Sustentabilidade, globalização e urbanização
Sustainability within a World City Network
"Cities and their networks form the greatest of human achievements and are incrementally built up over time, reflecting human progression in which scarcity is continuously challenged by means of societal and technological innovations. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, technological innovation and social reform have been paramount to global economic development, supplying our needs and creating new forms of demand, without which the system would certainly collapse. Shifting scarcity has led to a type of progression that is suspended between the co-evolutionary processes of globalization and urbanization, reflecting the symbiotic development of firms and cities and the networks which connect them. These processes have dramatically altered the relationship of humans and the environment in various ways, such as worldwide spatial exploitation, global integration, and environmental degradation.
Progression has led to an increase in complexity and the unequal distribution of technology, capital and labour - across different economic and political boundaries."
Com contributos de importantes pensadores actuais tais como Manuel Castells, Peter Hall ou John Friedman. Consultar boletins da GaWC aqui.
- Livros Para Downloadlivros Para Download: "cities And Climate Change: Global Report On Human Settlements 2011 " E " State Of The World's Cities 2010/2011 - Cities For All: Bridging The Urban Divide"
Cities and Climate Change reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significant contribution...
- O Centro De Gravidade Económico Do Mundo
Fonte: The Economist "IT IS not exactly news that the world's economic centre of gravity is shifting east. But it is striking how fast this seems to be happening. In a new study on the economic impact of urbanisation the McKinsey Global Institute,...
- Do Ovo à Cidade
Uma interessante analogia entre o crescimento e expansão das cidades e .... o ovo. Uma forma de representar de forma significativa a evolução das cidades ao longo de vários milénios, que se assemelha a um ovo cozido, ao ovo estrelado e ao ovo mexido....
- Qual O Limite Para O Crescimento Da Cidade?
"The world is in the throes of a sweeping population shift from the countryside to the city. Underpinning this transformation are the economies of scale that make concentrated urban centers more productive. This productivity improvement from urbanization...
- O Estado Das Cidades Africanas
"The State of the African Cities 2010 goes above and beyond the first report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. With the subtitle: Governance, inequity and urban land markets, the report uncovers critical...