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Planet of Cities.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (362 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781558442726
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Planet of CitiesDDC classification:
  • 307.76
LOC classification:
  • HT361 -- .A537 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: Coming to Terms with Global Urban Expansion -- Chapter 2: The Inevitable Expansion Proposition -- Chapter 3: The Sustainable Densities Proposition -- Chapter 4: The Decent Housing Proposition -- Chapter 5: The Public Works Proposition -- Chapter 6: Urbanization in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 7: The Geography of World Urbanization -- Chapter 8: The Global Hierarchy of Cities -- Chapter 9: The Evidence: New Maps, New Metrics, Old Theory -- Chapter 10: Global Urban Land Cover and Its Expansion -- Chapter 11: The Persistent Decline in Urban Densities -- Chapter 12: From Centrality to Dispersal -- Chapter 13: The Fragmentation of Urban Landscapes -- Chapter 14: The Pulsating Compactness of Urban Footprints -- Chapter 15: Urban Land Cover Projections, 2000-2050 -- Chapter 16: Urban Expansion and the Loss of Cultivated Lands -- Chapter 17: Making Room for aPlanet of Cities -- References -- Photograph Credits -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: Coming to Terms with Global Urban Expansion -- Chapter 2: The Inevitable Expansion Proposition -- Chapter 3: The Sustainable Densities Proposition -- Chapter 4: The Decent Housing Proposition -- Chapter 5: The Public Works Proposition -- Chapter 6: Urbanization in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 7: The Geography of World Urbanization -- Chapter 8: The Global Hierarchy of Cities -- Chapter 9: The Evidence: New Maps, New Metrics, Old Theory -- Chapter 10: Global Urban Land Cover and Its Expansion -- Chapter 11: The Persistent Decline in Urban Densities -- Chapter 12: From Centrality to Dispersal -- Chapter 13: The Fragmentation of Urban Landscapes -- Chapter 14: The Pulsating Compactness of Urban Footprints -- Chapter 15: Urban Land Cover Projections, 2000-2050 -- Chapter 16: Urban Expansion and the Loss of Cultivated Lands -- Chapter 17: Making Room for aPlanet of Cities -- References -- Photograph Credits -- Index.

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