Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Ravi Kanbur
Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Ravi Kanbur
Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
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This volume presents a significant new collection that focuses on urbanization and its implications for economic development. Written for an advanced audience with an interest in urban economics and cities, the book contains case studies from India, Brazil, Tanzania, Lebanon, and South Africa.
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This volume presents a significant new collection that focuses on urbanization and its implications for economic development. Written for an advanced audience with an interest in urban economics and cities, the book contains case studies from India, Brazil, Tanzania, Lebanon, and South Africa.
Produktdetails
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- WIDER Studies in Development Economics
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 670g
- ISBN-13: 9780199590148
- ISBN-10: 0199590141
- Artikelnr.: 29929805
- WIDER Studies in Development Economics
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 670g
- ISBN-13: 9780199590148
- ISBN-10: 0199590141
- Artikelnr.: 29929805
Jo Beall is Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of Cape Town and Chair of the Executive Committee of the African Centre for Cities at UCT. She is still affiliated with the London School of Economics, where she was Director of the Development Studies Institute, and taught for 18 years. She also taught at the Development Planning Unit of University College London and at the University of KwaZulu-Natal where she now holds an honorary professorship. She has consulted for the World Bank, the European Union, UN-Habitat, and a number of bilateral development agencies, and has published widely in development and urban studies journals. Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis is a Senior Economist at UNDP. Previously, he worked with UNU-WIDER (Helsinki), ICRIER (New Delhi), EXIM Bank of India (Bangalore), and IGIDR (Mumbai). He has worked and published extensively on international trade and finance, capital markets, growth, development, food security, informal sectors, gender, and urbanization. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester (NY, USA). Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs at Cornell University, having previously taught at Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Princeton, and Warwick. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank, including as resident Representative in Ghana, Chief Economist for Africa, Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank. He has published in the leading economics journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, The American Economic Review, and the Economic Journal.
* Introduction
* 1: Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur: Beyond the
Tipping Point: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Urbanization and
Development
* Data and Definitions
* 2: David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Tarun Khanna, and
Patrick Salyer: Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends
* 3: Hirotsugu Uchida and Andrew Nelson: Agglomeration Index: Towards A
New Measure of Urban Concentration
* 4: Janice E. Perlman: Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A
Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1968-2008
* 5: David Satterthwaite: Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that
Underpin Them
* Economic Benefits of Urbanization
* 6: Henry G. Overman and Anthony J. Venables: Evolving City Systems
* 7: Wim Naudé: Suburbanization and Residential Desegregation in South
Africa's Cities
* Urbanization: Social Consequences
* 8: Ben C. Arimah: The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the
Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries
* 9: Ignacio A. Navarro and Geoffrey K. Turnbull: The Legacy Effect of
Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment
* 10: Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton: The Gendered Nature of Asset
Accumulation in Urban Contexts: Longitudinal Results from Guayaquil,
Ecuador
* Urban Violence
* 11: Nasser Yassin: Violent Urbanization and Homogenization of Space
and Place: Reconstructing the Story of Sectarian Violence in Beirut
* 12: Deborah Fahy Bryceson: Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in
East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in
Nation-State Formation
* 13: Dennis Rodgers: Urban Violence Is (not) Necessarily a Way Of
life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities
* Urban Planning and Governance
* 14: Somik V. Lall, Hyoung Gun Wang, and Uwe Deichmann: Infrastructure
and City Competitiveness in India
* 15: Martin Medina: Solid Wastes, Poverty and the Environment in
Developing Country Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
* 16: Adriana Rabinovich and Andrea Catenazzi: Building Sustainable
Historic Centres: A Comparative Approach for Innovative Urban
Projects
* Epilogue
* Themes Emerging, Questions Outstanding, and the Value of a
Multidisciplinary Approach
* 1: Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur: Beyond the
Tipping Point: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Urbanization and
Development
* Data and Definitions
* 2: David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Tarun Khanna, and
Patrick Salyer: Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends
* 3: Hirotsugu Uchida and Andrew Nelson: Agglomeration Index: Towards A
New Measure of Urban Concentration
* 4: Janice E. Perlman: Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A
Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1968-2008
* 5: David Satterthwaite: Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that
Underpin Them
* Economic Benefits of Urbanization
* 6: Henry G. Overman and Anthony J. Venables: Evolving City Systems
* 7: Wim Naudé: Suburbanization and Residential Desegregation in South
