Making Cities Resilient
As the world has transformed, so have cities. Today, cities are home to 54 percent of the world’s population, and by the middle of this century that figure will likely rise to 66 percent. According to the United Nations (UN) Habitat I (1972), Habitat II (
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Vishwa Raj Sharma · Chandrakanta Editors
Making Cities Resilient
The Urban Book Series Series Advisory Editors Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, University College London, London, UK Michael Batty, University College London, London, UK Simin Davoudi, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK Geoffrey DeVerteuil, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Andrew Kirby, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA Karl Kropf, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK Karen Lucas, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Marco Maretto, University of Parma, Parma, Italy Fabian Neuhaus, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Vítor Oliveira, Porto University, Porto, Portugal Christopher Silver, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Giuseppe Strappa, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Igor Vojnovic, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA Jeremy Whitehand, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Editors Vishwa Raj Sharma Department of Geography Shaheed Bhagat Singh College University of Delhi New Delhi, Delhi, India
Chandrakanta Department of Geography Shaheed Bhagat Singh College University of Delhi New Delhi, Delhi, India
ISSN 2365-757X ISSN 2365-7588 (electronic) The Urban Book Series ISBN 978-3-319-94931-4 ISBN 978-3-319-94932-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94932-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018946607 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of gener
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