Mega-city growth and the future/
edited by Ronald J. Fuchs.
- Delhi: Bookwell, 1998.
- vii, 436 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Growth of the world's megalopolises / Nancy Yu-ping Chen and Larry Heligman -- Demographic issues and data needs for mega-city research / Sidney Goldstein -- Labour force change and mobility in the extended metropolitan regions of Asia / T.G. McGee -- The impacts of current global adjustment and shifting techno-economic paradigm on the world city system / Fu-chen Lo -- Technology and the city / George Bugliarello -- The redistributive role of mega-cities / Laurent Davezies and Remy Prud'homme -- Economic impacts of third-world mega-cities: is size the issue? / Andrew Marshall Hamer -- Social and welfare impacts of mega-city development / Aprodicio Laquian -- Impacts of mega-city growth on families and households / Eleonora Barbieri Masini -- Mega-city management and innovation strategies: regional views / Ellen Brennan -- Financing infrastructure in developing country mega-cities / Johannes F. Linn and Deborah L. Wetzel -- Land and shelter in mega-cities: some critical issues / Alan Gilbert -- Six strategic decisions for transportation in mega-cities / Ralph Gakenheimer -- The dual challenge of poverty and mega-cities: an assessment of issues and strategies / Om Prakash Mathur -- Myths of environmental management and the urban poor / Yok-shiu F. Lee -- Priority urban management issues in developing countries: the research agenda for the 1990s / G. Shabbir Cheema.
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Population forecasting Rural-urban migration Urban policy Urban poor Urbanization Cities and towns--Growth City planning