Planning in Cities

Abstract

Introduction Roger Zetter and Rodney White Part I Issues and discourses: development, urbanization and sustainability 1. Sustainable development: between environment and development agendas Al-Moataz Hassan and Roger Zetter 2. Market enablement or sustainable development? The conflicting paradigms of urbanization Roger Zetter 3. Environmental health or ecological sustainability? Reconciling the brown and green agendas in urban development Gordon McGranahan and David Satterthwaite 4. African cities and climate change: the global context for sustainable development Rodney White Part II Planning for sustainability growth 5. Urban planning and the rationale of the market: the elimination of the intermediate urban level in Bogota Andres Ortiz-Gomez 6. Public sector capacity-building and urban policy changes in the Kingdom of Lesotho: implications for international development assistance Cormac Davey 7. Property taxation, public finance and sustainable development: the case of Belem, Brazil Jose Julio Lima 8. Urban livelihoods, shocks and stresses David Sanderson 9. International agency shelter policy of the 1990s: experiences from Mozambique and Costa Rica Harry Smith and Paul Jenkins 10. Authoritarianism and sustainability in Cairo: what failed urban development projects tell us about Egyptian politics Bill Dorman 11. The sustainability of community development in El Mezquital, Guatemala City Emma Grant 12. From apartheid city to sustainable city: the compact city approach as a regulative ideal Koyi Mchunu 13. Structural adjustment and water supply in Bolivia: managing diversity, reproducing inequality Carlos Crespo-Flores 14. Linking theory and practice in development processes - the case of urban sanitation Kevin Tayler List of contributors Notes References Index