Cities Transformed Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World

Virtually all of the growth in the worlds 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 overlo...

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Hauptverfasser: Council, National Research, Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and, Population, Committee on, Dynamics, Panel on Urban Population, Reed, Holly E, Cohen, Barney, Stren, Richard, Montgomery, Mark R
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C National Academies Press 2003
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Schlagworte:
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Cities
Cities and towns
City dwellers
Demographic change
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Forecasts
Growth
Population
Population forecasting
Quality of life
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtwachstum
Stadtökonomik
Städtische Armut
Städtischer Arbeitsmarkt
Towns
Twenty-first century
Urban areas
Urban policy
Urbanization
ISBN:9780309088626, 0309088623
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Zusammenfassung:Virtually all of the growth in the worlds 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 childrens lives. It should be of interest to all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions.
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ISBN:9780309088626
0309088623
DOI:10.4324/9781315065700