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Voula P. Mega - Sustainable Cities for the Third Millennium: the Odyssey of Urban Excellence - 9781489998897 - V9781489998897
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Sustainable Cities for the Third Millennium: the Odyssey of Urban Excellence

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Description for Sustainable Cities for the Third Millennium: the Odyssey of Urban Excellence Paperback. This book offers a thorough view of the challenges facing cities regarding growth, governance, institutions, infrastructures, environmental well-being, social integration, science, culture, urban renaissance, planning, local democracy and citizenship. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RNF; RNU; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
At the dawn of the third millennium, planet Earth entered a zone of turbulence. The 2008 crisis added economic uncertainty to the threat of global warming and extreme events such as droughts, floods and cyclones, the persisting crisis of p- erty and the spectrum of pandemics and terrorism. Against this global landscape in an era of fragility, cities, already sheltering more than half of humankind, appear as Janus-faced realities, the best and worst of places, vulnerable but still full of hope and will to overcome the crisis of societal values and progress in the path of susta- able development. This ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781489998897
SKU
V9781489998897
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