This paper describes the key role that city authorities and their civil societies should play in mediating the relationship between economic globalization and human development so that cities act not only as engines of growth but also as agents for greater social justice and environmental sustainability. In a globalizing and urbanizing world, urban governments have a much more important role in...

The Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (SSCHC) in Milwaukee, Wis, is making a difference in the livability of surrounding neighborhoods and the overall health of the families it serves. SSCHC is going beyond traditional health care provider models and working to link the environment, the economy, and community health through urban brownfield redevelopment and sustainable land-use planning...

Lessons learned from the crisis in Indonesia prove that concept of community resilience, together with community-based development, significantly affects ability to fight against at local and levels. In addition improving urban livability, today’s development must also struggle overcome various pressures due natural disasters. Community resilience is considered a bottom-up solution address thes...

Improving the urban livability status has become core goal of development, and reasonable assessment impact is crucial. By combining an objective environment with residents’ subjective cognition, artificial society (urban change society; ULC-AS) constructed. The ULC-AS includes four types agents, namely, government, family, resident safety facility management agency recognizes dynamic interacti...

For a long time, the traditional pattern of urban-rural human settlements has been shaped in reference to the existence of the urban-rural dual structure. In this paper, we put forward the notion of triaxiality of human settlements, and used the standards conversion entropy weight method to measure and calculate degrees of livability of human settlements, so as to prove the existence of triaxia...