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Introduction: urban challenges of a transitional period
In: International social science journal, Band 48, Heft 147, S. 9-14
ISSN: 1468-2451
Urban challenges of a transitional period
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 48, Heft 1 (147)
ISSN: 0020-8701
Introduction: Urban Challenges of a Transitional Period
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 48, S. 9-14
ISSN: 0020-8701
An introduction to a special journal issue (see related abstracts in SA 44:4) discusses challenges of an increasingly urbanized world, links of cities to economic growth, & the turmoil of economic globalization. By 2025, 61% of the world's 5 billion population will be urban; most megacities will be in the southern hemisphere. Symptoms of this transitional period of humankind are: robotization & world assemblage in industry & changes in job structure; & more capital in mutual, pension, & insurance funds than in banks with rapid circulation throughout capital markets. Pollution, lack of adequate shelter & homes, violence, crime, & traffic congestion are manifestations of social inequity, economic underdevelopment, management shortcomings & corruption, social & psychologocal reactions to migration, & employment instabilities. Conversely, cities are the core of opportunities & a fertile melting pot. All the urban social & health indicators are better now than in the 1950s, although the gap between rich & poor countries & people doubled 1962-1992. To solve these problems, central governments & international partners must collaborate with cities & nongovernmental organizations. 1 Table, 1 Photograph. Adapted from the source document.
Urban planning in Brazil
In: Habitat international: a journal for the study of human settlements, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 65-71
Economia e cidades no Brasil
In: Pensamiento iberoamericano: revista bianual, Heft 7, S. 49-56
ISSN: 0212-0208
Ensayo sobre el origen de la rapida metropolizacion de los nucleos urbanos brasilenos y el inmanente caracter antidemocratico de la conformacion del espacio en los ultimos treinta anos. El proceso de industrializacion, entendido como una rasante especializacion sectorial, y las estrategias de desarrollo, llevadas a cabo como etapas de modernizacion selectiva, crearon las condiciones para los desniveles del sistema productivo y la exclusion de grandes sectores de la poblacion de los provechos de la industrializacion
World Affairs Online
FAX: Messages from a Near Future
In: Environmental politics, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 206
ISSN: 0964-4016
Reviews
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 632-635
ISSN: 0022-216X