Special Section on the Urban Environment -- a fascinating analysis of the environmental challenges facing the world's cities, such as Manila, where three out of every four people live in unauthorized housing; Mexico City, where air pollution contributes to 6,400 deaths every year and 29 percent of all children have unhealthy levels of lead in their blood; Philadelphia, where more than 20 percent of the population lives below the poverty level; and densely packed Jakarta whose 8 million residents live without a waterborne sewage system. Produced in close consultation with the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, this 170-page section includes a comparison of urban conditions and trends throughout the developing and developed world, a sobering look at the impacts of urban environmental conditions on human health and productivity, timely analysis of how urban transportation systems are contributing to--or reducing--environmental problems, and, finally, a close-up look at creative strategies for improving the urban environment based on case studies from cities and communities across the globe. Published by Oxford University Press 1996 / 400 pages |
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