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From coast to coast and from north to south, our cities are growing. Sometimes they spread out in all directions without much planning or thought. This is known as urban sprawl. Urban sprawl causes problems for people, plants, and animals. It creates havoc within habitats. Readers will find out the effects of urban sprawl on habitats all over the world. They'll read about the problems faced by grizzly bears, alligators, and many other animals. Full-color photographs and detailed sidebars will draw them into one of the greatest problems facing the environment today

In a call for papers, for the special issue to be devoted to "Urban Economy" late in 2015, that the Economies editors issued recently, I noted the increased attention that has been given to urban economies during the past quarter century. This is concomitant with the increased importance and role in policy that cities have attained. This is, in part, due to the diminished capacity of national and sub-national governments to find the funds needed for urban projects and services, and in part to the understanding that cities are the key to the economies and societies of most if not all nations.[.]

Copyright -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Contents -- What is a City? -- Lost Cities -- A City Survives -- Modern Cities -- Up and Down -- All Together -- Fun in the City -- Keeping Cities Clean -- Getting Around -- Wild in the City -- Rich and Poor -- You Decide -- What Do You Remember? -- Glossary -- Index -- Websites -- Back Cover

This urban renaissance review of Glasgow looks back over the 1990s, when a succession of strategic initiatives and major events brought regeneration to several key parts of the city, including along the banks of the Clyde, and helped lift investment and activity. This book provides a policy tool kit for Glasgow, with the aim of improving the distressed urban areas that are holding the city back

IFPRI4; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance; CRP2 ; DSGD; PIM ; PR ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM);

"Since publication of the first edition in 2004, the balance has shifted with the majority of the world's population now living in an urban setting. Urban Theory and the Urban Experience once again brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another. Completely revised and updated, and with new chapters on the Majority Urban World and the Global South, Cities under Stress and the Information City, the second edition of Urban Theory and the Urban Experience traces the key developments in the idea of the city over more than a century; from Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebbvre to more contemporary urban theorists David Harvey and Manuel Castells. The volume also considers the impact of new information and communication technologies, and the growing trend towards disaggregated urban networks, all of which raise important questions about viability and physical and social identity of the conventional townscape. This book is an ideal text for students on Geography, Urban Studies, Sociology, Planning and Built Environment courses, but the accessibility and breadth mean that it will also appeal to practitioners and all those that wish to learn more about why the urban has become the dominant social, economic and cultural form of the twenty-first century"--

The National Urban Assessment for Armenia provides a snapshot of the country's urban sector and offers insights to achieving prosperous and sustainable cities. Armenia is highly urbanized, with the population concentrated in Yerevan and its surrounding areas given the capital's geopolitical, economic, and cultural legacy. This report identifies future urban development scenarios, which rely on strong political commitment to establish a territorial strategy that ensures balanced regional development and inclusive economic growth. Opportunities exist to develop well planned infrastructure along with balanced resource distribution among Yerevan and other cities, while leveraging Armenia's cultural and environmental assets. Designing, planning, and budgeting long-term territorial and urban policies could potentially act as an economic engine for the country.

Die Mehrzahl der Menschen wird Mitte des Jahrhunderts im urbanen Umfeld und Megastädten leben. Der Trend zu derartigen Ballungsräumen ist vor allem in fragilen Entwicklungsländern ungebrochen. (Europäische Sicherheit & Technik / SWP)

The history of urban development, land use planning and housing of the Third World cities remains in stark contrast with those of the rich and developed countries although both share a common thread. Pseudo-urbanization aptly describes development of poorer, former colonial cities where fundamental and structural economic systems are weak and superficial. In such an environment, clashing political and economic interests prevent freer access to land by the masses and the urban poor.Proper land use planning allows governments to efficiently direct the timing and magnitude of public capital investments thereby setting the pace of economic growth and development. On the other hand, ideally, private sector interests in a dynamic marketplace of free enterprise and price mechanism subsequently are able to deliver a land and housing market accessible to most people. In the case of Metro-Manila, a long colonial history bred a feudal land system covering much of agricultural and urban lands, which perpetuated a monopolistic tendency in land ownership. The control, supply and use of much of the urban areas of the city were in the hands of a few, and urban planning if there was any was but a de-facto corporate-driven or property-led process that favored select private interests. It is in urban housing where the greatest inequality stares everyone in the eye.The urban land use dichotomy of Metro-Manila consists of formal and informal land use elements interspersed with one another. One is formal, planned and legal whilst the other is extralegal, unregulated, informal and self-appropriated as in slums and squatter areas. The first critical step to address this problem is to recognize that the informal sector is a large source of untapped capital that needs to be brought into the mainstream of economic activity. This can make wealth generation possible for the urban poor once some form of acceptable property rights over their assets is established. This presumes that access to urban lands by the informal sector is made ...

This volume deals with a hitherto largely neglected aspect of cities, namely the symbolic and ritual structure in which the urban community is rooted. This fascinating facet is explored in a combined effort by social anthropologists, sociologists, historians and philologists for cities like Jakarta, Padang, Bangkok, Beijing, Tokyo, Baghdad, Kathmandu, Lucknow, Francistown, Vitoria and Buenos Aires. Three perspectives on the study of symbolism in the urban arena are developed, namely the material, cultural and structural point of view. This results in a series of new concepts for comparative use and provides lively descriptions suffused by rich detail of the social processes by which urban symbols and rituals are constituted