Eugenie L Birch

Global Urbanization - The City in the Twenty-First Century Eugenie L Birch

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Part I. Twenty-First-Century Population Prospect: Emerging Needs -- Chapter 1. World Urbanization: The Critical Issue of the Twenty-First Century / Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter -- Chapter 2. Human Population Grows Up / Joel E. Cohen -- Chapter 3. Measuring and Coping with Urban Growth in Developing Countries / Nefise Bazoglu -- Chapter 4. Urban Growth and Development at Six Scales: An Economist's View / Stephen Malpezzi -- Chapter 5. Urban Growth and Spatial Development: The China Case / Anthony Yeh -- Part II. Urban Spatial Growth and Development -- Chapter 6. The Urban Transition in Developing Countries: Demography Meets Geography / Mark R. Montgomery, Deborah Balk -- Chapter 7. Measuring and Modeling Global Urban Expansion / Stephen Sheppard -- Chapter 8. Urban Growth Models: State of the Art and Prospects / John D. Landis -- Chapter 9. Monitoring Urban Growth and Its Environmental Impacts Using Remote Sensing: Examples from China and India / Karen C. Seto -- Chapter 10. Tracking Regional Growth and Development: The Nairobi Case / Wilber K. Ottichilo -- Part III. Urban Governance and Finance -- Chapter 11. Strategic Directions for Local Public Finance in Developing Countries / Paul Smoke -- Chapter 12. Public-Private Partnerships and Urban Governance: Coordinates and Policy Issues / Lynne B. Sagalyn -- Chapter 13. City Building in China: Implications for Urban Form Efficiency / Douglas Webster -- Chapter 14. Financing Housing and Urban Services / Kyung-Hwan Kim -- Part IV. Cases in Urban Development -- Chapter 15. Managing Urban Infrastructure and Services in India / Vinod Tewari -- Chapter 16. Sustainable Urban Development: Managing City Development in Uganda / Shuaib Lwasa -- Chapter 17. Thinking About Urban Services Needs in Fast-Growing Cities: Housing in Sao Paulo / Suzana Pasternak -- Chapter 18. The Education of Urban Dwellers: The Kenyan Experience / Faith Macharia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. Biographical Note: Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, PennDesign. Susan M. Wachter is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of City and Regional Planning at PennDesign. Together, Birch and Wachter direct the Penn Institute for Urban Research and are the coeditors of Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Publisher Marketing: This volume surveys the current rapid growth in urban populations and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half century. Contributors tackle issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships in urban governance.

Contributor Bio:  Wachter, Susan M Wachter is Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is Associate Director of the Wharton Real Estate Center.