The social sustainability of cities : diversity and the management of change / edited by Mario Polèse and Richard Stren.

Title & Author:

The social sustainability of cities : diversity and the management of change / edited by Mario Polèse and Richard Stren.

Publication:

Description:

xviii, 334 pages : illustrations, maps

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Understanding the new sociocultural dynamics of cities : comparative urban policy in a global context / Richard Stren and Mario Polèse -- The social sustainability of Montreal : a local or a state matter? / Anne-Marie Séguin and Annick Germain -- Governance and social sustainability : the Toronto experience / Frances Frisken [and others] -- Miami : governing the city through crime / Jonathan Simon -- 'A Third-World city in the First World' : social exclusion, racial inequality, and sustainable development in Baltimore, Maryland / Marc V. Levine -- Geneva : does wealth ensure social stability? / Antoine S. Bailly -- Room to manoeuvre : governance, the post-industrial economy, and housing provision in Rotterdam / Frans Dieleman and Robert C. Kloosterman -- São Paulo and the challenges for social sustainability : the case of an urban housing policy / Ana Amélia da Silva -- Downtown San Salvador : housing, public spaces, and economic transformation / Mario Lungo -- Social transformation in a post-colonial city : the case of Nairobi / Diana Lee-Smith and Davinder Lamba -- Cape Town : seeking social sustainability in a fast-growing city / Joh Abbott -- Learning from each other : policy choices and the social sustainability of cities / Mario Polèse.

Resources:
c2000.
Table of contents
Donor bookplate

ISBN:

080204767X (cloth ; acid-free)
9780802047670 (cloth ; acid-free)
080208320X (paper ; acid-free)
9780802083203 (paper ; acid-free)

Subject:

Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns Growth.
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes Croissance.
Petites villes Croissance.
urban sociology.
Stadtsoziologie
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Polèse, Mario, 1943-
Stren, Richard E.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269194
Call No.: BIB 201286
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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