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Mega-city growth and the future

Title: Mega-city growth and the future / edited by Roland J. Fuchs [and others].
Publication: Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

vii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction / Roland J. Fuchs -- 1. Growth of the world's megalopolises / Nancy Yu-ping Chen and Larry Heligman -- 2. Demographic issues and data needs for mega-city research / Sidney Goldstein -- 3. Labour force change and mobility in the extended metropolitan regions of Asia / T.G. McGee -- 4. The impacts of current global adjustment and shifting techno-economic paradigm on the world city system / Fu-chen Lo -- 5. Technology and the city / George Bugliarello -- 6. The redistributive role of mega-cities / Laurent Davezies and Remy Prudhomme -- 7. Economic impacts of third world mega-cities: Is size the issue? / Andrew Marshall Hamer -- 8. Social and welfare impacts of mega-city development / Aprodicio Laquian -- 9. Impacts of mega-city growth on families and households / Eleonora Barbieri Masini -- 10. Mega-city management and innovation strategies: Regional views / Ellen Brennan --
11. Financing infrastructure in developing country mega-cities / Johannes F. Linn and Deborah L. Wetzel -- 12. Land and shelter in mega-cities: Some critical issues / Alan Gilbert -- 13. Six strategic decisions for transportation in mega-cities / Ralph Gakenheimer -- 14. The dual challenge of poverty and mega-cities: An assessment of issues and strategies / Om Prakash Mathur -- 15. Myths of environmental management and the urban poor / Yok-shiu F. Lee -- 16. Priority urban management issues in developing countries: The research agenda for the 1990s / G. Shabbir Cheema.

ISBN

9280808206

OCLC

ocm31395344

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Columbia University Libraries