The city in the developing world
This is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to urbanising in developing countries, uniquely placing an understanding of the developing world city in its wider global context.
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- Full title :The city in the developing world / Robert B. Potter and Sally Lloyd-Evans.
Summary
This is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to urbanising in developing countries, uniquely placing an understanding of the developing world city in its wider global context.
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- Publication Date:1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Longman
- Place of Publication:Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 244 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0582357411, 9780582357419
- oclc:ocm40420456
- LC Classification:HT384.D44
- Dewey Decimal:307.1416091724
Table of Contents
The nature and scale of urbanisation in the developing world : Historical perspectives on world urbanisation ; Nineteenth-and twentieth-century patterns and processes of global urbanization ; The city in the developing world: contemporary context and predictions to 2050 ; Can we generalise about urban conditions in the developing world? -- Third World urbanisation and development: theoretical perspectives : The origins of urban living and the role of a social surplus ; Opening up the debate: cities and social surplus product and conceptual approaches -- National urban systems and global development : Brief perspectives on the nature of urban systems ; Uneven development and regional inequalities ; Issues surrounding the condition of urban primacy ; Global shifts: industrialisation, diffusion and world cities ; Global convergence and divergence and the urban system --National urban development strategies : Introduction: planning and the state ; Questions of city size: restrained versus unrestrained urban growth ; National urban development strategies ; Final comments -- Urbanisation and basic needs: education, health and food : The nature and definition of basic needs ; Social stra…
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