Global Cities: Urban Environments In Los Angeles, Hong Kong, And China (urban And Industrial Environments)
by Robert Gottlieb /
2017 / English / EPUB
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How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban
environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution,
water quality, transportation, and public space.
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban
environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution,
water quality, transportation, and public space.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban
regions of China have emerged as global cities -- in financial,
political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In
this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global
emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a
set of six urban environmental issues.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban
regions of China have emerged as global cities -- in financial,
political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In
this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global
emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a
set of six urban environmental issues.
These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles
has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of
sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities
in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial
development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas,
combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have
experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short
period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with
challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air
pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all
notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all
three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and
water quality, the food system (from seed to table),
transportation, and public and private space. Finally they
discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy
initiatives and social movements.
These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles
has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of
sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities
in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial
development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas,
combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have
experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short
period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with
challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air
pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all
notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all
three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and
water quality, the food system (from seed to table),
transportation, and public and private space. Finally they
discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy
initiatives and social movements.