Description
Book SynopsisAn ambitious global study of the state of cities in the early twenty-first century, their role in society, and their contribution to the financial crisis
Table of ContentsPart I: If cities are like dynamos, why is the economy sputtering?
1. We are where we are, but how did we get here?
2. Housing and cities: toward what future?
3. Infrastructure and innovation: new limits to growth?
4. Managing space better is the imperative: the problem of shrinking cities and economics
5. Jobs to people: livability, governance and strategic planning.
Part II: Preparing for an era of crises
6. The vulnerability and resilience of cities
7. Regulatory governance, risk and the new security economies
Part III: Cities and paradigms for economic governance
8. How the west overcomes crises, reduces risks and copes with uncertainty
9. Paradigms for economic governance and how cities grew bigger and better
10. Cities and nation-states in the urban age: will interdependence reshape rules for the twenty-first century?
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