Urban Management: Policies and Innovations in Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9780275940850 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 352 str.

G. Shabbir Cheema; G. Shabbir Cheema

Opis

The relentless growth of cities is inevitable - and irreversible. Developing countries' share of the world's urban population will rise to 71% by the year 2000 and 80% by 2025. By the end of the 1990s, it is estimated that 18 cities in developing countries will have a population of 10 million or more. Although those cities are centres of production, employment and innovation, rapid urbanisation has had many negative consequences: an alarming increase in the incidence of urban poverty, the concentration of modern productive activities in major metropolitan areas, inadequate access to housing and basic urban services, and the degradation of the urban environment.