Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
The only text to offer a regional survey of world urban development, this third edition has been fully revised and updated to include new chapter authors, new cities and regions, and an expanded art program. Focusing on the eleven major culture realms of the world, the volume examines each region's
Authors: Stanley D Brunn, Donald J Zeigler, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, Jessica K Graybill
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-15 - Publisher:
Remarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas. This fully updated and revised seventh edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape, and, by extension, the world's
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-07 - Publisher: World Bank Publications
With more than 70 percent of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most urbanized regions in the world. Yet, although its cities are, on average, more productive than those elsewhere in the world, their productivity lags that of North American and Western