Africa's Cities
* Urbanization: Social Consequences
* 8: Ben C. Arimah: The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the
Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries
* 9: Ignacio A. Navarro and Geoffrey K. Turnbull: The Legacy Effect of
Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment
* 10: Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton: The Gendered Nature of Asset
Accumulation in Urban Contexts: Longitudinal Results from Guayaquil,
Ecuador
* Urban Violence
* 11: Nasser Yassin: Violent Urbanization and Homogenization of Space
and Place: Reconstructing the Story of Sectarian Violence in Beirut
* 12: Deborah Fahy Bryceson: Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in
East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in
Nation-State Formation
* 13: Dennis Rodgers: Urban Violence Is (not) Necessarily a Way Of
life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities
* Urban Planning and Governance
* 14: Somik V. Lall, Hyoung Gun Wang, and Uwe Deichmann: Infrastructure
and City Competitiveness in India
* 15: Martin Medina: Solid Wastes, Poverty and the Environment in
Developing Country Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
* 16: Adriana Rabinovich and Andrea Catenazzi: Building Sustainable
Historic Centres: A Comparative Approach for Innovative Urban
Projects
* Epilogue
* Themes Emerging, Questions Outstanding, and the Value of a
Multidisciplinary Approach
* Introduction
* 1: Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur: Beyond the
Tipping Point: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Urbanization and
Development
* Data and Definitions
* 2: David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Tarun Khanna, and
Patrick Salyer: Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends
* 3: Hirotsugu Uchida and Andrew Nelson: Agglomeration Index: Towards A
New Measure of Urban Concentration
* 4: Janice E. Perlman: Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A
Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1968-2008
* 5: David Satterthwaite: Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that
Underpin Them
* Economic Benefits of Urbanization
* 6: Henry G. Overman and Anthony J. Venables: Evolving City Systems
* 7: Wim Naudé: Suburbanization and Residential Desegregation in South
Africa's Cities
* Urbanization: Social Consequences
* 8: Ben C. Arimah: The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the
Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries
* 9: Ignacio A. Navarro and Geoffrey K. Turnbull: The Legacy Effect of
Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment
* 10: Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton: The Gendered Nature of Asset
Accumulation in Urban Contexts: Longitudinal Results from Guayaquil,
Ecuador
* Urban Violence
* 11: Nasser Yassin: Violent Urbanization and Homogenization of Space
and Place: Reconstructing the Story of Sectarian Violence in Beirut
* 12: Deborah Fahy Bryceson: Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in
East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in
Nation-State Formation
* 13: Dennis Rodgers: Urban Violence Is (not) Necessarily a Way Of
life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities
* Urban Planning and Governance
* 14: Somik V. Lall, Hyoung Gun Wang, and Uwe Deichmann: Infrastructure
and City Competitiveness in India
* 15: Martin Medina: Solid Wastes, Poverty and the Environment in
Developing Country Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
* 16: Adriana Rabinovich and Andrea Catenazzi: Building Sustainable
Historic Centres: A Comparative Approach for Innovative Urban
Projects
* Epilogue
* Themes Emerging, Questions Outstanding, and the Value of a
Multidisciplinary Approach
* 1: Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur: Beyond the
Tipping Point: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Urbanization and
Development
* Data and Definitions
* 2: David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Tarun Khanna, and
Patrick Salyer: Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends
* 3: Hirotsugu Uchida and Andrew Nelson: Agglomeration Index: Towards A
New Measure of Urban Concentration
* 4: Janice E. Perlman: Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A
Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1968-2008
* 5: David Satterthwaite: Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that
Underpin Them
* Economic Benefits of Urbanization
* 6: Henry G. Overman and Anthony J. Venables: Evolving City Systems
* 7: Wim Naudé: Suburbanization and Residential Desegregation in South
Africa's Cities
* Urbanization: Social Consequences
* 8: Ben C. Arimah: The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the
Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries
* 9: Ignacio A. Navarro and Geoffrey K. Turnbull: The Legacy Effect of
Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment
* 10: Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton: The Gendered Nature of Asset
Accumulation in Urban Contexts: Longitudinal Results from Guayaquil,
Ecuador
* Urban Violence
* 11: Nasser Yassin: Violent Urbanization and Homogenization of Space
and Place: Reconstructing the Story of Sectarian Violence in Beirut
* 12: Deborah Fahy Bryceson: Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in
East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in
Nation-State Formation
* 13: Dennis Rodgers: Urban Violence Is (not) Necessarily a Way Of
life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities
* Urban Planning and Governance
* 14: Somik V. Lall, Hyoung Gun Wang, and Uwe Deichmann: Infrastructure
and City Competitiveness in India
* 15: Martin Medina: Solid Wastes, Poverty and the Environment in
Developing Country Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
* 16: Adriana Rabinovich and Andrea Catenazzi: Building Sustainable
Historic Centres: A Comparative Approach for Innovative Urban
Projects
* Epilogue
* Themes Emerging, Questions Outstanding, and the Value of a
Multidisciplinary Approach