Cities and Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Development

The text gathers recent scholarly studies addressing urban growth, renewal, and sustainability. It is truly a global affair, offering research discussing places as disparate as Shanghai, East Africa, and Montreal, for example. The text is divided into four parts, Theory, Asia and Africa Examples, European and North American Examples, and The Role of Partnerships in Sustainability. Study titles include Partnerships and industrial clusters: the case of the fashion cluster development in Montreal, Sustainable development and competitive performance in Mexican cities: economic and environmental accounts, and Urbanization process and policies for sustainable urbanization in China. Each study offers an introduction and list of references. A number of graphs and charts are also included. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Charles P. Vaughan Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Bucknell University, US and President, Global Urban Competitiveness Project