Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China

by Simon Ng, Robert Gottlieb, Robert Gottlieb

Book Overview

How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.

Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities--in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262536064
• ISBN13: 9780262536066
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher