Development and Cities Book

1) Urban sustainability under threat: the restructuring of the fishing industry in Mar del Plata, Argentina - Adriana Allen; 2) International cooperation in pursuit of sustainable cities - Adrian Atkinson; 3) Learning from informal markets: innovative approaches to land and housing provision - Erhard Berner; 4) Cities for the urban poor in Zimbabwe: urban space as a resource for sustainable development - Alison Brown; 5) Democracy and social participation in Latin American cities - Diego Carrion M.; 6) Urban crisis in India: new initiatives for sustainable cities - P. G. Dhar Chakrabarti; 7) Unsustainable development: the Philippine experience - Karina Constantino-David; 8) Innovations for sustainable development in cities of the South: the Habitat-Cuba approach - Carlos Garcia Pleyan; 9) Sustainable development and democracy in the megacities - Jaime Joseph; 10) Institutionalising the concept of environmental planning and management (EPM): successes and challenges in Dar es Salaam - Wilbard K. Kombe; 11) Institutional innovations for urban infrastructural development: the Indian scenario - Amitabh Kundu; 12) Monitoring megacities: the Murbandy/Moland approach - Carlo Lavalle, Luca Demicheli, Maddalena Turchini, Pilar Casals-Carrasco, and Monika Niederhuber; 13) Sustainable urban development in India: an inclusive perspective - Darshini Mahadevia; 14) Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom? - Fernando Murillo; 15) Residents' associations and information communication technologies: a suggested approach to international action-research - Cesare Ottolini; 16) Lowering the ladder: regulatory frameworks for sustainable development - Geoffrey Payne; 17) Technical versus popular language: some reflections on the vocabulary of urban management in Mexico and Brazil - Helene Riviere d'Arc