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Global urban growth : a reference handbook /
In 2008, a milestone was reached in the history of humankind: half of the world's population of 6.6 billion people were residing in cities. One out of every three people who live in a city resides in a slum. In the United States, 14 million acres of prime farmland was lost to urban development...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
ABC-CLIO,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Contemporary world issues.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Global urban growth
- Urban growth pressures and sprawl in America
- Background to the current crisis : land resources and public policy in America historic evolution of urban land use in America
- The contemporary phenomenon of urban sprawl : costs and consequences
- Making better use of the land : the debate over controlling urban sprawl
- Containing sprawl through local zoning
- State-wide prescriptions for sprawl
- Preserving rural lands from urban sprawl
- Fighting sprawl by reclaiming central cities
- Improving life in the suburbs
- Recent trends in the debate over sprawl
- The smart growth movement
- The property rights challenge
- Federal smart growth initiatives
- New trends in urban growth
- References
- Urban growth around the world
- Urban growth in the developed world
- Western Europe
- Eastern Europe and Russia
- Future directions for Europe and Russia
- Japan and East Asia
- Canada
- Urban growth in the developing world
- Urbanization in historical perspective
- Cities of the developing world today
- Life in the slums
- Growth and evolution of slums
- Latin America
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Middle East
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- China
- Future directions in the developing world
- What can be done about slums?
- Turning to the international community
- Private sector solutions to slums
- References
- Chronology
- Biographical sketches.