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Urban land policy : issues and opportunities

Dunkerley, Harold B. (ed.); … - 1983

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Malawi Urbanization Review : Leveraging Urbanization for National Growth and Development

World Bank - 2016

The Malawi Urbanization Review aims to provide fresh perspectives on urbanization in Malawi, by analyzing the current … and potential contribution of urbanization to long-term national development and the current institutional and financial … urbanizing at a moderate rate and has a good chance of proactively managing the urbanization process. Opportunities may arise …

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Cities in the Developing World

Bryan, Gharad - 2019

The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …

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Sprawl and Urban Growth

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...

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Is There a New Urbanism? The Growth of U.S. Cities in the 1990s

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular, for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked extremely similar to urban growth during the prior post-war decades. The growth of cities was determined by three...

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What Can Developing Cities Today Learn From the Urban Past?

Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London …

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Urban and spatial development in Mexico

Scott, Ian - 1982

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The economics of urbanization and urban policies in developing countries : [a World Bank symposium]

Tolley, George S. (ed.); Thomas, Vinod (ed.) - 1987 - 1. print.

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Albania - Urban Growth, Migration and Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment

World Bank - 2012

This sector report claims that in the three years between 2002 and 2005 alone, almost 235,000 people have moved out of poverty in Albania. Strong economic growth and large inflow of remittances are at the center of this impressive achievement. However, low productivity of predominantly small...

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Urban Growth

Black, Duncan - 1997

This paper models and examines empirically the evolution of cities in an economy. Twentieth century evolution in the USA is characterized by parallel growth of cities of different types and on-going entry of new cities, together maintaining a stable relative size distribution of cities. Each...

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