New Forms of Urbanization
Subtitle: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy
Contributors: A. G. Champion (Editor); Graeme Hugo (Editor); Tony Champion (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780754635888
Subjects: Development studies; Rural communities; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; Urbanization; Growth; Cities and towns; Social Science; Sociology - Urban; Sociology; Rural-urban migration; Anthropology - Cultural; Congresses; Cross-cultural studies
First sentence: There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is important in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes.