R5 Regional Government Analysis

摘要

Angel, Shlomo. Planet of Cities. Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012. Pp. xvi, 343. $40.00, paper. ISBN 978-1-55844-245-0. Presents a history of global urban growth in 120 cities with populations of 100,000 or more and considers urban planning policy recommendations. Discusses coming to terms with global urban expansion; the inevitable expansion proposition; the sustainable densities proposition; the decent housing proposition; the public works proposition; urbanization in historical perspective; the geography of world urbanization; the global hierarchy of cities; the evidence-new maps, new metrics, and old theory; global urban land cover and its expansion; the persistent decline in urban densities; the move from centrality to dispersal; the fragmentation of urban landscapes; the pulsating compactness of urban footprints; urban land cover projections, 2000-2050; urban expansion and the loss of cultivated lands; and making room for a planet of cities. Angel is Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and Senior Research Scholar with the Urbanization Project in the Stern School of Business at New York University, and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Index.