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"Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today. This book compares Western Europe and the USA, focusing on anti-sprawl policies. The USA is known for its settlement patterns that emphasize low-density suburban development and extreme automobile dependence, whereas European countries emphasize higher densities, pro-transit policies and more compact urban growth. Yet, on closer inspection, the differences are not as wide as first appears. A key feature of the book is the attention given to France; its experience is little known in the English-speaking world. The book concludes that both continents can offer each other useful insights and perhaps policy guidance."--Jacket.

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the 'global cities' (e.g. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo) that influence what happens in the rest of the world. In contrast, this research looks at the cities at the receiving end of the forces of globalization. The general finding is that large cities, on balance, benefit from globalization, although in some cases at the expense of widening spatial inequities.

This paper examines the question of where the capital of a reunified Korea might be located. It considers Seoul, the current capital of South Korea; Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea; Sejong City, Chungcheong Province (the formerly planned new capital of South Korea, later scaled back to the "New Administrative City" after a constitutional setback, with a subsequent name change to a "Directly Governed City"); and Kaesong, a city and ancient capital of Korea, located in North Korea close to the DMZ. Adapted from the source document.