Urban case studies: general discussion

Towards Sustainable Urban Transportation Case Studies

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time. Urban transportation has had a major negative impact on our environment—most of our air pollution comes from transport. This paper explores ways to move toward a more sustainable transport system by focusing on creating a more efficient and livable city and improving the environmental efficiency of...

Urban Settlements: Case Studies in South Africa

Internationally, settlement informality (informal housing and informal settlements) is increasing, not decreasing. Thus, according to United Nations estimates, there are currently 924 million people living in various forms of slums and unauthorized or informal settlements (UN Habitat, 2003, p2). In Sub-Saharan Africa 71,9% of urban dwellers lived in slums (ibid). In South Africa, official gover...

Urban environmentalism in context : case studies

The premise of this paper is that, despite the existence of a well-established international urban environmental agenda, cities effectively invent a different one of their own. From the political perspective of neoliberal urbanization, emphasis is placed on how environmental issues are assimilated, given meaning and translated into management practices and urban form. It is argued that environm...

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