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1 online resource (xvii, 529 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-478) and index. |
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Why location matters -- Urban population change : a sketch -- Urban population dynamics : models, measures, and forecasts -- Diversity and inequality -- Fertility and reproductive health -- Mortality and morbidity : is city life good for your health? -- The urban economy transformed -- The challenge of urban governance -- Looking ahead. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Annotation Virtually all of the growth in the world's population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first time become more urban than rural. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation present many challenges. A new cast of policy makers is emerging to take up the many responsibilities of urban governance--as many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, programs in poverty, health, education, and public services are increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Demographers have been surprisingly slow to devote attention to the implications of the urban transformation. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible. "Cities Transformed explores the implications of various urban contexts for marriage, fertility, health, schooling, and children's lives. It should be of interest to all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Developing countries.
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Urbanization. |
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Developing countries. |
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Cities and towns -- Developing countries -- Growth.
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Cities and towns. |
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Growth. |
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City dwellers -- Developing countries.
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City dwellers. |
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Quality of life -- Developing countries.
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Quality of life. |
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Urban policy -- Developing countries.
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Urban policy. |
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Population forecasting -- Developing countries.
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Population forecasting. |
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasts. |
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Electronic books.
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Forecasts.
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| Added Author |
Montgomery, Mark, 1953-
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National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.
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Demographic change and its implications in the developing world |
| Other Form: |
Cities transformed (DLC) 2003106202 (OCoLC)53401077 |
| ISBN |
0309511488 (PDF) |
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9780309511483 (PDF) |
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0309088623 (book) |
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9780309088626 (book) |
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