Global Cities by Robert Gottlieb
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities--in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues.These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.-
Concrete and Clay
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Street Science
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Environmental Justice and Environmentalism
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Sharing Cities
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Just Sustainabilities
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Neighborhood as Refuge
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Co-Cities
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City Cycling
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Grounding Urban Natures
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Fracking the Neighborhood
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Resigned Activism
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Technoscience and Environmental Justice
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Blue and Green
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Toward the Healthy City
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Environmentalism Unbound
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Transit Life
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Changing Lanes
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Installing Automobility
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Liquid Power
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The Informal American City
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Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival
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The Making of Grand Paris
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The Enclave Economy
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American Urban Form
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Growing Smarter
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Civic Ecology
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Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry
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Pastoral Capitalism
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The Code of the City
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The Land That Could be
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The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology
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Flint Fights Back
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Materials Matter
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780262536066 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262536064 |
| Title | Global Cities |
| Author | Robert Gottlieb |
| Series | Urban And Industrial Environments |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-08-28 |
| Number of pages | 472 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |