Global Cities
Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
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;…
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Weitere Autoren: Ng, Simon
- ISBN: 978-0-262-33887-5
- EAN: 9780262338875
- Produktnummer: 27873326
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 472 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'133 KB
- Abbildungen: 37 FIGURES
Über den Autor
Robert Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy and founder and former Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author of Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press) and other books.Simon Ng is an independent consultant and former Chief Research Officer at Civic Exchange, a public policy think tank in Hong Kong.
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