TY - GEN AU - Caves, Roger W. Ed. AU - Wagner, Fritz Ed. TI - Livable cities from a global perspective SN - 9781138696754 U1 - 307.76 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgments xvii Preface xviii 1."Livable Cities: From Concept to Global Experience" 1 Hilda Blanco Part I Livability in Capital City Regions 15 Introduction “Livability in New Urban Helsinki" 17 Tuomas Ilmavirta "Livable Cities: UK and London" 30 Judith Ryser "Place-Making and Livability in Ottawa and the National Capital Region" 45 Angela Franovic and Caroline Andrew Part II Livability and Growth and Development 59 5. "Struggling toward Livability in Austin, Texas" 61 Elizabeth Mueller "Livable or Lovable? Framing the revitalization projects in Warsaw, Poland" 79 Anna Domardzka "Pune Metropolis: Un-livable Cities within a Livable Metropolis" 93 Christopher Benninger Part III Livability and Equity Concerns 109 8. "Livable Sydney: Livable for Whom" 111 Roberta Ryan and Yvette Selim "Making Tokyo Livable for a Super-Aging Society" 127 Hideki Koizumi "Livability for Whom? Vancouver's Conundrum" 138 Penny Gurstein Part IV Livability and Metrics 149 "A Global Perspective on Building a Livable City : Singapore's Framework" 151 Teng Chye Khoo and Hwee Jane Chong "Livability in Salt Lake City" 166 Holly Lopez and Ralph Becker "Livability and access to urban goods in Melbourne" 176 Heather MacDonald Part V Creating Livability 189 "The Search for Livability in Third World segregated cities: the entrepreneurial city and the possibilities of overcoming historical inequalities in Rio de Janeiro" 191 Lucia Capanema-Alvares and Jorge Luiz Barbosa "Livable Cities: The Case of Cape Town" , South Africa 208 Dave Dewar "Livability and the Challenge of Planning in Tehran" 224 Final Remarks 237 Additional Information on Livability for Cities Covered in the Book 239 Index 241 ER -