Liveable Cities: Urbanising World
Liveable Cities: Urbanising World This book is about the unprecedented challenges facing the world's cities as they expand and develop in response to demographic change, human aspirations and the…
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Liveable Cities: Urbanising World
This book is about the unprecedented challenges facing the world's cities as they expand and develop in response to demographic change, human aspirations and the forces of globalization. While there are considerable variations in the rates of city expansion between and within the different world regions, much of that growth has taken place as formless urban sprawl, as well as the slums and squatter settlements to be found in many of the world's cities.These urbanizing areas face acute economic, social and environmental problems. Most of that growth is taking place in the developing countries and it is here that the megacities (places with over ten million people) seem destined to emerge during the next few decades.
They stem from, amongst other things, fundamental changes in the nature of work, the economic crisis that began in 2008, the continuing, and often growing,
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