Urban age : Mexico City
, espace urbain, emploi, mobilité, transport, gouvernance, voisinage, logement, planification, Mexico, Mexico City, Mexique
<div>Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Mexico City : Growth at the limit?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.urban-age.net">Urban Age website</a>. Many presentations also have accompanying slideshow presentations available for download in PDF format.<br />
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<b>Organisers' description :</b><br />
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The principal aim of Urban Age is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. This six-year conference series – travelling from New York City, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Berlin, Mumbai to São Paulo and Istanbul – serves as an ongoing forum about how the city is studied, planned and managed in the 21st century.<br />
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The Urban Age operates as a mobile laboratory, testing and sampling the social and physical characteristics of global cities through expert presentations and testimonials, research, site visits, GIS mapping and informal information exchange. Findings from each of the cities are analysed according to regional patterns in an effort to uncover global similarities and differences. The results help policymakers, academics and urban practitioners understand the future development of cities and the processes that sustain them.</div>
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<b>Session topics : </b></div>
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Opening session<br />
The Urban Age context<br />
Introducing Mexico City<br />
Labour market and work places<br />
Mobility and transport<br />
Panel 01 - Metropolitan governance<br />
Public life and urban space<br />
Housing and urban neighbourhoods<br />
Panel 02 - Informality<br />
A vision for Mexico</div>
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Multiple authors
2006
http://www.urban-age.net/03_conferences/conf_mexicoCity.html
The mega-city in Latin America
Latin America, Amérique latine, mégapole, démographie, transport, croissance urbaine, gouvernance, logement, foncier, Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Bogotá, Gilbert Alan
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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By the year 2000, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more than 8 million people. Their combined population will be over 70 million, and approximately one Latin American in seven will live in those five cities. Two of them, Mexico City and Sao Paulo, will arguably be the world's two largest cities.<br />
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The sheer number of people living in Latin America's mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst systems of the region's underdevelopment: vast areas of shanty towns, huge numbers of poor people, high concentrations of air and water pollution, and serious levels of traffic congestion. This book is about the prospects for their future.<br />
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Several clear conclusions emerge from the book. First, the largest cities of Latin America differ greatly in terms of their future prospects. It is far easier to be optimistic in Buenos Aires than in Lima. Second, whether urban problems improve or deteriorate has rather little to do with size of city and a great deal to do with trends in the wider economy and society. Increasingly, those trends are determined not just by local decisions but by decisions made outside the region. Third, Latin America's mega-cities are not going to grow to unmanageable proportions because their growth rates have generally slowed. Fourth, management is a critical issue for the future but it is difficult to know whether the quality of management will improve or deteriorate through time.<br />
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The book contains chapters on each of Latin America's six largest cities (Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, and Santa fe de Bogota). The book also has four thematic chapters. The first discusses the demography of urban growth in the region and the other three focus on what are particularly sensitive issues in very large cities: public administration, transportation, and land, housing, and infrastructure.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Foreword<br />
Preface<br />
1. The Latin American mega-city: An introduction<br />
2 Demographic trends in Latin America's metropolises, 1950-1990<br />
3. Contemporary issues in the government and administration of Latin American mega-cities<br />
4. Land, housing, and infrastructure in Latin America's major cities<br />
5. A hundred million journeys a day: The management of transport in Latin America's mega-cities<br />
6. Buenos Aires: A case of deepening social polarization<br />
7. Lima: mega-city and mega-problem<br />
8. Mexico City: No longer a leviathan?<br />
9. Rio de Janeiro: Urban expansion and structural change<br />
10. São Paulo: A growth process full of contradictions<br />
11. Santa Fé de Bogotá: A Latin American special case?</div>
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<b>Alan Gilbert </b>is a Professor in the Department of Geography at University College London.</div>
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United Nations University Press
1996
282
Ouvrage
http://unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu23me/uu23me00.htm