CITY FUTURES

This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to cope with the hundreds of mega-cities of the developing world. These cities are the future, and the problems surrounding this influx of people--slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governanc e--have been Más información...well-documented. Pieterse argues that the current shelter for all and urban good governance policies treat only the symptoms of the problem. Instead, he claims, there is an urgent need to reinvigorate civil society in these cities, t o encoura...[Read more]