[PDF] The Indie Producers Handbook: Creative Producing from A to Z by Myrl A. Schreibman in Arts-Photography

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This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another; it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are made.With a focus on Africas fast-growing secondary towns; where 70 per cent of the urban population live; the book explains how urban infrastructure provides the key to the relationship between economic development and social equity; through the mediation of natural resources. Adopting this view enables investment to be channelled more effectively to provide the engine for economic growth; while providing equitable services for all residents. At the same time; the mediation of resource flows integrates the metabolism of the city into the wider ecosystem. This vision leads to a new way of thinking about infrastructure; giving clear definition to the concept of green infrastructure.On the basis of research gathered throughout an extensive career; John Abbott draws in particular from his experience in Ethiopia to demonstrate the ways in which infrastructure needs to respond to the economies; societies and natural environments of twenty-first century urban Africa.