TY  - BOOK
AU  - Angel,Shlomo
TI  - Planet of Cities
SN  - 9781558442726
AV  - HT361 -- .A537 2012eb 
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Cities and towns -- Growth
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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