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Urban population by city size is determined by population density and commuting patterns; this better reflects the economic function of cities in addition to their administrative boundaries. Urban areas in OECD countries are classified as: large metropolitan areas if they have a population of...
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, provides an analysis of the demographic and morphological changes in West African border cities since the mid-20th century. Using the Africapolis harmonised database makes it possible to show that since 1950 border cities have experienced higher...
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situates the issue of green growth within the nexus of urbanisation and environmental challenges now facing China. This is …
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urbanisation dynamics and prospects in China and South Africa and the governance challenges resulting from the new policy agenda on …
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China needs a new model of urbanisation to match the shift to a new model of growth. For decades, both urbanisation and … of China’s major cities, which defines functional urban areas based on settlement patterns and commuting zones rather … than cities defined as administrative units. The results show, among other things, that China has many more mega …
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China has became the world’s largest urban nation with today over 600 million urban citizens, a figure that is … projected to reach 900 million by 2050. Its national economy is already concentrated in cities: almost 65% of China’s GDP was … produced in its 53 metropolitan regions in 2004. Although the scale of China’s urbanisation – and the growing number of …
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Contains a selection of papers prepared for an experts' meeting held in Paris, March 18-19, 1996, for the purpose of providing a better understanding of the relationship between immigration and urban development
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