Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

by Harry Smith, YA Wang, Y.A. Wang, et al.

Book Overview

Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘sustainability’, it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The impact of rapid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415357977
• ISBN13: 9780415357975
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"