Livable cities? :  urban struggles for livelihood and sustainability / 
edited by Peter Evans. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2002. 
 - xiii, 277 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: looking for agents of urban livability in a globalized political economy / Peter Evans -- Urban poverty and the environment: social capital and state-community synergy in Seoul and Bangkok / Mike Douglass, Orathai Ard-am, and Ik Ki Kim -- Collective action toward a sustainable city: citizens' movements and environmental politics in Taipei / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Hwa-Jen Liu -- Community-driven regulation: toward an improved model of environmental regulation in Vietnam / Dara O'Rourke -- Social and spatial inequalities in Hungarian environmental politics: a historical perspective / Zsuzsa Gille -- "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink": land use and water policy in São Paulo, Brazil / Margaret E. Keck -- Sustainability, livelihood, and community mobilization in the Ajusco "ecological reserve" / Keith Pezzoli -- Political strategies for more livable cities: lessons from six cases of development and political transition / Peter Evans. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520230248  0520230256 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Metropolitan areas--Case studies<br/>Urbanization--Case studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT330 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.76