Development and Cities: Essays from Development and Practice

Deborah Eade

ISBN 10: 0855984651 / ISBN 13: 9780855984656

Published by Oxfam Publishing, 2002

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Synopsis:

Approaches to sustainable development in cities of the South have focused too exclusively on narrow technical aspects of environmental protection, with no benefit to most residents in cities and peri-urban areas. However, in many countries of the South, the disengagement of government, along with budgetary constraints, a reliance on cost-recovery mechanisms within structural adjustment packages, and increasing disparity between poor and rich, further reduces access by the poor to even the most rudimentary services. Development and Cities focuses on the political, social, and economic viability of new or alternative approaches to urban management in the South that aim to increase access to adequate levels of basic services and healthy living and working conditions for all. Case-studies include cities in Argentina, Cuba, India, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

About the Author: Deborah Eade was Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice from 1991 to 2010, prior to which she worked for 10 years in Latin America. She is now an independent writer on development and humanitarian issues, based near Geneva.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Development and Cities: Essays from ...
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New