Overview
- Describes sustainable solutions to challenges posed by socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes associated with globalization
- Focuses especially on rapid urbanization processes in countries of the Global South
- Covers strategies in diverse sectors, including housing, education, cultural heritage, and land management in the context of climate change
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Research for Development (REDE)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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The International Workshop “Transforming Johannesburg”. A Multi-disciplinary Action Research on Collaborative Approaches to Socio-ecological Urban Development in Informal Areas
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Agostino Petrillo, BA (Hons, cum laude) (Architecture, Philosophy), PhD (Sociology), is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he teaches courses on Urban Sociology, Sociology, and Sociology of the Environment. Dr. Petrillo is a member of the editorial or scientific boards and a reviewer for a number of Italian journals. He is also a scientific board or doctoral college member for various academic and scientific associations. His research work focuses on cities, urban conflicts, globalization, and immigration. Dr. Petrillo has participated in international research projects such as the 2001 Program Interreg IIC on Metropolization and Peripheries (in collaboration with Genoa University) and Tresegy (2009): Transnational Research on second generation youth in Europe. He has authored seven books on subjects in his field
and co-edited a further three. He is also the author of many journal articles and book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization
Book Subtitle: New strategies for new challenges—with a focus on the Global South
Editors: Agostino Petrillo, Paola Bellaviti
Series Title: Research for Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61988-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61987-3Published: 13 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87208-7Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61988-0Published: 24 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-7300
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7319
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 484
Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations, 360 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Social Work and Community Development, Environmental Management, Regional/Spatial Science, Cultural Heritage