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Part of the book series: cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (LSUR, volume 8)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Improvement of Urban Vulnerability
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Front Matter
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Management of Natural Disasters
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About this book
All cities are vulnerable. They have economically, socially, institutionally vulnerable urban space.
In developing countries, vulnerable urban space can be observed typically as substandard informal settlements such as slums or areas occupied by squatters. At present, slum dwellers comprise one-third of the world's urban population of 3 billion, and it has been estimated that the number of slum dwellers will double in the next 30 years if no effective action is taken. Improvement of vulnerable urban areas, which is one of the targets of Millennium Development Goals, is thus an urgent worldwide challenge in our age.
This book combines empirical and comparative analysis of improvement of vulnerable urban space and post-disaster rehabilitation in Asian and Latin American countries. The discussions presented herein will serve as a useful, thought-provoking source for researchers, practitioners and students, especially for those who are working to alleviate the vulnerability of urban space.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Tetsuo Kidokoro
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General Center Sustainable Urban Regeneration, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Junichiro Okata
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Department of Architecture, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shuichi Matsumura
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Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Norihisa Shima
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vulnerable Cities:
Book Subtitle: Realities, Innovations and Strategies
Editors: Tetsuo Kidokoro, Junichiro Okata, Shuichi Matsumura, Norihisa Shima
Series Title: cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-78149-3
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Authors 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-78148-6Published: 17 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-99847-1Due: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-78149-3Published: 25 August 2008
Series ISSN: 1865-8504
Series E-ISSN: 1865-8512
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 330
Number of Illustrations: 185 b/w illustrations