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Cities

John Lorinc

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Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas. The search for better housing, transit, economic opportunity, and security within neighbourhoods forces today`s city-dwellers -- in both the developed world and in megacities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America -- to confront what it means to live in our urban world. In this book in the Groundwork Guides series, cities specialist John Lorinc considers the enormous implications of the mass migration away from rural regions, and predicts that solutions will emerge from neighbourhoods and dynamic networks linking communities to governments and the broader urban world.

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Contents
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1 The Urban Century
Page 8-16

2 Urban Forms and Functions
Page 17-36

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3 Sprawl Happens
Page 37-49

4 Environment and Energy
Page 50-71

5 Cities and Transportation
Page 72-90

6 Urban Poverty
Page 91-109

7 Crime, Epidemics and Terrorism
Page 110-129

Cities Timeline
Page 130-132

Notes
Page 133-139

For Further Information
Page 140-140

Acknowledgments
Page 141-141

Index
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Book Details

Title

Cities

Contributors

John Lorinc,
Jane Springer

Publisher

House of Anansi Press Inc

Publication date

2008-08-01

Pages

144

Print ISBN

9780888998194

eBook ISBN

9781554980093

LC Subjects

Cities and towns., Rural-urban migration., Urbanization.

Audience

Young adult

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Groundwork Guides

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