Peter Evans 
Livable Cities? 
Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability

The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking. Since three-quarters of those joining the world’s population during the next century will live in Third World cities, making these urban areas more livable is one of the key challenges of the twenty-first century. This book explores the linked issues of livelihood and ecological sustainability in major cities of the developing and transitional world.
Livable Cities? identifies important strategies for collective solutions by showing how political alliances among local communities, nongovernmental organizations, and public agencies can help ordinary citizens live better lives.

Jadual kandungan

List of Tables and Illustrations

Preface

Manuel Castells

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Looking for Agents of Urban Livability in a Globalized Political Economy

Peter Evans

2. Urban Poverty and the Environment: Social Capital and State-Community Synergy in Seoul and Bangkok

Mike Douglass, Orathai Ard-am, and Ik Ki Kim

3. Collective Action toward a Sustainable City: Citizens’ Movements and Environmental Politics in Taipei

Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Hwa-Jen Liu

4. Community-Driven Regulation: Toward an Improved Model of Environmental Regulation in Vietnam

Dara O’Rourke

5. Social and Spatial Inequalities in Hungarian Environmental Politics: A Historical Perspective

Zsuzsa Gille

6. ‘Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink’: Land Use and Water Policy in São Paulo, Brazil

Margaret E. Keck

7. Sustainability, Livelihood, and Community Mobilization in the Ajusco ‘Ecological Reserve’

Keith Pezzoli

8. Political Strategies for More Livable Cities: Lessons from Six Cases of Development and Political Transition

Peter Evans

References

List of Contributors

Index

Mengenai Pengarang

Peter Evans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (1995), and coeditor of Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (California, 1993), among other books.