Third World Cities 2nd Edition (Routledge Introductions to Development)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415198813
Subjects: Development studies; Urban communities; Development Studies (Social Sciences); Urban Sociology; Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Science/Mathematics; Developing countries; Development - Economic Development; Earth Sciences - Geography; Sociology - Urban; Science / Geography; Cities and towns; Urban policy; Urbanization
First sentence: In 1990, for the first time, the World Bank recorded a many people living in urban settlements as in the countryside, with the global growth rate of urban populations rising at 4.5 per cent each year.