Global urbanization /
For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming year...
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| Series: | City in the twenty-first century book series.
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Global urbanization / |c edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter. |
| 260 | |a Philadelphia : |b University of Pennsylvania Press, |c c2011. | ||
| 300 | |a vi, 376 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a City in the twenty-first century | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-361) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |g pt. 1. |t Twenty-first century population : emerging needs -- |t World urbanization : the critical issue of the twenty-first century / |r Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter -- |t Human population grows up / |r Joel E. Cohen -- |t Measuring and coping with urban growth in developing countries / |r Nefise Bazoglu -- |t Urban growth and development at six scales : an economist's view / |r Stephen Malpezzi -- |t Urban growth and spatial development : the China case / |r Anthony Yeh -- |g pt. 2. |t Urban spatial growth and development -- |g The |t urban transition in developing countries : demography meets geography / |r Mark H. Montgomery and Deborah Balk -- |t Measuring and modeling global urban expansion / |r Stephen Sheppard -- |t Urban growth models : state of the art and prospects / |r John D. Landis -- |t Monitoring urban growth and its environmental impacts using remote sensing : examples from China and India / |r Karen C. Seto -- |t Tracking regional growth and development : the Nairobi case / |r Wilber K. Ottichilo -- |g pt. 3. |t Urban governance and finance -- |t Strategic directions for local public finance in developing countries / |r Paul Smoke -- |t Public-private partnerships and urban governance : coordinates and policy issues / |r Lynne B. Sagalyn -- |t City building in China : implications for urban form efficiency / |r Douglas Webster -- |t Financing housing and urban services / |r Kyung-Hwan Kim -- |g pt. 4. |t Cases in urban development -- |t Managing urban infrastructure and services in India / |r Vinod Tewari -- |t Sustainable urban development : managing city development in Uganda / |r Shuaib Lwasa -- |t Thinking about urban services needs in fast-growing cities : housing in São Paulo / |r Suzana Pasternak -- |g The |t education of urban dwellers : the Kenyan experience / |r Faith Macharia. | |
| 520 | |a For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, as both the number and scale of cities continue to increase, the most important matters of social policy and economic development will necessarily be urban issues. Urbanization, across the world but especially in Asia and Africa, is perhaps the critical issue of the twenty-first century. | ||
| 520 | |a Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of this growth and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half-century. Drawing from many disciplines, the contributors tackle issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships in urban governance. Several essays address the role that cutting-edge technologies such as GIS software, remote sensing, and predictive growth models can play in tracking and forecasting urban growth. Reflecting the central importance of the Global South to twenty-first-century urbanism, the volume includes case studies and examples from China, India, Uganda, Kenya, and Brazil. | ||
| 520 | |a While the challenges posed by large-scale urbanization are immense, the future of human development requires that we find ways to promote socially inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and resilient infrastructure. The timely and relevant scholarship assembled in Global Urbanization will be of great interest to scholars and policymakers in demography, geography, urban studies, and international development. -- Publisher description. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Urbanization. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cities and towns |x Growth. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Urban policy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a City planning. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Birch, Eugenie Ladner. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wachter, Susan M. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a City in the twenty-first century book series. | |
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