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Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention: Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Arab Region
Kosta (Ed) Mathey
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Description for Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention: Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Arab Region
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Urban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through the police and individual target hardening remain inefficient, the population must organize itself. This book contains first-hand accounts on a selection of the most innovative experiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab region and is of interest likewise for academics and urban practitioners, policy makers, international cooperation experts or travelers preparing a visit of one of the affected countries. With a preface by Caroline Moser.
Urban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through the police and individual target hardening remain inefficient, the population must organize itself. This book contains first-hand accounts on a selection of the most innovative experiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab region and is of interest likewise for academics and urban practitioners, policy makers, international cooperation experts or travelers preparing a visit of one of the affected countries. With a preface by Caroline Moser.
Product Details
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837629903
SKU
V9783837629903
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Kosta (Ed) Mathey
Kosta Mathéy (Prof. Dr.) is director of GLOBUS, the Global Urban Institute, in Berlin and teaches at the HafenCity University Hamburg. He conceived the »Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading Program« in Cape Town, generally considered to be the most successful of that kind in Africa. Silvia Matuk (Dipl.-Ing.) is co-director of GLOBUS and worked in housing reconstruction after the civil ... Read more
Reviews for Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention: Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Arab Region
Reviewed in: www.friedensnews.at, 11.01.2015, Andreas Hermann Landl Environment & Urbanization, 2 (2015), Mara Evangelina Filippi Wissenschaft & Frieden, 1 (2015)