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Author : A. S. Oberai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476382872
Author : the late David W. Drakakis-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134639076
This imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to urbanization in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn from around the world, including Bangkok, Delhi, Manila, Mexico City, Singapore and cities in Zimbabwe, this key text confronts three main questions: Is there still a Third World, does it have a common urban form, and what is the relationship between urbanization and sustainability? The text analyzes: the dimension of urban growth in the third world historical perspectives on urban growth urban population growth employment and incomes in the city basic needs and human rights environmental problems in third world cities planning and management of cities. Containing a wealth of student-friendly features including boxed case-studies, discussion questions and guides for further reading, this text provides an invaluable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World. Containing a greater depth of content and referencing, and with new chapters and subjects covered, this new second edition utilizes its larger format to make extensive use of illustrations, diagrams, global case studies, and further reading. Overall, these changes have contributed to this book's continuance as an extremely accessible student text.
Author : John D. Kasarda,Allan M. Parnell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780803944855
It took New York City (the world's largest metropolis in 1950) nearly a century and a half to expand by eight million residents. Mexico City and Sao Paulo will match this growth in less than fifteen years. Asia's mega-cities, too, are exploding in number and size. This kind of unprecedented growth is being echoed in the urban centers of developing nations around the globe. The essays in this volume address the wide array of problematic issues--as well as the opportunities and advantages--that are the natural outgrowth of such rapid urbanization. Third World Cities examines three sets of vital issues. Drawing on the experience and evidence of the past two decades, the book's initial chapters assess theoretical frameworks upon which urban and migration policies are based. The authors of the middle section press for fresh approaches to the increasing demands placed on institutions and individuals in the largest cities of the developing world. The final chapters examine the complex demographic, social, and economic processes of urban growth. Students, professionals, and policymakers in development and urban studies, public administration, sociology, political science and comparative politics, geography, and ethnic studies will find Third World Cities to be a refreshing and innovative look at this growing concern. "Third World Cities offers a range of new ideas on the demographic, social spatial, and environmental changes that are 'occurring so quickly that up-to-date evidence is elusive' . . . Third World Cities is both thought-provoking and highly readable." -The Economic Times
Author : Roland J. Fuchs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016850427
This book examines a range of issues related to the mega-city phenomenon. Part one deals with the growth of mega-cities and explores demographic issues, labour force change in the big cities of Asia, the effect of macroeconomic forces on the world city system, and the relations between technology and the city. In part two, the discussion focuses on the economic and social consequences of mega-city growth. Part three looks at the crucial issue of the management of mega-cities, taking up such issues as infrastructure financing, land and shelter needs, transportation, and environmental management. The final chapter examines priority urban management issues in developing countries and derives a research agenda for the 1990s. (Adapté du résumé de l'éditeur).
Author : A.S. Oberai
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0333594398
The study deals with problems and policy options facing Third World mega-cities. It examines the major sources of urban population growth and spatial concentration and analyses the conflict between economic efficiency and decentralization. It also assesses the implications of rapid urban population growth for employment generation and poverty alleviation, discusses the relationship between urban poverty and access to housing and basic social services, and examines the problems of resource mobilization to finance urban programmes. The analysis is based on data gathered from several Third-World mega-cities. The study thus provides a comparative analysis of mega-city problems and suggests the direction in which future policies need to be developed to deal more effectively with these problems.
Author : M.L. Narasaiah
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 8183560776
The world s cities are growing far faster than its population. Indeed, aside from the growth of population itself, urbanisation is the dominant demographic trend of the half-century now ending. In 1950, 750 million of the world s people lived in cities. By 1966, this had at least tripled, to more than 2.6 billion. The number projected to live in cities by 2050, some 6.5 billion people, exceeds world population today. Contents: Urbanisation and the Environment, Urbanisation and Globalisation, Population Growth and Urbanisation, In Defence of the City Urban Development a Key for Survival, Urbanisation in India and Limitations, Land Tenure: Securing Land for the Urban Poor, Towards Healthy Cities, Sustainable Cities, Living with Leviathan, Cities at the Forefront, Cities Residents to the Rescue, City Politics: A Voice for the Poor, For a Broader Approach to Education, Promotion of Higher Education in Research, Population Growth and Education, Private Education: The Poor s Best Chance?, Will Education: The Poor s Best Chance?, Will Education Go To Market?, Shaking in Ivory Tower, Wiring up the Ivory Towers, Management Training in India, Wanted: A New Deal for the Universities, Corporate Ambitions in Education, Violence in Schools: A World Wide Affair, Beyond Economics, Technological Entrepreneurship: The New Force for Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Water: An Educational and Informative Approach, Resistance to Change: Why Poverty Reduction Programmes did not Work, Unemployment in the Poor and Rich Worlds: Different Causes, but Converging Policies?, Solving the Unemployment Problem by Looking Beyond the Job, Policy Researchers and Policy Makers: Never the Twain Shall Meet?, The Dematerialisation of the World Economy, A New World Order for Whom?
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309055385
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented population growth, which is exacerbating their problems in providing shelter and basic services. This volume draws on advances in technologies and management strategies made in recent decades to suggest ways to improve urban life and services. Four challenges to developing countries' megacities are addressed: labor markets, housing, water and sanitation, and transportation, along with a synthesis of general thinking on how to meet megacity challenges and be competitive in the twenty-first century.
