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The social sustainability of cities: diversity and the management of change
- Authors:
- POLESE Mario, STREN Richard
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 352p.,tables,maps,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Collection of original essays and case studies of ten cities (Montreal, Toronto, Miami and Baltimore in North America, Geneva and Rotterdam in Europe, Sao Paolo and San Salvador in South America, and Nairobi and Cape Town in Africa) focusing on social sustainability. The volume as a whole looks at the policies, institutions, and planning and social processes that can have the effect of integrating diverse groups and cultural practices in a just and equitable fashion. The authors conclude that policies conductive to social sustainability should, among other things, seek to promote fiscal equalisation, and to provide cohesive transport systems that ensure equal access to public services and work places, all within the framework of an open and democratic local government structure.
Children in our charge: the child's right to resources
- Editor:
- JOHN Mary
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 246p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Concentrates, from an international perspective, on the theme of providing for children in a child-centred way, using children's rights as a philosophical background. Includes papers on: a lawyer's view of children's rights; world changes and social policies in Uruguay; the rights of children in a post-totalitarian world; the role of the Child Welfare Society of Kenya in implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; the implementation of the UN Convention in the United Kingdom; equality, children's rights and education - a UK perspective; creating an adaptable science curriculum for children in rural Africa; the educational rights of institutionalised Romanian children; consulting children about play; providing for children's rights in new technological advances; providing support for children; and providing for the future.