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Author:   Chris Gossop ,  Shi Nan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.884kg
ISBN:  

9780415509565

ISBN 10:   0415509564
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   13 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword One/Ismael Fernandez Mejia -- Foreword Two/Qiu Baoxing -- Liveable Cities: Urbanising World An Introduction to the Review/Chris Gossop, Shi Nan -- PART 1 COUNTRIES AND CITY REGIONS -- Making Indian Cities Liveable: the Challenges of India’s Urban Transformation/Shipra Narang Suri -- The Urban Reform Agenda and the Struggle for Liveable Cities in Brazil/Edesio Fernandes -- The Netherlands in Transition -- The Planning of Low Carbon, Sustainable and Liveable Cities in the Utrecht Region/Martin Dubbeling -- Wikicity -- Open Planning for a Liveable Amsterdam 2004-2011/Zef Hemel -- PART 2 STUDIES AND STRATEGIES -- Beyond Cities: Is an Urban Planet even Possible?/Jeremy Dawkins -- Towards a Liveable Urban Climate: Lessons from Stuttgart/Michael Hebbert, Brian Webb -- Strategies for Integrated Spatial Development along the European North-South Railway Link/Bernd Scholl -- The Contribution of Mobility to Liveable Cities/Pierre Laconte -- Linking People, Linking Nature: The Park Connector Network of Singapore/Lena Chan, Cheng Hai Sim, Meng Tong Yeo, Kartini Omar-Hor -- Skolkovo: City of the Future as a Russian Hi-Tech Hub/Fedor Kudryavtsev, Victoria Bannykh -- The London 2012 Olympic Park: Planning for a Sustainable Legacy/Dan Epstein, Jo Carris, Emily Moore, Judith Sykes -- PART 3 CHINA REPORTS -- Planning the Ecological Spatial System of the Megacity of Wuhan/Liu Qizhi, He Mei, Wang Yun -- Local Governance of Low Carbon Cities: Is our Local Planning System Ready yet?/Stanley C. T. Yip -- Industrial Heritage as a Cultural Infrastructure/Dong Wei -- Devising an Adaptable Urban Shelter and Evacuation System in Disaster Situations/Su Jing-yu, Liu Chao-feng, Wang Wei -- A Study of Target Groups for Affordable Housing/Zhang Jie, Jiao Yang -- About the editors -- About the authors.

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Chris Gossop, International Society of City and Regional Planners Shi Nan, Urban Planning Society of China

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