Co-Cities
Innovative Transitions Toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities
$126.61
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2023
Summary
A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.
The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often harbor the solutions to the inequalities they create, as this book makes clear. With exam…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539982 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262539985 |
| Author: | Sheila R. Foster, Christian Iaione |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Urban and Industrial Environments |
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Critics Review
“Rarely does one read a theoretical and practical-based work that delivers a framework derived from research and analysis on policies and programs implemented in cities located on six of the world’s continents or major geographic regions.… Planning academicians and others involved in urban research and collective action concerned with praxis for advancing stewardship should read Co-Cities.”—Journal of the American Planning Association
About The Author
Sheila R. Foster
Sheila R. Foster is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy at Georgetown University, where she holds a joint appointment with the Georgetown Law Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy. She is also Codirector of LabGov.City.
Christian Iaione is Professor of Urban Law and of Policy and Law and Policy of Innovation and Sustainability at Luiss University in Rome, Italy, Codirector of LabGov.City, and Affiliated Fellow of the Urban Law Center at Fordham University.
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