We're just passing one of the great milestones in human history–but hardly anyone is
noticing. It isn't anything outwardly dramatic, like a revolution or a war. But it is fundamental …

We're just passing one of the great milestones in human history–but hardly anyone is
noticing. It isn't anything outwardly dramatic, like a revolution or a war. But it is fundamental …

As Sir Peter Hall notes in his article in this special issue of Global Urban Development
Magazine, the “Urban Revolution” now occurring largely in developing countries presents …

summary For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban
areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the …

Prepared for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanization Conference in
Berlin in July 2000. This book is an entirely new and comprehensive review of the state of …

he world is an increasingly urban place. At the beginning of the nineteenth century only 5
percent of the world's population lived in urban areas. By the end of the twentieth century …

In most of the world, the transition from rural to urban habitation is quite completed and,
according to Fox and Goodfellow, who are the authors of Cities and Development, the main …

Urban experts from Austria, China, Colombia, Germany, India, UK and USA share in this
book, practical knowledge and experience of urbanisation.

Summary The United Nation's recent endorsement of a stand-alone urban Sustainable
Development Goal and the immanent formulation of Habitat III marks a watershed in global …