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Padang is Indonesia's ninth largest city. The main ethnic group of this seaport is the Minangkabau. Padang's most idiosyncratic feature is the communal landownership of the Minangkabau, which has repercussions for urban development. Master plans have never had much success. The morphological structure has been influenced not only by market forces and government planning, but also by urban symbolism...
This document analyzes the environmental problems and the information available on air pollution levels in Mexico City, their sources, their impact on the health of the population and the policies aimed at reducing them. The author warns that ecological deterioration will occur in the valleys adjacent to the Valley of Mexico, just as it has there, unless strict policies are established to prevent...
In recent years, New Zealand has undergone fundamental economic, institutional and administrative restructuring. One outcome of this has been the implementation of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA). Fundamental to the RMA is sustainable management of natural resources at a regional scale. However, there are no prescriptive definitions for sustainable management in the act; rather the act allows...
In this paper we attempt to illuminate the process of making urban environmental policy in Los Angeles. We suggest that in the current post-Fordist period, a multiplicity of voices in civil society contribute to the construction of a local environmental policy space. Within this space, struggles occur concerning the regulation of societal relationships with nature.
Mainstreet Cascadia is a band of urban development stretching from the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia to the US city of Eugene, Oregon. The rate and pattern of urbanization there have produced deep public concern over growth related problems and negative environmental consequences. City and regional plans have been prepared in response to these conditions with the common goal of promoting...
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