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Managing Urban Futures - Sustainability and Urban Growth in Developing Countries (Paperback)
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Managing Urban Futures - Sustainability and Urban Growth in Developing Countries (Paperback)
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Urbanization is one of the most powerful forces influencing global
sustainability. It is dominated by three factors: population
growth, rural-urban migration and subsequent urban expansion.
Perhaps nowhere are these factors more dominant than in developing
countries. This volume brings together leading experts including
Alan Gilbert, John Friedmann, Saskia Sassen and Janice Perlman to
explore the conflicting challenges of rapid urbanization in
developing countries. While all have to contend with key issues
such as social segregation, poverty, and loss of governability, the
ongoing forces of urban growth vary from country to country. By
comparing the challenges of urbanization in Africa, Latin America,
Asia and the Pacific, this book puts forward a new way of thinking
about mega- and million-cities in developing countries - one that
promotes their vital function in society as engines of ideas,
technologies, societal change, democratic transformation and loci
of political will to build a new regime of global sustainability.
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