What a Waste 2.0

Silpa Kaza, Lisa C Yao, Perinaz Bhada-Tata

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• By 2050, the world is expected to generate 3.76 billion tonnes of waste annually, increasing drastically from today's 2.10 billion tonnes. What a Wast... Lees meer

Private Cities

Yue Li, Martin Rama

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• Institutional constraints and weak capacity often hamper the ability of local governments in developing countries to steer urbanization. As a result, ... Lees meer

East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• "Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of con... Lees meer

The Economics of Uniqueness

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• In a world where half of the population lives in cities and more than 90 percent of urban growth is occurring in the developing world, cities struggle... Lees meer

Urban Risk Assessments

Eric Dickson, Judy L Baker, Daniel Hoornweg

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• This book presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment, for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities which is intended to assist in decision-m... Lees meer

Transforming Cities with Transit

Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, Kanako Iuchi

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• 'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries.... Lees meer

East Asia and Pacific Cities

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• Urbanization in East Asia and the Pacific has created enormous opportunity for many. Yet the rapid growth of cities can also create challenges as nati... Lees meer

Cities and Climate Change

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• This volume comprises a collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium, as part of the World Bank Grou... Lees meer

Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• "Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable la... Lees meer

Regenerating Urban Land

Rana Amirtahmasebi, Mariana Orloff, Andrew Altman

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial ins... Lees meer

Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values

Hiroaki Suzuki, Jin Murakami, Yu-Hung Hong

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Development
• "Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of spraw... Lees meer