"An exciting book that captures the urban environmental condition
through the struggles and knowledge of real people, "Livable
Cities? reveals how grassroots input can make top-down policy more
effective. By focusing on small, seldom-studied communities in such
countries as Vietnam, the book illuminates the particular
intersection between larger environmental dynamics and their
concrete materializations in specific settings."--Saskia Sassen,
author of "The Global City 2001
"This is an essential book about a fundamental topic: the urban
politics of environmental sustainability. Leading social
researchers from around the world provide a rigorous assessment on
the conditions under which local societies can contribute to the
development of a sustainable global order."--Manuel Castells,
co-author of "The Local and the Global: Management of Cities in the
Information Age
""Livable Cities? introduces a fresh and crucial agenda for
scholars and activists: how can communities across the world
organize to foster both environmental reform and economic
well-being-in a word, "livability"? Urban scholars, development
scholars, and those in the growing environmental field will take a
keen interest in this book."--Harvey Molotch, co-author of
"Building Rules: How Local Controls Shape Building Environments and
Economies
"Peter Evans opens up a new area of thinking on how global
environmental problems arise in the context of cities in the Third
World and how they are translated into continuing policy debates
and political struggles."--John R. Logan, author of "The New
Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform
"Within a comprehensive theoretical framework, "Livable Cities?
studies howparticular "ecologies" of political actors have formed
in diverse cities in East Asia, Europe, and Latin America to
improve the quality of life in poor communities. With its focus on
cities and their disempowered majorities, this book provides a
welcome contribution to the politics of "another" development, one
centered on people's well-being."--John Friedmann, co-author of
"Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The
Case of Mexico City
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