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  • ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN THIRD WORLD CITIES
    JORGE E. HARDOY
    Describes and analyses the environmental problems of Third World cities, showing how they affect human health and the local ecology. The authors show how readily available practical solutions are, if the political means can be found. ...

    $780.00

  • SMALL AND INTERMEDIATE URBAN CENTRES
    JORGE HARDOY / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE / DENISE STEWART
    This book is the result of contributions, help and support from numerous people and several agencies. We are particularly grateful to the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, the Swedish Council for Building Research and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) for funding the work on which this volume is based - and doing so befor...

    $1,200.00

  • PRE-COLOMBIAN CITIES
    JORGE ENRIQUE HARDOY
    What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient cities where Latin America's peoples lived before the Spaniards arrived in the s...

    $1,380.00

  • FUNDING COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
    SILVINA ARROSSI / FELIX BOMBAROLO / JORGE E HARDOY / DIANA MITLIN / LUIS PEREZ COSCIO / DAVID SATTERTHWAI
    Despite four decades of development planning, at least one third of the urban population of Africa, Asia and Latin America remains poor. Over 600 million live in 'life and health threatening' homes and neighbourhoods because of poor housing and inadequate or no piped water, sanitation and health care. But even as the shortcomings of government and development programmes become ...

    $780.00

  • SQUATTER CITIZEN
    JORGE E. HARDOY / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries' Progress in Human Geography 'a very...

    $1,160.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN AN URBANIZING WORLD
    JORGE E. HARDOY / DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements, children are 40 to 50 times more likely to die before the age of five than th...

    $1,260.00