Author : Alan Gilbert,Josef Gugler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037432452
In a squatter neighbourhood of Nairobi (Kenya), sexual division of labour in the informal sector is examined. Five categories of neighbourhood iinformal sector activity were analysed: the entertainment industry, rental of habitat, shop-keeping, small-scale production or services and hawking. Capital investment and costs and incomes were registered. Women owner-operators were predominant in beer-brewing and prostitution, habitat rental and vegetable retailing sectors. A correlation between female barrenness and business success was noted. It is concluded that women sell in the iinformal urban market place the skills they normally practice in the home. It is recommended that urban iinformal sector studies emphasise gender issues.
Author : Massimo Livi-Bacci,Gustavo De Santis
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191583780
The increasing gap between developed and developing world will be one of the most important themes of the 21st century. The contributions contained in this volume take a multidisciplinary approach to the problem, offering a comprehensive review of the theoretical issues and empirical findings that relate to the complex and multidirectional link between poverty and demographic behaviours and outcomes in the contemporary developing world. The starting point of the volume is an exact definition of poverty. The contributors go on to analyse in the detail its causes and effects, both at the micro and macro level, concentrating on those factors and consequences which relate more directly to the demographic sphere. Population growth, household structure and labour, fertility, AIDS, urbanization, migration, and mortality are amongst the areas covered, with the major themes discussed and elaborated in an introductory overview chapter.
Author : B. Bhattacharya
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8180696561
Author : M. L. Narasaiah
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 8183562353
Poverty can be overcome, and that the poor can increased their income and production within an appropriate framework. Part of that framework is made up of a flow of resources and local-level institutional development, and their is considerable scope for improvement in both. However, the impact of investment and organization is strictly determined by the nature of the policy environment. While project and programmes can bring some relief to the rural poor, substantial change needs a strong policy commitment. While the poor can overcome poverty, they will not be able to until this becomes a major focus of national policy and action. In the main, this sort of commitment has not been made in the past at the expense of both the poor and overall development in many areas.
Author : Mark R. Montgomery,Richard Stren,Barney Cohen,Holly E. Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134031733
Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges. In this uniquely thorough and authoritative volume, 16 of the world's leading scholars on urban population and development have worked together to produce the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the changes taking place in cities and their implications and impacts. They focus on population dynamics, social and economic differentiation, fertility and reproductive health, mortality and morbidity, labor force, and urban governance. As many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing fundamental transformation, with programs in poverty alleviation, health, education, and public services increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Cities Transformed identifies a new class of policy maker emerging to take up the growing responsibilities. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, this essential text will become the benchmark for all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. The National Research Council is a private, non-profit institution based in Washington, DC, providing services to the US government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The editors are members of the Council's Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.
Author : Jo Beall,Sean Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134166701
By 2030 more than sixty percent of the world's population will live in urban areas, with most of the world’s population growth over the next twenty-five years being absorbed by cities and towns in low and middle income countries. What are the consequences of this shift? Demographic pressure already strains the capacity of local and national governments to manage urban change. Today, nearly one billion people live in slums, and in the absence of significant intervention that number is set to double in the next two decades. Will our future be dominated by mega-cities of poverty and despair, or can urbanization be harnessed to advance human and economic development? Cities and Development provides a critical exploration of the dynamic relationship between urbanism and development. Highlighting both the challenges and opportunities associated with rapid urban change, the book surveys: the historical relationship between urbanization and development the role cities play in fostering economic growth in a globalizing world the unique characteristics of urban poverty and the poor record of interventions designed to tackle it the complexities of managing urban environments; issues of urban crime, violence, war and terrorism in contemporary cities the importance of urban planning, governance and politics in shaping city futures. This book brings into conversation debates from urban and development studies and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of current policy and planning responses to the contemporary urban challenge. It includes research orientated supplements in the form of summaries, boxed case studies, development questions and further reading. The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in urban, international and development studies, as well as policy-makers and planners concerned with equitable and sustainable urban development.
Author : Martin Brockerhoff,Ellen Brennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020329749
Author : O.G. Simmons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781468455144
Until the early to mid-1970s, social scientists in the fields of population and development were largely going their own ways. Demographers relied almost exclusively on demographic transition theory as their para digm for understanding the role of development in population change and fertility decline. Conversely, most development economists and other specialists were certainly aware of the constraints placed upon development objectives by population growth. However, the main de velopment theories paid little attention to population and the implica tions of population growth for development. Indeed it was not until after the World Population Conference in Bucharest in 1974 that the interaction of population and development became a serious and pur posive theme for social scientific study. Accordingly, since about the mid-1970s, an extensive literature in the field of population and develop ment has been generated. And in 1975, under the auspices of The Popu lation Council, the journal Population and Development Review was found ed, a journal which in the past decade has developed into the premier publication in the world for work in this area. But our understanding of development as it refers to change in Third World countries remained fragmented. Moreover, our understanding of the linkages and interac tions between population and development was very limited. It is in this regard that Ozzie Simmons's Perspectives on Development and Population Growth in the Third World will certainly have an impact.
