Title:	Livable Cities? Urban struggles for livelihood and sustainablity
Authors:	Peter Evans
Keywords:	Local development
Issue Date:	2002
Publisher:	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Description:	The poor cities of the developing world are often vibrant hubs of global economic and cultural activity, but they are also ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Three-fourths of those joining the world’s population during the next century will live in Third World cities. Unless these cities are able to provide decent livelihoods for ordinary people and become ecologically sustainable, the future is bleak. The politics of livelihood and sustainability in these cities has become the archetypal challenge of twenty-first-century governance. From Bangkok to Mexico City, levels of air and water pollution are rising. Getting to work takes longer and longer. Affordable housing is an endangered species and green space is shrinking. The large cities of the Third World are becoming “world cities,” increasingly important nodes in the financial and productive networks of the global economy, but they are not providing livelihoods and healthy habitats for ordinary people. They are also degrading environmental resources inside and outside the urbanized area itself at a rate that cannot be maintained. Without new political strategies aimed at increasing livability, the future is bleak.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26672
ISBN:	0-520-23025-6
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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