Overview
- Presents a new urban system theory
- Is based on comparative empirical studies of urban systems linked to the urban system theory
- Covers urban systems for diverse parts of the world
- Shows cross-typologies of the world urban systems
- Provides multi-scalar governance diagnostics and recommendations
Part of the book series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (AGES)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Different Stages of Urban Transition in Low Middle Income Countries
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About this book
This book reviews the recent evolutions of cities in the world according to entirely revised theoretical fundamentals of urban systems. It relies on a vision of cities sharing common dynamic features as co-evolving entities in complex systems. Systems of cities that are interdependent in their evolutions are characterized in the context of that dynamics. They are identified on various geographical scales—worldwide, regional, or national. Each system exhibits peculiarities that are related to its demographic, economic, and geopolitical history, and that are underlined by the systematic comparison of continental and regional urban systems, following a common template throughout the book. Multi-scale urban processes, whether local (one city), or within national systems (systems of cities), or linked to the expansion of transnational networks (towards global urban systems) throughout the world over the period 1950–2010 are deeply analyzed in 16 chapters. This global overview challenges urban governance for designing policies facing globalization and the subsequent ecological transition. The answers, which emerge from the diversity of situations in the world, add some reflections on and recommendations to the “urban system framework” proposed in the Habitat III agenda.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Denise Pumain is emeritus professor at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and director of Cybergeo, European Journal of Geography. She was chair of the Commission on Urban Development and Urban Life of the International Geographical Union (1992–2000) and director of the European Research Group “Spatial Simulations for Social Sciences” at CNRS. She specialized in urban modeling and theoretical geography. Her main scientific contribution regards building an evolutionary theory of urban systems and transferring concepts and models from self-organizing complex systems towards social sciences.
She has received several academic awards (e.g., International Prize for Geography Vautrin Lud 2010; Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Science; Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy; an honorary doctorate in Lausanne and Liège Universities) and is holder of an ERC Advanced Grant (2010–2016). In her ERC-funded research she is looking at city system dynamics in the world by analyzing and modeling the geographical diversity of cities and systems of cities.
Dr. Elkin Velásquez Monsalve is the director of the Regional Office for the Caribbean and Latin America (ROLAC), UN-Habitat, in Rio de Janeiro. He is co-leading a coalition of regional partners towards enabling the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in LAC, particularly promoting a new Ecosystem of Funds for Sustainable Urban Development. Before this appointment in 2013, he served as leader of the Regional and Metropolitan Planning Unit in the Urban Planning and Design Branch at UN-Habitat HQ in Nairobi.He is a native of Colombia. Having studied public administration at the ENA (French National School of Public Administration), he obtained his Ph.D. in geography, specializing in territorial policy and planning, at the University of Grenoble (France). He also did graduate work in engineering at the School of Mines, National University of Colombia in Medellín.
Since 2009 he has led important global programs: He was UN-Habitat senior manager in the Nairobi HQ. In addition to work with the Regional and Metropolitan Planning Unit, he was chief of the Urban Governance Section from 2010 to 2011, and he was coordinator of the Safer Cities Program from 2009 to 2011. He also was responsible for the Gender Unit and established the flagship Initiative on National Urban Policies.His vast experience includes working in Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, West Indies, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela. He also extensively backstopped and advised on projects in Africa and Asia on the New Urban Agenda, particularly on metropolitan planning and a new generation of national urban policies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems
Editors: Celine Rozenblat, Denise Pumain, Elkin Velasquez
Series Title: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7799-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7798-2Published: 25 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4002-4Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7799-9Published: 08 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2198-3542
Series E-ISSN: 2198-3550
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 393
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Sustainable Development, Regional and Cultural Studies