An edition of Southern Innovator Issue 4: Cities and Urbanization (2013)

Southern Innovator Issue 4: Cities and Urbanization

The Global South's Increasing Urbanization: Challenges to City Living

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An edition of Southern Innovator Issue 4: Cities and Urbanization (2013)

Southern Innovator Issue 4: Cities and Urbanization

The Global South's Increasing Urbanization: Challenges to City Living

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Launched in May 2011, the new global magazine Southern Innovator is about the people across the global South shaping our new world, eradicating poverty and working towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Issue 4 covers the theme of cities and urbanization.

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UN Office for South-South Cooperation
Pages
60

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Subjects

cities and urbanisation, Editor and Writer David South, UNDP, UNOSSC, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, 2013, innovator, innovation

People

David South, Solveig Rolfsdottir

Places

New York, London, Reykjavik, Nairobi, Songdo, Tianjin

Times

2013
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Cover of: Southern Innovator Issue 4: Cities and Urbanization
Southern Innovator Issue 4: Cities and Urbanization: The Global South's Increasing Urbanization: Challenges to City Living
2013, UN Office for South-South Cooperation
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Table of Contents

Cities
6 Building a New World That Is More Urban
8 Cities: Introduction
10 TREND: The Global South's Rising Megacities: A Challenges to Urban Living
11 Global South Eco-cities Show How the Future Can Be
12 African Megacity Makeovers Tackle Rising Populations
15 Model Cities across the South Challenge Old Ways
16 INNOVATION: Innovation in Growing Cities to Prevent Social Exclusion
17 Indian Toilet Pioneer Champions Good Ideas
18 BUILD: Colombian Architect Proving Strength and Beauty of Bamboo
19 Making Bamboo Houses Easier to Build
20 Rebuilding after Chinese Earthquake: Beautiful Bamboo Homes
21 Debt-free Homes for the Poor
22 Decent and Affordable Housing for the Poor
23 Pioneering Chilean Eco-buildings
24 Energy-efficient Wooden Houses Are Also Earthquake Safe
25 Cuba's Hurricane Recovery Solution
26 Being a Southern Innovator: An Urban Guide

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New York, New York, USA

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Editor
David South

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
60

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25427885M
ISBN 10
9780992021702

Work Description

Southern Innovator's fourth issue tackled the theme of cities and urbanization in the global South and how innovators are grappling with one of the biggest challenges of our time: the largest migration in history as the world becomes a majority urban place. Southern Innovator profiles new building technologies and innovative designs and also offers social solutions to make living urban better, while improving human development.

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