Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World

by Mark R. Montgomery, Barney Cohen, Richard Stren, et al.

Virtually all of the growth in the world's population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first time become more urban than rural. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation present many challenges. A new cast of policy makers is emerging to take up the many responsibilities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309088623
• ISBN13: 9780309088626
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"