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Dhaka is the fastest growing mega-city in the world, attracting an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 mostly poor migrants a year. This paper argues that urgent measures are required to address the vital needs of the city's rapidly growing urban poor.
This paper examines urban health in low- and middle-income countries, in relation to two sets of environmental issues:
Countries around the world have responded to the problems associated with rapid urban growth and increasingly land-consumptive development patterns by creating a wide range of policy instruments designed to manage urban growth.
This study estimates the effects of an urban growth boundary (UGB) on land development decisions in Knox County, TN, using a heteroscedastic probit model.
Het klimaat verandert en dat heeft economische, ecologische en sociale gevolgen. Veel van die gevolgen hebben een ruimtelijke weerslag. We kunnen op een aantal ervan met ruimtelijke ingrepen anticiperen om de negatieve effecten op te vangen en van de kansen optimaal gebruik te maken.
Esta publicación aborda el caso colombiano, donde el sector público está comenzando a implementar instrumentos de gestión urbana que facilitan el ordenamiento y la planificación física del territorio.
The paper outlines issues arising in a planning process with a poor tribal group who have no legal title to the land where their homes have been for decades.
La ciudad es una matriz física y simbólica de la modernidad de nuestras sociedades y es en ella donde más se evidencian las tensiones y contradicciones del desarrollo urbano no-sostenible en nuestra región (concentración de la riqueza y de los vínculos con la globalización económica, severas ineq