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Malawi Urbanization Review : Leveraging Urbanization for National Growth and Development

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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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Farther on Down the Road : Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Ambient urbanities as the intersection between the IoT and the IoP in smart cities

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"This book focuses on the ambient and the adaptive and dynamic nature of information, enabled by what is referred to in this volume as aware technologies that are influencing and being influenced by people's everyday interactions and activities"--

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Smart City Implementation : Creating Economic and Public Value in Innovative Urban Systems

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Sprawl and Urban Growth

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

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