paulo as discussed by the authors.
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City of quartz : excavating the future in Los Angeles
TL;DR: In "City of Quartz" as mentioned in this paper, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy, giving us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West.
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Governance Innovation and the Citizen: The Janus Face of Governance-beyond-the-State:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the emerging innovative horizontal and networked arrangements of governance-beyond-the-state are decidedly Janus-faced, particularly under conditions in which the democratic character of the political sphere is increasingly eroded by the encroaching imposition of market forces that set the "rules of the game".
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Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on urban informality to highlight the challenges of dealing with the "unplannable" exceptions to the order of formal urbanization and argue that planners must learn to work with this state of exception.