Founder Borneo Urban Lab | Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities Practitioner | Spatial Planning and GIS
I have just finished the book Cities and Development by Sean Fox and Jo Beall 📚 📚From this book I learned about various perspectives on the dynamic relationship between urbanism and development from a global perspective. 🏙 This book also contains many things such as the relationship between urbanization and development, the role cities play in fostering economic growth in a globalizing world, the complexities of managing urban environments, and the importance of urban planning, governance and politics in shaping city futures. ⁉️ At the end of the chapter in this book also contains many questions for us to think about and discuss together, for example in the last chapter discussing participatory budgeting and several best practices in Brazil, the author creates a guideline of questions to dig deeper into what we read and what we can do and explore more. Some critical points that I get from this book ❗️Sustainable development refers to intervensions that expand real freedoms while taking accpint of long-term environmental consequences and it cab be assessed both at local and global levels. ❗️Governance is a more general term that refers to the relationship between citizens and governments at different level; to ways in which decision that affect society are made and implemented. ❗️Improving essential urban services is incontrovertible, both for reasons of equity, to improve the health and capabilities of the urban poor, as well as to ensure the efficient functioning of cities and urban populations more generally. #UrbanDevelopment #Cities #UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #Urban
