Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China

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Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy) Simon Ng (Independent Consultant)

Global Cities

Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China

Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy), Simon Ng (Independent Consultant), Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy)

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MIT Press
28 August 2018

Nuclear issues; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

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.

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.

By: Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy), Simon Ng (Independent Consultant)
Series edited by: Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 29mm
ISBN: 9780262536066
ISBN 10: 0262536064
Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 28 August 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy and founder and former Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author of Reinventing Los Angeles- Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press) and other books. Simon Ng is an independent consultant and former Chief Research Officer at Civic Exchange, a public policy think tank in Hong Kong.