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Urban Growth in Emerging Economies: Lessons from the BRICS

Author
MacGranahan G., Martine G.
Date
2014
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-088926)
Publisher | Place of publication
Routledge | Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK
ISBN
978-0-415-71876-9
Pages
288 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Country/Territory
Brazil, India, China, South Africa
Subject
Environment gen., Land & soil
Keyword
Urban land Sustainable development
Abstract

1. Urbanisation and development: Policy lessons from the BRICS experience Gordon McGranahan and George Martine 2. Brazil’s negligent urban transition and its legacy of divided cities George Martine and Gordon McGranahan 3. China’s radical urbanisation and bringing capital and labour together step by step Gordon McGranahan, Jia Guoping, Guoyi Han and Arie Hoekman 4. Russia’s planned urbanization and misplaced urban development Charles Becker, S Joshua Mendelsohn and Kseniya Benderskaya 5. South Africa’s tortured urbanisation and the complications of reconstruction Ivan Turok 6. India’s sluggish urbanisation and Its exclusionary development Amitabh Kundu 7. Could a more positive approach to urbanization in the BRICS have facilitated both economic growth and social inclusion? Gordon McGranahan and Ivan Turok