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Building cities : neighbourhood improvement and urban quality of life
Construir ciudades. English.
- Conferences
- Taller 'Programas de mejoramiento de barrios : análisis comparado de lecciones aprendidas y nuevos enfoques' (2008 : Montevideo)
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- Creator
- Eduardo Rojas, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : IDB : [Cities Alliance]; Cambridge, Mass. : David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies : [distributed by Harvard University Press] , 2010
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 251 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781597821087, 159782108X
- OCLC
- ocn601636940
- The documents included in this book were discussed during a workshop held in Montevideo, Uruguay, October 14-17, 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Originally published in Spanish under title: Construir ciudades : mejoramiento de barrios y calidad de vida urbana.
- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Building citizenship for a better quality of life -- Chapter 2. Income and security: prerequisites for citizenship -- Chapter 3. Land: a scarce resource -- Chapter 4. Preventing new informality -- Chapter 5. Neighbourhood upgrading programmes: lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean -- Chapter 6. Community participation: more than good intentions -- Chapter 7. The foundation of sustainability --References -- About the authors -- Index